Sweet A-deline!
HY .anyone should wish to form a Society for the Preservation from Extinction of Barber Shop Quartets I fail to understand. But, as the commentator rerharked kindly during the course of a recent programme featuring these particular products of Victoria’s reign, "Considering the height of their collars and the profuseness of the growth on their upper lips, they didn’t do so badly." Which wes, after all, a very charitable comment, and I felt duly ashamed. We then listened to them singing "In the Evening by the Moonlight," after which the commentator _ said, thoughtfully, that perhaps they treated such foolish and sentimental ditties a little too seriously. I heartily agreed, and we left the Barber Shop Quartets to be preserved like so many old moa bones. Or so I thought. But later in the day I inadvertently tuned in to a programme of "Heart Songs," featuring "America’s most beloved Melodies.’ And who should be putting them across but our old friends, the Barber Shop Quar-tets-and the same melodies, too. The Society’s efforts must have met with remarkable success; the dodo, in fact, has been resurrected and revived.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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188Sweet A-deline! New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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