Side Street Ramblers | |
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Members | Keith Houts – tenor Brian Beck – lead Dennis Malone – baritone Earl Hagn – bass |
Past members | Bill Thornton – lead Jim Law – lead |
Side Street Ramblers is a Dallas-based Barbershop quartet that won the 1983 SPEBSQSA international competition in Seattle.
A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop genre of singing, which uses four-part harmony without accompaniment by any instruments such as piano, a style called a cappella. It consists of a lead, the vocal part which generally carries the tune/melody; a bass, the part which provides the bass line to the melody; a tenor, the part which harmonizes above the lead; and a baritone, the part that completes the chord with the note not being sung by the lead, bass, or tenor singers. The baritone can sing either above or below the lead singer.
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Preceded by Classic Collection | Barbershop Harmony Society International Quartet Champions 1983 | Succeeded by The Rapscallions |
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