Buffalo Bills Quartet

In 1950 they won the spebsqsa international quartet contest earning them the title of international quartet champions.

Buffalo bills quartet. The quartet had an inauspicious beginning in international competition placing 16th at oklahoma city in 1948. During an appearance at the buffalo quarterback club they were introduced as the buffalo bills and the name stuck. The quartet won the 1950 international championship and is well known for appearing in the 1957 broadway production and the 1962 film version of the music man origins. The buffalo bills is the barbershop harmony society s 1950 international quartet champion.

The buffalo bills were a barbershop quartet formed in buffalo new york on september 20 1947. The group is especially famous for its involvement in meredith willson s the music man. Tenor vern reed an executive for a boys club and bass bill spangenberg a truck driver for a steel company were added. The bills won the audition and were cast in the play which was to open on broadway.

As an unnamed foursome they began singing for community groups. During its first season in 1946 the team was known as the buffalo bisons unlike the cleveland browns san francisco 49ers and baltimore colts the franchise was not one of the three aafc teams that merged with the national football league prior. The buffalo bills were an american football team based in buffalo new york that played in the all america football conference from 1946 to 1949. Grapes decided to stay in buffalo at his job.

The quartet started out as an. This required the quartet to give up their jobs and move to new york. Al shea bill spangenberg vern reed wayne ward 3. In 1956 composer meredith willson was looking for a quartet to appear in his new musical the music man.

This is a remastered release of the 1965 lp and was their last recording on rca. In 1947 baritone hershel smith a corporate executive and lead singer al shea a policeman got together at smith s home in buffalo new york with the idea of forming a barbershop quartet. The buffalo bills were a barbershop quartet formed in buffalo new york. The buffalo bills were a barbershop quartet formed in buffalo new york on september 20 1947.

In 1947 baritone hershel smith a corporate executive and lead singer al shea a policeman got together at smith s home in buffalo new york with the idea.