The Buffalo Bills: Happy Days! (Barbershop and Banjo) -- Columbia CS8206, released 1960

The complete album, which had a limited digital release on CD via a specialty label many years ago. The Buffalo Bills were an award-winning barbershop quartet. For this recording, the quartet consisted of Vern Reed (tenor), Al Shea (lead), Wayne 'Scotty' Ward (baritone) and Bill Spangenberg (bass). This version of the quartet appeared in the stage production and subsequent movie adaptation of The Music Man. This is one of the records we had in the house that I grew up listening to occasionally. As our original monaural copy was a bit worn, I found a stereo copy on Discogs several years ago, and have used the SweetVinyl SugarCube to clean it up. Excellent 1960-era Columbia sound on this record! TRACKS: With Plenty Of Money And You Goofus They Didn't Believe Me Cruising Down The River As Time Goes By (I'll Be) Walkin' With My Honey (Soon, Soon, Soon) Inka Dinka Doo True Love Fit As A Fiddle (And Ready For Love) Bye Bye Blackbird Why Do I Love You Happy Days Are Here Again We had family members in the Barbershoppers (my grandfather, and my mother's two brothers, belonged to the Lakeshore Chorus in suburban Detroit) so I grew up attending the state Barbershop conventions/competitions as well as the local show that the Lakeshore Chorus put on each year. Attending those conventions, and the hospitality rooms in the evenings (basically, motel rooms hosted by various state choruses which were set up with booze, which quartets would pop in to sing a song or two before moving to the next room), we got to know a lot of the local quartets as well. I believe I have one or two of those quartets on record, and may dig them out of storage and post here on the channel.