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A.k.a. Acme Male Quartet Shannon Four Shannon Quartet The Florida Four (2) The Merrymakers (3) The Singing Sophomores
The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Revelers' recordings of "Dinah", "Old Man River", "Valencia", "Baby Face", "Blue Room", "The Birth of the Blues", "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba", and many more, became popular in the United States and then Europe in the late 1920s. In August 1929, they appeared in the Netherlands with Richard Tauber at the Kurhaus, Scheveningen and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.Baur was replaced by Frank Luther and then James Melton (later a Metropolitan Opera tenor).
Franklyn Baur voc 1903-1950 US | |
Lewis James voc 1892-1959 US | |
Ed Smalle voc, p | |
James Melton voc 1904-1961 US | |
Wilfred Glenn voc, b | |
Elliott Shaw voc US |
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