Tickets at 615-538-2076 Or www.franklintheatre.com Doors open at 7:00
PM The Four Freshmen were one of the top vocal groups of the 1950s,
and formed the bridge between '40s ensembles like Mel-Tones and
harmony-based rock & roll bands such as the Beach Boys as well as
groups like Spanky & Our Gang and the Manhattan Transfer. The group's
roots go back to the end of the 1940s and a barbershop
quartet-influenced outfit called Hal's Harmonizers, organized at the
Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Butler University in Indiana by two
brothers, Ross and Don Barbour. Their repertoire centered on standards
such as "Moonglow" and "The Christmas Song," and they began to show an
unusually free, improvisational approach to their harmony singing. A
couple of membership changes brought Bob Flanigan, a cousin, into the
fold alongside Hal Kratzsch, and suddenly the Four Freshmen were
assembled in all but name, and that fell into place a little later.
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