The Auto Towners is a

Barbershop quartet A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment, or a cappella. The four voices are: the lead, the vocal part which typically carries t ...

that won the 1966

SPEBSQSA The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop ...

international competition. At the time they won the 1966 SPEBSQSA International Championship (held in Chicago), the Auto Towners were composed of Al Rehkop (tenor), Glenn Van Tassell (lead), Clint Bostick (baritone), and Carl Dahlke (bass). An original song composed by Rehkop, "In My Brand New Automobile", has been covered by other barbershop quartets. Rehkop and Van Tassel won a second time with the

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quartet in 1971.

Discography

*''The Auto Towners – AIC Masterworks CD''

References

AIC entry
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