The Boston Common is the Barbershop quartet that won the 1980

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

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...

. Formed in 1971, they took their name from

Boston Common The Boston Common (also known as the Common) is a public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest city park in the United States. Boston Common consists of of land bounded by Tremont Street (139 Tremont St.), Park Street, Beac ...

, a well known park. Competing throughout the seventies, they were more popular with audiences than judges. After they won silver in 1979, they agreed to compete one last time and took the gold in 1980 with their set of Lou Perry's arrangements of "Who Told You" and "That Old Quartet of Mine". A traffic accident in 1982 left lead Rich Knapp unable to continue singing, but the quartet enlisted Tom Spirito of the Four Rascals to substitute.

Discography

* ''The Boston Common'' LP * ''In The Heart of the City'' LP * ''Many Happy Returns'' LP * ''Smilin' Through'' LP * ''Collective Works''

Double CD A double is a look-alike or doppelgänger; one person or being that resembles another. Double, The Double or Dubble may also refer to: Film and television * Double (filmmaking), someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character * Th ...

encompassing the above LPs

References

Discography and biography
fro
Primarily A Cappella

fro

AIC entry
(archived) Barbershop quartets Barbershop Harmony Society {{Barbershop-quartet-stub