Oriole Four 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 1970
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.
The quartet began in 1958 and became sufficiently well known to garner a guest appearance on television's nationally syndicated ''
The Mike Douglas Show
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'' in November 1968.
After first qualifying for international competition in 1959, it was in
Atlantic City
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in 1970 that the Oriole Four finally won SPEBSQSA's gold medal.
The following year, baritone Fred King directed the
Chorus of the Chesapeake
The Chorus of the Chesapeake is a men's a cappella chorus, based in Dundalk, Maryland. Chartered in 1957 as the Dundalk chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, the chorus is rich in both history and accomplishment.
Early history
In the late ...
to its second international championship, held in
.
References
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