Nostalgia CDs - Mellomen, The: Barbershop Melodies, Vol. 1

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And The Band Played On

For Me And My Gal

Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland

Shine On Harvest Moon

Mellomen, The: Barbershop Melodies, Vol. 1

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The Mellomen with Thurl Ravenscroft:
Barbershop Melodies, Vol. 1

Note: These recordings include piano accompaniment.

Excerpts from the liner notes:
The Mellomen were a popular singing quartet from the late 1940s through the mid 1970s. The group was founded by Thurl Ravenscroft and Max Smith in 1948 and recorded under a variety of names: Big John & The Buzzards, The Crackerjacks, The Lee Brothers, and the Ravenscroft Quartet.

Thurl Ravenscroft himself is famously known as the voice of "Tony the Tiger" (they're GREAT!) and also for singing "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the original animnated "How The Grinch Stole Christmas."

These recordings are from 1949 transcription records and exhibit the Mellomen singing in "barbershop" style, one of the many musical styles they worked in.

The members of The Mellomen at the time were Thurl Ravenscroft (bass), Bill Lee (baritone), Max Smith (2nd tenor) and Bob Hamlin (lead tenor).

Song List:
1. And the Band Played On
2. Red Wing
3. Shine On, Harvest Moon
4. Sunbonnet Sue
5. Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
6. I Wish I Had My Old Gal Back Again
7. Down By the Old Mill Stream
8. Come Josephine in My Flying Machine
9. I've Got Rings On My Fingers
10. By the Beautiful Sea
11. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
12. My Wife's Gone to the Country
13. Keep the Home Fires Burning
14. Memories
15. Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet
16. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
17. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
18. Steamboat Bill
19. Some of These Days
20. Over There
21. M-O-T-H-E-R
22. Give A Little Credit to Your Dad
23. I Want To Go Back To Michigan
24. For Me and My Gal
25. When You and I Were Young, Maggie
26. Silver Threads Among the Gold
27. Little Brown Jug