Men's Quartets - Mellomen, The: Barbershop Melodies, Vol. 3

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I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time

That Old Gang Of Mine

When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home

Whispering

Mellomen, The: Barbershop Melodies, Vol. 3

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The Mellomen with Thurl Ravenscroft:
Barbershop Melodies, Vol. 3

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 animated "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. When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home
2. Reuben and Rachel
3. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
4. A Bird in a Gilded Cage
5. My Castle On the Nile
6. I Can't Tell Why I Love Just You, But I Do
7. Strike Up The Band
8. I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
9. You're A Million Miles from Nowhere
10. Yoo-Hoo
11. Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean
12. Barney Google
13. That Old Gang of Mine
14. Whispering
15. Wait Till You Get Them Up In The Air, Boys
16. Feather Your Nest
17. Swanee River Moon
18. Drifting and Dreaming (Sweet Paradise)
19. Who's Sorry Now?
20. Collegiate
21. I Wonder What's Become of Sally?
22. The Prisoner's Song
23. Yes, We Have No Bananas
24. In A Little Spanish Town
25. Jealous
26. I'll See You In My Dreams
27. When You and I Were Seventeen