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Capitol Collectors Series (CD)

By: The Four Freshmen (Artist)

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The Four Freshmen Artist Snapshot:

Bridging the gap between complex jazz harmony quartets and well-scrubbed, collegiate pop vocals, the Four Freshmen were one of the biggest jazz vocal ensembles of the 1950s. Also, through their direct influence on the young Brian Wilson (who has repeatedly called the Four Freshmen his primary inspiration), they were a key part of the development of 1960s sunshine pop. The group was formed by brothers Don and Ross Barbour in 1948 and signed to Capitol Records in 1950. The best-known lineup also included Bob Flanigan and Ken Errair. Their 1955 album VOICES IN MODERN is generally considered their artistic high point.

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DISC 1 for Capitol Collectors Series (CD) Album By The Four Freshmen (Artist)
1   It's A Blue World
2   Day Isn't Long Enough, The
3   Poinciana (Song Of The Tree)
4   It Happened Once Before
5   Please Remember
6   We'll Be Together Again
7   Mood Indigo
8   It Never Occurred To Me
9   Day By Day
10   How Can I Tell Her
11   Charmaine
12   In This Whole Wide World
13   Angel Eyes
14   Love Is Just Around The Corner
15   Graduation Day
16   Whistle Me Some Blues
17   It Could Happen To You
18   Candy
19   Route 66, (Get Your Kicks On)
20   Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
21   And So It's Over - (previously unreleased)
 

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Title Note

Personnel includes: Ross Barbour, Don Barbour, Hal Kratzsch, Bob Flanigan, Ken Errair, Ken Albers and Bill Comstock.

Includes liner notes by Scott Shea.

Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg (September, 1989 Capitol Recording Studios).

All tracks are mono AAD, except tracks 17-21 which are stereo ADD.

This quartet has developed a sound that is at once smooth, controlled and sweet. Yet for all its mainstream and popular appeal, the Four Freshmen's crooning harmonics is a force of nature, unlike anything that came before or after it. These are trained voices, full and pervasive, and the strength is quadrupled when thy sing in close unity. The exotic "Poinciana" relied solely on the four voices in harmony to create the powerful feeling of this song, and a guitar only aids them.

Old favorites, like the wartime classic "We'll Be together Again" shows how the Four Freshmen are both faithful to the melody and add their own cool musical signature on the number with a subtle atonality in the harmonized melody. The close harmonies have a profound depth that is equally adept at extolling the sentiments of such disparate themes as the perky "Love Is Just Around The Corner" and the gloomy "Angel Eyes."

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