[Ads-l] Antedating of "Barbershop" (Music)

[Bill Mullins]

1913 Variety 18 Jul 18/3

The Dancing Harmonists did some barbershop chords and danced some waltz songs that pleased the Jeffersonians.

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1913 Billboard 25 Oct 50/2

The quartet consists of four of the members of the Majestic Theater Orchestra.  The boys are practicing
barbershop harmony, close harmony, and all other kinds of harmony known to exponents of vocal art.

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