BARBERSHOP HISTORY
TTHE ORIGINAL ACRONYM FOR BHS, CREATED AS A MOCKERY OF FDR'S "ALPHABET AGENCIES"
What is SPEBSQSA?
THIS QUARTET FORMED IN THE NEW YORK TOWN OF ITS NAMESAKE, AND PARADED AS FOUR ORNERY PRINCIPALS IN THE FILM ADAPTION OF "THE MUSIC MAN"
Who are The Buffalo Bills?
THIS QUARTET STARTED AS COLLEGIATE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS, AND ALTHOUGH THEIR SWAP TO COMEDY HAS GARNERED MUCH SUCCESS, THAT HASN'T TRANSLATED INTO A GOLD MEDAL JUST YET
Who are The Newfangled Four?
TENOR 2 HAS FINALLY BEEN GIVEN AN UPGRADE BY CONVERTING TO THIS SECTION
What is the Lead section?
THIS ARRANGEMENT HAS BECOME THE OFFICIAL SONG OF THE BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY
What is Keep the Whole World Singing?
THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF BHS
Who is O.C. (Owen Clifton) Cash?
THIS QUARTET'S SWAP TO SELF-REFERENTIAL COMEDY IN THEIR FINAL SET PAID OFF BY NETTING THEM, OR PERHAPS "WEBBING" THEM, A PERFECT PERFORMANCE SCORE
Who are Midtown?
AFTER BECOMING SAI CHAMPS IN 2023, THIS QUARTET HAS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON MAKING HISTORY IN BHS
Who are The Ladies?
A DRAMATIC VARIATION AT THE END OF THE TUNE, USUALLY EXEMPLIFYING THE ESSENCE OF THE SONG AND STYLE
What is a Tag?
THIS ARRANGEMENT IS ONE OF THE RARE COMPLETELY ORIGINAL BARBERSHOP SONGS, ALTHOUGH ITS POLECAT VERSION IS UNIQUE FROM THE ORIGINAL BY SOME EXTRA PARTS
What is Lida Rose?
THE BHS INITIATIVE FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY, WHICH HAS BEEN QUITE SUCCESSFUL DESPITE A CONTROVERSIAL START
What is Everyone in Harmony?
Who are Main Street?
WHILE THIS QUARTET IS AROUND, EXPECT TO HEAR IMPOSSIBLY HIGH NOTES IN FULL FROM THEIR TENOR - ALL DONE ON ATTEMPT NO. 1
Who are First Take?
THE CHORD SO ICONIC TO BARBERSHOP IT IS REFERRED TO AS "THE BARBERSHOP CHORD"
What is the Dominant Seventh Chord? (Also will accept flat-seven, mixolydian, etc.)
THE BSU DECIDED TO COLLECTIVELY ARRANGE A BARBERSHOP VERSION OF THIS EXPRESSIVE (OR PERHAPS "ESPRESSIVE") MANHATTAN TRANSFER TUNE
What is Java Jive?
THE FIRST QUARTET TO EVER WIN THE BHS INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Who are The Bartesville Barflies?
THESE SLEEK "SNOBS" BROUGHT A CONTEMPORARY FLAIR TO THE COMPETITION AND BECAME THE FIRST FOREIGN INTERNATIONAL QUARTET CHAMPIONS
Who are the Ringmasters?
AFTER LOSING THEIR ORIGINAL BASS, A THREE-TIME GOLD MEDALIST "CAME THROUGH" JUST IN TIME TO HELP GET THIS QUARTET BACK ON ITS FEET
Who are Clutch?
THE NON-TRADITIONAL CHORAL PRACTICE OF REQUIRING A DIFFERENT VOLUME BALANCE BETWEEN VOICE PARTS IS SUMMARIZED IN THIS TECHNIQUE
What is the Cone of Sound?
ST. PATRICK WOULD APPROVE OF THIS ADAPTION OF A TRADITIONAL CELTIC INVOCATION
What is Irish Blessing?
MOST SAY THE SOCIETY BEGAN ON A ROOFTOP PARTY IN THIS CITY
What is Tulsa, Oklahama?
ALTHOUGH THEY DID NOT KNOW IT UPON WINNING, THIS QUARTET WOULD MARK THEIR REIGN AS BARBERSHOP CHAMPIONS FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS DUE TO AN UNRELATED GLOBAL EVENT
Who is Signature?
AFTER GETTING 2ND PLACE IN 2023, THIS QUARTET TOOK THE YEAR OFF, HOPING THAT THE 2025 COMPETITION WILL BE "EASY PEASY"
Who are Lemon Squeezy?
TYPICALLY REFERRED TO AS A "POST" AT THE END OF A SONG, HOLDING A NOTE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG CAN ALSO GO BY THIS NAME
What is a Hanger?
THIS CLASSIC POLECAT IS THE ONLY PIECE IN VOLUME ONE TO HAVE THE SAME COMPOSER AND ARRANGER - ALTHOUGH RUMOR SAYS HE PURCHASED THE TUNE FROM (IRONICALLY) A LOCAL BARBER
What is Down By The Old Mill Stream?