I’d like to know who sits around and figures out what national-day-of (blank) we should celebrate every day. I want that job.
Today is National Barbershop Quartet Day and National Eight-track Tape Day. All we need now is an eight-track of a barbershop quartet — and something to play it on — and we’ll be all set.
I can remember having an eight track player / stereo / recorder combination back in the seventies. I would listen to Casey Kasem’s “American Top Forty” with my big headphones on — complete with spiral 15-foot cord — and record each of the songs very carefully. Then I would replay the tape with my boyfriend in his 1966 Mustang.
Those were the days, I guess.
“The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America” was founded in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 11, 1938. I’m not real sure who decided we should commemorate that day but, hey, I like to celebrate about as much as the next person. So let’s have a party.
Does Pandora have barbershop quartet music? My co-workers will think I have lost my mind!
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Glad I'm not your co-worker....
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