QUESTIONS:
1- Is the Barbershop Hall of Fame (BHOF) a venerable society institution?
2 - Identify the only quartet named to the BHOF?
3- Identify the only BHOF member who sang in a first place quartet and also directed a first place chorus. For extra credit, what's his chapter affiliation?
4- Name this distinguished barbershop historian active during the society's first half century who was elected to the BHOF? (Hint: He wrote the official history of the society for our 50th anniversary in 1988).
5- This BHOF arranger and judge invented the clock system based on the cycle of fifths. This system provides arrangers with clearly defined chord choices (with barbershop arrangement authenticity being the objective). What is his name?
ANSWERS:
1- Not at all. In fact, it is a recent creation. The first class of honorees were inducted on July 3, 2004, in a ceremony held during the International Convention in Louisville, KY.
2- The Buffalo Bills
3- Freddy King of the Dundalk, MD Chapter
4- Val Hicks
5- Maurice Molly Reagan
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