Gentlemen's Agreement (quartet)
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Barbershop quartet A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella). The four voices are: the lead, the vocal part which typically carries t ...
that won the 1971
SPEBSQSA The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbersho ...
international competition. Members Al Rehkop and Glenn Van Tassel had also won in the 1966 contest with the Auto Towners quartet; they were joined as gold medalists by Bob Whitledge and Drayton Justus. The group went on to perform with
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's USO tour of Vietnam. Later lineups included Greg Backwell, Jim Gross, and Phil Foote. The group announced their retirement in 1976, but would reform a few more times over the next decade.


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