Just for fun, I’m posting on this page pictures and recordings of one of the greatest Barbershop quartets ever to perform in China in the 1980s – probably because we were about the only one.
The Four Tones (of course, being the high, rising, falling-rising and falling tones of Mandarin Chinese) were made up of lead baritone Jasper Becker of the British Council; bass Darryl Johnson, in his spare time charge d’affaires at the American embassy; American businessman Bill Zaritt as the wonderful top tenor; and myself as somewhere between baritone and bass.
Click below the pictures for links to a selection of our best recordings, from our 1986 Christmas show at the Great Wall Hotel.
Enjoy! We did.
My Evaline
My Blue Heaven
Margie
Love Letters in the Sand
K-K-K-Katy
Good Night My Love – from the Music Man
Aura Lee
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
Good Night My Love – from the Music Man
Yessir That’s my Baby
Tootsie
The End of a Long Day
The Animals are Coming
That’s Why We Love the French
I Want to Synchronise
Saloon
Ramona
Plenty of Nothing
