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:

1. Lead baritone Jasper Becker of the British Council (2nd from left above);
2. Rich Bass Darryl Johnson, in his spare time charge d’affaires at the American embassy (2nd from right);
3. American businessman Bill Zaritt (left) as the wonderful top tenor;
4. And myself on the right 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.

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