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The four original Round Towners in a special line-up for Radio Digest show from left: Brad Reynolds, top tenor, Larry Murphy, lead tenor; Evan Evans, baritone, and Lon McAdams, bass. CBS feature.
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Thank you gentlemen.
You have been listening, friends of the radio audience, to the Round Towners. They vocalize for you every now and then the spirit of the metropolitan night life over the Columbia system from New York.
And, now that you have heard them sing, here they are. Perhaps you have wondered how they look. They have been heard from this station regularly almost from the time the Columbia system has been organized. A popular feature. \fter all when you have been dialing around thxough the maze of jazz jamborees, blue-of-the-nighting, operatic ariatics, political palavering and all, what can be sweeter than a sudden sweep into a good old foursome of he harmonizers!
Barbershop chords? Yea, brother! You think of the time when you snuggle down under the towels and aprons while a sea of lather sprays and dashes around your nose — and from over in the corner comes a rhythm to the flashing steel on razor strap of four white jacketed troubadors blending their voices in pleasing melody. It may, perchance, be these very four — over the air, or on a phonograph re — beg, pardon, electrical transcription. (But never an electrical transcription over the air on a chain program ! )
On the left in the picture, sounding the high "Ad-" to "Adeline," is Mr. Bransford Reynolds who started out to be a doctor according to family tradition. But when he got to college and joined a glee club he concluded the world was more in need of soul tonic and gave up his medicine kit for a music