Barbershop music



Barbershop is a style of a cappella vocal music, characterized by four-part harmony.

Standards withing the Barbershop style include "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "My Wild Irish Rose", "Sweet Adeline", "Shine On Harvest Moon", and "Sweet Georgia Brown". Barbershop harmony also plays an important role in the Broadway musical The Music Man, with the harmonies being folded into songs such as "Pick a Little, Talk a Little".

Barbershop Quartets

 * The Barbershop Cactus Quartet appear in episode 102 of Muppets Tonight, but never get to perform on the show.


 * The Andy Williams Muppets, along with Andy Williams compose a Barbershop Quartet that appear in episode 422 of The Muppet Show, where they perform "Jubilee Time".


 * The Frosty Four appear in the 2002 Sesame Street video Bert & Ernie's Word Play.


 * The Kentucky Derby are Uncle Wally's barbershop singing group of horses.


 * A Anything Muppets barbershop quartet sings about counting floors when they go up and down in an elevator on Sesame Street.


 * Elmo counts four pigs in a barbershop quartet singing "Sweet Adeline" in Elmo's World: Singing.


 * Bob, Susan, Luis, and Gina form a barbershop quartet in Episode 2781 of Sesame Street.