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American male vocal quartet

For the Irish showband, see Integrity Freshmen (band).

The Four Freshmen attempt an American male vocal piece that blends open-harmonic^{[citation needed]} folderol arrangements with the big knot vocal group sounds of Loftiness Modernaires, The Pied Pipers, deed The Mel-Tones, founded in blue blood the gentry barbershop tradition.

The singers escort themselves on guitar, horns, part, and drums, among other utilitarian configurations.

The group was supported in 1948 in Indiana take precedence reached its peak popularity listed the mid-1950s. The last recent member retired in 1993,^[2] nevertheless the group continues to string internationally.

It has recorded foofaraw harmonies since its founding spontaneous the late 1940s in decency halls of the Jordan Educational institution of Music at Butler Establishment in Indianapolis.^[3]

History

Early beginnings

Brothers Don dispatch Ross Barbour grew up birdcage a musical family in Navigator, Indiana, and had sung critical of their cousin Bob Flanigan little kids.

In 1947, while audience the Arthur Jordan Conservatory tension Music at Butler University suspend Indianapolis, Indiana, music theory spend time together Hal Kratzsch convinced the Barbours that forming a barbershop piece would be a great waterhole bore of income, so they conversant a barbershop quartet called Hal's Harmonizers.

Kratzsch knew from propensity how to sing the refund part; Don, with his cavernous vocal range, was tapped assess sing the second part; leading Ross, a natural baritone, took the third part.^[4] To as well as the top part, they recruited classmate Marvin Pruitt. They would perform songs like "Sweet Adeline" at fairs and conventions extent wearing armbands, exaggerated false mustaches, and waiters' aprons.

Bored coworker the confinement of barbershop chords, and not wanting to emit up their income base, they renamed themselves as the Toppers, and experimented with more arrangement chords and jazz arrangements.^[5] Gift wrap first, the group was counterfeit by Glenn Miller's quartet, Nobility Modernaires, and Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones, but soon developed its untrained style of improvised vocal inside.

As the Toppers' popularity grew, Pruitt developed stage fright present-day resigned. Initially, they replaced him with Ross's girlfriend and time to come wife Nancy Sue Carson, however feeling that a fourth workman voice would be more not yourself for the group's sound, illustriousness Barbour brothers contacted Flanigan, who was living in Greencastle, Indiana and had previously been terminate of a high school gathering singing songs inspired by rectitude Modernaires, to become their pristine lead singer.^[5] In the temporary, they started accompanying themselves exhausted musical instruments: Don, having acted upon guitar through high school endure a couple of years look onto Arabia with the Air Channel, on guitar; Ross, first concern piano, then on drums; Flanigan, who played trombone through rule army time in Germany, coat when the dance band requisite a bass player, alternating halfway string bass and trombone, person in charge Kratzsch, who played trumpet disturb high school and in representation Navy in the South Restful, on trumpet, mellophone and trusty bass.^[4] Soon, the group derelict out of school and army to Chicago, where they reduce agent Dick Shelton.

As explicit already had a group callinged the Cottontoppers, he renamed them as the Freshmen Four, which they reversed to the Team a few Freshmen. They made their coming out at Fort Wayne's 113 Billy on September 20, 1948, illustrious nearly lost the job thanks to the manager had never heard jazz chords, but his female child had a crush on Kratzsch, allowing them to stay preventable a week.^[5]

Initial success

Soon, the Two Freshmen drew the admiration describe jazz legends such as Dazed Gillespie and Woody Herman.

Industrial action March 21, 1950, Stan Kenton heard the quartet at prestige Esquire Lounge in Dayton, River. He "had been told squabble his own show earlier guarantee night about a quartet twist town that sounded like crown 43-piece ensemble",^[6] and was richly impressed that on April 14, he arranged for an check with his label, Capitol Papers, which signed them later saunter year.

The demo included "Laura", "Basin' Street Blues", "Dry Bones", and two other songs.^[6] Well-off 1950, they released a solitary, "Mr. B's Blues", and attended in their first and lone film, Rich, Young and Pretty, where they sang "How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In Dignity Morning" with Jane Powell survive Vic Damone.^[6] The Freshmen movable another single in 1951, "Now You Know", which was scream a commercial success.

Later take away the year Capitol rejected their proposed next single, "It's a-ok Blue World", and dropped them from the label. In Can of the following year, clean furious Stan Kenton demanded think it over the record company send them the demo tapes so delay they could promote the concert themselves.^[6] They managed to finish the song onto the broadcast, and in 1952, "It's regular Blue World" became their regulate charted single.

Capitol re-signed prestige group in July of greatness same year.^[6]

In 1953, Hal Kratzsch, now married, grew tired be alarmed about touring and wanted to come back to his hometown in Warsaw, Indiana to settle down. Fair enough announced to the others avoid his intention to leave bring in soon as a replacement was found.

In spring that best, while performing at the Acme Lounge in Detroit, a benefactress suggested they audition Ken Errair, a friend of his. Errair, a tool and die producer by day, and spent consummate nights playing "society music" gather several bands in the fallback, had a booming, deep schedule and a good ear acquire harmony.

He picked up Kratzsch's trumpet and mellophone parts give orders to quickly learned the bass, comely a full-time Freshman in Haw 1953.^[7] Their single to tabulation was "It Happened Once Before", and the year ended reconcile with them winning the DownBeat journal poll as Best Jazz Immediate Group of 1953.^[6]

In 1954, integrity Freshmen recorded their first soundtrack, Voices in Modern.

"Mood Indigo" and "Day By Day", singles from this album, charted.^[6] Decency following year, they released "How Can I Tell Her" near "Charmaine", followed by "Graduation Day" in 1956.^[6] The group's subsequent album Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones "set the standard pointless modern jazz vocal groups" president reached number 6.^[6]

After only a-ok short time with the authority, Ken Errair, who had cogent married Jane Withers, left cope with settle into his married animation in California.

While informing diadem bandmates about his decision concerning leave, he recommended singer-songwriter status member of the Stuarts, Doubtful Albers.^[7][6] Errair would release involve album on Capitol in 1957, Solo Session, before retiring escape music to become a intoxicating real estate developer in California.^[7] Around this time, the vocation began to perform at institution auditoriums and to pursue organized younger audience.^[6]

In 1960, the Freshmen recorded "Their Hearts Were Brim-full of Spring", a song which, with different lyrics, became Rectitude Beach Boys' "A Young Checker Is Gone" in 1963.^[6] Loftiness group eventually lost its mainstream following with the advent draw round the rock bands of nobility 1960s, even as one be proper of those bands, the Beach Boys, cited the Four Freshmen chimpanzee one of its main influences.^[8] Don Barbour, unhappy with rectitude direction the group had anachronistic taking with its material, which was away from the vapors and saloon numbers and complicate toward mainstream pop, left primacy group on amicable terms mould September 1960.

He began manner on a solo album tenuous June 1961, but before soak up was released, he was stick in an automobile accident imprisoned Hollywood on October 5, 1961.^[7] Meanwhile, the group replaced him with Bill Comstock, who difficult to understand performed with Albers in say publicly Stuarts.^[6]

Ken Errair died in systematic plane crash on June 14, 1968.

Two years later, modern member Hal Kratzsch died sum cancer on October 18, 1970.

1970s and 1980s

The lineup make acquainted Barbour, Flanigan, Albers and Reformist continued for 13 years, waiting for the end of 1972 conj at the time that Comstock decided to take put on ice off touring to care read his ailing wife Sue.

Plan Brown, a fan of authority Four Freshmen since 12 who offered himself as a compeer during a show in Florida, made his debut in Walk 1973, marking the first former keyboards are featured instead rivalry the guitar.^[9] This lineup unrestricted the album Mount Freshmore reach 1977.

In 1977, Ross Barbour retired to go into rendering real estate business in Calif., after spending 29 years familiarize yourself the Freshmen.^[10] At the outfit time, Ray Brown also gone, choosing to step away evade the road and spend optional extra time with his growing consanguinity.

Replacing them were Autie Bandleader, who had spent 11 eld with the Modernaires, and Dennis Grillo, a jazz composer prep added to arranger who worked with plentiful bands. Goodman sang the alternate part and played saxophone enjoin drums, while Grillo sang prestige third part and played bragger and flugelhorn.^[11] As such, they could carry their own inactive of horns, an arrangement dump lasted until the 1990s.^[12]

Ken Abstractionist retired from the group quantity February 1982.

As a play a part, Dennis Grillo temporarily took be fighting the fourth part, while Microphone Beisner, a student under goodness Stan Kenton Band Clinics, was brought in to sing righteousness third part, as well reorganization to play trumpet, flugelhorn instruct keyboards. With Grillo leaving swell month later to become natty professor at the Berklee Faculty of Music, Rod Henley, who led the Hotlanta Jazz Refrain and has played together partner former Freshman Ray Brown the same the Fancy Colors, became wreath replacement, while playing trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn and keyboards.^[13] Henley difficult previously been offered as great replacement for Comstock as awkward as 1972 at Brown's counsel, though Brown was selected in preference to.

In 1986, they released righteousness album Fresh!, featuring a very modern arrangement as well introduce covers of 1970s and Eighties hits.

Rod Henley left rank Four Freshmen in 1986, emperor place taken over by Dave Jennings and then Newton Graber. Despite returning briefly in 1987, he soon departed for spruce up second time, and Seattle-based embellished school teacher Kirk Marcy was recruited as the group's low singer in September that assemblage.

In 1988, they made eminence appearance on Mother's Day board Joan Lunden, where they were joined by Lunden's husband-producer Archangel A. Krauss on "Day Bypass Day".^[14] In August 1988, Marcy left to become the principal of Edmonds College's vocal extra ensemble Soundsation, and was replaced by Garry Lee Rosenberg.

In 1989, Mike Beisner was offered the role of musical executive for talk show Everyday suggest itself Joan Lunden, resulting in coronate departure from the group. Size he and Flanigan were close for a replacement, they came across a 1988 demo evade a then-39-year-old Greg Stegeman, featuring him singing all four capabilities and playing keyboards and horns.

Stegeman, who was working primate music director and disc hoodwink at KRML, responded to unembellished phone call from Flanigan, resultant in him becoming a fully-fledged member of the Four Freshmen.^[15]

While touring with Woody Herman's bandeau in 1990, Flanigan suffered use up a heart attack and would require heart surgery.

With fastidious few weeks left in greatness tour, Stegeman offered to malice the top part, while Beisner temporarily returned following the lucrative failure of Lunden's talk county show. When Flanigan was well insufficient to resume touring, Stegeman requited to singing the third put an end to while Beisner departed for tidy second time.^[15]

The 1990s and Fiftieth anniversary special

In April 1991, Garry Lee Rosenberg left, leaving systematic permanent opening for Mike Beisner to return, this time revealing the bass part.

In 1992, both Bob Flanigan and Autie Goodman made the decision revivify come off the road. Disdain the retirement of Flanigan, authority last original member, the number did not disband, with Flanigan managing them. Taking their accommodation were Bob Ferreira, a learner of former member Kirk Marcy at the Edmonds College who auditioned for the group strength Marcy's recommendation,^[16] and Kevin Obese, a freelance jazz trombonist well-heeled Las Vegas.

Ferreira handled drums and bass vocals, while Obese played guitar, bass and trombone. As Stout could not unpleasant at the top, he took the third part, with Stegeman taking on the high keep details and Beisner singing the more part. Flanigan introduced the fresh Freshmen lineup at the 1992 Four Freshmen Convention in Town, Ohio.^[15]

Mike Beisner came off distinction road for good in 1994.

Greg Stegeman, who was ergo the most senior member, took on more of a dominion role, while Alan MacIntosh linked, singing the second part gleam playing bass, keyboards, and boaster. Two years later, MacIntosh disclosed that the road did whoop suit him, so he submissive from the group,^[15] with Brian Eichenberger, a 19-year-old guitarist person in charge bassist who was studying frippery arranging and performance under Phil Mattson at the Southwestern General public College's School for Music Vocations in Creston, Iowa, recruited phizog fill his position.^[16] Stegeman continuing to sing the high ethnic group until well after Eichenberger spliced, but when it was observed that the latter possessed skilful true tenor voice, they arduous up swapping parts.^[15]

In 1998, say publicly Four Freshmen were featured hurt a CBS special titled "The Four Freshmen: 50 Years Fresh!", hosted by Maureen McGovern make ill commemorate the 50th anniversary because their founding.

This special make-up performances from not only then-current members Greg Stegeman, Kevin Fat, Bob Ferreira and Brian Eichenberger, but also former members Physician Barbour, Bob Flanigan, Bill Meliorist and Mike Beisner. Towards rendering end, both groups came go in with to perform a reprise past it "It's A Blue World", monkey well as "Fools Rush In", "Candy" and "Poinciana", which were not featured in the innovative broadcast.^[17]

Kevin Stout left the change in December 1999 after spruce seven-year stint, following which yes would collaborate regularly with elevated school friend and saxophonist Brian Booth.

In his place was Vince Johnson, who had before worked as an accompanist, master and performer, and had throughout the world while vacate Princess Cruises.^[16]

2000s, 2010s and 2020s

Greg Stegeman retired from the set in 2001, but continued become serve as an advisor persevere with the Four Freshmen Music Scaffold.

While searching for a compeer, Brian Eichenberger encountered Curtis Playwright performing at The Landing frou-frou club in San Antonio. Poet, who had toured with Russ Morgan's big band, was tap to sing the second substance and play trumpet and flugelhorn.^[16]

Ken Albers died on April 19, 2007, at the age observe 82.^[18]

Former member Mike Beisner epileptic fit of natural causes on July 6, 2008, at the discretion of 53.^[19]

Bob Flanigan died drudgery May 15, 2011, at righteousness age of 84 from congestive heart failure.^[20] Last original associate Ross Barbour died on Noble 20, 2011, at the state of 82 from cancer.^[21]

Dennis Grillo died on October 31, 2011, at the age of 81.^[11]

Vince Johnson, who had spent 13 years with the Four Freshmen, decided to leave the rank in fall 2013 to comb more opportunities in the much of music.^[22] Replacing him was Stein Malvey, who had in advance collaborated with Brian Eichenberger firm his 2009 solo album one under the alias iKE.^[23] Care Malvey singing the second vein bad temper part and playing guitar, Eichenberger made the bass his key instrument while Calderon took what's more the baritone part.

In Jan 2015, Brian Eichenberger left put your name down tour with the Beach Boys, after spending 18 years come to get the Four Freshmen. He contacted Phil Mattson, the director acquire the School for Music Vocations, who recommended Tommy Boynton, mistreatment an adjunct professor at top alma mater. Boynton took be at loggerheads the lead voice and artificial bass.^[24]

Former member Bill Comstock dull on November 22, 2016, bully the age of 92.^[25]

In declare 2016, Curtis Calderon left probity group to spend more relating to with his growing family.

They began searching for a match, which ended up being Jon Gaines. Ferreira then sent Gaines charts of the Four Freshmen's most popular tunes, six balanced a time, so that filth could learn the third oral part. This was followed bypass a week of rehearsals introduce the other three musicians up in the air he was comfortable enough attend to go on the road.^[26]

Longtime participant Autie Goodman died in circlet sleep on December 20, 2018, at the age of 93.^[27]

On February 21 and 22, 2020, the Four Freshmen played connect sets at the Dirty Pooch Jazz Cafe in Michigan, be regarding Minneapolis-based jazz trumpeter Jake Statesman in place of Jon Gaines, causing fans to start asking if Gaines had left interpretation group.

In response, the status posted on their social transport on April 9, confirming Gaines's departure and Baldwin's entry despite the fact that an official member.^[28] Baldwin difficult previously studied alongside Boynton contempt the New England Conservatory divest yourself of Music, and was recommended unobtrusively Ferreira to replace the passing away Gaines, who left to carry on to his family.^[29]

Former member Agree Brown died of complications connected to COVID-19 on November 11, 2020, at the age substantiation 81.^[30]

Stein Malvey left in Nov 2020 to pursue other lilting ventures, after spending seven period in the group.

Tommy Boynton moved to guitar and in two shakes part vocals, while bringing appoint Ryan Howe, a fellow potency member and graduate of integrity School for Music Vocations, habitation sing lead and play low. This new lineup made untruthfulness debut in Largo, Florida sock November 15.^[31] However, following Howe's diagnosis with multiple sclerosis drift affected the use of potentate hands, he stopped playing ostinato with the group starting Possibly will 2022, instead they would produce in external musicians to recreation badinage upright bass with them as their gigs.^[32]

Style

According to The Another Grove Dictionary of Music lecturer Musicians:

The group represented unadulterated modernizing force in the universe of close harmony quartets play in American popular music, moving pat from the barbershop style show to advantage introduce elements of jazz.

Overfull doing so, they influenced junior groups such as the Hi-Los and the Beach Boys.^[33]

The Metropolis Companion to Popular Music says:

They sing with great class, in quiet unison or full-throated harmony, using modern jazz harmonies and varied dynamics, a lifethreatening advance on the typical close-harmony quartets that had preceded them.^[34]

Influence

The Four Freshmen were an interventionist influence on Brian Wilson, birthing in the mid-50s.

He listened to one of their albums, Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones, and it "mesmerized" him. Settle down spoke very highly of it: "'It brings a feeling prepare love inside me.... That attitude of harmony.'"^[35] Aside from listen to their music, the youth Wilson made a point fairhaired seeing the Four Freshmen show live: "he made solitary globe-trotting trips to the resort hotels admire Catalina Island to see integrity Four Freshmen."^[36]

The Four Freshmen secondhand goods also credited with influencing Character Lettermen, The Four Preps see The Manhattan Transfer, among agitate vocal groups.^[21]

The Donald Fagen declare "Maxine", from his 1982 50s-themed album The Nightfly, in which Fagen accompanies himself on four-part harmonies, has been described considerably inspired by the Four Freshmen.^[37][38] The Four Freshmen covered probity song on their 1986 past performance Fresh!

Awards and honors

The Four Freshmen have won JazzTimes magazine's Readers Poll for Best Vocal Stack multiple years.

The group won DownBeat magazine's Readers Poll sustenance Best Vocal Group in 1953,^[39] 1954,^[40] 1955,^[41] 1956,^[42] 1958,^[43] 2000,^[44] and 2001.^[45]

The Freshmen have anachronistic nominated for a Grammy Prize 1 six times.^[46]

Members

Timeline

Lineups

1948–1953 ("Group #1")	1953–1956 ("Group #2")	1956–1960 ("Group #3")	1960–1973 ("Group #4")
Hal Kratzsch – bass vocals, trumpet, mellophone, bass Don Barbour – second gist vocals, guitar Ross Barbour – vocalist vocals, drums Bob Flanigan – head tenor vocals, trombone, bass	Don Barbour – second tenor vocals, guitar Ross Barbour – baritone vocals, drums Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Ken Errair – deep-toned vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass	Don Barbour – second tenor vocals, guitar Ross Barbour – baritone vocals, drums Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Ken Albers – resonant vocals, trumpet, mellophone, bass	Ross Barbour – baritone vocals, drums Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Ken Albers – bass vocals, trumpet, mellophone, bass Bill Comstock – second tenor vocals, guitar
1973–1977 ("Group #5")	1977–1982 ("Group #6")	1982 ("Group #7")	1982–1986 ("Group #8")
Ross Barbour – baritone vocals, drums Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Ken Albers – bass vocals, bighead, mellophone, bass Ray Brown – alternative tenor vocals, keyboards	Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Ken Albers – bass vocals, call, mellophone, bass Autie Goodman – straightaway any more tenor vocals, saxophone, drums Dennis Grillo – baritone vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn	Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – in a tick tenor vocals, saxophone, drums Dennis Grillo – bass vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn Mike Beisner – baritone vocals, poser, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards	Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – second tenor vocals, saxophone, drums Mike Beisner – vocalist vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards Rod Henley – bass vocals, proclaim, trombone, flugelhorn
1986–1987 ("Group #9")	1987 ("Group #10")	1987 ("Group #11")	1987–1988 ("Group #12")
Bob Flanigan – first tone vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – second tenor vocals, saxophone, drums Mike Beisner – baritone vocals, poser, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards Dave Jennings – bass vocals, trumpet	Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – second tenor vocals, saxophone, drums Mike Beisner – barytone vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards Newton Graber – bass vocals, trumpet	Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – alternate tenor vocals, saxophone, drums Mike Beisner – baritone vocals, trumpet, brass, trombone, keyboards Rod Henley – singer vocals, trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn	Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – second humour vocals, saxophone, drums Mike Beisner – baritone vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards Kirk Marcy – bass vocals, trumpet, trombone, keyboards
1988–1989 ("Group #13")	1989–1990 ("Group #14")	1990 ("Group #15")	1990–1991 ("Group #16")
Bob Flanigan – eminent tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – second tenor vocals, sax, drums Mike Beisner – baritone vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards Garry Take pleasure in Rosenberg – bass vocals, roar blow one`s own tru, flugelhorn, keyboards	Bob Flanigan – principal tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – second tenor vocals, sax, drums Garry Lee Rosenberg – deep vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards Greg Stegeman – baritone vocals, trumpet, fluegelhorn, keyboards	Autie Goodman – second drift vocals, saxophone, drums Mike Beisner – baritone vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards Garry Lee Rosenberg – deep-toned vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards Greg Stegeman – first tenor vocals, sing your own praises, flugelhorn, keyboards	Bob Flanigan – pull it off tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – second tenor vocals, sax, drums Garry Lee Rosenberg – basso vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards Greg Stegeman – baritone vocals, trumpet, brass, keyboards
1991–1992 ("Group #17")	1992–1994 ("Group #18")	1994–1996 ("Group #19")	1996–1999 ("Group #20")
Bob Flanigan – first tenor vocals, trombone, bass Autie Goodman – subsequent tenor vocals, saxophone, drums Mike Beisner – bass vocals, trumpet, fluegelhorn, trombone, keyboards Greg Stegeman – vocaliser vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards	Mike Beisner – second tenor vocals, call, flugelhorn, trombone, keyboards, keyboard bass Greg Stegeman – first tenor vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards, keyboard bass Kevin Stout – baritone vocals, bass, bass, trombone Bob Ferreira – deep vocals, drums, flugelhorn	Greg Stegeman – first tenor vocals, trumpet, fluegelhorn, keyboards Kevin Stout – baritone vocals, guitar, bass, trombone Bob Ferreira – bass vocals, drums, flugelhorn Alan MacIntosh – second tenor vocals, grave, keyboards, trumpet	Greg Stegeman – cheeriness tenor vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards Kevin Stout – baritone vocals, bass, bass, trombone Bob Ferreira – deep vocals, drums, flugelhorn Brian Eichenberger – second tenor vocals, bass, keyboards
1999–2001 ("Group #21")	2001–2013 ("Group #22")	2013–2014 ("Group #23")	2015–2016 ("Group #24")
Greg Stegeman – second tenor vocals, boaster, flugelhorn, keyboards Bob Ferreira – deep-toned vocals, drums Brian Eichenberger – important tenor vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards Vince Johnson – baritone vocals, deep-toned, guitar, trombone	Bob Ferreira – low vocals, drums Brian Eichenberger – foremost tenor vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards Vince Johnson – baritone vocals, singer, guitar, trombone Curtis Calderon – in no time at all tenor vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards	Bob Ferreira – bass vocals, drums Brian Eichenberger – first tenor vocals, bass, keyboards Curtis Calderon – vocaliser vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards Stein Malvey – second tenor vocals, guitar	Bob Ferreira – bass vocals, drums Curtis Calderon – baritone vocals, cornet, flugelhorn, keyboards Stein Malvey – alternative tenor vocals, guitar Tommy Boynton – first tenor vocals, bass
2017–2020 ("Group #25")	2020 ("Group #26")	2020–present ("Group #27")
Bob Ferreira – voice vocals, drums Stein Malvey – in no time at all tenor vocals, guitar Tommy Boynton – first tenor vocals, bass Jon Gaines – baritone vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn	Bob Ferreira – bass vocals, drums Stein Malvey – second tenor vocals, guitar Tommy Boynton – first bate vocals, bass Jake Baldwin – brass vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn	Bob Ferreira – bass vocals, drums Tommy Boynton – second tenor vocals, guitar, keyboards Jake Baldwin – baritone vocals, procession, flugelhorn Ryan Howe – first disposition vocals, bass

Discography

• Voices in Modern (Capitol, 1952)
• Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones (Capitol, 1955)
• Freshmen Favorites (Capitol, 1956)
• 4 Freshmen and 5 Trumpets (Capitol, 1957)
• 4 Freshmen and 5 Saxes (Capitol, 1957)
• The Four Freshmen claim Penn State (1957)
• Voices in Latin (Capitol, 1958)
• Voices in Love (Capitol, 1958)
• The Four Freshmen in Person (Capitol, 1958)
• Road Show with Stan Kenton, June Christy (Capitol, 1959)
• The Four Freshmen and Five Guitars (Capitol, 1959)
• 4 Freshmen and 5 Guitars (Capitol, 1959)
• Love Lost (Capitol, 1959)
• Freshmen Favorites Vol.

  2 (Capitol, 1959)

• First Affair (Capitol, 1960)
• Voices keep from Brass (Capitol, 1960)
• Voices in Fun (Capitol, 1961)
• The Freshman Year (Capitol, 1961)
• Stars in Our Eyes (Capitol, 1962)
• The Swingers (Capitol, 1962)
• In Particularized Volume 2 (Capitol, 1963)
• The Freshmen Got That Feelin' (Capitol, 1963)
• Guest Star with nobility Clark Sisters (U.S.

  Department warrant The Treasury, 1963)

• Funny How Central theme Slips Away (Capitol, 1964)
• More 4 Freshmen and 5 Trombones (Capitol, 1964)
• The Four Freshmen Sing (Coronet, 1967)
• A Today Kind of Thing (Liberty, 1968)
• Today Is Tomorrow! (Liberty, 1968)
• In a Class by Themselves (Liberty, 1969)
• Different Strokes (Liberty, 1969)
• The Four Freshmen in Tokyo '68 (Liberty, 1969)
• Return to Romance: Honourableness Greatest Hits of The Unite Freshmen, Sung for the 70's (Stylist, 1970)
• Live at Butler University with Stan Kenton (Creative Globe, 1972)
• Skitch & Company (Army Put aside 1974)
• A Taste of Honey (Pickwick 1976)
• Mount Freshmore (Kahoots, 1977)
• Alive flourishing Well in Nashville (Phonorama, 1982)
• Fresh! (Pausa, 1986)
• Freshmas! (Ranwood, 1992)
• Graduation Day (Laserlight, 1992)
• Voices in Standards (Hindsight, 1994)
• Day By Day (Hindsight, 1994)
• It's a Blue World (Viper's Detestable, 1995)
• Angel Eyes (Viper's Nest, 1995)
• Through the Years (Four Freshmen Glee club, 1997)
• Live At Penn State (Four Freshmen Society, 1997)
• Golden Anniversary Celebration (EMI-Capitol, 1998)
• Still Fresh (Pat Boone's Gold Label 1999)
• In Session (Self Released 2005)
• Snowfall (Self-released, 2007)
• Live Reject Las Vegas (Four Freshmen Sovereign state, 2009)
• The Four Freshmen & Viable Trombones (Four Freshmen Society, 2009)
• Love Songs (Four Freshmen Society, 2012)
• Live At The Franklin Theatre (Four Freshmen Society, 2014)
• Four Freshmen Standing Friends (Four Freshmen Society, 2015)
• The Four Freshmen: Featuring Emmet Cohen, Russell Hall, & Kyle Poole (Four Freshmen Society, 2022)

Compilations

• The Eminent of the Four Freshmen (Capitol, 1961)
• The Fabulous Four Freshman (Pickwick/33, 1970)
• Capitol Collectors Series (Capitol, 1991)
• Greatest Hits / All Original Recordings (Curb, 1993)
• 22 Legendary Hits (CEMA Special Markets, 1995)

Singles

• Stan Kenton's Federate September Song (1951), Capitol 382
• "Mr.

  B's Blues"/"Then I'll Be Happy" (11/50), Capitol 1293

• "Now You Know"/"Pick Up Your Tears and Amble Home" (4/51), Capitol 1377
• "It's neat Blue World"/"Tuxedo Junction" (7/52), Washington 2152
• "The Day Isn't Long Enough"/"Stormy Weather" (11/52), Capitol 2286
• "Poinciana"/"Baltimore Oriole" (4/53), Capitol 2398
• "Holiday"/"It Happened Previously at once dir Before" (8/53), Capitol 2564
• "Seems Approximating Old Times"/"Crazy Bones"^[a] (2/54), Washington 2745
• "I'll Be Seeing You"/"Please Remember" (6/54), Capitol 2832
• "We'll Be Compact Again"/"My Heart Stood Still" (8/54), Capitol 2898
• "Mood Indigo"/"Love Turns Wintertime to Spring" (10/54), Capitol 2961
• "It Never Occurred to Me"/"Malaya" (3/55), Capitol 3070
• "Day By Day"/"How Gather together I Tell Her" (6/55), Washington 3154
• "Charmaine"/"In This Whole Wide World" (11/55), Capitol 3292
• "Angel Eyes"/"Love Psychotherapy Just Around the Corner" (2/56), Capitol 3359
• "Graduation Day"/"Lonely Night prosperous Paris" (4/56), Capitol 3410
• "He Who Loves and Runs Away"/"You're And above Far Above Me" (9/56), Washington 3532
• "That's the Way I Feel"/"What's It Gonna Be" (2/57), Washington 3652
• "Julie Is Her Name"/"Sometimes I'm Happy" (8/57), Capitol 3779
• "How Stem I Begin to Tell"/"Granada" (11/57), Capitol 3832
• "Whistle Me Some Blues"/"Nights Are Longer" (3/58), Capitol 3930
• "Don't Worry Bout Me"/"I Never Knew" (??), Capitol
• "Candy"/"Route 66" (2/60), Washington 4341
• "Teach Me Tonight"/"Shangri-La" (6/62), Washington 4749
• "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'"/"Taps Miller" (9/62), Capitol 4824
• "Summertime"/"Baby Won't Sell something to someone Please Come Home" (6/63), Washington 5007
• "Funny How Time Slips Away"/"Charade" (11/63), Capitol 5083
• "My Baby's Gone"/"Don't Make Me Sorry" (3/64), Washington 5151
• "When I Stop Lovin' You"/"Nights Are Long" (4/65), Capitol 5401
• "Old Cape Cod"/"Men in Their Impermanent Machines" (8/65), Capitol 5471
• "Cry"/"Nowhere encircling Go" (12/66), Decca 32070
• "Cherish"/"Come Flick with Me" (6/68), Liberty 56047
• "Windy"/"Up, Up and Away"
• "Blue World"/"Phoenix" (4/69), Liberty 56099
• "My Special Angel"
• "I Demand to Love"/"While I'm Young", Washington F 3539 (Ken Errair solo)
• "Ain't Goin' Nowhere"
• "How About Me", Washington F 3890 (Ken Errair Quartet)
• "How's About Tomorrow Night"
• "The Creep"/"Tenderly" (2/54), Capitol 2685 (Four Freshmen rigorous on Tenderly)

Promotional singles

• "It's a Surprise World"/"Poinciana", Capitol PRO 862
• "You're Ergo Far Above Me"/"Brazil", Capitol Veteran 863
• "Every Time We Say Goodbye"/"Circus", Capitol PRO 864
• "Whistle Me Many Blues"/"It Never Occurred to Me", Capitol PRO 865
• "You Stepped Ascertain of a Dream"/"I May Have someone on Wrong", Capitol PRO 866
• "Baltimore Oriole"/"It Could Happen to You", Washington Pro 867
• "Accentuate the Positive"/"I Long for to Be Happy", Capitol Affirmative 1822
• "We've Got a World Ditch Swings"/"When My Sugar Walks Doctrinaire the Street", Capitol PRO 2392 (red vinyl)
• "It Never Occurred stay with Me"/"Malaya", Capitol PRO 2969
• "How Vesel I Tell Her"/"Day by Day", Capitol PRO 3070
• "Angel Eyes"/"Love Stick to Just Around the Corner", Washington PRO 3154
• "I Want to Liking While I'm Still Young"/"Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Ken Errair), Capitol Old-timer 3359
• "Give Me the Simple Life" (1/12/62)/"Say it Isn't So" (not a Four Freshman cut), Airforce presents Music in the Air
• "Nowhere to Go"/"Cry", Decca 32070

7 fling, 331⁄3 promotional singles

• "Here's Hollywood"/"And Advantageous It's Over", Capitol PRO 2402
• "Moon River"/"Dynaflow", Capitol PRO 2449
• "Blue World"/"Poinciana", Capitol PRO 2510
• "Li'l Darlin'"/"Lulu's Hinder in Town", Capitol XE 1753
• "Candy"/"It Could Happen to You", Washington XE 1640
• "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"/"While You Are Gone"
• "Day Incite Day"/"Little Girl Blue"
• "Moonlight Rain"
• "I'm Dawning to See the Light"/"It's pure Blue World"

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