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The Revelers
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The Revelers was an American all-male close harmony group popular in the late 20's and early 30's. The Revelers' recordings of "Dinah", "Old Man River", "Valencia", "Baby Face", "The Blue Room", "Birth of the Blues", "When Yuba Played the Rumba on the Tuba", and many more, which became popular in the U.S. and then Europe in the late 1920's. The German group Comedian Harmonists formed in 1927 after hearing some records of The Revelers.
The Revelers, a quintet made up of two tenors, two baritones, and a bass singer, were stars on radio and in vaudeville, as well as in the recording studio. In addition to their recordings for Victor (later RCA Victor), they also recorded as "The Singing Sophomores" on Columbia Records, and "The Merrymakers" on Brunswick Records. In 1933, Ring Lardner outlined his "perfect radio program" for The New Yorker magazine, and found a place for them along with Paul Whiteman and Fanny Brice. He added, "under any name they sound as sweet." One of the members of The Revelers who also appeared as one of "The Singing Sophomores" was Metropolitan Opera tenor James Melton.
An example of what they sounded like is "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston" on the CD "The Roaring Twenties" (ABC 838 215-2) from the series "Robert Parker's The Golden Years."
The Revelers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999.