The following are the results of an ongoing research project to identify
and locate books and single song sheets of men's barbershop arrangements
which have been printed over the years. Suggestions and comments are always
welcome. Please e-mail me at
sillsdrew at gmail dot com.
----Drew Sills, member of S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A./B.H.S. (Frank H. Thorne chapter)
Please note that I am NOT a sheet music dealer.
Please see note above as to the purpose of this web page. I have
received a number of inquiries from people trying to place orders,
asking how much a certain arrangement costs, etc. If your
goal is to purchase sheet music of barbershop arragements, try
the sheet music section of
Harmony Marketplace,
singers.com,
or a-capella.com.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Special thanks to Casey Parker, my
barbershopping mentor, for his help and
encouragement in this project. Casey is the historian, archivist, and curator of
the HARMONY ARCHIVES, a huge collection of recordings and printed music of
the great old songs as performed by close harmony quartets. Casey's many activities include the publication of Harmony Song
Guide and Harmony Record Guide, which lists thousands of barbershop
arrangements and recordings respectively. Additionally, Casey publishes the
GUBOQS Gazette, a publication of the GUBOQS (Get Us Back Our QUARTET Society)
Group, dedicated to the interchange of ideas on restoring quartetting to the Barbershop
Harmony Society. For more information, please e-mail him at caseypar@garlic.com.
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
with detailed descriptions and
illustrations of
MEN'S BARBERSHOP SONGBOOKS
List of published arrangements (both in and out of
print) arranged alphabetically by song title. Contains over 2500 entries.
Excel spreadsheet format or
web page (HTML) format
The
2007 BHS Arrangements Catalog
includes published arrangements available from Harmony Marketplace and
unpublished arragments available from the Old Songs Library, but does not contain
out-of-print arrangements.
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF BARBERSHOP
SONGBOOKS:
- AFB Album of Favorite Barber Shop Ballads,
Old and Modern. arr. Ozzie Westley (1944)
- BPC The Barberpole Cat Program and Song Book.
(1987)
- BB1 Barber Shop Ballads: a Book of Close Harmony.
ed. Sigmund Spaeth (1925)
- BB2 Barber Shop Ballads and How to Sing Them.
ed. Sigmund Spaeth. (1940)
- CBB Barber Shop Ballads. (Cole's Universal
Library; CUL no. 2) arr. Ozzie Westley (1943?)
- BC Barber Shop Classics ed. Sigmund Spaeth.
(1946)
- BH Barber Shop Harmony: a Collection of New
and Old Favorites For Male Quartets. ed. Sigmund Spaeth. (1942)
- BM1 Barber Shop Memories, No. 1, arr. Hugo
Frey (1949)
- BM2 Barber Shop Memories, No. 2, arr. Hugo
Frey (1951)
- BP1 Barber Shop Parade of Quartet Hits, no.
1. (1946)
- BP2 Barber Shop Parade of Quartet Hits, no.
2. (1952)
- BP Barbershop Potpourri. (1985)
- BSF Barber Shop Song Fest Folio. arr.
Geoffrey O'Hara. (1948)
- BSS Barber Shop Songs and "Swipes."
arr. Geoffrey O'Hara. (1946)
- BOB The Best of Barbershop. (1986)
- BBB Bourne Barbershop Blockbusters (1970)
- BB Bourne Best Barbershop (1970)
- CH Close Harmony: 20 Permanent Song Favorites.
arr. Ed Smalle (1936)
- CH1 Close Harmony: Male Quartets, Ballads and
Funnies with Barber Shop Chords. arr. George Shackley (1925)
- CHB "Close Harmony" Ballads,
for Male Quartets. (1952)
- CBB Collection of Barber Shop Ballads.
(Ultra Modern Library, no. 57) arr. by Ozzie Westley (1944)
- EF Evergreen Favorites, arr. Claude C. Garreau
(1959)
- B50 Fifty Favorite Barber Shop Ballads,
arr. by Edward Hunt. (1952)
- B40 40 Best of Barber Shop Songs.
- GTH Good Time Harmonies: Song Spectacular for
Barbershop Singing. (1970)
- HI Happiness is a Barber Shop Quartet.
(1969)
- H77 Happiness is . . . 77 Barbershop Favorites.
ed. David C. Olsen. (1986)
- HHS Heritage of Harmony Song Book: A Collection
of Favorite Barbershop Songs Commemorating the Golden Anniversary of the
Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing
in America, Inc., ed. Burt Szabo (1988)
- HM1 Hymns for Men, Book 1 (1959)
- HM2 Hymns for Men, Book 2 (1971)
- JPB1 Just Plain Barbershop: a compilation
of traditional songs arranged in barbershop harmony for male quartets and
choruses/ comp. & ed. by SPEBSQSA (1959)
- JPB2 Just Plain Barbershop: a compilation
of traditional songs arranged in barbershop harmony for male quartets and
choruses/ revised edition (1986)
- LSB Let's Sing Barber Shop Songs: 20 Big-time
Hits Since We Were Little Shavers, arr. Lou Leaman. (1961)
- MC Male Call: TTBB Choral Arrangements in the
Barbershop Style (1965?)
- MBC More Barber Shop Classics. ed. Sigmund
Spaeth. (1951)
- MBH More Barber Shop Harmony: a Collection
of New and Old Favorites For Male Quartets. ed. Sigmund Spaeth. (1945)
- NBH New Barber Shop Harmony. ed. Sigmund
Spaeth (1952)
- NB Norman Brokenshire's Barber Shop Songs.
(1950)
- NBS Novelty Barber Shop Songs for Men's Voices.
(1953)
- OTB Old Time Barber Shop Songs, ed. Lou
Leamann (1952)
- PA Parade and Afterglow of Barbershop Harmonies.
ed. George P. Becker. (1950)
- RSN Razor Sharp and Natural: Barber Shop
Quartet. arr. by Jack Baird [et al.], 1968
- SAL Sing-A-Long With The Barbershop, Paul
Yoder (1961)
- B17 17 Barber Shop Standards. (1957?)
- B65 65 Best of Barbershop Songs selected by Sandy King (1970's)
- SBB Something for the Boys: Barber Shop
Quartet. (1968)
- SBS Singing Barber Shop Songs: 20 Big-Time
Hits Since We Were Little Shavers, arr. Lou Leaman (1953)
- S01 Four Part Songs For Men, Book One (July
1, 1948)
- S02 Songs For Men, Book II : Approved Barber
Shop Quartet Arrangments (July 1,1949)
- S03 Songs For Men, Book III : Approved Barber
Shop Quartet Arrangements (July 1, 1950)
- S04 Songs For Men, Book IV : Approved Barber
Shop Quartet Arrangements (July 1,1951)
- S05 Songs For Men, Book 5 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (1952)
- S06 Songs For Men, Book 6 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (July 1, 1953)
- S07 Songs For Men, Book 7 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (July 1,1954)
- S08 Songs For Men, Book 8 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (January 1, 1955)
- S09 Songs For Men, Book 9 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (June 1, 1956)
- S10 Songs For Men, Book 10 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (1958)
- S11 Songs For Men, Book 11 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (March 1960)
- S12 Songs For Men, Book 12 : Arranged For
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus (June 1961)
- SHF Songs for SPEBSQSA, by Hal Staab, arr.
John Hill. (1951)
- SFC Songs for the Chorus, Book 1
- SI Songs of Inspriation: arranged for Male
Quartets and Choruses. (1974)
- SB Strictly Barbershop. (1973)
- TH1/TH2 Time to Hamonize: Two Albums of Barber
Shop Quartet Favorites. ed. Claude Garreau. (1948)
- HP1 34 Hit Parade Extras: Barber Shop Quartet.
(1960)
- HP2 34 More Hit Parade Extras: Barber Shop
Quartet.
- 33B Thirty-three BVC Barbershop Songs
and Swipes. ed. Geoffrey O'Hara. (1961)
- B20 20 All-time Hit Paraders for Barber
Shop Singing. Lou Leaman. (1952?)
- WSY Wonderful Songs of Yesterday. (1972)
- YMIH Young Men In Harmony. (1985)
- YHP Your Barber Shop Hit Parade. arr.
Frank Henri Klickmann. (1953)
- YF Yultide Favorites, Barbershop Style:
a Collection of Favorite Christmas Songs Arranged in the Barbershop Style
for Male Quartets and Choruses. (1974)
SINGLE SONG SHEET MUSIC
IN SERIES
- Octavo Arrangements: Forster Music Publisher
(1946-47)
- Octavo Arrangements: Jerry Vogel Music Co. (circa
1949)
- Octavo Arrangments: Gaumont Music Publishers
(circa 1950)
- Alfred Music Company: Golden Era Hit Songs arranged for Barber Shop Quartet (1950)
- SPEBSQSA Official Loose Leaf Arrangements, X-series,
1944-1947
- SPEBSQSA Official Loose Leaf Arrangements, Z-series,
1950
- SPEBSQSA Harmony Heritage Songs series,
1956-1993, stock nos. 8001-8145
- SPEBSQSA Songs For Men octavo series, 1958-1996,
stock nos. 7001-7339; continues as Barbershop Classics series, 1997-present,
stock nos. 7340-7390
- SPEBSQSA Songs For Men octavo J-series, 1958-1994, stock nos. 7501-7563
- SPEBSQSA arrangements of songs from The Music Man, stock nos. 6266-6271
- SPEBSQSA Barbershop Show Tunes, 1970-1996, stock nos. 7552, 7601-7743
- SPEBSQSA Young Men In Harmony octavo series, arr. by Val Hicks, 1972, stock nos. 6401-6407
- SPEBSQSA Archive Series, 1986-1992, stock nos. 8401-8404
- SPEBSQSA Harmony Explosion series,
1993-present, stock nos. 8601-8645
- SPEBSQSA Gold Medal Series, 1994-present
Some may have noticed that I have not been keeping up so well with new releases by BHS over the last
few years. Joe Liles has been kind enough to send me a pdf file containing
all of the Music Premiere releases by SBEBSQSA/BHS from 1996-2008.
As time permits, I hope to eventually merge the data in this file into the appropriate linked html
files above. Many thanks, Joe!
Links to ARRANGEMENT LISTS of top arrangers.
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