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But collectively tenor Harry Williamson, lead Joe Mazzone, bari Ron Knickerbocker and bass Hal Kauffman had logged 44 years of experience in nearly 25 different quartets. They lived in four different (albeit small and neighboring) states. And they comprised a quartet that had evolved through four editions since it was formed in the mid-1960s. | But collectively tenor Harry Williamson, lead Joe Mazzone, bari Ron Knickerbocker and bass Hal Kauffman had logged 44 years of experience in nearly 25 different quartets. They lived in four different (albeit small and neighboring) states. And they comprised a quartet that had evolved through four editions since it was formed in the mid-1960s. | ||
Williamson was the only member who lasted through all four versions. In 1970 he teamed up with Knickerbocker (then a lead), Kauffman and Dave Reed as bari. When Mazzone left his previous quartet, the Exclusives, in 1971, to take the lead spot, Knickerbocker moved to bari. | |||
Interestingly, | Interestingly, Kauffman had been a tenor (and even, at one time, a boy soprano) until a few years before, when Williamson persuaded him to switch to bass of a previous quartet so that he, Harry Williamson, could sing tenor. | ||
The combination, complete with the various part switches, proved the winning one, as the Regents made their "rapid" climb to the gold. | The combination, complete with the various part switches, proved the winning one, as the Regents made their "rapid" climb to the gold. | ||