Four Freshmen, The

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Four Freshmen

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The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires (Glenn Miller), The Pied Pipers (Tommy Dorsey), and The Mel-Tones (Mel Tormé, Artie Shaw), founded in the barbershop tradition. The Four Freshmen is considered a vocal band because the singers accompany themselves on guitar, horns, bass, and drums, among other instrumental configurations.

The group was founded in 1948, and reached its peak popularity in the mid-1950s. The last original member retired in 1993, but the group still tours internationally and has recorded jazz harmonies since its late 1940s founding in the halls of the Jordan School of Music at Butler University (Indianapolis).

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Graduation Day

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"Graduation Day" is a 1956 hit song by The Four Freshmen written by Joe Sherman with lyrics by his brother Noel Sherman. The song, a single from the Capitol album Freshman Favorites, was quickly covered in singles by The Rover Boys in 1956, The Lennon Sisters with bandleader Lawrence Welk, also in 1956, Tommy Sands in 1957, by Bobby Pickett in 1963, and by The Arbors in 1968. It was performed in concert by The Beach Boys, being included on their October 1964 album Beach Boys Concert.

in 1976, it was issued as the B-side to the rerelease of The Beach Boys' "Be True To Your School" (Capitol 4334).

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Graduation Day