clockwise:
Gene Morford (bass), Perry Carter (lead),
Ron Browne (baritone), Jim Schamp (tenor)
June,1963.
In the Upjohn Pharmacy. Gene Morford had done barbershop briefly in high school in Ft.
Wayne, Indiana. He also attended high school in Anaheim, CA with Ron Browne and Jim
Schamp. Gene was in a college quartet, "Four of a Kind," with Ron Browne, Jim
Schamp and his brother Allan Morford. Gene was a Dapper Dan from the summer of 1962
through late 1965 when he left to pursue a major career in the jingle and back-up singing
business in Dallas, Texas and later Los Angeles. He has worked with Frank Sinatra, Michael
Jackson, Elton John, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers among others. |