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Dallas Big  "D" C horus - John Piercy, Director

 
Mello-Men
Doc Talbert, Jack Culpepper, Ralph Ribble, Ray Watson.
Neighborhood Four
C.G. Walker, Fred Patterson (a real life barber), E.O. Haskew, Luther "Luke" Hight. Lasted over twenty years in Dallas. Probably had twice as many sing-outs as any two other quartets.
Note-A-Riots
Guy McShan, Bev Patterson, Wickie McMee, Art Garrison.
Playbills
Keith Houts, Bill Thornton. Bill Gatlin, Art Garrison. Larry Rogers was a later bari.
Polka Dot Four
The first quartet with Joe Lewis on lead (later a two time International president) and Oscar Jones on baritone.
Stage Door Four
Keith Houts, Jim Law, V.L. Hooper, Don Dochterman. Later participants were Don Hackett (T), Jim Casey (L). A long lasting excellent show group featuring V.L. as a great emcee. In later days it was a VM quartet.
Sub-Sti-Toots
Barry Solomon, Keith Houts, Howard Dozier, Jack Brown.		  Suburban Four
Paul Dykeman, Mitch (Sheriff) Jones, Larry Roseborough, Paul (banjo) Baker.
Tex-A-Chords
Ted Dunagin, Fred Dennis, Joe McGunagle, Royce Parish. They were runners up behind Four Hearsemen in 1954 at regional. An Oak Cliff and Dallas quartet.
That Other Quartet
Gary Boesdorfer, Andy Craig, Ron Schmidt, Jim Hodge.
3 Docs and a Dash
Barry Solomon, Louie Mullican, Doc Jones, John Piercy. Competing seniors quartet.

Some quartets from Big D have surely been left out and for this we apologize. The ones listed above are all we could find in our admittedly incomplete records.
A number of directors guided Big D over the years. First was local radio celebrity Pop Myers. Later Aylett Fitzhugh led us to the 5th place spot in the 1958 International chorus contest. Not in sequential order, but roughly so, we were led by Les Swanson, Phil Winston, John Piercy, Bill Thornton, Brian Beck, V.L. Hooper, Ray Anthony, Louie Mulligan, Todd Wilson, and our current leader is Jim Devenpori.

 

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