Record-holding The Country Four barbershop quartet retires

Have voice, will travel: Jack, Don, Merrill & Glenn in 1955. Photo by Ray Carson from the Roy Forrester collection.

Have voice, will travel: Jack, Don, Merrill & Glenn in 1955. Photo by Ray Carson from the Roy Forrester collection.

It’s time to say “Hats off and farewell!” as The Country Four barbershop quartet retires. All they’ve ever needed is a pitch pipe and each other. Fifty-six years after they first began, their voices are still strong and their hearts light, as the members of The Country Four barbershop quartet gather around the kitchen table of Glenn Allin and his wife Jean in Newcastle, for a spontaneous rendition of the gospel standard, “He Touched Me.” Continue reading