Talk:Haydn Quartet (vocal ensemble)

First chat
Are they called the Haydn Quartet (as in the article title) or the Hayden Quartet (with an E) is in the article text? --Camembert

They were the Haydn Quartet, but it was pronounced 'Hay-Den' - you can hear this eg on their 1900 recording of Annie Laurie. They would not have called themselves a barbershop quartet - the term only came to prominence after the 1910 song '(Mr Jefferson Lord) Play That Barbershop Chord' - and certainly what they sang did not conform to contemporary definitions of barbershop music

(note on the above explanation) According to Gage Averill's book 'Four Parts No Waiting' 2003 page 69, 'they later changed the spelling to "Hayden" so Americans could pronounce it.'

Proposed changes
We surely need to change this article to reflect how the quartet were seen then - using the 'barbershop' label is misleading I believe - they were simply a popular vocal group, one of the 'big three'. They weren't 'undisputed kings'; according to http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/artist_bio.asp?artistId=30 they had 60 top ten hits - cf the Peerless Quartet with 100. At that time the barbershop label of 'lead' would not have been used - there were simply 2 tenor parts.

Comments are solicited before I do the edit.... --Rrex 24March06


 * Your suggestions sound appropriate to me. -- Infrogmation 01:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

disambiguation
Would it be reasonable to include a disambiguating link for readers who wind up here while looking for string quartets related to Haydn? The article is fairly short and I'm not sure how to make such a link unobtrusive. (compare Haydn quartets -FZ (talk) 23:18, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

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Full (known) list of songs not included
The following is a list of songs I found credited to the Haydn/Hayden Quartet. As these are from finding records on ebay they need sourcing. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:43, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Haydn

 * Annie Laurie
 * Blue Bell
 * Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
 * Christ Arose (1908)
 * Christ Receiveth Sinful Men
 * Church Scene from "The Old Homestead" (1886 play by Denman Thompson)
 * Darling Nellie Gray (Van Alstyne)
 * Dixie Dear (Reimer)
 * Eli Yale: Dear old Yale (1910)
 * Glory Song
 * Good bye Dolly Gray
 * Grandfather's Clock
 * Hard Times
 * Home Sweet Home
 * I Wonder if You Miss me (Snyder)
 * In Dear Old Georgia (Van Alstyne)
 * In the Evening by the Moonlight
 * Kathleen Mavourneen
 * Lead Kindly Light
 * Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall
 * Little Darling dream Of me
 * Meet Me Where the Lanterns Glow
 * Mollie Darling (Hays)
 * My Creole Sue
 * Nearer my God to Thee
 * Onward Christian Soldiers
 * Rocked In The Cradle of The Deep
 * Roses Bring Dreams of You
 * Round The Campfire (1903)
 * Ship of My Dreams
 * Silent Night Hallowed Night
 * Soldiers Farewell
 * Sweet And Low
 * Tell Mother I'll Be There
 * Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
 * The Bridge
 * The Farmyard Medley
 * The Holy City
 * The Home Over There
 * The Old Oaken Bucket
 * The Owl And The Pussy Cat
 * Vesper Service
 * Where The Southern Roses Grow
 * Winter (Bryan Gut..)

Hayden

 * Jesus Christ is Risen To-day (Hayden)
 * Rest for the Weary (Hayden)
 * Shall We Gather at the River (Hayden)
 * The Vacant Chair (Hayden)
 * Where is My Boy To-Night (Hayden)