- The Rapscallions
Infobox musical artist
Name = The Rapscallions
Img_capt = The Rapscallions
Background = group_or_band
Years_active = 1980 - 1986
URL = [http://www.aicgold.com/History-ChampDetails.asp?WinningYear=1984 Official site]
Current_members = Dave Smotzer —Tenor David Wallace — Lead Tim Frye —Baritone Jeff Oxley — Bass The Rapscallions, formed just four years earlier by fourBowling Green State University (Ohio ) students, amazed the barbershop world when they won the 1984 international quartet championship inSt. Louis, Missouri .The quartet, in fact, placed in the top ten internationally each of the three years they competed: ninth place in 1982, sixth in 1983, and first in 1984.
Tenor Dave Smotzer, lead David Wallace, baritone Tim Frye, and bass Jeff Oxley formed the quartet in 1980 while working summer jobs in
Cedar Point ,Ohio to earn money to return to the university.All were members of the A Cappella Choir and the Men's Chorus at the school and had other musical training. Oxley had sung lead roles in campus productions of
Man of La Mancha andThe Marriage of Figaro and was studying for an operatic career. Frye was a music education major and Smotzer was a music theatre major. David Wallace was a composition major and the first undergraduate director of an accredited university ensemble, "The Collegiates".Leaving school in 1982, most of the foursome had moved on to their careers by the time they won the gold. Both Smotzer and Wallace were in business. Smotzer was directing Cincinnati's "
Southern Gateway Chorus ", and Wallace was directingSweet Adelines International 's "City of Flags Chorus" inCanton, Ohio . Frye was a school teacher and a music director inWayne County, Ohio , while Oxley was continuing his musical training. He would go on to win two more gold medals withAcoustix in 1990 and with Max Q in 2007.Discography
References
* [http://www.mjbarkl.com/one.htm Discography] from [http://www.mjbarkl.com/one.htm] Mike Barkley's Monster list
* [http://www.aicgold.com/History-ChampDetails.asp?WinningYear=1984 Biography] from the Association of International Champions
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