The Ritz is a barbershop

Barbershop music

Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era , is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture...

 quartet from the Johnny Appleseed District of the Barbershop Harmony Society

Barbershop Harmony Society

The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. , is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form. Founded by Owen C...

 (comprising Ohio

Ohio

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, West Virginia

West Virginia

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, and the western half of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. Each member of the quartet is a vocal music teacher in different school districts/universities. After coming in fourth at the San Francisco convention in 1990, the quartet won the international championship in 1991.
The quartet has traveled internationally and has appeared on two PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 specials, Keep America Singing (in 1994) and World's Largest Concert (in 1996).

Discography

• Puttin' On The Ritz (Interactive CD; 2002)
• Rare Times (CD; 1997)
• On Moonlight Bay (CD, Cassette
  Compact Cassette
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  ; 1995)
• Swingin' on a Star (CD, Cassette; 1994)
• Old Songs Are Just Like Old Friends (CD; 1992)
• I'm Beginning to See the Light (CD; 1991)
• The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (CD, Cassette)
• The Ritz Anthology (CD) (Includes the previous four.)
• The Ritz (Cassette)

Also appear on

• First Recording with the Pride of Toledo Chorus, (CD, Cassette)