The Bansai Bills | en

The Buffalo Bills were a barbershop quartet formed in Buffalo, New York. In 1950, they won the SPEBSQSA International Quartet Contest, earning them the title of International Quartet Champions. The group is especially famous for its involvement in Meredith Willson's The Music Man. In the musical Vern Reed sang tenor, Al Shea lead, Wayne Ward baritone and Bill Spangenberg as bass. The quartet changed performers a few times, which is common in barbershop quartets. They were the first quartet in the role of the school board when the musical opened in 1957, logging more than 1,500 performances on Broadway. They...

There are at least two bands known as The Bills: 1) an American band from New Orleans 2) a Canadian folk music quintet from the West Coast of Canada 1) The Bills (New Orleans, LA) Delinquent Horror Surf Their music is based not only on old school, drive-in films, but also a life of crime. It is whispered that every time the intro to 'Straight From the Gutter' is played, a bum is brutally stabbed in an alleyway. Described as 'A brute gang of juvenile motor heads who tune their rods to the horror-surf of the beat from the streets',...