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Del Porter is among the music world’s forgotten guys. In the 1930s, he was one-fourth of a distinctive vocal quartet that wowed Broadway, loaded nightclubs, sang in films and radio, toured with Glenn Miller, and documented with Bing Crosby and Dick Powell. In the ’40s, his multiple and assorted skills …

Man vocal quartets were commonplace within the 1920s and ’30s, but there is nothing commonplace concerning the four teenagers from your Pacific Northwest who called themselves the Foursome. The group was originally created in 1926 by two males from Spokane, Marshall Smith and Dwight Snyder, alongside Harry Isaacs and Kearney …