Author Fred Gielow brings a wonderful insight into the life and times of being a barbershopper. Quoted from the back cover: "You'll read about wild shenanigans and shows and marvelous merriment practiced by barbershop singers. You'll read about touching and tender moments. You'll read about side-splitting, laugh-until-you-cry barbershop happenings. You'll read about the wealth of laughter and love that seems uniquely instilled in that curious creature called a barbershopper, and you'll discover there's boundless joy in his efforts to learn, perfect, and perform a barbershop song!" "Laughter, Love, and a Barbershop Song" is a wonderfuly witten documentary of the formative days of our Society, when the greats such as Lou Perry, Earl Moon, Buzz Haeger, Freddy King and Forry Haynes, to name just a few, were creating memories. There are so many great stories about quartets from the Midstates Four to BGSU, from the Buffalo Bills to the Boston Common - in all, more than 100 quartets, 45 chapters, and 250 individual barbershoppers are mentioned by name.