Mystery Lone Prairie Arrangement/Quartet
Howdy folks! I was hoping you all could help me locate a specific barbershop recording, if you've got a moment.
It was an all-male arrangement of Lone Prairie that I used to listen to on Spotify, but it was taken down a few years ago, and now I can't remember the group who sang it. It ended with that classic Lone Prairie tag by Norman Luboff, but one of the guys did horse hoof sounds over the last chord.
Also, the lyrics were "Oh bury me out..." instead of "Carry me back to the lone prairie," but the lyrics were the same otherwise (a la Eddy Arnold).
[Edit: It's been found! The Western Continentals singing Lone Prairie. Thank you Synester!]
Here's all the other details I can remember:
It wasn't a live recording - no audience noise or applause, and there was no dialog or anything, just the quartet.
The ending: 2 measures of swung tongue clicks (like horse hooves) and a horse-lip-blowing sound on the downbeat of the last bar. All done over the last chord. [edit: it's only 1 measure of clicks]
It had the style and recording quality of an 70s-ish quartet - warm, fuzzy, not very bass-heavy. And the tenor was pretty heavily featured. Kind of Gas House Gang-y.
The first two lines of each verse unison ("Oh bury me out on the lone prairie/where the coyotes howl and the wind blows free", and "I'm a roving cowboy...where I used to roam"), and then they broke into harmonies for the other two lines.
They sang that first verse twice, and on the second time, they did a funky chord on "howl" and fell off it (like, they briefly slid down their respective pitches, I'm not sure what the technical term for that is), so it sounded like a shout.
It was slower, somewhere around 85bpm-ish.
I remember the quartet's name sounding vaguely western, but I wouldn't bet my job on it or anything. I can't remember the album art.
If anyone has any ideas on who that was and/or what album it was on, I'd be grateful! I love that specific arrangement, it had such a sense of solitude and breadth that I thought really captured the spirit of the wild west.