The Foursome

The Foursome Quartet was a male vocal quartet that was originally formed in 1926 by two young men while they were at Washington State College in Pullman, Washington, USA, Marshall Smith (first tenor) and Dwight Snyder (baritone), along with Harry Isaacs (basso) and Kearney Walton (second tenor). In 1926 they had a permanent engagement to appear over the NBC Pacific Network. In that early period they made their first appearance at the Los Angeles Orpheum in February, 1926, with Henry Santry's band. That was followed by a six week engagement on the Pacific coast Orpheum vaudeville circuit and then twenty-two weeks with the Publix Corporation at the Los Angeles Metropolitan theater and the San Francisco Granada. After two years of touring in eastern states and making recordings for Columbia Records, Isaacs and Walton left in 1928. Walton went on to become a bandleader. They were replaced by Jimmy Davis and Raymond Johnson (basso).