ABSTRACT
A group that recorded for Victor from 1910, and for Edison from 1912. On their two Diamond Discs they were identified as the Southern Four. All the singers were connected with Fisk University in Nashville, a traditionally Black institution. Members were John Wesley Work (organizer and leader), Noah Walker Ryder, James A. Myers, and Alfred G. King (later replaced by L.P. O’Hara). There were many later changes in the membership, until the group dissolved ca. 1947.
