Barbershop Harmony by Sentimental Journey An Atlanta Area Quartet Personnel

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Being a barbershop quartet, it is perhaps not too surprising that the group has four members:

David Carter sings the lead part in the quartet. He’s also sung in a number of college, community, and church choruses and choirs over the years including most recently the St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Choir and the Decatur Civic Chorus (DCC) here in Atlanta. He performed with the DCC at the Kennedy Center in Washington as part of a Memorial Day choral festival. Music has always been an important part of David’s life beginning as a youngster studying piano, trumpet and voice in his home town of Akron, Ohio, where he also studied classical guitar while in college. He was the lead singer in his high school barbershop quartet that regularly sang about town for various civic organizations. It wasn’t until many years later, though, that David found his way back to the music and sounds of the barbershop style of music. He now sings with the Stone Mountain Chorus as well as with Sentimental Journey.

Roger Lamprey sings baritone, which is an "inner part" of the quartet. Though he is very modest, Roger will be the first to tell you that he is both the best singer in the group and also the best looking. He grew up in a musical family and concentrated on instrumental music from childhood. He currently plays the French horn in several music groups in the Atlanta area, including the Atlanta Horn Club, the Alpharetta City Band, the Sounds of Sawnee Community Band, AlphaBrass (a brass quintet), and Callenwolde Brass (a brass quartet). He started singing barbershop in the middle 1990s and has performed in several barbershop quartets. Besides being in Sentimental Journey, he is currently a member of Roswell Harmony Firehouse Brigade, a barbershop chorus. In real life he was a college teacher of computer science for nearly 30 years, until his retirement in 2000.

Dick Lyon is the group's tenor, and as such, generally sings the high notes, floating above all the rest. He grew up in West Virginia and Kentucky, has performed at piano, clarinet and sax, and loves Dixieland Jazz. A graduate of Purdue University and Carnegie Mellon University, his career was in chemical engineering and management consulting, with emphasis on new technology development and commercialization, and problem solving. He flies his own airplane and is involved in various community activities. A barbershopper for over 15 years, one of his quartets was seen in a 2004 motion picture Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius. Incidentally, besides being the most handsome group member, he also has the best voice in the group.

Rex Simms, bass, was born in Chicago. His father was an Episcopal Minister who loved to sing.  At age 7, his family moved to  Wyoming.  He played clarinet  from 5th grade through high school and alto sax in a dance band,  He sang with the church choir, school choruses and a quartet.  Rex earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Management from the University of Colorado and sang  with University Festival Chorus. Marriage and  Navy service in Charleston S.C followed. He settled in Atlanta in 1957 receiving a MS EE degree from Georgia Tech in 1964. He continued church choir singing, and  Barbershop singing In 1975 with the Atlanta Peachtree Chorusand later the Stone Mountain and Roswell Choruses.  He sang in Trouble in Tahiti and the Music Man. He sang "with Drop of a Hat quartet for 15 years and with Hum Dingers quartet before joining Sentimental Journey In 2003.  He resumed  clarinet playing with the Atlanta New Horizons concert band in 2003.  He retired  from consulting electrical engineering in 2010. Rex and Joy have 4 children and 6 grandchildren. Although you can tell just by looking at Rex that he is the handsomest man in the quartet, you will need to listen to a performance to realize that he is also the best singer.