John Hemmer

In 1934, John Hemmer was born in Far Rockaway, Queens in New York State and spent his youth singing and dancing in school and community theater, making his first television appearance on the Arthur Godfrey Show in 1949. In 1957 he began a two year service in the U.S. Army were he was trained as a teletype operator, sang in the 80th Army Band, "The Manhattans", and was a competitive swimmer on the Army's swim team. He has enjoyed a long running stage career from Man of La Mancha tours with Howard Keel, David Atkinson and Allan Jones, to singing in the top supper clubs in the United States during their cultural pinnacle in American history. Among them, Lou Walters Latin Quarter in the heart of Times Square and the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. Mr. Hemmer was one of "The Four Voices", a popular quartet of the 1950's and '60s, on the Columbia Records label.