- 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.
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- John Hemmer made his second television appearance as part of the Boy Scouts of America quartet on The Arthur Godfrey Radio and Television Show on June 15, 1949 on station WCBS.
- While teaching ballroom dancing at Dale Dance Studio in Times Square during the late 1950's, a student of John Hemmer's arranged for him to audition for a spot in the famous quartet, The Four Voices. John would go on to tour and record for Columbia Records as a member of singing sensation.
- John Hemmer made his first television appearance on June 4th, 1948 on the Danny Webb Show, broadcast through station WPIX TV. As part of a Boy Scouts of America quartet, he introduced the song, "Tomorrow's America".
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