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Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: December 19, 2025 - 17:56
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Bernie Toorish found fame with the ‘zingiest male quartet in the business’
December 19, 2025
One day in 1954 at Saint Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church, in a ritzy area of Newton, Mass., just outside of Boston, an unusual group sang at Mass. They were four former Toronto choirboys: Jimmy Arnold, Frankie Busseri, Connie Codarini and Bernie Toorish.
The soda-shop set knew them as the Four Lads, harmonizing pop vocalists based in the United States whose signature hit at the time was a novelty number from a year earlier, Istanbul (Not Constantinople), their first gold record.
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