Swan Silvertones

One of the earliest quartet groups who ushered in the golden era in 1945 was the Swan Silvertones (the Swans), formed in 1938 by falsetto tenor Claude A. Jeter in Coalwood, West Virginia. His father, a lawyer who held a professional position with the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad, died when Claude was eight years old. His mother, Maggie Jeter, was a singer of note. The family moved to Kentucky, where Jeter finished high school. He then went to West Virginia...