The Harvard Din & Tonics (or "Dins") are a 15-voice male jazz a cappella group formed in 1979. The group has a repertoire centered on the American jazz standards of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The singers perform in white tie, tails, and lime green socks. The group began as a public service project of the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performing for the university community and local charitable organizations.

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  • The Harvard Din & Tonics (or "Dins") are a 15-voice male jazz a cappella group formed in 1979. The group has a repertoire centered on the American jazz standards of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The singers perform in white tie, tails, and lime green socks. The group began as a public service project of the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performing for the university community and local charitable organizations. Their first public concert was at Yale University in November 1979, amidst the pageantry of the Harvard-Yale football game. The group performed in their first film in 1982, entitled First Affair and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Loretta Swit. Their most recent appearance was in Mona Lisa Smile, a 2003 movie starring Julia Roberts that was set in a fictional 1950s college. The Dins probably hold the record for most recordings of Sh-Boom by one group. Sh-Boom is generally regarded as the first popular doo-wop song after it became a #1 hit on the Billboard charts in 1954. The Din & Tonics began performing their own 1979 arrangement of Sh-Boom in the style of The Crew-Cuts, and have performed it as their signature song at virtually every concert since then. Sh-Boom has been featured on eleven of the group's twelve albums. The Dins have appeared on television shows, including The Price is Right and Good Morning America, and have performed the Star Spangled Banner for the San Francisco Giants, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the PGA’s Ryder Cup, and the Boston Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, and Breakers. The Harvard Din & Tonics of 2009 celebrated their thirtieth anniversary with a concert at Harvard's Sanders Theater on March 14, 2009. They have frequently spent intersession in Vail, Colorado, and spring break in Bermuda. The group has taken eleven biannual world tours since 1986, most recently an 11-week tour that took them to 30 cities around the globe in 2008.
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  • The Harvard Din & Tonics (or "Dins") are a 15-voice male jazz a cappella group formed in 1979. The group has a repertoire centered on the American jazz standards of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The singers perform in white tie, tails, and lime green socks. The group began as a public service project of the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performing for the university community and local charitable organizations.
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  • Harvard Din & Tonics
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