The Four Tunes

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The Four Tunes were a vocal quartet, consisting of William "Pat" Best, Jimmy Gordon, Jimmie Nabbie, and Danny Owens.

Originally Best, Gordon, and Nabbie, together with Deek Watson (formerly of The Ink Spots) formed a quartet known as Deek Watson & the Brown Dots in the mid-1940s. In 1945 they made a recording for Regis Records, and a year later they recorded for Manor Records without Watson and with Owens, as The Sentimentalists. They then adopted the name "The Four Tunes." They also switched record companies, to RCA Victor Records in 1949, and to Jubilee Records in 1953.

Best and Watson (actually, just Best) wrote the song "For Sentimental Reasons," a hit for Nat King Cole, and Nabbie's "You Are My Love" was a hit for Joni James. As a singing group, they hit both the rhythm and blues and popular music charts, with "Marie" reaching #2 on R&B and #13 on the pop chart in 1953 and "I Understand (Just How You Feel)" going to #7 on R&B and #6 on pop. They continued as a group until 1963, when Nabbie left to form a new Ink Spots revival group.