Boston Common (quartet)

{{short description|Barbershop quartet}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = The Boston Common

| image =

| caption = The Boston Common

| genre = Barbershop

| years_active = 1971 – c. 1995

| current_members = Kent Martin – tenor
Rich Knapp – lead
Larry Tully – baritone
Terry Clarke – bass

}}

The Boston Common is the barbershop quartet that won the 1980 SPEBSQSA international competition at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Formed in 1971, they took their name from Boston Common, a well known park. Competing throughout the seventies, they were more popular with audiences than with judges. After they won silver in 1979, they agreed to compete one last time, and took the gold in 1980 with their set of Lou Perry's arrangements of "Who Told You" and "That Old Quartet of Mine".{{Citation |title=Boston Common A Capella Barbershop Quartet |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg4cFVWvzIs |language=en |access-date=2023-02-08}} A traffic accident in 1982 left lead Rich Knapp unable to continue singing, but the quartet enlisted Tom Spirito of the Four Rascals to substitute.