When Spring came to war-weary Princeton in 1946, it found thirteen men who had decided that there was no real outlet for a variety of close harmony singing on campus. Under the leadership of Henry G. Parker III '48, these men combined to form the original Princeton Tigertones. First performing for Princeton's Nassau Inn and in various venues around campus, the Tones quickly outgrew Princeton's walls. The group traveled to women's colleges along the East Coast and performed for New York Area social clubs. With a tour to Bermuda shortly after the group's founding, the Tigertones began a long tradition of international touring. Even with such great initial success, the founders could have hardly dreamed that one day the Tones would be featured in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, and Rolling Stone, on domestic and international television, in various radio programs and even in motion pictures.