Dr. Harry Marble Langsford (Doc) was born in Detroit on July 24, 1921. As a boy, he studied piano and organ. He later attended Mackenzie High School; then after graduating, he subsequently enrolled at the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts where he earned an Artist’s diploma in Piano. Doc earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Wayne State University in 1943. He completed his Doctorate in Music Education in 1959, and became a full professor at Wayne State University in 1966.

He spent two years at Northeastern High School before returning to Wayne in the fall of 1945 as a music instructor. That year he founded the Men’s Ensemble which later became the WSU Men’s Glee Club. After retirement in 1988, Doc was persuaded to conduct the Langsford Singers male choir and chamber choir. Doc returned to WSU in 1992 to direct the Men's Glee Club. Many alumni returned for the Club's 50th anniversary celebration at Orchestra Hall in April, 1995.

In addition to his Wayne State affiliation, Doc was the organist and music director at Southfield's Highland Park Baptist Church for 20 years after starting out as a choir member. He later served as organist and music director at North Congregational Church in Farmington Hills.

Doc died on August 9, 1997 at home after a long battle with cancer. Just before he died, many came to sing for one last 'rehearsal' and closed with one of Doc's favorites, Little Innocent Lamb. He will long be remembered and loved by many.

Steve SeGraves co-founded the Langsford Men's Chorus in 1999. He holds the Bachelors degree in Music Education from Wayne State University and the Masters degree in Music Composition from Oakland University. He has been Assistant Conductor of the three-time world champion Wayne State Men's Glee Club and of the WSU Chamber Singers mixed-voice choir, of the Meadowbrook Estate Show Choir of Oakland University, and the Langsford Singers of Detroit. He studied jazz voice with April Arabian-Tini, composition with Stanley Hollingsworth, conducting with Brazeal Dennard, jazz piano with Matt Michaels, and jazz theory with Phil Mattson. Steve sings in and directs PRime, a professional vocal jazz ensemble that "gigs" regularly in the Detroit area, throughout Michigan and has toured Europe including Russia. Steve also directs the Farmington Community Chorus, a 27 year-old, 85-voice mixed-voice chorus sponsored by the City of Farmington Hills, Michigan. Steve is also the adult choir director at his home church, Covenant Baptist Church in West Bloomfield.

He is a published arranger, and he has been commissioned several times to compose or arrange songs for area choirs. While on tour in Washington, D.C. in May, 2005, the Farmington Community Chorus in concert with the United States Army Chorus premiered his arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Steve and his wife Amy were married September 23, 2007. Steve has two children, Emily, 8, and Benjamin, 6, from a previous marriage.

Roger D. Smith earned the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Wayne State University. While at Wayne, he studied trombone with Joseph Skrzynski, voice with Margit Kormendy and conducting with Dr. Harry M. Langsford. He was assistant conductor of both the Men's Glee Club and Chamber Singers for their respective European tours. Roger also studied conducting with Dr. Greg Cunningham at Oakland University and received the Master's degree in Educational Leadership there. From 1983 through 2005 Roger taught band, orchestra and choir at Ferndale High School and has been assistant principal there for 4 years. He is also the Chancel Choir director of his home church, Zion Lutheran Church in Ferndale.

Roger and his wife Cecelia Mac-Smith met in the Wayne State choral program; they have been married 25 years. They have two children, Gordon, 21, a music technology major at WSU, and Gregory, 18, who will be attending Grand Valley State U. this fall as a film major.
 

Walt Cory earned two degrees, a B.M. in 1959 and M.A. in 1965 from The Ohio State University. This rabid Buckeye fan earned his living in "enemy" territory as a choral accompanist in the Detroit Public School system, retiring after 37-1/2 years' service. He was staff accompanist at Cass Technical High School for 34 of those years. Having completed 34 years as organist with St. Paul's Church in Livonia, Walt has worked as staff accompanist at Trinity Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Plymouth since January, 2005. He has been accompanist to the Langsford Men's Chorus since Autumn, 2003.