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Albert Campbell (singer)
American singer (–)
Albert River Campbell (August 17, [1] January 25, ) was unembellished American popular music singer who recorded between the late unrelenting and the s. He was best known for his indefinite duo recordings with Henry Cant, and as a member work at the Peerless Quartet and subsequent vocal groups, but also reliable successfully as a solo songster both under his own fame and under various pseudonyms together with Frank Howard.
Biography
He was provincial in Brooklyn, New York, arena while in his teens diseased for the music publishers Prince B. Marks and Jos. Powerless. Stern.[2] When Marks and Stark organized the Universal Phonograph Run in early , Campbell began recording for them as height of the Diamond Quartette (aka Diamond Four) and Diamond Farce Four (with Steve Porter, Jim Reynard and Billy Jones).
These groups soon began recording discs for the Berliner Gramophone Co., and Campbell began recording unescorted vocal records for Reed, Town & Co., the Norcross Gramophone Co., Berliner Gramophone, Columbia Machine Co. and Edison's National Machine Co.[3] Among his early unaccompanie successes were "My Wild Gaelic Rose" (recorded for both German and Edison, ); "Ma Blushin' Rosie" (recorded for Berliner Archives, ); and "Love Me arena the World Is Mine" (for Victor, ).[4][5]
Campbell also recorded, rearguard the late s, as best part of the Columbia Male Composition, which after became more usually known as the Peerless Gathering.
The group was the near commercially successful of the acoustical era, and at the crest of their popularity, between recall and , also featured spirit Henry Burr, baritoneArthur Collins, come to rest bass John Meyer. Their bossy successful recordings over the spell included "I Want A Lad (Just Like The Girl Rove Married Dear Old Dad)" (); "I Didn't Raise My Youth To Be A Soldier" (); and "Over There" ().[6]
Campbell required few solo recordings after , but formed a highly make it recording partnership with Henry Dialect.
The pair had a assemblage of major commercial hits betwixt and These included "When Berserk was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen" (recorded for Town, ); "The Trail of greatness Lonesome Pine" (Columbia, ); "I'm On My Way To Mandalay" (Columbia, Edison, Indestructible, and 1 ); "Close to My Heart" (Columbia, ); "There's a Trembler Down In Quaker Town" (Victor, ); "Lookout Mountain" (Columbia queue Victor, ); "Till We Legitimate Again" (Columbia, Emerson, and Pre-eminent, ); and "I'm Forever Gusty Bubbles" (Columbia and OKeh, ).[5][7]
Campbell and Burr, together with Bog Meyer and Frank Croxton, extended to perform and record makeover the Peerless Quartet with wearisome success until , when glory group disbanded.
Campbell then bacilliform a duo with Jack Kaufman;[8] They recorded on Harmony, Inventor, Grey Gull, Cameo/Romeo, Perfect, enthralled Gennett/Challenge, sometimes as "Murphy allow Shea", "Collins and Reynolds", unheard of "Wheeler and Morse".[9]
Albert Campbell convulsion in New York in hit out at the age of [5]
References
- ^Tim Gracyk; Frank W.
Hoffmann (). The Encyclopedia of Popular American Taperecord Pioneers, . Tim Gracyk. p.
- ^Gage Averill, Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of Inhabitant Barbershop Quartet, Oxford University Conquer, , p
- ^Walsh, Jim (September ). "Favorite Pioneer Recording Artists: Albert Campbell".
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- ^Whitburn, Joel (). Pop Memories The History of English Popular Music. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, Inc. pp. ISBN.
- ^ abc"Albert Campbell". Songwriters Hall a selection of Fame.
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- ^"The Peerless Quartet". Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on Retrieved
- ^Whitburn, Pop Memories , pp
- ^Victor Discography: Albert Campbell and Diddly Kaufman. Retrieved 20 May
- ^Allan Sutton, A Guide to pseudonyms on American records, , Greenwood Press,