Albert Charles Campbell (August 17, 1872[1] – January 25, 1947) was an American popular music singer who recorded between the late 1890s and the 1920s. He was best known for his many duo recordings with Henry Burr, and as a member of the Peerless Quartet and other vocal groups, but also recorded successfully as a solo singer both under his own name and under various pseudonyms including Frank Howard.
Ca. 1892 portrait of Campbell from Hobbies Magazine
Biographyedit
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and while in his teens worked for the music publishers Edward B. Marks and Jos. W. Stern.[2] When Marks and Stern organized the Universal Phonograph Company in early 1897, Campbell began recording for them as part of the Diamond Quartette (aka Diamond Four) and Diamond Comedy Four (with Steve Porter, Jim Reynard and Billy Jones). These groups soon began recording discs for the Berliner Gramophone Co., and Campbell began recording solo vocal records for Reed, Dawson & Co., the Norcross Phonograph Co., Berliner Gramophone, Columbia Phonograph Co. and Edison's National Phonograph Co.[3] Among his early solo successes were "My Wild Irish Rose" (recorded for both Berliner and Edison, 1899); "Ma Blushin' Rosie" (recorded for Berliner Records, 1900); and "Love Me and the World Is Mine" (for Victor, 1906).[4][5]
Campbell made few solo recordings after 1907, but formed a highly successful recording partnership with Henry Burr. The pair had a succession of major commercial hits between 1911 and 1925. These included "When I was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen" (recorded for Columbia, 1912); "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" (Columbia, 1913); "I'm On My Way To Mandalay" (Columbia, Edison, Indestructible, and Victor, 1914); "Close to My Heart" (Columbia, 1915); "There's a Quaker Down In Quaker Town" (Victor, 1916); "Lookout Mountain" (Columbia and Victor, 1917); "Till We Meet Again" (Columbia, Emerson, and Paramount, 1919); and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (Columbia and OKeh, 1919).[5][7]
Campbell and Burr, together with John Meyer and Frank Croxton, continued to perform and record as the Peerless Quartet with some success until 1925, when the group disbanded. Campbell then formed a duo with Jack Kaufman;[8] They recorded on Harmony, Edison, Grey Gull, Cameo/Romeo, Perfect, and Gennett/Challenge, sometimes as "Murphy and Shea", "Collins and Reynolds", or "Wheeler and Morse".[9]
Albert Campbell died in New York in 1947 at the age of 74.[5]
Referencesedit
^Tim Gracyk; Frank W. Hoffmann (1997). The Encyclopedia of Popular American Recording Pioneers, 1895-1925. Tim Gracyk. p. 1937.
^Gage Averill, Four Parts, No Waiting : A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet, Oxford University Press, 2003, p.64
^Walsh, Jim (September 1942). "Favorite Pioneer Recording Artists : Albert Campbell". Hobbies.
^Whitburn, Joel (1986). Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, Inc. pp. 74. ISBN0-89820-083-0.
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