Albert Campbell (singer)

Albert Charles Campbell (August 19, 1872 – 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.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and while in his teens performed as part of the Diamond Comedy Four with Steve Porter, Jim Reynard, and Billy Jones, who worked as song pluggers for the music publishers Joe Stern and Edward B. Marks. He also began touring as a vaudeville singer. A tenor, he first recorded for Berliner Records in 1897, and then also recorded for Columbia and several other cylinder recording companies. Among his early solo successes were "My Wild Irish Rose" (recorded for both Berliner and Edison, 1899); "Ma Blushin' Rosie" (recorded for Gram-o-Phone Records, 1900); and "Love Me and the World Is Mine" (for Victor, 1906).

Campbell also recorded, after the late 1890s, as part of the Columbia Male Quartet, which after 1907 became more generally known as the Peerless Quartet. The group was the most commercially successful of the acoustic era, and at the peak of their popularity, between about 1911 and 1917, also featured tenor Henry Burr, baritone Arthur Collins, and bass John Meyer. Their most successful recordings over the period included "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)" (1911); "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" (1915); and "Over There" (1917).

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