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32148482 | Play | Carolina in the Morning | 02:50 Tools | |
71307589 | Play | Good-night, moonlight | 02:50 Tools | |
32148484 | Play | It's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary | 03:04 Tools | |
32148487 | Play | Moonlight Bay | 00:00 Tools | |
32148483 | Play | Chinatown, My Chinatown | 02:36 Tools | |
32148491 | Play | Goodbye Broadway, Hello France | 02:51 Tools | |
32148493 | Play | Over There | 02:59 Tools | |
32148486 | Play | The Skeleton Rag | 02:06 Tools | |
32148532 | Play | They re wearing em higher in Hawaii | 03:12 Tools | |
32148495 | Play | Marry a Yiddish Boy | 03:12 Tools | |
32148490 | Play | Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine | 02:30 Tools | |
32148492 | Play | Oh, You Beautiful Doll | 03:15 Tools | |
71307592 | Play | I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) | 03:17 Tools | |
32148485 | Play | On The 5:15 | 02:53 Tools | |
71307590 | Play | I Want a Girl | 03:15 Tools | |
71307603 | Play | Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh! | 02:33 Tools | |
71307595 | Play | It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary | 04:28 Tools | |
71307612 | Play | Passing Show: Goodbye Broadway, Hello France | 02:40 Tools | |
32148489 | Play | Casey Jones | 03:57 Tools | |
32148500 | Play | In The Little Red School House | 03:17 Tools | |
71307600 | Play | Over There (with Billy Murray) [Recorded 1917] | 02:41 Tools | |
32148497 | Play | Everybody Rag With Me | 02:41 Tools | |
32148498 | Play | When You Wore A Tulip And I Wore A Big Red Rose | 03:02 Tools | |
71307591 | Play | I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) (1911) | 03:06 Tools | |
32148494 | Play | Stop! Look! Listen! To The Music Of The Band | 03:06 Tools | |
32148529 | Play | It's A Long Way To Tipperary | 03:02 Tools | |
32148505 | Play | Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! | 02:50 Tools | |
32148537 | Play | Where Do We Go From Here? | 02:38 Tools | |
77251345 | Play | America I Love You (with Billy Murray) [Recorded 1916] | 02:40 Tools | |
77251344 | Play | You're a Grand Old Flag (With Billy Murray) [Recorded 1917] | 02:33 Tools | |
71307593 | Play | You're a Grand Old Flag | 02:50 Tools | |
32148509 | Play | Along The Rocky Road To Dublin | 02:31 Tools | |
32148535 | Play | And the Green Grass Grew All Around | 03:26 Tools | |
71307614 | Play | Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny | 02:40 Tools | |
32148499 | Play | The Ragtime Violin | 02:12 Tools | |
71307594 | Play | Keep Your Head Down Fritzie Boy | 02:50 Tools | |
32148488 | Play | Down on the Mississippi | 04:28 Tools | |
32148504 | Play | That Old Girl Of Mine | 02:57 Tools | |
71307596 | Play | Rebecca Of Sunny-brook Farm | 04:28 Tools | |
71307598 | Play | That Mysterious Rag | 02:17 Tools | |
32148526 | Play | Dixie Land (1902) | 02:10 Tools | |
32148507 | Play | Mandy'n Me | 03:14 Tools | |
71307637 | Play | Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France | 02:57 Tools | |
71307597 | Play | Louisiana Lou (1902) | 02:10 Tools | |
32148514 | Play | Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay | 02:33 Tools | |
32148519 | Play | A Meeting of the Limekiln Club (Minstrel recording) (1902) | 02:17 Tools | |
32148516 | Play | Everybody Rag With Me (1915) | 02:41 Tools | |
32148527 | Play | Church Scene from the Old Homestead (1902) | 02:18 Tools | |
71307599 | Play | I Want a Girl(Outlast:Whistleblower Trailer OST) | 02:18 Tools | |
71307613 | Play | Ragtime Violin | 02:40 Tools | |
88052652 | Play | Bring Back the Kaiser (with Billy Murray) [Recorded 1918] | 02:40 Tools | |
88052650 | Play | That Syncopated Boogie-Boo | 02:40 Tools | |
71307607 | Play | Everybody Two-Step | 04:27 Tools | |
71307615 | Play | On The Mississippi | 02:40 Tools | |
32148520 | Play | Premier Quartet (American Quartet) - Blue Jeans 1921 Edison-50771 | 03:25 Tools | |
71307601 | Play | Darling Nellie Gray (1902) | 03:14 Tools | |
71307602 | Play | A Soldier's Farewell (1902) | 03:14 Tools | |
77251347 | Play | Keep Your Head Down, Fritzi Boy | 03:33 Tools | |
71307638 | Play | Denver Town | 02:57 Tools | |
71307633 | Play | Floatin' Down to Cotton Town | 03:33 Tools | |
88052654 | Play | Keep Your Head Down Fritzie Boy (with Billy Murray) [Recorded 1918] | 03:33 Tools | |
32148502 | Play | A night trip to Buffalo | 04:27 Tools | |
77251349 | Play | They All Had A Finger In The Pie | 02:57 Tools | |
32148528 | Play | The Yanks Are At It Again | 02:40 Tools | |
71307604 | Play | A Night Trip to Buffalo (1902) | 02:33 Tools | |
71307605 | Play | When the Harvest Days Are Over (1902) | 02:33 Tools | |
71307616 | Play | He's A College Boy | 02:40 Tools | |
71307606 | Play | It's Long, Long Way To Tipperary | 02:33 Tools | |
71307639 | Play | When You Wore A Tulip | 02:57 Tools | |
88052655 | Play | At The Mississippi Cabaret | 02:57 Tools | |
88052653 | Play | Nellie Kelly I Love You | 02:57 Tools | |
88052659 | Play | On The 5 15 | 02:57 Tools | |
71307608 | Play | Lead Kindly Light (1902) | 03:25 Tools | |
71307611 | Play | A Coon Wedding in Southern Georgia | 02:40 Tools | |
71307609 | Play | Lindy | 03:25 Tools | |
77251351 | Play | Chinatown My Chinatown | 02:57 Tools | |
71307610 | Play | Farmyard Medley (1902) | 02:40 Tools | |
71307631 | Play | Let's All Be Americans Now | 03:33 Tools | |
71307618 | Play | Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! | 02:40 Tools | |
71307632 | Play | Dixie is Dixie once more | 03:33 Tools | |
71307619 | Play | Good-Bye Broadway,Hello France | 02:40 Tools | |
88052658 | Play | Hitchy Koo | 02:57 Tools | |
88052651 | Play | Goodbye Broadway, Hello France! | 02:40 Tools | |
71307620 | Play | Marry a Yiddisher boy | 02:40 Tools | |
77251346 | Play | Oh You Beautiful Doll | 03:33 Tools | |
71307622 | Play | Some Of These Days | 02:40 Tools | |
32148513 | Play | I've got the blues for my Kentucky home | 03:33 Tools | |
71307625 | Play | Steamboat Leaving The Wharf At New Orleans | 03:33 Tools | |
71307624 | Play | Farmyard Medley | 03:33 Tools | |
71307617 | Play | Down in Chinatown | 02:40 Tools | |
32148510 | Play | Row, Row, Row | 02:57 Tools | |
89823388 | Play | Down in Dear Old New Orleans | 02:57 Tools | |
88052656 | Play | You're My Baby | 02:57 Tools | |
71307621 | Play | Alexander’s band is back in Dixieland | 02:40 Tools | |
71307623 | Play | When You Wore A Tulip And I Wore A Big Red Rose - American Q | 03:33 Tools | |
77251350 | Play | Sailin' Away on The Henry Clay | 02:57 Tools | |
71307626 | Play | Finnegan's Birthday Surprise Party (1902) | 03:33 Tools | |
71307627 | Play | A Coon Wedding in Southern Georgia (1902) | 03:33 Tools | |
71307628 | Play | I love you just the same sweet Adeline | 03:33 Tools | |
71307629 | Play | They're Wearing 'em Higher N Hawaii | 03:33 Tools | |
71307630 | Play | You Need a Rag | 03:33 Tools | |
71307634 | Play | Chong (he come from Hong Kong) | 03:33 Tools | |
71307635 | Play | Mozart - String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K. 499 - I. Allegretto | 03:33 Tools | |
88052657 | Play | In The Land Of Harmony | 02:57 Tools | |
89823389 | Play | Beautiful Doll, Goodbye | 02:57 Tools | |
77251348 | Play | I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad | 02:57 Tools | |
89823390 | Play | On The 5.15 | 02:57 Tools | |
89823391 | Play | Oh! You Beautiful Doll | 02:57 Tools | |
71307636 | Play | It's A Long Long Way To Tipperary (1914) | 02:57 Tools | |
88052660 | Play | Strut Miss Lizzie | 02:57 Tools | |
77251352 | Play | Dixie Land | 02:57 Tools |
Long before the rise of the Mills Brothers and the Ink Spots in the 1930s, the American Quartet (also known as the Premier Quartet) reigned supreme as one of the definitive male vocal groups in traditional pop. The foursome (which should not be confused with a 21st century gospel group that has the same name) was not the only vocal group that was active during traditional pop's acoustical era, which ended with the introduction of electrical recording technology in the mid-1920s and the rise of the crooners. But they were certainly among the most popular, along with the Peerless Quartet, the Haydn Quartet, the Lyric Quartet and the Columbia Stellar Quartet. Depending on his/her point of view, one could pinpoint the start of the American Quartet as either 1899 or 1909. In 1899, John Bieling, William F. Hooley, Jere Mahoney and S. H. Dudley first recorded for Edison Records as the Edison Male Quartet and started recording for other labels as the American Quartet. But the most famous version of the American Quartet came about in 1909, when Bieling and Hooley joined forces with Steve Porter and the popular Philadelphia native Billy Murray (b. May 25, 1877, d. August 17, 1954). By 1909, Murray was well established in his solo career (he had made his first solo recordings in 1897), and his distinctive voice made the new edition of the American Quartet very marketable. The Murray-era version of the American Quartet (which recorded for Edison as the Premier Quartet and for Victor as the American Quartet) enjoyed quite a few hits in the 1910s, including "Chinatown, My Chinatown," "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," "Casey Jones" (not to be confused with the Grateful Dead song), "On the 5:15," "Moonlight Bay" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Bieling, it should be noted, remained with the group until 1913, when he was replaced by Robert D. Armour (who was replaced by John Young in 1915). And when Hooley died in 1918, he was replaced by Donald Chalmers . $The American Quartet remained active in the early 1920s, but in 1925, the American Quartet broke up and ended its 26-year run (or 16-year run if you consider the pre-1909 American Quartet a separate group). Murray continued to record and perform as a solo artist after the American Quartet's breakup, but with the rise of crooners like Bing Crosby, Gene Austin, Art Gillham, Russ Columbo and "Whispering" Jack Smith, his popularity as a solo artist faded. Murray, who was used to consistently belting and projecting (or as he called it, "hammering") because of the limitations of acoustical recording, tried to soften his voice in order to adapt to electrical recording technology. But even so, his singing sounded very dated to younger listeners in the 1930s, and Murray made his final recordings in 1943; Murray was retired from music during the last eleven years of his life. Murray's solo hits can be heard on Archeophone's excellent collection The Billy Murray Anthology: The Denver Nightingale. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.