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American Quartet

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Aliases
American Quartet with Orchestra
Premier Quartet
Country
United States
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American Quartet was the name given to several recording vocal quartets during the early years of the record industry. The name was used as early as 1899 for a group that included tenors John Bieling and Jere Mahoney, baritone S. H. Dudley, and bass William F. Hooley. The best-known American Quartet made its first appearance in 1909 for Victor Records and served as an in-house group. The quartet included Bieling and Hooley, along with tenor Billy Murray and baritone Steve Porter. Bieling left the group in 1913 because of throat troubles and was replaced briefly by Robert D. Armour. Armour was succeeded shortly thereafter by John Young. It proved to be a winning combination for Victor and for the Edison company where it was known as the Premier Quartet.
Members
Harry Anthony
William Hooley
John Bieling
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Covers by American Quartet

Title Performer Release date Originally by
January 1916 Sam Ash
July 1913 Walter Van Brunt
February 1914 Geo. Campbell
Covered by (2 artists)
listen on Internet Archive October 1919 Jack Kaufman and Arthur Fields
August 1910 Ada Jones
March 1923 Willie & Eugene Howard
February 1915 Grace Kerns and J. B. Wells
listen on Internet Archive May 1911 Harry Tally
August 1901 William Tuson
May 1914 William Halley
November 1918 Sterling Trio
January 1911 (unknown), Arthur Collins
listen on Internet Archive November 1910 (unknown)
September 1911 Arthur Collins
  November 1914 Harry Fay REC, Ted Yorke REL
1911 The Peerless Quartet
1921 William Frawley
listen on Internet Archive December 1922 Charles Hart [US]
listen on Internet Archive 1920 (unknown)
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh! American Quartet June 1917 Unverified
1917 Henry Lewis
listen on Internet Archive 1913 George J. Gaskin
September 1917 Peerless Quartette
 REL November 1910 Lillian Lorraine, Bert Williams REC
Covered by (7 artists)
Pucker Up Your Lips, Miss Lindy American Quartet 1912 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive October 1913 Henry Burr and Albert Campbell
listen on Internet Archive March 1911 Sophie Tucker
listen on Internet Archive July 1922 Marion Harris
listen on Internet Archive November 1921 Original Dixieland Jazz Band
1918 Six Brown Brothers
listen on Internet Archive February 1912 Maurice Burkhart
listen on Internet Archive December 7, 1923 Majestic Dance Orchestra [Joseph Samuels]
  November 1917 George M. Cohan PRF, Billy Murray with Orchestra REC,REL

Releases

Singles

Title Performer Release date Label
All Aboard for Dixieland American Quartet March 1914 Victor
America, I Love You! - You'll Be There! American Quartet - Peerless Quartet January 1916 Victor
Benny Havens, Oh! American Quartet February 1914 Victor
Billy (She Always Dreams of Bill) - The Red Rose Rag American Quartet - Billy Murray November 1911 Victor
Break the News to Mother - You're a Grand Old Flag Shannon Four - American Quartet November 1917 Victor
Carolina in the Morning - Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo'bye American Quartet – Billy Murray–Ed Smalle March 1923 Victor
Darling Nellie Gray American Quartet August 1901 Victor
Dear Old Girl – On the Banks of the Wabash Harry Macdonough and Hayden Quartet – American Quartet 1913 Victor
Dixie Is Dixie Once More - Take Me to the Land of Jazz Premier Quartet - Bert Harvey 1919 Edison
Down by the Old Mill Stream - Oh That Navajo Rag Harry Macdonough and Chorus - Billy Murray and American Quartet November 1911 Victor
Do You Take This Woman for Your Lawful Wife? "I Do I Do" – Why Is the Ocean So Near the Shore (Why, Why, Why?) American Quartet - Billy Murray May 1914 Victor
Everybody Two-Step – Buddy Boy American Quartet – Collins and Harlan November 1912 Victor
Everything is Peaches down in Georgia - Carolina I'm Coming Back to You American Quartet - Peerless Quartet November 1918 Victor
Good-bye Broadway, Hello France American Quartet September 1917 Victor
Grizzly Bear - Turkey Specialty Billy Murray and American Quartet - Golden and Hughes January 1911 Victor
If You Ever Get Lonely - What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? American Quartet - Ada Jones & Billy Murray March 1917 Victor
I Knew Him When He Was Alright American Quartet February 1915 Victor
I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time - Over There Shannon Four - American Quartet September 1917 Victor
I'm on My Way to Dublin Bay - When It's Moonlight in Mayo Premier Quartet - Owen J. McCormack July 1915 Edison
In the Land of Harmony – It's Got to be Someone I Love American Quartet – Ada Jones September 1911 Victor
It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary - Soldiers of the King American Quartet - Arthur Pryor's Band November 1914 Victor
I've Got the Joys - Strut Miss Lizzie Aileen Stanley - American Quartet November 1921 Victor
I Want to Go Back to Michigan - At the Mississippi Cabaret Morton Harvey - American Quartet December 1914 Victor
King Chanticleer - Texas Tommy Swing Arthur Pryor's Band - American Quartet June 1912 Victor
Let's Make Love Among the Roses Walter Van Brunt and American Quartet with Orchestra 1911 Victor
Mandy - Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me) Shannon Four - American Quartet October 1919 Victor
Medley of Bayes-Norworth Hits – Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon Victor Orchestra – Ada Jones and American Quartet August 1910 Victor
Moonlight Bay - The Harbor of Love American Quartet with Orchestra - Walter J. Van Brunt 1912 Victor
My Mammy - Look for the Silver Lining Premier Quartet - Betsy Lane Shepherd and Lewis James 1921 Edison
Nellie Kelly I Love You – You Remind Me of My Mother American Quartet – Henry Burr December 1922 Victor
Nestle in Your Daddy's Arms – I'm Missin' Mammy's Kissin' (And I Know She's Missin' Mine) American Quartet - Peerless Quartet June 1921 Victor
Nora Malone – Beerland Ada Jones and American Quartet – Josie Sadler June 1910 Victor
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh Premier Quartet 1917 Edison Blue Amberol
Oh, You Beautiful Doll Billy Murray and American Quartet with Orchestra January 1912 Victor
Old MacDonald Had a Farm American Quartet April 1924 Victor
On the Mississippi - In a Little While American Quartet - Campbell and Burr February 1913 Victor
Play That Barber Shop Chord Billy Murray and American Quartet November 1910 Victor
Rebecca of Sunny-Brook Farm - If I Had My Way American Quartet - Peerless Quartet May 1914 Victor
Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay – Mammy Jinny's Jubilee American Quartet – Collins and Harlan October 1913 Victor
Silver Bell – In the Gloaming Peerless Quartet – Will Oakland and American Quartet November 1910 Victor
Some of These Days – A Rhinewine Rag American Quartet - Arthur Pryor's Band March 1911 Victor
Some Sunny Day – Angel Child American Quartet – Albert Campbell–Henry Burr July 1922 Victor
That Mysterious Rag The American Quartet 1913 His Master's Voice
That Slippery Slide Trombone - Ragtime Cowboy Joe American Quartet with Orchestra - Bob Roberts with Orchestra July 1912 Victor
That Syncopated Boogie Boo - Low Bridge! Everybody Down! American Quartet - Billy Murray 1913 Victor
The Darktown Strutters' Ball – They Go Wild Simply Wild over Me Premier Quartet – Billy Murray 1918 Edison
The Hen and the Cow (A Dream of the Past) – Oh by Jingo! Oh by Gee! (You're the Only Girl for Me) Billy Murray – Premier Quartet 1920 Edison
The Ragtime Violin – If You Talk in Your Sleep, Don't Mention My Name American Quartet - Billy Murray February 1912 Victor
The Rolling Stone - That Mysterious Rag William F. Hooley with Quartet Chorus and Orchestra - American Quartet with Orchestra November 1911 Victor
Through the Hole in the Fence - Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine Murry K. Hill - Ada Jones and American Quartet with Orchestra May 1911 Victor
Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys - Floatin' Down to Cotton Town Billy Murray - American Quartet January 1920 Victor
Weep No More My Mammy – I'll Be Glad to Get Back to My Home Town Peerless Quartet – American Quartet March 1922 Victor
What Do You Do Sunday, Mary? – Oh! How She Lied to Me American Quartet – Billy Murray–Ed Smalle December 7, 1923 Victor
When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose - The Red, White and Blue American Quartet - Peerless Quartet December 1914 Victor
Yankee Doodle Blues – Childhood Days Billy Murray–Ed Smalle – American Quartet December 1922 Victor
You're a Great Big Blue Eyed Baby - And the Green Grass Grew All Around Heidelberg Quintette with Orchestra - American Quartet with Orchestra July 1913 Victor