1910 Peerless Quartet - Silver Bell

Popular barbershop quartet of the 1910s era. They recorded everything from ragtime to church hymns.
Peerless Quartet - Silver Bell
recorded 5/24/1910
written by Madden and Wenrich

The 1904 line-up consisted of bass, Tom Daniels, baritone, Steve Porter, second tenor, Henry Burr and first tenor, Albert Campbell. In 1906 Frank C. Stanley replaced Tom Daniels and the group was renamed the Peerless Quartet. In 1909 Arthur Collins replaced Steve Porter and upon Stanley's death in 1910, John H. Meyer filled the bass role. At this point too, Henry Burr took over as manager and lead singer and remained so until the group's dissolution in 1928. In 1918 Collins left and was replaced by Frank Croxton. This line-up remained stable for the next seven years until, in 1925, the group was reformed as Henry Burr, Carl Mathieu, Stanley Baughman and James Stanley.

While no official "Billboard" chart existed during the Peerless Quartet's career, the magazine's staff archivist Joel Whitburn used a variety of sources such as Talking Machine World's list of top-selling recordings, and Billboard's own sheet music and vaudeville charts to estimate the hits of 1890-1954. By his reckoning, the Peerless Quartet had 108 "charting" singles, the 9th-most of the pre-rock period. During their heyday, they trailed only Billy Murray and the group's own Henry Burr.