Peerless Quartette

The Peerless Quartet was one of the most commercially successful American vocal groups of the early years of the twentieth century. Making hundreds of recordings, in their existence spanning from the 1890s until 1928. They formed to record for Columbia Records, where they were credited as the Columbia Quartet or Columbia Male Quartet. From about 1907, when they began to record for record labels other than Columbia, they were more widely known as the Peerless Quartet. With a peak in popularity from 1910-1918, the group continued to record until 1928, with many changes of personnel.