Craig Campbell

Robert Craig Campbell (1878–1965) was a Canadian tenor who performed in operettas across Canada and the United States. Campbell recorded with the Columbia, Davega, Perfect and Pathé labels.

Childhood

Campbell was born in London, Ontario to Alexander and Elizabeth Campbell in 1878. He began touring the United States and Canada as a vaudeville tenor on the Keith-Orpheum and Loew tour circuits.

A woman's smile by Rudolph Friml, Gus Kahn and Otto Harbach, recorded June 1912, released 1912 as Side A on Columbia Phonograph Company #A 1274. Oh! That we two were maying with Grace Kerns by Alice Mary Smith, recorded June 2, 1913, released August 1913 as Side A on Columbia Phonograph Company #A1341. Good-bye by Paolo Tosti, recorded October 1918, released December 1919 as Side A on Pathé Frères Phonograph Company #25024 I mind the day by Charles Willeby, recorded September 1919 as Side B. Silver Threads Among the Gold by Eben Rexford and Hart Danks, recorded June 1922, released December 15, 1922 as Side A on Pathé Frères Phonograph Company #5032 We've been chums for fifty years by Thurland Chattaway, recorded June 1922. Who knows? by Ernest Ball and Paul Laurence Dunbar, recorded June 1922, released December 1922 as Side A on Pathé Frères Phonograph Company #025101. The banks of Allan Water by Charles Edward Horn, as Side B Bonnie sweet Bessie by Arabella Root and James Gilbert, recorded December 1922, released June 1924 as Side A on Pathé Frères Phonograph Company #11527 Believe me, if all those endearing young charms by Thomas Moore and Sir John Stevenson, recorded April 1924, as Side B.