Jussi Björling was born in 1911 in Sweden’s province of Dalarna. His father, a tenor, taught his three oldest sons, including Jussi, to sing, and together they formed the ‘Bjoerling Male Quartet’ and toured extensively in Sweden and the United States. In 1928 Jussi Björling left the band and entered the Stockholm Conservatory. At the age of eighteen, he made his first record, a Neapolitan song Gondolsäng, as a tenor. His early tenor recordings display his solid technique, charming youthful timbre, as well as astonishing interpretative maturity. Björling is here supported by Nils Grevillius, who also conducted many of Björling’s opera recordings. The two bonus tracks included were probably made in New York in 1920 during the Bjoerling Male Quartet’s U.S. tour when Jussi was not yet ten years old.