Bernie Cummins

Bernie Cummins ( born March 14, 1900 in Akron, Ohio as Bernard Joseph Cummins, † 22 September 1986, Palm Beach, Florida) was an American drummer and big band leader in the field of popular music.

Bernie Cummins was in his youth boxers; in addition, he played drums in local bands in Ohio. Finally, in 1919 he founded a small ensemble, which debuted in Indiana and he gradually extended to a larger dance band; to his band singers were Dorothy Crane, Bernie's brother Walter Cummins and Scottee Marsh, who sang with Tommy Dorsey, later. Signature tune of the orchestra was " Dark Eyes".

In 1923, Cummins to Cincinnati and opened the Toadstool Inn with his band. While this commitment first recordings for the label Gennett emerged (1924 /25). In addition to his activities as a bandleader Cummins served briefly as manager of the Wolverines.

The Bernie Cummins Orchestra later took on a number of records for the label Brunswick, Columbia, Victor, Decca, Vocalion and Bluebird Records. The band initially had many performances in the Midwest; be smooth style was very popular in hotels and ballrooms larger of the United States. Finally, Cummins received an engagement at the Biltmore Hotel in New York; then played his orchestra long in the Hotel New Yorker and it was followed by guest appearances in the Aragon, Trianon, Blackstone, and Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago as well as other guest appearances in Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans, Denver and St. Paul. Repeats Cummins appeared with his band in the sponsored by Coca Cola Radio Show Spotlight Bands program, another radio show was Fitch Bandwagon.

In the late 1950s, it became increasingly difficult to maintain for Cummins the band; He joined with her still in clubs of Las Vegas on before they broke up in 1959 and located in Florida ( Boca Raton ) put to rest.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra (1924-1930) ( Timeless Records)