Ben Bernie (1891-1943)

Born:
May 30, 1891

Died:
October 23, 1943

From Wikipedia  Ben Bernie (May 30, 1891 – October 23, 1943), born Bernard  Anzelevitz, was an American jazz violinist and radio personality, often  introduced as The Old Maestro. He was noted for his showmanship and memorable  bits of snappy dialogue.  Bernie was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. By the age of 15 he  was teaching violin, but this experience apparently diminished his interest in  the violin for a time. He returned to music doing vaudeville, appearing with  Phil Baker as Baker and Bernie, but he met with little success until 1922 when  he joined his first orchestra. Later, he had his own band, "The  Lads," seen in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound short, Ben Bernie and  All the Lads (1924–25), featuring pianist Oscar Levant. He toured with Maurice  Chevalier and also toured in Europe.  Bernie's orchestra recorded throughout the 1920s and 1930s;  Vocalion (1922–25), Brunswick (1925–33), Columbia (1933), Decca (1936), and ARC  (Vocalion and OKeh) (1939–40). In 1923 Bernie and the Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra  recorded Who's Sorry Now. In 1925 Ben Bernie and his orchestra did the first  recording of Sweet Georgia Brown. Bernie was the co-composer of this jazz  standard, which became the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters.  Bernie was a freemason, member of Keystone Lodge № 235, New  York City.  He died from a pulmonary embolism in October 1943, aged 52.

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