Ben Bernie

Songwriter Ben Bernie was a favorite bandleader from the past due ’20s and ’30s who’s best known while the author of “Nice Georgia Dark brown.” Created Benjamin Anzelwitz in N.Con.C., 1891, he analyzed in the NY University of Music, CCNY, and Columbia College of Mines. Prior to the 1920s, Bernie performed monologues and performed the violin in vaudeville, teaming up with Phil Baker for awhile. Bernie created a dance music group in 1922 and within a couple of years earned increasing recognition with recordings and radio play. Pianist/arranger Al Goering was a push through the majority of his band’s profession, and the first lineup also included trumpeter Expenses “Jazz” Moore and saxophonist Jack port Pettis. Later on lineups included the alto saxophonist Dick Stabile in the first ’30s, as well as the even more swinging plans of Grey Rains in the past due ’30s. Bernie got his personal radio series, and became known for his love of life and trademark manifestation, “Yowsah, Yowsah!” He called himself “the Older Maestro” and known as his music group Ben Bernie & All of the Lads. Through the 1930s, Bernie also experienced a long-running “feud” with columnist Walter Winchell, resulting in the duo co-starring in the movies AWAKEN and Live (1937) and Like and Hisses (1938). Bernie experienced acted inside a Broadway creation before this, 1928’s Here’s Howe. His music group performed in the Chicago World’s Good in 1933; made an appearance in the films Shoot the Functions (1934) and Stolen Tranquility (1935); and documented for the Brunswick, Columbia, and Vocalion brands, amongst others. Ben Bernie co-wrote “Nice Georgia Dark brown,” “Unusual Interlude,” “I CANNOT Believe It’s Accurate,” “Who’s Your Small Who Zis,” among others, including “Quite Small Baby” and “I CANNOT Ignore That You Forgot About Me.”