Bernie Cummins

b. Bernard Joseph Cummins, 14 March 1900, Akron, Ohio, USA. Dance music group innovator Bernie Cummins originally began his musical profession like a drummer. Nevertheless, as his group grew Cummins required over its management, and they performed their 1st ballroom engagement in the Toadstool Inn in Indiana in 1919. After that Cummins’ group, including such sidemen as Walter Cummins (his sibling), Carl Radlach, Paul Miller, Paul Roberts, Bernard Rohenstien, Eddie Street, Charlie Callas, Paul Blakely, Ernie Mathias, Wally Smith, Bob Gebhart, Expenses Diehl, Jimmy McMillen, Dippy Johnson, Ford Cansfield, Chapel Campbell, Thurman Steeler, Chet Jones, Winston Leach, Don McLure, Paul Thatcher and Fred Benson, became an enormously well-known fixture of night-clubs, resorts and halls throughout America. A few of their most exclusive engagements included the Aragon Ballroom, the Trianon Ballroom, Edgewater Seaside Resort as well as the Blackstone Resort (all Chicago), the Raddisson (Minnesota), the Muehlbach (Kansas Town), the Roosevelt (New Orleans), the Baker (Dallas), as well as the Palace and St. Francis (SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA). In addition they performed at entertainment parks, including Elitch’s Landscapes in Denver. Aswell as considerable radio protection, Cummins’ music group was also being among the most broadly recorded of the complete dance music group era. Their agreements included Gennett, Vocalion Information, Bluebird Information, Decca Information, Brunswick Information, Victor Information and Columbia Information, effectively all of the main recording houses of that time period. From the 50s the music group’s recognition allowed its head to find work on the NEVADA entertainment remove, until he ultimately retired from bandleading in 1959.