Felix Bernard

Most widely known for the Xmas standard “Winter season Wonderland,” songwriter Felix Bernard was created in Brooklyn, NY, in 1897. His dad performed the violin expertly, and he himself used the piano, later on performing around the vaudeville circuit like a faucet dancer. His 1st success like a composer was included with 1919’s “Dardanella,” that he co-wrote the music with Johnny S. Dark (lyrics had been by Fred Fisher). Experts possess tabbed bandleader Ben Selvin’s documenting of “Dardanella” as most likely the 1st record ever to market more than a million copies. It wasn’t until 1934 that Bernard teamed up with lyricist Dick Smith to create “Winter season Wonderland,” which became popular for Man Lombardo that holidays. Bernard continued to write tunes for any succession of movies dating from your middle-’30s to the first ’40s, dealing with companions like L. Wolfe Gilbert, Alfred Bryan, Paul Francis Webster, Raymond Klages, and Irving Bibo. He passed on in 1944, 2 yrs before Perry Como as well as the Andrews Sisters both produced hugely well-known recordings of “Winter season Wonderland” that solidified its position as a Xmas classic.