SCARCE 1931 BEN BERNIE 78 HIKIN DOWN THE HIGHWAY / SWEET & LOVELY W-BRUNS 1222
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE 1931 AMERICAN DANCE BAND 78 ON THE UK WARNER- BRUNSWICK LABEL
BEN BERNIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
HIKIN' DOWN THE HIGHWAY
b/w SWEET AND LOVELY
Ben Bernie (May 30, 1891, Bayonne, New Jersey - 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.
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 (1924–1925), featuring pianist Oscar Levant. He toured with Maurice Chevalier and also toured in Europe.
Bernie's orchestra recorded throughout the 1920s and 1930s; Vocalion (1922–1925), Brunswick (1925–1933), Columbia (1933), Decca (1936), and ARC (Vocalion and OKeh) (1939–1940). 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.
DISC DETAILS UK WARNER-BRUNSWICK 1222 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
pressed from the original us stampers but this is a different coupling than the US releases
CONDITION - E/E-
ONE ONLY AVAILABLE
SO DONT MISS OUT
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