Bernie Cummins and His Biltmore Orchestra - Out Of The Dawn (1928)

Bernard Joseph Cummins (March 14,1900 - Sept.22,1986)

Dance band leader Bernie Cummins originally started his musical career as a drummer. As his group grew Cummins took over its leadership, and they played their first ballroom engagement at the Toadstool Inn in Indiana in 1919. From then on Cummins group, which included such sidemen as Walter Cummins (his brother), Carl Radlach, Paul Miller, Paul Roberts, Bernard Rohenstien, Eddie Lane, Charlie Callas, Paul Blakely, Ernie Mathias, Wally Smith, Bob Gebhart, Bill Diehl, Jimmy McMillen, Dippy Johnson, Ford Cansfield, Church Campbell, Thurman Steeler, Chet Jones, Winston Leach, Don McLure, Paul Thatcher and Fred Benson, became an enormously popular fixture of night-clubs, hotels and halls throughout America.


Bernie Cummins and His Biltmore Orchestra - Out Of The Dawn (1928)

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[pomeroy40144]

Love all Cummins' recordings. Thanks.

[Bobchai]

Interesting how this classic 1920s band had the kind of sophistication to be a conduit to the great ballads and band arrangements of the early 1930s. Nice!