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Roaring 1920s: Bernie Cummins & His Orch. - Lucky Little Devil, 1929

Bernie Cummins & His Hotel New Yorker Orchestra – Lucky Little Devil, Fox-Trot (Dixon-Woods) with Vocal Refrain by Bernie Cummins, Victor 1929 (USA) NOTE: Bernie CUMMINS (b. 1900 in Akron, Ohio; d. 1986 in Palm Beach, Florida) - American drummer and dance band leader. In his youth, Bernie Cummins was a boxer who also played drums in local bands in Ohio. Finally he founded in 1919 a small ensemble, which debuted in Indiana and gradually extended to a larger dance band. In 1923, Cummins moved to Cincinnati where he opened the inn with the music played by his band. The success was followed by the first recording contract for Gennett Records (1924-25). The Bernie Cummins Orchestra later took on a number of records for Brunswick, Columbia, Victor, Decca, Vocalion and Bluebird Records. The band had initially many appearances in the Midwestern hotels and ballrooms until Cummins received an engagement at the Biltmore Hotel in New York, where his orchestra played in the most prestigious dance venues, including the New Yorker Hotel, Aragon Trianon, Blackstone as well as the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and guest performances in Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans, Denver. During the 1930s, the Cummins Orchestra performed in the sponsored Coca Cola Radio Show Spotlight Bands Program, through which the band obtained significant popularity. However, the swing years became increasingly difficult for Cummins, who could hardly adapt his arrangements to the new demands. After some period, when he performed with group of musicians in Las Vegas night clubs, Bernie Cummins traveled to Florida, to disappear forever from the show business.