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  Solid! -- Ben Bernie
Bernie was unable to shake the show business bug, however, and later decided to give vaudeville another try.
Bernie, however, suffered huge losses in the crash of 1929 and turned to radio to keep himself afloat.
Notably, Bernie gave Dinah Shore her first big break in show business when he hired her for his program, though he was forced to let her go when his sponsor felt she sang too softly.
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  Ben Bernie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although Ben Bernie and 'all the lads' existed with prominence during the visceral part of the Jazz Age, it is Bernie's success with radio, primarily during the 30s, by which he is remembered.
Ben Bernie's first broadcasts are from the Hotel and were only local to New Yorkers, yet he develops his radio gab into the form which he was known during the depression.
Ben Bernie is a Jazz Age personality only by the technicality of having an orchestra during the period.
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 American BigBands - Page 5 "B" Bands   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bernie's first local New York broadcasts were remotes from this Hotel, and it was here that he developed his radio style into the 'Yowsah' talking form for which he would be forever known.
Bernie's light banter and his vocal insertions of 'yowsah' into the music was a real audience pleaser.
Bernie once fought to keep his new girl singer, Dinah Shore, on his radio show over the objections of the sponsor who felt she sang too softly.
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 Ben and the Golden Temple of Spam
Ben dashed by the stewardess, flashing his ticket, and he was past her before she could check his ticket.
Ben entered the Temple, and his eyes were drawn to the altar in the front of the Temple.
Ben had had a lot of fun, despite his mistaken destination, but it was good to be back home.
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 Drummerworld: Bernie Dresel
Bernie was driven to a career in music by the same inspiration as Brian Setzer.
Bernie recalls that his first big gig after moving west was a 2 week stint in Las Vegas at the Alladin Hotel backing up former Dean Martin Gold-Diggers, the Albaricci Sisters.
Throughout the last few years with the BSO Bernie has played with several bass players but not until the addition of Mark Winchester on a very definite "slap-bass" has the rhythm section of Brian's experiment totally come together to create that Grammy award winning sound that you've come to love.
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 Bernie Mac | Guess Who Movie 2005 | Biography, Pictures, News Headlines, Links
Bernie Mac was recently nominated for his second straight Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on the THE BERNIE MAC SHOW.
Bernie Mac has successfully transformed himself from a TV star to a movie star, and nothing more evidenced by his winning performance in Mr 3000.
Bernie Mac: "I got cut from the basketball team five times as a freshman in high school and five more times from the varsity team.
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Bernie began his show business career playing violin in vaudeville in a double act with piano-accordionist Charlie Klass.
He made a few appearances in films, but it was through radio and records that he maintained his popularity.
Known as ‘the ole maestro’, Bernie was noted for his generosity.
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 Michigan Custom Log Home Builders, Cedar Homes, Log Cabin Homes, Loghomes
By the age of eight, Bernie was a regular in the woods alongside his grandfather, getting paid to make fences using Pine, Spruce, Tamarack, Balsam and White Cedar trees.
Having seen the craftsmanship of the loghomes Ben and Bernie built, Everett contracted them to build the first Boyne Mountain Ski Lodge that still stands in the Boyne Mountain Village today.
Bernie and Ben’s dedication to hard work, customer satisfaction and to each other is the basis of what Town and Country Cedar Homes is today.
www.cedarhomes.com /home/humble_beginnings_in_the_boyne_valley   (535 words)

  
 Ben Bernie - listen to free MP3 song download & watch music videos - MOG
Ben Bernie (1891-1943) was an American jazz violinist and radio personality.
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 met with little success until 1922.
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 Ben Bernie : baby and child care info, free articles, advices, tips and tricks, online merchants, links   (Site not responding. Last check: )
concise biography of Ben Bernie Ben Bernie 1891-1943 The Old Maestro Although Ben Bernie and 'all the lads' existed with prominence during the visceral part of the Jazz Age, it is Bernie's success with...
Bernie Glassman was born in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York.
Bert Ambrose, Gus Arnheim, Josephine Baker, Bix Beiderbecke, Mildred Bailey, Smith Ballew, Ben Bernie, Al Bowlly,Chick Bullock, Blanche Calloway, Cab Calloway, Eddie Cantor, Benny Carter, The Casa...
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 Songwriters Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In his early career, Bernie performed in vaudeville sketches as a monologist and violinist before starting a dance band in 1922.
As a songwriter, Bernie’s greatest success came with "Sweet Georgia Brown," a number one hit in 1926 (vocals by Arthur Fields).
Ben Bernie died in Beverly Hills, California on October 20, 1943.
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 Ben Bernie OTR MP3 List   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This rare collection of Ben Bernie includes a Ben Bernie show and several musical numbers by Bernie’s band.
A musical genius from a very young age, he was the youngest violinist the play Carnegie Hall at age of thirteen.
Ben Bernie and His Orchestra 30 Song Of The Bayou
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 Remains To Be Seen: The Ben Bernie Nephews Singed Photograph
Remains To Be Seen: The Ben Bernie Nephews Singed Photograph
The Ben Bernie Orchestra came up from New York City in the early 1920s.
Remains To Be Seen in a purveyor of photographs including Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Thermoplastic Cases, Tintypes, CDVs, Cabinet Cards, other Albumens and 20th Century Black and White Images as well as Lucite and Vintage Beaded Purses.
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