Bernie Cummins & His Hotel Biltmore Orch. - Every Day Away From You, 1929

Bernie Cummins & His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra - Ev’ry Day Away From You, Fox-Trot (Jay Mills - Charles Tobias), vocal refrain by Bernie Cummins, Victor 1929 (USA). NOTE: Bernie CUMMINS (b. 1900 in Acron, Ohio - d. 1986) was an American jazz drummer, singer and dance orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s. In his youth, he was a boxer before he began playing drums in local bands in Ohio. In 1919, he debuted with his own small band in Indiana. In 1924, his larger orchestra began recording for Gennett, but its breakthrough came when it moved to Brunswick in 1927 and later to Victor. In 1929 it became the principal orchestra of New York’s Biltmore Hotel, and the following year it performed at the New Yorker Hotel. The band also performed at Blackstone’s and the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, as well as in Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans, Denver and San Francisco. Cummins’ band has also played on radio programs, including the Spotlight Dance Program sponsored by Coca-Cola. The orchestra recorded from 1924 to 1940. During its existence it had a fairly stable staff, including Karl Radlach on piano, Paul Roberts on trumpet and Walter Cummins on banjo and guitar. During the 1950s, Bernie Cummins’ band found it increasingly difficult to continue on a larger scale and played in smaller clubs in Las Vegas before the band disbanded in 1959. The slideshow includes some photos of people in the 1920s partying in nightclubs.