Johnny Bernero
Lost
(J. Bernero, Diary Pub. Co.)
Beacon 1001
1960
Every competent being tends to rise to a level of incompetence.
One more illustration if needed of the « Peter Principle » summarized by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull in their book « The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong » published in 1969 by William Morrow and Company. 1969.
Johnny Bernero was the staff drummer at Sun Records in Memphis between late 1955 and the close of 1956, playing at at numerous sessions, behind Harold Jenkins, Barbara Pittman, Billy Riley, Warren Smith, Smokey Joe and of course Elvis Presley. He soon realised that a minuscule session fee did not equate to the earning potential of a hit record, and worked on Sam Phillips to allow him to record with a western swing combo he had formed. This he did, but the tapes were consigned to a corner of the Sun vaults.
On his own Beacon label, he decided in 1960 to try his luck as vocalist. The Beacon single was also nationally distributed by Dot Records, a company most of the time happy to release a record with minimal cost, just buying masters from small labels. The disc on Dot was credited to Johnny Benero's Quintet, no doubt to make the disc more attractive.
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