Bernie Schwartz

Bernie Schwartz (not to be confused with the Brooklyn-born Bernie Schwartz who became the actor Tony Curtis) was a Hollywood-based songwriter and occasional singer who left behind several impressive recordings and songs under a multitude of pseudonyms, including Don Atello, Bernie Ballentine, and <a href="spotify:artist:1h8oWQKWPgMAv7tIiMPvob">Adrian Pride</a>. He had a long association with <a href="spotify:artist:4ACplpEqD6JIVgKrafauzs">the Everly Brothers</a>, and he and <a href="spotify:artist:0oOmVBBL9JieZXycYfjZXT">Phil Everly</a> were jointly or singly -- it depends whom you ask -- involved in writing songs recorded by Schwartz. Schwartz's career in music cut across several periods and idioms -- he collaborated for a time with Sharon Sheely (beginning his contact with <a href="spotify:artist:4ACplpEqD6JIVgKrafauzs">the Everlys</a>), working in a pop/rock mode, and successfully moved into raga-influenced pop/rock at the outset of the psychedelic era (as <a href="spotify:artist:1h8oWQKWPgMAv7tIiMPvob">Adrian Pride</a>) with the single "Her Name Is Melody." A couple of years later, he was back as a member of the band <a href="spotify:artist:7vZK8HYQiNmwWqQkHURsJN">the Comfortable Chair</a>, which was good enough to command the attention of a couple of members of <a href="spotify:artist:22WZ7M8sxp5THdruNY3gXt">the Doors</a> as producers. Schwartz also cut a solo album called The Wheel, but he later left music to become a successful author of self-help and popular psychology books. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi