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Bergman (for wiki)

Birth Name

Born Dennis Bergman Friscia

July 24, 1952 Brooklyn, New York

Medium	Songwriting Performer

Nationality	American-Sicilian Years active	1966-present Genres Musical Satire. Lyrically-stuffed Pop Compositions. Art Songs with small drawings. Black humor, White humor, improvisational comedic music

Subject(s)

Performed with:	Human animalism, forgetful dinosaurs, wasted relationships, working, American sociopolitics, wasted dinosaurs, religion sex and TV, obscure presidents, everyday tedium

Graham Nash, Suzanne Vega, The Roches, Gilberto Gil, Rick Danko (The Band), David Byrne, James Taylor's brother

Early Life Narrowly escaping from a garret of bickering television addicts during unpaid sick days in a melting-pot Brooklyn brownstone, Professor Broom's musical sensibility was at first baptized there where was scolded - then lauded - for writing he wrote his first published sprawling tone-poem Sense and Nonsense, in the 3rd grade. Beginning with the cutting of a rather inauspicious 45 rpm single with his high school band The Five Shades cut in October 1966, he founded several folk and rock ensembles all throughout the rest of decade, playing block parties and local park stages. Chosen Best Musician status at Franklin K. Lane High School on the delicate border of Queens, his aesthetic sensibility had rapidly transformed as a singer, guitarist and songwriter. Next, as a college music major, he wrote pop songs in the piano annex (self-taught) at the Fredonia State University, shying away from far less titillating practice sessions.

Career

During the 1970s he began to play out at cafes and dark bars of the small university town in Western N.Y. After one long dizzy spell, the Berg Shebang moved eastwards to Syracuse, where he began performing as an entr’acte on the bills of a handful of national acts without a hairnet, opening shows as entr'acte for Graham Nash, Suzanne Vega, The Roches, Gilberto Gil, Rick Danko (The Band), David Byrne, and one of James Taylor's brothers.

Bergman Berg also sang tenor parts in pop group The Beverages, a barebones Vocal Harmony Trio, as well as playing during irregular periods at the cramped but legendary Speakeasy Cafe in New York City's West Village during their famous ‘Second Folk Revival’. He lived in New York for a time with unremitting girlfriends and their cats, while recording several records with both his backing band and as a solo artist. opening shows as entr'acte for Graham Nash, Suzanne Vega, The Roches, Gilberto Gil, Rick Danko (The Band), David Byrne, and one of James Taylor's brothers.

Berg also sang tenor parts in pop group The Beverages, a barebones Vocal Harmony Trio, as well as playing during irregular periods at the cramped but legendary Speakeasy Cafe in New York City's West Village during their famous ‘Second Folk Revival’. He also played in a few Scandinavian countries at one point, while still living in New York for a time with unremitting girlfriends and their cats.

This mysteriously grew into his affronting of The Oh So Sensitive Sidemen, a 6-to-7-odds combo that delivered paranormal doses of his acerbic literary compositions, and remains one of Central New York's most historically insouciant pop groups. Within this artistically fertile environs, he composed dozens if his most requested tunes and had recorded several records with both this backing band and as a solo artist.

At some point he set about to mismanage the inheritance left under his dad's mattress, all while steering clear of - as Paul Newman once invoked - the 'sinkholes and rainbarrels of marriage.' In the year 2000, he was invited to be interviewed and perform in the Los Angeles documentary on the ukulele titled Uketopia, with Uke Master Jim Beloff, it was an indie movie that saw only marginal release. Try to find it.

Along came 2003, with our bachelor’s big move to Seattle, WA. and the prompt gaining of weight as CEO (Chief Executive Oreganato) at the now-defunct Sicilian Kosher Baking Company in Rainier Valley. Berg would drive about King County in his off-white van demonstrating cinnamon babka, and was not seldom rewarded with boots being placed upon one or both axles. All the while however, he played shows and wrote songs and recorded, taking two long years off at one point to travel and tour a few clubs and cafes around the perimeter (1/2 b x h) of the U.S. in the company of canine wunderkind and part-time pooka Lovely Rita, his corgi-shepherd, with whom he often stayed on the sofas of no-longer lifelong friends.

Released in 2009 was the ethereal Out Of The Dusk To You recorded in Franklin, TN. at pop composer Kurt Eger's studio, containing a set of raw takes of under-the-counter-tenor songs from the 1910s & 1920s, solo with various ukuleles only. Our hero then did a triple lutz, stealthily sandwiching himself into the icy world of academics in 2008 by attending to a Community College.

Still largely available however is his magma opus, kids' record 9 Dinosaur Songs (1994), which has been re-issued three times, and most recently in 2020. 2014 rocked right in with Berg's brand new 4-song EP, Home Sweet Motel Vol. 1. Around the same time, Bergman also created reams of one-punch cartoons for a different book and completed a CD of 60s revisits called "summer burned winter blown" with The Shakes (see: The Shakes).

During this period Bergman produced the EP, Home Sweet Motel Vol. 1 with David Lange’s studio in Edgewood, WA. “Objective was to continue making records while still attaining an enlightened-male babysitting degree, but instead Bergman wound up skinny-dipping in the quicksand of the priggish IT World against a deep-seated Artistic Imperative. He,as any idiot could guess, opted for the latter, following his heart. Maybe not the best fiscal decision looking back, but what is. In recovery from God's tiny jokes, Bergman likes to invoke "....just as long as it's different!"....which he admittedly pinched from a coffee-bean-can master painter in Central New York. Plus there’s always GoFundMe right?

D. Bergman went onto to dish out his eighth CD in 2017, which was actually a compilation of 14 Artists from all over the USA, who covered his songs in 13-episode of a piloted Cable TV series, Sapiosexuals, which he was composing for his 2nd MFA Degree, in Interdisciplinary Arts. Each of the characters were local pop songwriters and Bergman wrote each of ‘their individual’y-styled songs’, according to this fabled narrative. The recording by these people was named Safe Under the Covers. His was followed by a double-set cd of some of the same songssug by the artist himself, plus an additional 16 ‘unreleased demos’ titled “me don’t squeal on me” (lower case intended).

Bergman is currently in the final mix phase of his newest recording, Baby & The Bathwater, at a studio in Bothell WA. He is currently busy writing his somewhat prematurely-explosive Memoir novel with p/t working title Sex & the Single Songwriter, if he can gun down enough grants with which to sandbag against the tidal waves of avarice (and it’s close cousin banality) prior to the oncoming ice age.

He was last seen listening to Fred Waring on his Tripod with his 3 diplomas tucked under his coat, peeling down unabandoned railroad ties with dog Orijin while carrying a shoebox filled with half-baked demos and what to some, vaguely appeared to be a nearsighted 7-foot rabbit tailing close behind. When he was stopped, searched and sufficiently goaded for comment on this anomaly, he shot back while not really looking: "I'm just looking forward to spending my future years with a late wife."

Family

Mssr. Bergman has none to speak of since all the original ones have died by the time of this writing. (Either because of it or in spite of it, is still a toss-up.) However to his great surprise: he was adopted into a loving fam-bam at a Japanese Hibachi table in 2022, courtesy of a hundred-fold crew of former longshoremen & women, residing in Black Diamond, Washington. For the record, he has generally steered away from either having or interacting with kiddos all throughout, but assures us he is working on changing his ways according to the curve.

Recordings:

Sextuplets (1979) Starcheye Coatman Sessions (1982) OhSoSensitiveSidemen Audio Verite in Ontario (1990) Quarrel With The Universe (1992) Crevices (1995) 9 Dinosaur Songs (2009) Home Sweet Motel Vol. 1 (2014) Out Of The Dusk To You (2016) Safe Under The Covers (2017) me don’t squeal on me (2020)

Baby & the Bathwater (2023)

Performances:

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Books:

Send Me Something …just as Schopenhauer predicted

References

American Museum of Natural History - New York N.Y., Oct 24, 	2001 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. Dinosaur Exhibit, University of Montana, Bozeman, MT.

Reviews

Publisher’s Weekly School Library Journal Ithaca Times Syracuse New Times Syracuse Herald-Journal Syracuse Post-Standard Daily Orange, Syracuse University Tasteeword

Madamoiselle Magazine New York Living Magazine Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA. Syracuse Poetry Review, Fall 1978 External links

•	Official website •	www.soundcloud.com/bergman 206 •	Bergman Broom at IMDb  (Uketopia) •	Bergman Broom discography at Discogs •	https://itunes.apple.com/us/bergman broom/id59490768