Florence Karlen

The musical landscape between 1956 and 1960 was changing fast each minute. Once you thought you had written a hit, here comes another style and your song was old news. It was during this period the Bernie & Florence start using pseudonyms Bernie became Anna Shaw (Bernie's mother name) & Florence became Florence Karlen (a combination of her daughter's name "Karen" & "Helene"). usually these names were used when they wrote both sides of a single example if one side said Baum-Kaye, the other side was printed as Shaw-Karlen.