Sue Bennett

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Sue Bennett (born Sue Benjamin; (1928-03-24)March 24, 1928 – (2001-05-08)May 8, 2001) was a vocalist on various network shows during the live television era of the 1940s and 1950s.

The Indianapolis, Indiana-born BennettScript error: No such module "Unsubst". majored in English at Syracuse University.[1] She starred on the NBC quiz and variety show, Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge in 1949-50, on the DuMont show Teen Time Tunes in 1949, and was featured on Your Hit Parade in 1951-52.[2]

Bennett's recordings with the Kay Kyser Orchestra include "Sam, The Old Accordion Man," and "Tootsie, Darlin', Angel, Honey, Baby."[3] She also is heard on the CD, An Evening with Frank Loesser (DRG 5169), singing "Fugue for Tinhorns" with Loesser and Milton DeLugg.

Her career is profiled in a book about the period of early television, The Lucky Strike Papers, written by her son, Andrew Lee Fielding (BearManor Media, 2007; Revised ed., 2019).[4] Following her network career, she sang on an early morning radio program on WEEI in Boston and later had The Sue Bennett Show, a weekly musical program on Boston's WBZ-TV.[1]

Personal life and death

Bennett was married to Dr. Waldo Fielding, and they had two sons, Jed.,[1] and the aforementioned Andrew. She died on May 8, 2001,[5] in Brookline, Massachusetts, aged 73.

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  3. Garrod, Charles and Hair, Raymond. Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, Discography. A Joyce Record Club Publication, 1986.
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