Sue Bennett
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Sue Bennett (March 24, 1928 - May 08, 2001) was a vocalist on various network shows during the live television era of the 1940s and 1950s.
Bennett starred on the NBC variety show, Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge in 1949-50, and she sang on the popular Your Hit Parade in 1951-52. In 1951, she was a regular guest on NBC's weekly The Freddy Martin Show, and she appeared with John Conte on the twice-weekly John Conte's Little Show, an NBC series also known as Van Camp's Little Show.
Bennett's recordings with the Kay Kyser Orchestra include "Sam, The Old Accordion Man," and "Tootsie, Darlin', Angel, Honey, Baby." She also is heard on the CD, An Evening with Frank Loesser (DRG 5169), singing "Fugue for Tinhorns" with Loesser and Milton DeLugg. [1]
Her son, New Jersey writer Andrew Lee Fielding, has written about her in his book, The Lucky Strike Papers (2007), reviewed in The Hook (Charlottesville, Virginia) by Hawes Spencer:
- At the height of her fame, Bennett gave up her television career by moving away from New York, the center of the fledgling industry. It was a few years later in Boston [that] Bennett [was] doing commercials, voice-overs, and The Sue Bennett Show just for Bostonians....As Fielding writes in the book-- published by BearManor Media, a smallish Georgia house specializing in "classic cinema, retro radio, and timeless TV"-- the early television shows were performed live. And during the early part of Bennett's career, when a decent television might cost over $900 (over $8,000 in today's dollars), any city west of Chicago had to wait for the arrival of a low-quality film of the broadcast, called a kinescope, since coaxial cable hadn't gotten that far... [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Garrod, Charles and Hair, Raymond. Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, Discography. A Joyce Record Club Publication, 1986.
- ^ Spencer, Hawes. "Hotseat: Very lucky strike: How Fielding found mom... on TV," The Hook, 2007.
