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Sue Bennett (bornSue 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.
TheIndianapolis, Indiana-born Bennett[citation needed] majored in English at Syracuse University.[1] She starred on theNBC quiz and variety show,Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge in 1949-50, on theDuMont showTeen Time Tunes in 1949, and was featured onYour 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 onWEEI in Boston and later hadThe Sue Bennett Show, a weekly musical program on Boston'sWBZ-TV.[1]
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] inBrookline, Massachusetts, aged 73.
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