Sue Bennett (born Sue Benjamin; – ) was a vocalist on various network shows during the live television era of the 1940s and 1950s. The

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-born Bennett majored in English at Syracuse University. She starred on the

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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 ''

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'' in 1951-52. 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. 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). 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

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Personal life and death

Bennett was married to Dr. Waldo Fielding, and they had two sons, Jed., and the aforementioned Andrew. She died on May 8, 2001, in

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, aged 73.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bennett, Sue 1928 births 2001 deaths 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers Musicians from Indianapolis