1. Benny Lee started his career in stage roles, and developed a television and film career.
13 Facts About Benny Lee
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Benny Lee began his singing career as tenor in the school choir.
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Benny Lee was back in Glasgow, tailoring shirts and in his spare time playing drums for his own semi-professional dance-band.
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Benny Lee worked as a song-plugger for Essex Music Publishers.
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In 1941, Benny Lee was heard singing by Johnny Claes, a trumpeter who had recently formed a swinging dance-band called the "Claepigeons".
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Benny Lee liked the sound of Lee's voice and signed him on as a vocalist.
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Soon Benny Lee was singing and recording with many bands of the day, including that of Sid Phillips.
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Benny Lee was frequently heard on the radio, and not only as a band singer.
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Benny Lee played the part of Eddie Cantor in a radio version of the film Show Business.
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Benny Lee became sufficiently popular for him to be featured as a solo singer, rather than only fronting a band.
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Benny Lee enjoyed comedy numbers and sang "Close the Door" with a chorus of young children on a special series made for Christmas 1955 entitled Benny Lee's Children's Party.
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Benny Lee worked as both singer and comedian in these series.
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Benny Lee appeared in the films, Keep It Clean, My Wife's Family, The Girl Hunters and Mahler, portraying Tarbottom, Arnold, Nat Drutman and Uncle Arnold respectively.