BENNY FIELDS

Benny Fields (born Benjamin Geisenfeld) was a minstrel and vaudeville actor and singer from the 1920s to the 1950s. Fields was married to Blossom Seeley, who was half of his vaudeville team. Seeley sang ragtime and Fields was what Bing Crosby once referred to as America's "first crooner". He passed away in 1959 at the age of 65.