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Band singer Benny Lee

10/8/2020

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The Entertainer Benny Lee was born On This Day 11 August 1916 and resident of Streatham Close.


Benny had been well known as a band singer before he achieved real fame in 1950 on the radio show Breakfast with Braden which graduated to Bedtime with Braden. (Bernard Braden also a Streatham resident)

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(The Herald)

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Arthur White link
16/3/2021 12:46:27 pm

My farther told me that he work on Benny
Lee,a flat doing some work and got to know him very well and was given a straw that as thanks for work

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Mark Bery
16/3/2021 02:47:56 pm

That was nice of him. Many people have made very positive comments on our FB page

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