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b. 7 Dec 1924, Muscle tissue Shoals, Alabama, USA, d. 2 June 2002, Saratoga, Florida, USA. Bennett’s family members relocated to Nashville, where he went to senior high school and 1st sang and performed drums using the WSM studio room band. After short service in Globe Battle II, he shaped the Southlanders, who performed western golf swing dance music and documented for Ruler Records in the first 50s. Noting the achievement of Expenses Haley, Bennett renamed his music group the Rockets (Haley got recently transformed his Saddlemen towards the Comets) and documented further Ruler tracks targeted at the younger viewers. In 1955, ‘Seventeen’ became lots 5 pop strike and one from the label’s most effective information. Further pop amounts adopted, including ‘My Boy-Flat Best’ (quantity 39) along with a edition of ‘Blue Suede Sneakers’. Both ‘Seventeen’ (1955) and ‘My Boy-Flat Best’ (1956) had been Best 20 pop strikes in the united kingdom for Frankie Vaughan. In 1956, Bennett’s music group supported Moon Mullican, when he produced his well-known rockabilly recordings of ‘Seven Evenings To Rock and roll’ and ‘I’m Mad With You’. In 1959, Bennett remaining Ruler and documented briefly for Mercury Information. He had thoroughly invested the amount of money that he created from the Ruler recordings and, thinking he was after that too older to contend with the rockabilly children, he remaining the music. He focused on his businesses, including three nightclubs and, later on, a business that produced parts for air-conditioning systems. Bennett also overcame serious health problems within the 70s and 80s, including lymphoma and pulmonary fibrosis. In 1988, a few of his Ruler recordings made an appearance on Boyd Bennett And His Rockets: Seventeen, a Danish recording. Bennett finally retired to Dallas, where he produced occasional looks with Ray Cost.
