Roy C. Bennett

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roy C. Bennett is an American songwriter known for his collaborations with Sid Tepper, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley. Between 1945 and 1970, Tepper and Bennett published over 300 songs. Born into an Eastern European immigrant family, as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn he befriended a newly arrived neighbor by the name of Sid Tepper. Their mutual interest in music led to a highly successful music collaboration that spanned more than twenty-five years. Roy Bennett graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn, then he studied music at City College of New York. Although blessed with a good singing voice he chose to pursue his lifelong interest in writing words and music. However, his career plans were interrupted by World War II when he served with the United States Army Air Forces. After the war he joined ASCAP and worked as a staff writer for Mills Music Inc.... Mehr