Blossom Seeley

Blossom Seeley was one of the greatest vaudeville singers an equal in talent and billing to Nora Bayes and Sophie Tucker  Blossom began as a child performer and worked San Franciscos Barbary Coast as a ragtime singer Her strutting and fingersnapping syncopated rhythms gave distinction to her act and she was enticed eastward to New York the center of bigtime vaudeville and musical revues She worked solo in vaudeville and with her husbands  Joe Kane was one and Rube Marquard the top flight pitcher for the New York Giants was another  Benny Fields came next and he was to be Blossoms lasting partner on stage and off Seeley made a couple of films appeared on radio and seemed to be content to fade away in tune and time with vaudeville After Benny Fields early death in 1959 Blossom tried a comeback appearing on the Ed Sullivan TV show  Although she could still sing well in her seventies and eighties and was still a captivating performer her era and her audience were gone