Bennett, Roy C. (Nombre personal)

His King Creole, c1958.

Red roses for a blue lady, 1948: caption (Roy Brodsky)

U.S. copyright file, Mar. 26, 2001 (Roy Brodsky, a.k.a. Roy C. Bennett)

LC database, Mar. 26, 2001 (Brodsky, Roy, 1918- [from old catalog])

New York times WWW site, viewed July 13, 2015 (in obituary published July 12: Roy C. Bennett; b. Israel Brodsky, Aug. 12, 1918, Brooklyn; changed his name as an adult, picking its parts from the phone book (the C doesn't stand for anything, his son said: "He just liked the way it sounded"); d. July 2, Queens, aged 96; with his partner, Sid Tepper, wrote songs that were recorded by a wide roster of midcentury pop singers, including the titles Red roses for a blue lady, Kiss of fire, and The naughty lady of Shady Lane; they collaborated on both the words and the music for their songs, though Bennett, a self-taught pianist, was the sole musician of the two)