Sandwiched between “I Want ’a Do Something Funky to You” by Leon Haywood and “Fight the Power” by the Isley Brothers was 1975’s unlikeliest Top 40 hit: “Shaving Cream” by Benny Bell. With its ...
THE BENNY Bell story started out a lot like the Al Jolson story. It just didn’t have the same ending. Born Benjamin Samberg on the lower East Side in 1906, Benny Bell was encouraged as a youth to ...