 In 1956 he sat in with trombonist and big bandleader Tommy Dorsey at New York's Paramount Theater.This was an historic engagement, as a reunion of Dorsey and his former boy singer of the early 1940s, Frank Sinatra.Bennett made his television debut in 1961 performing on drums his first single, "Fever", with his group Pete Bennett and the Embers on ABC-TV's Dick Clark's "American Bandstand".