"We were going around the country living wonderful lives. Not depending on any men. We were earning our own living. Doing what we wanted to do and doing it very well too. Men tried to put us down, but we wouldn't have it and Ivy wouldn't have it," says Joyce Terry, nee Clark, who was a singer in Ivy's band from 1943 to 1946.
Ivy Benson was a gutsy and glamorous woman. Before the idea of girl power became a reality, Ivy and the members of her all-girl band were risking their lives entertaining Allied troops in war-torn Europe, and fighting the battle of the sexes back at home.
We are talking 1939...
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