From 1921 he formed half of the Blossom Seeley-Benny Fields vaudeville team. Seeley sang ragtime, while Fields was what Bing Crosby once referred to as America's "first crooner".
His and wife Blossom Seeley's fortune (estimated at $250,000) was lost in the stock market crash of 1929. In 1936 they filed for bankruptcy in a New York court.