Betty Johnson (March 16, 1929 – November 6, 2022) was an American traditional pop and cabaret singer who reached her career peak in the 1950s.
The family won a singing contest in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was signed to a contract on a WBT (AM), a major radio station in that city.
In 1951, Percy Faith, who had known her from her Columbia recordings, tried to convince Mitch Miller (A&R director at Columbia) to sign her, but Miller, who included Doris Day and Rosemary Clooney among the artists he had signed, was not interested.
This led to a record contract with Atlantic Records in 1957,[3] for which she had her next big hit, "Little Blue Man", a novelty number which featured Fred Ebb as the voice of the "Little Blue Man", repeatedly saying: "I Rov You ... to Bits".
Johnson continued on Tonight until 1962 when Paar was replaced by Johnny Carson, while also making appearances on a number of other television shows.
In 1984 and 1985, Johnson appeared as Essie Miller in the Goodspeed Opera Houses revival of TAKE ME ALONG!