Ned Fairchild

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Ned Fairchild is the pen name of Nelda Fairchild, an AMI staff writer who variously wrote and performed as Ned Fairchild and Sunny Bingo. Born in 1929 in Burley, Idaho, Nelda Fairchild and her sister Teena (real name Ella) began performing at ages 4 and 5 as a sister act on various radio shows. As teenagers living in Southern California, they worked regularly and were cast members on Foreman Phillips' musical variety show in Compton, California. By the 1950s, Sunny and Teena were appearing as The Southern Belles, appearing on "Town Hall Party," with Merle Travis and other early TV music stars. Travis introduced Nelda to AMI President Irv Cross, who made her a staff writer, one of a very few.

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Fairchild is the subject of a documentary due for release in 2008.