Lovett and his wife Charlotte taught not only modern social dances and children's exhibition dances, but also the nineteenth-century social dances such as quadrilles and contra dances beloved by car manufacturer Henry Ford and his wife Clara. Lovett met the Fords in 1923 after the Fords acquired the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. In 1924, Lovett was hired to call the dance at a Halloween dance event hosted by the Fords in Dearborn, Michigan. Soon, the Lovetts moved to Dearborn.

In December 1924, Henry Ford created a Music Department within his company, hiring both Benjamin Lovett and a permanent orchestra that he called the Early American Orchestra. By1925, Lovett, at Ford's request, began teaching early American dancing not just to Ford workers, but also in the Detroit and Dearborn public schools.

At Henry Ford's request, Benjamin and Charlotte Lovett also created a dance manual for which they compiled a number of early American dances. In 1925, it was published under the title "Good Morning: After a Sleep of Twenty-five Years, Old-Fashioned Dancing is Being Revived by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford." The manual was repeatedly revised and reissued. Only the 1941 and 1943 revisions credit Benjamin Lovett as the author.

Between 1925 and 1927, Lovett also appears as a caller on records made by Henry Ford's Old Time Dance Orchestra.