Billy Vaughn
Billy Vaughn
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About Billy Vaughn
Richard "Billy" Vaughn was a singer, multi-instrumentalist and orchestra leader. He was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, where his father was a barber who loved music and inspired Billy to teach himself to play the mandolin at age 3, while suffering a case of the measles. He went on to learn a number of other instruments. In 1941, Vaughn joined the United States National Guard for what had been planned as a one-year assignment, but when World War II broke out, he was sent abroad till the war ended in 1945. He decided to make music a career when he was discharged from the army at the end of the war, and attended Western Kentucky State College, now known as Western Kentucky University, majoring in music composition. He had apparently learned barbering from his father, because he did some while studying at Western Kentucky to support himself financially, when he was not able to get jobs playing the piano at local night clubs and lounges. While he was a student there, three other students, Jimmy Sacca, Donald McGuire and Seymour Spiegelman, who had formed a vocal trio, The Hilltoppers, recruited Vaughn to play the piano with them. He soon added his voice to theirs, converting the trio to a quartet. As a member of the group, he also wrote their first hit song, Trying, which charted in 1952. In 1954 he left the group to join Dot Records in Gallatin, Tennessee as music director. He subsequently formed his own orchestra, which had a big hit in that same year with Melody of Love. He went on to have many more hits over the next decade and a half, and based purely on chart successes, was the most successful orchestra leader of all time.
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Billy Vaughn — Top 30 songs of 247
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Vaughn | A Man Without Love | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Cocoanut Grove | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Es wird ja alles wieder gut | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Hawaiian War Chant | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Raunchy (Justis-Manker) | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Look For a Star | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Walk, Don't Run | ||
| Billy Vaughn | I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do | ||
| Billy Vaughn | 12 Golden Hits From Latin America | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Santa Maria | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Sukiyaki | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Trade Winds | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Berlin Melody | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Never On Sunday Manos Hadjidakis | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Wheels | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Serenade of the Bells | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Melody of Love | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Moonlight And Roses | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Melody of Love (Instrumental Gold (Disc 2)) | ||
| Billy Vaughn | La Paloma (1958) | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Wheels (1961) | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song | ||
| Billy Vaughn | We May Never Love Like This Again | ||
| Billy Vaughn | A Far L' Amore Comincia Tu | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Red Roses For A Blue Lady | ||
| Billy Vaughn | A Summer Place | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White | ||
| Billy Vaughn | I'm Getting Sentimental Over You | ||
| Billy Vaughn | In The Mood | ||
| Billy Vaughn | Lisbon Antigua |