Billy Vaughn

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Billy Vaughn was one of the most popular orchestra leaders and pop music arrangers of the '50s and early '60s. In fact, he had more pop hits than any other orchestra leader during the rock & roll era. Vaughn was also the musical director for many of the hitmakers on Dot Records, including Pat Boone, the Fontane Sisters, and Gale Storm. As a pop music arranger, he was most distinctive for his his clean, inoffensive mainstream adaptations of rock & roll and R&B hits. Vaughn was also a recording artist, and he cut a number of albums of easy listening instrumental music that were very popular throughout the '60s.

Vaughn began his professional music career in 1952, forming the vocal quartet the Hilltoppers with Don McGuire, Jimmy Sacca, and Seymour Speigelman. From 1952 to 1957, the Hilltoppers had numerous hit singles, beginning with Vaughn's song "Trying." He left the group in 1955 to join Dot Records as a musical director. Vaughn was responsible for most of Dot's biggest hits of the '50s as he rearranged popular rock & roll and R&B songs for white mainstream groups. His first success was with the Fontane Sisters, who sang with his orchestra on all their singles, including their 1954 breakthrough hit "Hearts of Stone." However, Dot's biggest success was Pat Boone, who had a series of hits with Vaughn's cleaned-up arrangements of rock & roll songs.

At the same time he was leading the vocal pop division of Dot, Vaughn was recording his own instrumental records, which frequently were also covers of R&B and country songs. Beginning with 1954's "Melody of Love," Vaughn had a string of easy listening U.S. hit singles that ran for over a decade. He also recorded numerous hit albums, with 36 of his records entering the U.S. album charts between 1958 and 1970. Though he was the most successful orchestra leader of the rock & roll era, he wasn't able to sustain an audience in the late '60s. Vaughn released several albums in the '70s before quietly retiring in the early '80s.

Title: The Golden Age of Light Music: 100 Greatest American Light Orchestras - Vol. 1

Artist: David Rose, Billy Vaughn, Les Baxter And His Orchestra, Nelson Riddle, Morton Gould, Victor Young, Axel Stordahl, Bernie Wayne, Gordon Jenkins, Axel Stordahl Orchestra, Frank Perkins, Billy Vaughn And His Orchestra, Nelson Riddle And His Orchestra, John Scott Trotter, Paul Weston And His Orchestra, The Clebanoff Strings, Mahlon Merrick, Paul Weston, Jack Pleis, Les Baxter, Percussion, Warren Barker, The Orchestra, Monty Kelly, Harry Geller, Victor Young Orchestra, Alfredo Antonini, George Liberace, Jack Pleis Orchestra, David Rose's Orchestra, Gordon Jenkins Orchestra, Alfred Goodman Orchestra, Albert Sack Concert Orchestra, Alfonso D’Artega Orchestra / Alfonso D'Artega Orchestra, Alfredo Antonini Orchestra, Bernie Wayne Orchestra, Charles Dorian Orchestra, Frank Perkins Pops Orchestra, George Liberace Orchestra, Harry Geller Orchestra, John Scott Trotter Orchestra, Mahlon Merrick Orchestra, Rochester Pops Orchestra, The Spencer-Hagen Orchestra, Warren Barker Orchestra, Alfred Goodman, Albert Sack, Alfonso D'Artega, Charles Dorian

Genre: Classical

Title: The Golden Age of Light Music: Marching & Waltzing

Artist: David Rose, Percy Faith, Frank Chacksfield, Billy Vaughn, Morton Gould, David Carroll, Robert Farnon, Billy Vaughn And His Orchestra, Al Goodman, Ron Goodwin, The Percy Faith Orchestra, Marek Weber Orchestra, Cyril Stapleton, Louis Levy, Sidney Torch, Sidney Torch & Orchestra, Dolf Van Der Linden, New Concert Orchestra, Marek Weber, Thomas Jensen, Walter Collins, Al Goodman Orchestra, Symphonia Orchestra, Svend Christian Felumb, Morton Gould Orchestra, David Rose's Orchestra, Louis Voss, Jack Leon, Aarhus Civic Orchestra, Frank Chacksfield Orchestra, London Promenade Orchestra, Lou Preager, Ron Goodwin Concert Orchestra, David Carroll Orchestra, Danish State Radio Orchestra, Cyril Stapleton Concert Orchestra, Gaumont British Symphony, London Coliseum Orchestra, London Concert Orchestra, London Palladium Orchestra, Lou Preager Charm Of The Waltz Orchestra, Old Tyme Orchestra, Phoenix Theatre Orchestra, Regent Concert Orchestra, Tivoli Concert Hall Orchestra, Cliford Greenwood, Jack Frere, Reginald Burston, Theo Arden

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