Billy Vaughn
Billy Vaughn was one of the most popular orchestra leaders and pop music arrangers of the 1950s 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 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.
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1962's Greatest Hits
Wereldmuziek - Released by TP4 Music on 6 jan. 2022
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Smooth Jazz
Jazz - Released by Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group on 27 nov. 2012
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Melodies of Love
Pop - Released by StarPointe Records on 27 apr. 2015
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World Music Vol. 8
Jazz - Released by Listener's Choice on 26 nov. 2014
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Billy's Christmas - [The Dave Cash Collection]
Kerstmuziek - Released by The Dave Cash Collection - OMP on 9 mei 2011
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Remember When (The Collection)
Pop - Released by Vinyl and Dust Records on 29 jul. 2016
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Billy Vaughn Plays (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks)
Pop - Released by Easy Listening Classics on 1 jan. 2012
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September Serenity - Billy Vaughn's Melodic Journey
Pop - Released by So Easy on 1 sep. 2023
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Melodies in Gold
Wereldmuziek - Released by TP4 Music on 6 jan. 2023
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Pearly Shells
Wereldmuziek - Released by TP4 Music on 6 jan. 2022
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Greatest String Band Hits
Wereldmuziek - Released by TP4 Music on 6 jan. 2022
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Billy Vaughn's Greatest Hits
Pop - Released by Classic Records on 21 jan. 2013
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The Stripper
Electronic - Released by Ramzy R. M. Delambert on 28 jul. 2023
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1962's Greatest Hits / The Shifting Whispering Sands
Jazz - Released by Sepia on 6 jul. 2014
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The Shifting Whispering Sands
Wereldmuziek - Released by TP4 Music on 6 jan. 2023
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Billy Vaughn Plays the Million Sellers
Wereldmuziek - Released by TP4 Music on 6 jan. 2023
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Billy Vaughn Plays The Million Sellers
Wereldmuziek - Released by TP4 Music on 6 jan. 2022
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Unter dem Doppeladler (Under the double Eagle)
Wereldmuziek - Released by Rooster Records on 13 aug. 2014
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Drifting and Dreaming
Mantovani, Tipica Orchestra, Billy Vaughn, Jackie Gleason, Ray Conniff
Pop - Released by Hit that Record on 1 aug. 2020
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Theme from a Summer Place (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks)
Pop - Released by Easy Listening Classics on 1 jan. 2012
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