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I LJJl 8.155! I STAUFFER HO.ME FLAN ft 2141 Lancashire LowitvilU 5, Kentucky YOUNG WORLD THIIO FLOOR and byck'a t. matthows our BILLY VAUGHN Continued in Glasgow. As a kid, he used to shine shoes in his father's barbershop. He started writing songs at an early age and formed his own band while a student at Glasgow High School. He attended Western on a music scholarship two years one year before the war and one year after.

To appease his father, Vaughan entered the bartering profession. He attended a Louisville barber school and then a beautician school in Bowling Green. Hit metamorphoM from arranging and creating hairdot to the arranging and creation of mutic took place during hit military tour extending from 1941 to 1945. During thit time, he formed an orchettra and began to develop at an arranger and coinpoier. After hi ditcharge, he left the hair profettion to embark on a career of mutic.

Vaughn spent the next six or seven years playing with various bands in clubs and lounges throughout the South. While playing the piano with a group at Bowling Green in 1952, he met Jimmy Sacca, a native of Lock-port, N. who was attending Western on a football scholarship. Sacca agreed to help Vaughn make a tape recording for demonstration purposes of a song Vaughn had written called "Trying." Sacca suggested Seymour Spiegelman, his roommate from Seneca Falls, N. and Don McGuire, a basketball player from Hazard, Ky.

The three had done some barbershop harmonizing together. Bill Stamps, a disc jockey for radio station WLBJ in Bowling Green, sent the tape to Dot Recording Company in Gallatin, a firm he once worked for. Randy Wood, founder of the then struggling company, liked the song and the singers. He sent a crew with mobile equipment to Bowling Green to re-record the number. Vaughn at the piano was the only musical accompaniment.

The record not only "made" the Hilltoppers but also Dot Records. Dot it was the first name Wood could think of began signing up "name" artists and soon became a "major" label. Paramount Pictures bought the company in 1957. Vaughn left the Hilltoppers in 1954 to form his present band and to become musical director for Dot. The Toppers continued with various substitutes before disbanding! a few months ago.

Although Vaughn has appeared on television, he has never made a commercial appearance with his orchestra and has no plans to do so. He's contented to spend his time arranging music, writing songs and pipe smoking. "I'll just stick to my arranging," the sandy-blond musician said. "I don't mind making the records, but I'd like to wait before having to perform them in front of an audience." And besides, he doesn't like flying, which would be required if he began touring. Flying is for the birds," he said.

"I'm a coward and refuse to fly unless I just have to." Vaughn's first experience with music came at age 6, when he had the measles. He picked up an old ukulele and began playing to entertain himself while he had to stay in bed. He says he has been writing songs as far back as he remembers. Although "Trying" was Vaughn's first major effort, several of his previous compositions had been published and had mild success by hillbilly artists. He's still receiving royalties from some of these, in eluding "Dirty Dishes" and "My Stolen Love." Vaughn is married to the former Marion Smith of Hazelhurst, whom he met in 1943 while in the service.

They have three children, Zona, 16, Rickey, 11, and Al, 9. The family moved to California four years ago, when Dot changed its headquarters from Gallatin to Hollywood. Vaughn recently purchased two new homes one in Palm Springs for weekends and vacations and one in Encino. The latter home has a pool side cottage which has been converted into a recording studio. "start" on a leather PLENTY OF TOE ROOM sole that "breathes" HEELS Sine 1902 Byck's has been fitting boys and girls in the best looking shoes of each season with the "Nature Shoe" built- in fitting qualities obtainable for young growing feet.

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