Billy Vaughn 比利·沃恩
- 风格
- #传统流行 #管弦乐流行 #轻音乐
- 地区
- United States of America 美国
艺人介绍
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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, his most distinctive feature was his clean, nonoffensive 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, Billy 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 his last album in 1970 and quietly retired.
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- @馒头 JazzBread： Billy Vaughn 在 Dot 時期的兩張專輯“Orange Blossom Special & Wheels”及“Berlin Melody”。好幾首小時經常聽的歌曲﹐應該是單曲吧﹐包括Wheels﹑Orange Blossom Special 及Come September 都是自己非常熟識的旋律。年前﹐看Rock Hudson 的喜劇“金屋春宵”時﹐才發現這首Come September 原來是電影主題音樂啊﹖而且更是片中一男角Bobby Darin 的創作﹔又在數月前﹐挖掘黑膠唱片時﹐又不經意給我找到這一張Berlin Melody專輯﹐真是湊巧﹐那算是為這CD先來一個 Pre
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- @宇宙大地 光辉普照(宇宙智慧之光琴颂腾跃之子)：比利·沃恩是20世纪50年代到60年代初最有名气的流行管弦乐队指挥和流行音乐编曲家。 比其他的管弦乐指挥大师拥有更多的顶尖作品。 作为一名流行乐编曲家，他最大的特点就是干净利落地把摇滚歌曲或流行歌曲改编成主流乐曲。 更是轻音乐创始鼻祖之一。
- @孤家寡人(感恩蝦米音樂)：Billy Vaughn 的音樂是少年時已經在聼了，現在古稀之年，想起當年的我，人生如夢，那麽好聼，怎麽那麽少人聼。
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