Zwei Gitarren Am Meer Billy Vaughn And His Orchestra Yamaha Genos Roland G70 by Rico William Richard Vaughn (April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records Vaughn 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 the age of three, while suffering from 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, Billy was in for the duration as a valued musician and composer at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Major General Daniel I. Sultan decided that Billy Vaughn was too valuable to the base's Thirty-Eighth Division big band, and kept Billy Vaughn at Camp Shelby for the duration of the war. He decided to make music a career when he was discharged from the army at the end of the war
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