Bill Buchanan
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This article is about the songwriter. For the character from the TV series 24, see Bill Buchanan (24 character).
Bill Buchanan (April 30, 1930 - August 1, 1996) was a songwriter. His most famous composition took place in 1956, when he and Dickie Goodman created the sound collage "The Flying Saucer." After Buchanan and Goodman severed their partnership, Buchanan later wrote the song "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" for Bobby Vee. He also was president of a company manufacturing Disk-Go Cases, a plastic cylindrical record storage cabinet.
[edit] Singles
Bill Buchanan
- The Thing/Happy Day (1958)
United Artist Records
- The Night Before Halloween/Beware (1962)
Buchanan And Ancell
Flying Saucer Records
- The Creature/Meet The Creature (1957)
Buchanan And Cella
- String Along With Pal-O-Mine/More And More String Along With Pal-O-Mine (1959)
Buchanan And Goodman
Comic Records
- The Flying Saucer Part 1/The FLying Saucer Part 2 (1956)
- Back To Earth Part 1/Back To Earth Part 2 (1956)
- Buchanan And Goodman On Trial/Crazy (1956)
- The Banana Boat Story/The Mystery (In Slow Motion) (1957)
- Flying Saucer The 2nd/Martian Melody (1957)
- Santa And The Satellite Part 1/Santa And The Satellite Part 2 (1957)
- The FLyin Saucer Goes West/Saucer Serenade (1958)
- Flying Saucer The Third/The Cha Cha Lesson (1959)
Novelty Records
- Frankenstein Of '59/Frankenstein Returns (1959)
Buchanan And Greenfield
Novel Records
- The Invasion/What A Lovely Party (1964)
[edit] External links
- http://www.geocities.com/shakin_stacks/billbuchanan.txt
- http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/bill_buchanan.htm