Vaughn Horton

b. 6 June 1911, Large Top Mountain, Pa, USA, d. 1 March 1988. Although he sang and performed steel guitar, acoustic guitar and mandolin, Horton is definitely remembered like a songwriter. He performed in college rings along with dance rings before his talented metal acoustic guitar playing led him to nation music. In 1935, he and his sibling Roy (bass) shifted to NEW YORK, where later on with others including Ray Smith, Rusty Keefer and Johnny Browers, they shaped the Pinetoppers and got their own display on NBC and CBS radio. The group’s vocals had been from the Beaver Valley Sweethearts (Trudy and Gloria Marlin). In 1950, that they had lots 3 nation and quantity 10 pop strike with Horton’s music ‘Mockin’ Parrot Hill’. (The music was also a US nation Top 10 for Les Paul And Mary Ford along with a US pop strike for Patti Web page in 1951. It later on reappeared in the united kingdom pop graphs, in 1964, for the Migil Five (as ‘Mockingbird Hill’) and in america country graphs for Donna Fargo in 1977). Horton later on claimed the music, which he had written on a teach, was recorded a lot more than 400 instances and sold more than 20 million copies. Additional Horton songs to become successfully documented by other performers consist of ‘Address Unknown’ (Gene Autry), ‘Hillbilly Fever’ (Small Jimmy Dickens), ‘Sugarfoot Rag’ (Crimson Foley), ‘An Aged Christmas Cards’ (Jim Reeves), ‘Teardrops IN MY OWN Center’ (Marty Robbins and Rex Allen Jnr. ) and ‘Choo Choo Ch’boogie’ (Asleep IN THE Steering wheel). Horton was inducted in to the Nashville Songwriters Association, International Hall Of Popularity in 1971. He retired to Florida where he passed away in 1988.