Bill Buchanan (songwriter)

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Bill Buchanan (April 30, 1930 – August 1, 1996) was an American songwriter.

His most famous composition took place in 1956, when he and Dickie Goodman created the sound collage "The Flying Saucer". This novelty record marked the beginning of the so-called "break-in record".[1][2] After Buchanan and Goodman severed their partnership in 1959, Buchanan later wrote the song "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" for Bobby Vee.[3] He also co-produced records for other artists, one of which was The Three Stooges.[4] Some records he co-produced with Dickie Goodman, with whom he ran the Lunaverse record label.[5]

In 1962, with his then partner, Brill Building veteran Howard Greenfield, he wrote and produced a break-in for a new recording artist, Susan Smith ("A Letter From Susan"/"Will You Love Me When I'm Old?", Dynamic Sound 502). A few years later, she met one of Bill's old partners, Dickie Goodman, and recorded with him, later becoming his wife and the mother of their children, one of which is Jon Goodman, who continues in Dickie's footsteps, making break-in records, and recently wrote the book Dickie Goodman: King Of Novelty.

He also was president of a company manufacturing Disk-Go Cases, a plastic cylindrical portable record storage unit.

In his later years, he worked in a jewelry store in Texas until a few years before his death. He died of cancer on August 1, 1996, at age 66.[citation needed]

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