Career
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 in 1959, Buchanan later wrote the song "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" for Bobby Vee. He also wrote and produced records for other artists, one of which was The 3 Stooges. Some records he co-produced with Dickie Goodman.
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 would meet one of Bill's old partners, Dickie Goodman, and record with him, become 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 August 1, 1996.
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