[2] Born in Washington, D.C., to Aubrey and Verna Mayhew, he served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War.
In 1946, he became the booker and then the director of the country music radio program Hayloft Jamboree on WCOP (now WWDJ) in Boston, Massachusetts.
In the early 1960s, Mayhew began working at Pickwick Records in New York City.
The most successful Little Darlin' records were done by the country and western singer and songwriter Johnny Paycheck.
[5][6] In 1966, his book The World's Tribute to John F. Kennedy in Medallic Art was published by William Morrow and Company.