His most famous composition took place in 1956, when he and Dickie Goodman created the sound collage "The Flying Saucer".
He also was president of a company manufacturing Disk-Go Cases, a plastic cylindrical portable record storage unit.
Golden Records The Three Stooges / Party At Your House (1959) This album concept and songs were written by Dick Cella in one week.
The tracks on this album are as follows: We're Coming To Your House The Concert At The Baseball Game Click Dart's Band Stand The Chipped Monks Let's Cut A Record Sing-Along With Moe At The Circus Parts 1 & 2 The Toy Store Parts 1 & 2 Goodbye, Auld Lang Syne!
are as follows: I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas I Gotta Cold For Christmas Wreck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly Jingle Bells Drag Down Through The Housetop 20th Century Fox Records 45-139 The Little Toy Band / The Little Tin Man / Teeny Little Me (1/1960) This was written and produced by Buchanan & Cella Guaranteed Records 204 The Prancers / Short Short `nin' / Rudolph The Red-Nose Reindeer (1/1960) This one was produced by Buchanan & Goodman.
Triodex Records 112 James MacArthur / (The Story Of) The In-Between Years - (Parts 1 & 2) (1961) This was also released on Scepter.
Rori Records 714 Joel Langran / I Really Want To Be A "Singar" / Young And Foolish (1964) Written & produced by Buchanan & Goodman.