[2] As a teenager, he sang on a local radio show and in quartets and trios into his young adult years.
[2] Over the next 20 years, he worked for RCA-Victor until moving to Nashville in 1970 to head the A&R division at Dot Records.
As president of Dot, ABC, Capitol and MCA Records, he signed popular artists, among them Barbara Mandrell, Don Williams, Garth Brooks, Donna Fargo, Reba McEntire, The Oak Ridge Boys, Con Hunley, George Strait, Tanya Tucker, Sawyer Brown, Suzy Bogguss, and Kevin Morris.
[3] He was a World War II veteran with the United States Army and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
After retiring from the active recording industry, he became head of the music business department of Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville.