Since 1934, he directed and played in a number of bands that have toured the southern United States and drawn nationally known performers to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

[1] His bands backed such artists as Andy Williams, Bernadette Peters, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, Bob Hope, George Burns and Joan Rivers.

[4] His mother, Rena Marie Landry Boudreaux (1889-1954), who played piano, encouraged her son's interest in music, staying up late at night with the boy listening to live broadcasts of big band on the radio in the 1920s.

With money earned caddying for a neighbor who was the golf professional at a Baton Rouge country club, Boudreaux, at age 12, bought a saxophone and, for $10, a dozen music lessons, the only formal training he ever had.

[5] Those groups specialized in the swing music popular in the United States in the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, when big bands criss-crossed the country to perform.

[2] “Over half a century,” the State-Times wrote in 1991, “he’s galvanized musicians who have entertained the city and drawn to it stars who would not have entertained here had there not been top quality musicians to back them up.”[1] Boudreaux was a World War II veteran who served in the Army Air Corps from February 1943 to September 1945 in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Italy.

[2][4] Boudreaux's day job until 1980 was at the Standard Oil (now ExxonMobil) refinery and chemical plant complex in Baton Rouge.

In 1998, he helped form the Louisiana Octogenarian Golf Team, which entered tournaments across the South and donated its winnings to the sponsoring charities.

[14] Boudreaux performed on the Derby Show, a daily broadcast on the Baton Rouge radio station WJBO to promote a three-month-long dance marathon in 1940.