Daily worked with many of the well-known artists in country music during the 1950s and 1960s, especially George Jones, who looked upon him as a father figure and as a business advisor.
Daily also founded the Musicor Records label in the 1960s with Art Talmadge, and George Jones was their biggest name.
Daily also founded a label with the unusual one-letter name "D" Records focusing on Texas acts, but none of them matched his previous success.
George Jones and Gene Pitney were by far the biggest names on the Musicor label, so by the time the 1970s arrived, with Pitney no longer making records and Jones moving on to Epic Records, Musicor was left without any big names enough to make the label viable.
In 1967, on the recommendation of Kitty Wells and Roger Miller, Daily teamed young guitarist Zane Ashton (aka Bill Aken) with United Artist country singer Kathy Dee, who had just hit "Don't Leave Me Lonely Too Long".
These productions, along with those done for Ray Price and Eddy Arnold, helped usher in the use of big string sections on country music records.
Pappy Daily also owned Big State Distributors in Dallas, Texas, the wholesale distributor of over 100 independent labels, including Atlantic, London, Roulette, A&M, Scepter, Deram, Rolling Stone, and the entire Motown group (Motown, Tamala, Gordy) with artists such as The Supremes, Diana Ross, The Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, and Marvin Gaye.