Buddy Hayes

American jazz bassist and tuba player, worked with: Larry Funk (1936), Art Mooney (1939), Stan Kenton (1939), Ken Baker (1940), Texas Jim Lewis & His Lone Star Cowboys (1941), Les Paul (1948), Spike Jones (1949), Harry James (1951) and in the Lawrence Welk's Orchestra (from 1954 to 1966). Born: 01 August, 1916 in Weston, West Virginia. Died: 26 April, 1997 in Coos Bay, Oregon.