Richard Warren Joseph Hayman was born on March 27, 1920, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and became a prominent American musician, primarily as a singer
and arranger. He began his career in his teens as a player and arranger for the
Borrah Minnevitch Harmonica Rascals, later working as an arranger for
Metro‑Goldwyn‑Mayer studios on films such as Girl Crazy and Meet Me in St. Louis
during the 1940s. In 1945 he served as musical director for the Vaughn Monroe
Orchestra, and by the early 1950s he had joined Mercury Records, recording a
series of albums and singles, including Havana In ...