Aubrey Mayhewhttp://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?n=aubrey-mayhew&pid=140375052 was an American music producer, songwriter, & music services professional. He was the sole owner of Amcorp Music Group in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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Pre-professional history

Born in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 to Aubrey and Verna Mayhew, he served in th U. S. Army in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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Career in music

In 1946, he became the booker & then the director of the country music radio program "Hayloft Jamboree" on WCOP (now WWDJ) in Boston

Boston

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, Massachucetts. In the early 1960s he began working at Pickwick Records

Pickwick Records

Pickwick Records was an American record label and distributor known for its budget album releases of sound-alike recordings, bargain bin reissues and repackagings under the brands Design, Bravo , Hurrah, Grand Prix, and children's records on the Cricket and Happy Time labels.The label is also...

 in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

.http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/24/aubrey-mayhew-obituary At Pickwick, he produced one of the first memorial recordings of President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

 after the President's death in 1963. He left Pickwick to start his own record label, Little Darlin', in 1966. The most successful Little Darlin' records were done by the country & western singer and songwriter Johnny Paycheck

Johnny Paycheck

Johnny Paycheck was the legal name of Donald Eugene Lytle , a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It"...

. Mayhew co-wrote some of Paycheck's songs. At the end of the 1960s, he suspended the Little Darlin' label & launched a new label, Certron. The best known Certron release is the 1970 single "Burning Bridges" by Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

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Collector of Kennedy memorabilia

In 1966, his book "The World's Tribute to John F. Kennedy in Medallic Art" was published by William Morrow and Company

William Morrow and Company

William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, and sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981. It was sold along to the News Corporation in 1999...

. In 1970 he became widely known outside of the music business, and as a Kennedy collector, when he purchased at auction the infamous 7-story warehouse building that had housed the Texas School Book Depository

Texas School Book Depository

The Texas School Book Depository is the former name of a seven-floor building facing Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas . Located on the northwest corner of Elm and North Houston Streets, at the western end of downtown Dallas, its address is 411 Elm Street. The building is notable for its connection to...

 in Dallas, Texas.

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