Real name: Harry Randell Vanhorne, Jr.

Effective period / Period of releases: 1958 - 1972

American singer, musician and chorus leader.
Born February 10, 1924 in El Paso, Texas, USA.
Died September 26, 2007 (age of 83) in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
Van Horne's musical group, the Randy Van Horne Singers, performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
Van Horne's family moved to Baltimore, Maryland while he was in high school. He attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore for two years. When his family moved back to Texas, Van Horne completed his musical education at Texas Western University. After returning home from the Air Force, Van Horne completed two years at the Radio Television Arts Academy, and qualified as a TV director. Instead, he forcused on singing and vocal groups.
Van Horne's professional career began in the late 1940s as a Los Angeles studio musician before he formed his first musical group, the Encores, in the early 1950s with three other musicians. They toured the country for two years with Billy May's orchestra. The Encores broke up in the late 1950s.
Van Horne went on to create the Randy Van Horne Singers in the late 1950s. They occasionally appeared on television, but remained primarily a studio group which recorded many commercials and radio/TV station identification jingles, many composed by Van Horne. When they disbanded in the early 1970s, Van Horne continued to perform in small clubs in & near Los Angeles.