- Built "Tree International", the biggest country music publishing business in the world, before selling it to Sony in 1989 for $30 million. Then founded the Killen Music Group.
- Former Grand Ole Opry bass player.
- Was driving force in Nashville's music industry who helped launched the careers of such artists as Dolly Parton and Hank Williams.
- Founder of Dial Records (1964-), New Orleans, LA.
- He was posthumously awarded a star on the Music City Walk of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee on November 5, 2007.
- Buddy Killen passed away on November 1, 2006, only two weeks from what would have been his 74th birthday on November 13.
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