Bill Hayes, who played the character Doug Williams ... His popular version of the catchy song “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” written for the ABC series “Disneyland,” topped the Billboard ...

“He called me up and said come by, I have a song,” Mr. Hayes recounted in “World by the Tail: The Bill Hayes Story,” a 2017 documentary about his life that he produced with his grandson ...

Bill Hayes (left) with Dick Clark on ‘American ... After he and Seaforth Hayes had their first scene on the show, Days of Our Lives head writer William Bell “saw something go between our ...

Bill Hayes, the actor and singer who with his real ... and in 1955 he had the No. 1 song in America, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett.” Hayes joined Days of Our Lives to play con artist/lounge ...

Bill Hayes, left, and Susan Seaforth Hayes accept ... who wrote “The Ballad of Davy Crocket,” which became the No. 1 song on the United States charts in the mid-1950s. Hayes is survived ...

“Bill Hayes meant the world to me — he is simply ... he said that he enjoyed touring the country singing the song. “It was incredible. Everybody in the audience would know every word in ...