This article is about the baseball manager. Earl "Buddy" Bailey was a singer with the doo wop group The Swallows.Welby Sheldon "Buddy" Bailey (born March 28, 1957 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is an American professional baseball manager with 35 years of experience in the game. In 2015, he will spend his fourth consecutive season and fifth year overall as skipper of the Tennessee Smokies of the Double-A Southern League.