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United States of America
Billy May
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Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, The Modernaires, Glenn Miller, Steve Lipkins, Dale McMickle, Johnny Best, Billy May, Jim Priddy, Paul Tanner, Frank J. D'Annolfo, Skippy Martin, Wilbur Schwartz, Al Klink, Ernie Caceres, Chummy MacGregor, Bobby Hackett, Edward "Doc" Goldberg & Maurice Purtill
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Billy May, Glenn Miller, Steve Lipkins, Dale McMickle, Johnny Best, Jim Priddy, Paul Tanner, Frank J. D'Annolfo, Skippy Martin, Wilbur Schwartz, Al Klink, Tex Beneke, Ernie Caceres, Chummy MacGregor, Bobby Hackett, Edward "Doc" Goldberg, Maurice Purtill, Ray Eberle & The Modernaires
![Listen to The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) [Digitally Mastered 96] by Billy May, see lyrics, music video & more!](/mkimage/image/thumb/Music/v4/38/7a/35/387a3548-2993-2049-7765-898fef9bba6d/00724383613052.jpg/375x375bb.webp "Listen to The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) [Digitally Mastered 96] by Billy May, see lyrics, music video & more!")
![Listen to The Look of Love (Burt Bacharach Version) [1996 Remastered] by Billy May & Time-Life Orchestra, see lyrics, music video & more!](/mkimage/image/thumb/Music115/v4/4b/57/9b/4b579b5c-4c0a-22cc-987a-04632be08c32/00724385341052.jpg/375x375bb.webp "Listen to The Look of Love (Burt Bacharach Version) [1996 Remastered] by Billy May & Time-Life Orchestra, see lyrics, music video & more!")
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About Billy May
Hometown
Pittsburg, United States of America
Born
1916
Genre
Jazz
The last of the great arrangers who wrote regularly for Frank Sinatra, Billy May had several varied careers in and out of jazz. His first notable gig was as an arranger/trumpeter with Charlie Barnet (1938-1940), for whom he wrote the wah-wah-ing hit arrangement of Ray Noble's "Cherokee." Later, he worked in the same capacities for Glenn Miller (1940-1942) and Les Brown (1942) before settling into staff jobs, first at NBC studios, then at Capitol Records, where he led his own studio big band from 1951 to 1954. His arrangements for Sinatra, beginning with Come Fly With Me (1957) and ending with Trilogy (1979), are often in a walloping, brassy, even taunting swing mode, generating some of the singer's most swaggering vocals. May also did extensive scoring for television, film, and commercials. Although May was largely inactive in the '80s and '90s , he unexpectedly surfaced in 1996 with some typically bright big band charts for comic Stan Freberg's The United States of America, Vol. 2 (Rhino), 25 years after his contributions to Vol. 1. The veteran arranger died quietly at home on January 22, 2004 at the age of 87. ~ Richard S. Ginell
Billy May has also released music as a member of Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Alvino Rey and His Orchestra, Billy May and His Orchestra, Billy May and His Big Band, and Billy May's Rico Mambo Orchestra.
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