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19. März 2024 · Listen to music by Billy May and His Orchestra on Apple Music. Find top songs and albums by Billy May and His Orchestra, including Get Happy, Let's Fall In Love and more.
In the early 1950s, Billy May had his own orchestra, for which the theme was "Lean Baby", featuring his trademark sax style. His last musical work was arranging a 90th Anniversary compendium of the music from Paramount Pictures in collaboration with noted composer-arranger Will Schaefer. But Billy May left the project due to his illness.
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28. Okt. 1998 · Music. -. 529 pages. Billy May was a self-taught musician and arranger. In 1938, he received his first big break arranging and playing trumpet; first, for the Charlie Barnet band, and in 1940, the band of Glenn Miller. Settling in Hollywood in 1943, his first of many big breaks in radio was playing in Ozzie Nelson's band for the Red Skelton Show.
Billy May wuchs als Sohn eines Dachdeckers in Lawrensville auf und spielte als Teenager im Orchester seiner Schule zunächst die Tuba, nachdem sein Hausarzt ihm dieses Instrument empfohlen hatte, um eine Asthma -Erkrankung zu überwinden. Daneben erlernte May als Autodidakt Posaune und Trompete.
Other articles where Billy May is discussed: Frank Sinatra: The Capitol years: …worked with veteran big-band musician Billy May on outstanding up-tempo albums such as Come Fly with Me (1958) and Come Dance with Me! (1959), and with the arranger-composer Gordon Jenkins, whose lush string arrangements heightened the melancholy atmosphere of Where Are You? (1957) and No One Cares (1959).
