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May worked as an arranger for the bands of Glenn Miller and Les Brown before being hired as staff arranger first for the NBC radio network, then for Capitol Records. 'May points out that he was not responsible for any of the band's signature hits, but he did write the beautiful left-field introduction to Finegan's 'Serenade In Blue'.' Bandleader Glenn Miller hired May away from Charlie Barnet in 1940.

May's caustic lyrics to the song called it 'swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet'. During the Barnet days, May revealed a significant flair for satire on a composition titled 'The Wrong Idea', composed with Charlie Barnet, that ridiculed the bland 'Mickey Mouse' style of safe big-band music with specific musical mockery of bandleader Sammy Kaye, known for his 'swing and sway' trademark. His arrangement of the Ray Noble composition 'Cherokee' became a major hit of the swing music era. From 1938 to 1940, May wrote arrangements and played trumpet for Charlie Barnet's big band. May approached the bandleader and asked if he could write arrangements for the band. After playing for a few local bands, May heard Charlie Barnet's band on the radio in his hometown of Pittsburgh. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was intrigued with becoming an arranger and an orchestrator.' At the age of seventeen May began playing with Gene Olsen's Polish-American Orchestra. He started out playing the tuba in the high school band. May was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With his own band, May had a hit single, 'Charmaine', in 1952, and he released an album, Sorta-May. He also collaborated with satirist Stan Freberg on several classic 1950s and 1960s satirical music albums.Īs a trumpet player, during the 1940s big band May recorded such songs as 'Measure for Measure', 'Long Tall Mama', and 'Boom Shot', with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, and 'The Wrong Idea', 'Lumby', and 'Wings Over Manhattan' with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra.

May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews Sisters and Ella Mae Morse. He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.

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He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967), and Naked City (1960). Our orchestra sheet music collection also includes study scores and miniature scores of your favorite operas and symphonic pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Strauss.Edward William ' Billy' May, Jr (Novem– January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter.

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