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| - Billy May (born November 10, 1916, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA – died January 22, 2004, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He also composed film and television music for television and film.
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| - William E. %22Billy%22 May (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967), and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.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 also collaborated with satirist Stan Freberg on several classic 1950s and 1960s satirical music albums.As a trumpet player, during the 1940s big-band era, May recorded such songs as %22Measure for Measure%22, %22Long Tall Mama%22, and %22Boom Shot%22, with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, and %22The Wrong Idea%22, %22Lumby%22, and %22Wings Over Manhattan%22 with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra. With his own band, May had a hit single, %22Charmaine%22, in 1952, and he released an album, Sorta-May.
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