Billy May & His Orchestra - The Greatest Hits Of Billy May

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 94:40
Size: 216.8 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:11] 1. All Of Me
[2:06] 2. Bali Ha'i
[2:23] 3. Recorded At 12 28
[1:59] 4. Bijou-Cha-Cha
[3:02] 5. Charmaine
[2:38] 6. Ebb Tide
[2:57] 7. Fat Man Boogie
[1:57] 8. Flamingo
[2:32] 9. Flyin' Home
[1:47] 10. Artistry In Rhythm-Cha-Cha
[2:21] 11. Forevermore
[1:30] 12. Goodbye-Cha-Cha
[2:44] 13. Humming Waters
[2:51] 14. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
[1:52] 15. I Remember-Cha-Cha
[3:22] 16. If I Had You
[2:37] 17. In A Mellow Tone
[2:45] 18. In The Mood
[3:13] 19. Lean Baby
[1:59] 20. Leap Frog
[3:13] 21. Lulu's Back In Town
[2:43] 22. Man With The Golden Arm
[2:42] 23. Mayhem
[3:10] 24. My Silent Love
[2:25] 25. Poinciana
[2:38] 26. Shangri-La
[2:26] 27. Snowfall Cha Cha
[2:47] 28. Strange Enchantment
[2:40] 29. The Hawaiian Wedding Song
[2:15] 30. Moon Of Manakoora
[1:53] 31. The Poor People Of Paris-Cha-Cha
[2:33] 32. There Is No Greater Love
[2:47] 33. Tuxedo Junction
[2:26] 34. Twelfth Street Rag
[2:35] 35. Unforgettable
[2:45] 36. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
[2:36] 37. You're Lovable

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

The Greatest Hits Of Billy May

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