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Al Hirt
Al Hirt (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn (1963). His nicknames included 'Jumbo' and 'The Round Mound of Sound'. Al was a member of The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
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Anita O'Day
'''Anita O'Day''' (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. His career stretched more than half a century from 1926 until his death in 1977. Crosby's unique bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist until well into the rock era, with over half a billion records in circulation.
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Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973), born Walden Robert Perciville Cassotto, was a two-time Grammy award winning American singer, Oscar nominated actor and accomplished musician.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee () are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and posthumous smash "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (Db3 to Db6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
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Ella Mae Morse
Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999), was an American popular singer. Morse blended jazz, country, pop, and R&B.;
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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George Shearing
Sir George Shearing, OBE (born August 13, 1919) is an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group which recorded for MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, he has had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
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Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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Jeri Southern
Genevieve Lillian Hering, known by her stage name Jeri Southern, (August 5, 1926 - August 4, 1991) was an American jazz pianist and singer.
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Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Stafford was greatly admired for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era.
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Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans (and critics) as "champagne music."
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Lou Monte
Lou Monte, born Louis Scaglione on (April 2, 1917 – June 12, 1989), was an Italian-American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Records and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Matt Monro
Matt Monro (1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums in Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong to Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. He sold more than 100 million records during his lifetime.
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Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during the "Golden Age of American animation" (and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions) as the voice of such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, and hundreds of others. Having earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry.
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Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He co-wrote the classic holiday song "The Christmas Song" (also known as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") with Bob Wells.
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Nelson Riddle
Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s. It was his signature sound and iconic arrangements that defined a generation and his work for Capitol Records kept such vocalists as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith household names. His multi-Grammy award winning albums with Linda Ronstadt proved that the Riddle sound transcended the generation gap. Nelson Riddle died shortly before the release of his third album with Linda in 1985.
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Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress in a career spanning nearly seven decades. From her beginnings as a vocalist on local radio, to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she was forging her own sophisticated persona, Lee evolved into a multi-faceted artist and performer. She wrote music for films, acted, and created conceptual record albums—encompassing poetry, jazz, chamber pop, art songs, and other genres.
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Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.
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Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks, which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", though she would go on to success as a jazz vocalist.
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Sammy Kaye
Sammy Kaye (March 13, 1910–June 2, 1987), born Samuel Zarnocay, Jr., was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era.
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Stan Freberg
Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg (born August 7, 1926) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director.
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Sue Raney
Sue Raney (born June 18, 1940) is an American jazz singer. Signed by Capitol Records at the age of seventeen, her debut album, the Nelson Riddle-produced When Your Lover Has Gone, was released in 1958. Raney begin singing at only four years of age, and encouraged by her mother, began working as a professional before she was a teenager. When she was nearly 14, she joined Jack Carson's Los Angeles-based radio show in 1954, and later worked on television as Ray Anthony's band's main vocalist. After a hiatus in the 1970s, Raney has continued to record sporadically, with her most recent album being a 2006 tribute to Doris Day entitled ''Heart's Desire''.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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May, Billy Filmography
- Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee (2004)
- Yma Sumac - Hollywoods Inkaprinzessin (1991)
- The Glenn Miller Band Reunion (1989)
- Pennies from Heaven (1981)
- The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981)
- Emergency: Survival on Charter #220 (1978)
- Little Mo (1978)
- CHiPs (1977)
- Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
- American Reunion (1976)
- The Specialists (1975)
- The Pigeon (1969)
- The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969)
- The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
- Tony Rome (1967)
- Johnny Cool (1963)
- Sergeants 3 (1962)
- Love That Jill (1958)
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)
- Bernardine (1957)
- The Jaywalker (1956)
- Billy May and His Orchestra (1952)
- Orchestra Wives (1942)
- Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
- Traveling Saleslady (1935)
- Free and Easy (1930)
Distinguished multiple Grammy-winning trumpeter, arranger, conductor and songwriter whose instantly-recognizable style remains a longtime trademark. The son of a roofer and a youthful asthmatic, his physician advised therapy through playing the tuba. In his school band, he developed an appreciation of the other instruments and became a self-taught trumpeter and trombonist, and also an arranger. On the occasion when 'Charlie Barnet' (qv) was to perform on a Pittsburgh radio station, May came to the studio to show Barnet some arrangements, which Barnet accepted but never paid for. Several months later, May approached Barnet for payment and Barnet offered May a position with his band. For Barnet, he provided the arrangement for his hits "Cherokee" and "Redskin Rhumba". Eventually 'Glenn Miller (I)' (qv) became aware of the Barnet band's sound and hired May away to play and arrange. For Miller, Billy May contributed the arrangements for "Serenade in Blue", "American Patrol" and "Take the 'A' Train". When the Miller band dissolved during World War II, May settled in Los Angeles to work with NBC and Capitol Records as a studio arranger, and with the bands of 'Les Brown', 'Woody Herman' (qv), 'Alvino Rey' (qv) and 'Ozzie Nelson' (qv). But his longest association was with 'Frank Sinatra' (qv), with whom he worked on the noted albums "Come Fly With Me" (1957), " and "Come Dance With Me" (1958), "Come Swing With Me" (1961), and "Trilogy" (1979). 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' (qv). But Billy May left the project due to his illness.
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Ole Tormé: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border With Billy May
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- At the Crossroads (Malagueña)
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- Baia
- Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
- Rosita
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- Vaya con Dios
- Brassmen's Holiday
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- Love Is the Thing
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- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
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- Lulu's Back in Town
- You're Driving Me Crazy
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Perfidia
- My Last Affair
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The Girls & Boys on Broadway / The Sweetest Swingin' Sounds of 'No Strings'
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- You Go to My Head
- Soon
- In a Persian Market
- Just One of Those Things
- You're the Top
- The Donkey Serenade
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- Oh by Jingo
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Down Home Rag
- Sugar Foot Strut
- The Sheik of Araby
- Sorta Blues
- Panama
- Riverboat Shuffle
- Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Born: 1916-11-10
Died: 2004-01-22
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Billy May - The Odd Couple Theme
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- Published: 17 Sep 2008
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Original Billy Mays OxiClean Ad from October 2000
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- Published: 29 Jun 2009
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Billy Mays debuted in 2-minute infomercials with this incredible OxiClean ad in 2000. It catapulted him into stardom and into our hears. At age 50, he passed away on June 28, 2009. We'll miss you Billy.
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Billy May's Blue Balls Dub
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- Published: 13 Sep 2008
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Billy loves teaching his bitches about his blue balls! Jaboody Facebook: www.facebook.com More Dubs!: www.youtube.com Jaboody Cartoons!: www.youtube.com
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Unforgettable by Billy May & Orch. on early 1950's Capitol 78.
This big band, pop artist is very rare to hear on today's audio medias. Transferred to digital using stereo system on background channel photo.
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Mighty Putty Dub!
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- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 09 Dec 2008
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: Jabo0odyDubs
Sorry for the shitty video quality, it was the only one available. A Jaboody Dubs Classic. Jaboody Facebook: www.facebook.com More Dubs!: www.youtube.com Jaboody Cartoons!: www.youtube.com
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Billy May - Girl Talk
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- Duration: 2:51
- Published: 15 Feb 2010
- Uploaded: 19 Jan 2012
- Author: LittleMissLounge
Track 14 from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood.
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Billy Mays Orders Food From A McDonald's Drive Thru
At a McDonald's drive thru, Billy Mays orders food for The MJ Morning Show.
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Billy May - Music To Watch Girls By / Slick
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- Duration: 6:11
- Published: 26 Feb 2010
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Track 05 from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 18: Bottoms Up!
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Billy May & His Orchestra - Mannix
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- Duration: 2:25
- Published: 15 Jan 2010
- Uploaded: 18 Jan 2012
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Track 11 from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 13: TV Town.
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Tri-Fi-Drums Billy May (HD)
Tri-Fi-Drums / Billy May Your long awaited search is over, Whip out the best headphones you have, or play your stereo Full Blast, This is the Digital Remaster everybody is looking for. Never released Digitally- Stan Levey & The Billy May Orchestra "Tri-Fi Drums" was on a 1961 album called "Wild Stereo Drums" (Tambores en Stereo) and Hi-Fi Drums (Capitol T926). The piece features drummers Stan Levey, Alvin Stoller and Irv Cottler, and was written by Bill Holman. A native of Pittsburgh, May died in 2004 at the age of 87.
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billy mays gangsta remix
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- Duration: 0:45
- Published: 01 May 2008
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: mastamokei
RIP Billy Mays, you were the king of slangin sheeyit.. short remix I did of BILLY MAYS, breakin' ur back..
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Billy May and His Orchestra: Theme from "A Summer Place"
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- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 17 Jan 2011
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Green Hornet OST - The Green Hornet
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- Duration: 2:26
- Published: 30 Jan 2009
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Notes "Let's roll Kato!" Yes! Finally uploaded on youtute.com, it's the big band jazzy/groovy The Green Hornet TV Show soundtrack - the music that was used in the 1966/67 TV show which introduced Bruce Lee to American audiences and starred Van Williams as the Green Hornet. The Green Hornet - AKA Britt Reid, owner/publisher of The Daily Sentinel, known only to his secretary and the District Attorney. With his trusty assistant Kato (Lee), crime-fighting was their specialty. In a nod to the theme music from the original Green Hornet radio show that ran from 1936-1952, the TV show version of The Green Hornet main theme uses a jazzy variation of "The Flight of the Bumblebee" played on trumpet by Al Hirt. This music was in turn used by Tarantino in Kill Bill which paid tribute to Kato by featuring loads of swordfighters wearing Kato masks for the film's main fight sequence. The Green Hornet TV Show was inspired by the success of the Batman TV show except that the TV version of The Green Hornet was played straight. Unfortunately, in spite of the considerable interest in Bruce Lee at the time, The Green Hornet was cancelled after only one season although Lee's popularity in his native Hong Kong was such that the show was retitled there as The Kato Show.
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BILLY MAY
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- Published: 07 Mar 2008
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1940'S SWING
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Billy May - Theme From Mission Impossible
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- Duration: 2:29
- Published: 30 Nov 2008
- Uploaded: 28 Jan 2012
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Billy May (1916 2004) was an American composer, arranger and musician. At Capitol May wrote arrangements for many top artists. These included Frank Sinatra; Nat King Cole ; Stan Freberg, Peggy Lee ;Sue Raney; Vic Damone; Jeri Southern ; Keely Smith; Bobby Darin ; Nancy Wilson; Matt Monro ; Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney and Sir George Shearing .
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Billy May & His Orchestra - The Look Of Love
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- Duration: 2:51
- Published: 15 Jan 2010
- Uploaded: 29 Jan 2012
- Author: LittleMissLounge
Track 07 from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 14: Bossa Novaville.
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The Awesome Auger (Billy Mays Full Length Commercial) RIP Billy Mays
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- Duration: 1:58
- Published: 05 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 23 Jan 2012
- Author: rightyheat
(High Quality) (RIP Billy Mays )The Awesome Auger with Billy Mays -As I was watching The YES Network Billy Mays appeared on my screen promoting some strange tool called the Awesome Auger -Actual Commercial That Appeared After a Yes Network Preview
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Billy May - Man With The Golden Arm
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- Duration: 2:52
- Published: 21 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 28 Jan 2012
- Author: LittleMissLounge
Track 06 from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 7: The Crime Scene.
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Billy Mays Grater Plater Dub
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- Duration: 2:07
- Published: 08 Mar 2010
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Getcha Grate on! Bloopers at the end! Jaboody Facebook: www.facebook.com More Dubs!: www.youtube.com Jaboody Cartoons!: www.youtube.com
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Billy May - Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo
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- Duration: 2:41
- Published: 19 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 24 Jan 2012
- Author: LittleMissLounge
Track 01 from Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails.
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Billy May's Rico Mambo Orchestra - Hernando's Hideaway
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- Duration: 2:20
- Published: 01 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 29 Jan 2012
- Author: LittleMissLounge
Track 13 from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 2: Mambo Fever.
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Big Band Swing, Billy May
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 06 Dec 2009
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Recently, I discovered a treasure trove cache of thousands of vinyl records left in boxes to be thrown away with the trash while I was walking my dog! Most still had their original sleeves and boxes intact, and in good to excellent condition. My garage is now a record museum of classic Americana music! I dug out my wife's old record player from storage, and 'jury rigged' some PC speakers to the output of my preamplifier. Enjoy! This one is by Billy May and his Orchestra. It's called 'ALWAYS'. Tell me what you think. Enjoy!
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
|---|---|
| Name | Billy May |
| Birth name | William E. May |
| Birth date | November 10, 1916 |
| Birth place | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S. |
| Occupation | composer, arranger, trumpeter |
| Death date | January 22, 2004 |
| Death place | San Juan Capistrano, California U.S. |
| Spouse | }} |
May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney and Ella Mae Morse.
As a trumpet player, during the 1940s big-band era, 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. With his own band, he had a hit single, "Charmaine" and released an album, ''Sorta-May''.
Early life
May was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started out playing the tuba in the high school band. "I sat in the rear of the stand. [...] . 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. After playing for a few local bands, May heard Charlie Barnet's band on the radio in his hometown of Pittsburgh. May approached the bandleader and asked if he could write arrangements for the band. This happened in the summer of 1938. From 1938 to 1940, May wrote arrangements and played trumpet for Charlie Barnet's big band. His arrangement of the Ray Noble composition "Cherokee" became a major hit of the swing music era. 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. May's caustic lyrics to the song called it "swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet". Bandleader Glenn Miller hired May away from Charlie Barnet in 1940. "May points out that he was not responsible for any of the [Glenn Miller] band's signature hits, but he did write the beautiful left-field introduction to [Bill] Finegan's [arrangement of] 'Serenade In Blue'."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.
With Capitol Records
At Capitol, May wrote arrangements for many top artists. These included Frank Sinatra on the albums ''Come Fly With Me'', ''Come Dance with Me!'' and ''Come Swing With Me''; Nat King Cole on the albums ''Just One Of Those Things'' and ''Let's Face the Music!'', as well as numerous singles (all his work with Cole being packaged later on the 2CD set ''The Billy May Sessions''); Stan Freberg, with whom he was a longtime collaborator, featuring on many of the artist's comedy recordings; Peggy Lee on the album ''Pretty Eyes''; Sue Raney on her second album ''Songs for a Raney Day''; Vic Damone on the albums ''The Lively Ones'' and ''Strange Enchantment''; Jeri Southern on the album ''Jeri Southern Meets Cole Porter''; Keely Smith on the album ''Politely'' and on a duet single, "Nothing In Common"/"How Are Ya Fixed For Love?", with Sinatra; Bobby Darin on the album ''Oh! Look at Me Now''; Nancy Wilson on the albums ''Like In Love'', ''Something Wonderful'', ''Tender Loving Care'', ''Nancy - Naturally!'' and various tracks from the albums ''Just For Now'' and ''Lush Life''; Matt Monro on several tracks from the albums ''Invitation to the Movies'', ''Invitation to Broadway'', and ''These Years''; Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney on the albums ''That Travelin' Two-Beat'' and ''Fancy Meeting You Here''; and Sir George Shearing on the albums ''Satin Affair'' and ''Burnished Brass'', co-arranged with Shearing (May also conducted Shearing's album ''Concerto For My Love'', on which Shearing had sole credit for the arrangements).Additionally, May's orchestra was featured on many Capitol Records children's projects. He also worked closely with early 1950s satirist Stan Freberg, using his arranging skills to help Freberg create his spoofs of current hits by creating musical backing often stunningly close to the original hit single. On Freberg's ''Wun'erful, Wun'erful!'' a lacerating spoof of bandleader Lawrence Welk, May hired some of the best jazz musicians in Hollywood for his recording sessions, and they relished the idea of mocking the musically awful (if financially successful) Welk sound. The result was a note-perfect recreation of Welk's sound as Freberg and a group of vocalists created parodies of Welk's ''musical family.'' Freberg has recounted that Welk was less than amused by the results, which he could not have achieved without May.
May also composed and conducted the music for Freberg's short-lived comedy radio series on CBS, which ran for fifteen episodes in 1957.
In 1959, May won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra.
Much of May's work for Capitol has been reissued on the Ultra-Lounge series of CDs.
With other record labels
The Crosby-Clooney collaboration was a sequel to their earlier album on RCA Records, ''Fancy Meeting You Here'', also arranged by May.May’s other non-Capitol work included another Bing Crosby duet album, this time with Louis Armstrong, entitled ''Bing & Satchmo''; a further duet album twinning Bobby Darin with Johnny Mercer, called ''Two Of A Kind''; the sixth in Ella Fitzgerald's acclaimed series of ''Song Books'' for Verve Records, ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook''; a similar dip into the Rodgers and Hart opus with Anita O'Day, entitled ''Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart''; Mel Tormé’s Latin-flavoured album ''¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May''; early albums by Jack Jones (''Shall We Dance?'') and Petula Clark (''In Hollywood''); one solitary session with Sarah Vaughan for Roulette Records in 1960, to record the single ''The Green Leaves of Summer'' and three other tracks; and two more albums with Keely Smith, recorded nearly forty years apart – ''CheroKeely Swings'' from 1962 and ''Keely Sings Sinatra'', one of May’s last pieces of work, from 2001.
After Sinatra left Capitol to start his own label, Reprise Records, May continued to provide arrangements for him, off and on, for nearly thirty more years, working on the albums ''Sinatra Swings'', ''Francis A. & Edward K.'' (with Duke Ellington) and ''Trilogy 1: The Past'', as well as the chart for what is thought to be Sinatra's last ever solo recording, "Cry Me a River" (1988), which was eventually released on the 20 CD Box Set ''Frank Sinatra - The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings''. In addition, May was the natural choice to arrange Sinatra's knockabout duet with Sammy Davis Jr., ''Me And My Shadow'', which was a hit single on both sides of the Atlantic in 1962, whilst he also contributed to Sinatra's ambitious "Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre" project, providing a few arrangements for three of its four albums, ''South Pacific'', ''Kiss Me, Kate'' and ''Guys and Dolls'', May's charts being variously performed by Sinatra, Davis, Crosby, Dean Martin, Jo Stafford and Lou Monte and yielding a perennial Sinatra concert favourite, "Luck Be A Lady" from ''Guys and Dolls''.
In 1958, May arranged a holiday album on Warner Bros. Records featuring the Jimmy Joyce Singers, titled ''A Christmas to Remember''.
Musical style
May's charts often featured brisk tempos and intricate brass parts. One distinctive feature of his style is his frequent use of trumpet mute devices; another, a saxophone glissando, is widely known as his "slurping saxes". However, May was also an accomplished writer in slower tempos, sometimes using string arrangements. Good examples of this aspect of his work include his brass chart for "These Foolish Things" on the Cole album ''Just One of Those Things'' and his string arrangement of "April in Paris" on Sinatra's ''Come Fly With Me'' album.
Film and television soundtrack work
May's musical compositions for television include "Somewhere in the Night," which was the theme music for the ''Naked City'' (1960) television series, and his jazz style re-arrangement of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Flight of the Bumblebee'', which was the theme music for ''The Green Hornet'' (1966) television series, which featured a trumpet performance by Al Hirt. May also composed the music for the "''Batgirl'' Theme" song, which was used in the ''Batman'' (1966) television series when the ''Batgirl'' character was added to the cast in 1967. Along with Nelson Riddle, he was also involved in scoring episodes of ''Naked City'' (1960), ''Batman'' (1966), ''The Green Hornet'' (1966), and ''Emergency!'' (1972). May also composed the score for the Rat Pack film ''Sergeants 3'' (1962).
Compositions by Billy May
Billy May's compositions included "Long Tall Mama" and "Measure For Measure", recorded with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, "Boom Shot", written with Glenn Miller (Billy's wife Arletta originally received credit as co-author in his place) for the soundtrack of the 1942 Twentieth Century Fox movie ''Orchestra Wives'', "Harlem Chapel Bells", which was performed with Glenn Miller and his Orchestra on April 2, 1941 and broadcast on the Chesterfield Moonlight Serenade radio program on CBS, "Lean Baby", "Fat Man Boogie", "Ping Pong", "Jooms Jones", "Gabby Goose", "Lumby", "Daisy Mae" and "Friday Afternoon" with Hal McIntyre, "Miles Behind", "The Wrong Idea" with Charlie Barnet, "Wings Over Manhattan", "Filet of Soul", "Mayhem", "Gin and Tonic", and "Solving the Riddle". But his biggest hit as a composer was the children's song, I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat, which he recorded with Mel Blanc in 1950.
References
External links
[ Billy May profile] at Allmusic
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
|---|---|
| name | Billy Mays |
| birth name | William Darrell Mays, Jr. |
| other names | Billy Mays, King of the Pitch |
| birth date | July 20, 1958 |
| birth place | McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, United States |
| death date | June 28, 2009 |
| death place | Tampa, Florida, United States |
| home town | McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania |
| years active | 1993–2009 |
| parents | Billy Mays, Sr.Joyce Palm |
| children | Billy Mays IIIElizabeth Mays |
| spouse | Dolores "Dee Dee" MaysDeborah Mays |
| occupation | Television direct-response advertisement salesman }} |
Early life
Mays was born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, attended Sto-Rox High School, and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He later attended West Virginia University, where he was a walk-on linebacker on its football team during his two years there. After dropping out, he worked for his father's hazardous waste company before moving to Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1983.
Career
On the Atlantic City boardwalk Mays sold the Washmatik portable washing device to passersby, along with other "As Seen on TV" products. In Atlantic City, he was taught how to sell by the older salesmen, saying "I was taught to pitch by a lot of old pitchmen. That's the kind of style I have." Mays then traveled to home shows, auto shows, and state fairs across the United States for a period of twelve years, selling various maintenance products and tools, including cleaning products and food choppers.At a Pittsburgh home show in 1993, Mays struck up a friendship with rival salesman Max Appel, founder of Orange Glo International, a Denver-based manufacturer of cleaning products. He was then hired by the company to promote their line of cleaners, OxiClean, Orange Clean, Orange Glo, and Kaboom, on the Home Shopping Network in St. Petersburg, Florida. Customer response to Mays's sales pitches was enthusiastic, with a sharp increase in sales after his first day on the network, although some reviews were poor. He was very well known for shouting in an abrasive manner during infomercials. For example, ''Washington Post'' staff writer Frank Ahrens called him and other similar television salesmen "a full-volume pitchman, amped up like a candidate for a tranquilizer-gun takedown".
Mays was the CEO and founder of Mays Promotions, Inc., based at his home in Odessa, Florida. His services as a pitchman became highly sought-after, and he appeared in commercials for many diverse "as seen on TV" products such as Mighty Putty. Mays claimed to be an avid user of the products he promoted. In December 2008, Mays began appearing in ads for ESPN's online service, ESPN360. These ads were a slight departure for Mays as they were designed to be parodies of his and other infomercial cliches with Mays appearing to be doing a parody of himself. He also made a live appearance during the 2008 Champs Sports Bowl promoting ESPN's and ABC's January 1, 2009, bowl games.
On April 15, 2009, the Discovery Channel began airing ''PitchMen'', a documentary series that featured Mays and Anthony Sullivan in their jobs in direct-response marketing. After Mays's death, Discovery Channel aired a special Billy Mays tribute episode of ''PitchMen'' called "Pitchman: A Tribute to Billy Mays".
On March 27, 2009, Mays appeared on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. He and Sullivan also appeared on ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'' on June 23, 2009.
Prior to his death, Mays had signed a deal with Taco Bell to film infomercial-style commercials for the chain. Shooting was scheduled to begin in August 2009.
Personal life
Mays's first marriage to Dolores "Dee Dee" Mays ended in divorce. He had a son with Dolores named Billy Mays III, who was 22 years old at the time of Mays's death and who worked as a production assistant alongside his father on the ''PitchMen'' television show. Mays had a daughter, Elizabeth, with his second wife, Deborah Mays. His daughter was three years old at the time of his death. Mays's mother is Joyce Palm, and his father is Billy Mays, Sr.; they both outlived him.In an interview during the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Mays revealed himself to be a Republican.
Death
Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Tampa, Florida, home on the morning of June 28, 2009. He was pronounced dead at 7:45 am, appearing to have died sometime overnight. The Associated Press reported that there were no indications that the house had been broken into, and that police did not suspect foul play. Initially, there was wrong speculation that he had a head injury after he was struck on the head by luggage after an airline landing mishap where tires blew out.After an initial autopsy on Mays's body on June 29, Dr. Vernard Adams, the Hillsborough County, Florida medical examiner, stated that Mays suffered from hypertensive heart disease and that heart disease was the likely cause of his death. According to a toxicology report released August 7, 2009, heart disease was the "primary cause of death" and cocaine was listed as a "contributory cause of death." In response to the release of the toxicology report, the Mays family issued a press release stating, "We are extremely disappointed by the press release released by the Hillsborough County medical examiner's office. We believe it contains speculative conclusions that are frankly unnecessary and tend to obscure the conclusion that Billy suffered from chronic, untreated hypertension..." and said in the release that they were considering "an independent evaluation of the autopsy results".
The medical examiner "concluded that cocaine use caused or contributed to the development of his heart disease, and thereby contributed to his death," the office said in a press release. The office said Mays last used cocaine in the few days before his death but was not under the influence of the drug when he died. Hillsborough County spokeswoman Lori Hudson said nothing in the toxicology report indicated the frequency of Mays's cocaine use. Cocaine can raise the arterial blood pressure, directly cause thickening of the left wall of the ventricle and accelerate the formation of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries, the release said. However, in October 2009, the results of a second medical examination, commissioned by Mays' family, concluded that "cocaine was not a significant contributing factor" to his death.
Longtime friend and colleague A.J. Khubani, founder and CEO of the "As Seen on TV" product company Telebrands, said Mays never exhibited any signs of drug use and was always prepared for his many commercial shoots. "I'm just shocked," Khubani said. "He was the model of a responsible citizen."
According to subsequent news reports the toxicology tests also showed levels of painkillers hydrocodone, oxycodone and tramadol, as well as anti-anxiety drugs alprazolam and diazepam. Mays had suffered hip problems and was scheduled for hip replacement surgery the day after he was found dead.
Mays's funeral was held on July 3, 2009 in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. The pallbearers for the funeral wore blue shirts and khaki pants at the funeral, much like Mays wore when he advertised his products. According to KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, he was buried wearing a shirt with the OxiClean logo on it.
Fictional representation
In the ''South Park'' episode "Dead Celebrities", Mays's ghost appears repeatedly to Ike Broflovski, trying to sell him products from the afterlife with his catchphrase "Hi, Billy Mays here with the...". Mays's son, Billy Mays III, a self-proclaimed South Park fan, said he loved "Dead Celebrities", and found its portrayal of his father tasteful and respectful.
Notable products pitched
| !Product | !Description |
| Awesome Auger | A gardening tool. |
| Big City Slider Station | A mini-burger cooker. |
| The Ding King | A dent repairing device. |
| DualSaw | A circular saw with two blades. |
| ESPN360 | A broadband service. |
| EZ Crunch Bowl | "A new way to eat breakfast cereal". |
| Flies Away | A fly trap. |
| Gopher | A tool for grabbing out-of-reach objects. |
| Grater Plater | A ceramic plate with grater teeth. |
| Green Now! | Lawn fertilizer in a can. |
| Grip Wrench | A tool to help gripping. |
| Handy Switch | A wireless electric switch. |
| Hercules Hook | A hook for hanging objects on a wall. |
| Health insurance. | |
| iTie | A necktie with a hidden pocket. |
| Jupiter Jack | Cell-phone speaker system for the car |
| Kaboom! | Tile and shower cleaner. |
| Mighty Mendit | A bonding agent for mending cloth. |
| An epoxy putty adhesive. | |
| Mighty Putty Steel | A metal alloy adhesive putty. |
| Mighty Putty Wood | A non-shrinking epoxy putty for wood. |
| Mighty Tape | A self-fusing silicone rubber waterproof tape. |
| Orange Glo | A wood cleaner. |
| OxiClean | A general purpose cleaner. |
| Quick Chop | A chopping device. |
| Samurai Shark | A knife sharpener. |
| Simoniz Fix-It | A scratch remover. |
| Tool Band-it | A magnetic armband for holding hand tools. |
| Turbo Tiger | A vacuum cleaner. |
| Ultimate Chopper | A kitchen tool. |
| Vidalia Slice Wizard | A kitchen tool. |
| WashMatik | A hose that could pump water from a bucketwithout being hooked up to a faucet. |
| What Odor? | An odor-removing fluid. |
| Zorbeez | A chamois cloth. |
References
External links
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