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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Thou Swell
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| 2. | Blues in the Night
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| 3. | Chicago
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| 4. | All You Want to Do Is Dance
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| 5. | You Go to My Head
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| 6. | Soon
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| 7. | In a Persian Market
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| 8. | Just One of Those Things
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| 9. | You're the Top
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| 10. | The Donkey Serenade
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| 11. | Deep Purple
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| 12. | They Didn't Believe Me
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | T'Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
Vocal by Trummie Young and the Ensemble
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| 2. | Ain't She Sweet
Lunceford Quartet with Trummie Young |
| 3. | Charmaine
Vocal by Dan Grissom
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| 4. | Uptown Blues
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| 5. | Margie
Vocal by Trummie Young
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| 6. | Coquette
Vocal by Dan Grissom
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| 7. | Annie Laurie
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| 8. | Well All Right Then
Vocal by the Ensemble
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| 9. | Blues in the Night
Vocal by the Ensemble with Trummie Young
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| 10. | My Blue Heaven
Lunceford Trio feat. Willie Smith |
| 11. | Four or Five Times
Vocals by Joe Thomas
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| 12. | I'm Walking Through Heaven
Vocals by Dan Grissom
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| 13. | For Dancers Only
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| 14. | Cheatin' on Me
Lunceford Quartet feat. Trummie Young |
| 15. | Rhythm Is Our Business
Vocals by Willie Smith and The Ensemble
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Jazz
Dan Grissom - Vocals
Joe Thomas - Vocals
Trummy Young - Vocals
Willie Smith - Vocals
Billy May's long and varied career is best known by his walloping arrangements for Frank Sinatra on classic LPs from "Come Fly With Me" to "Trilogy". These two original 1955 LPs feature May's Big Band performing great songs that showcase his popular arrangements. Included are May's big band playing such standards as "You're The Top", "You Go To My Head" and his charts for Jimmie Lunceford's group recordings of "Ain't She Sweet" and "My Blue Heaven".
Best remembered as the man who crafted spunky arrangements for Frank Sinatra, Billy May (1916-2004) developed his skills during the late 1930s and early '40s as trumpeter and arranger with the Charlie Barnet, Glenn Miller and Les Brown orchestras. During the 1950s, May churned out a series of spiffy big band records for Capitol where he served as staff arranger. Sorta-May, a very popular album from 1954, features one dozen well-loved melodies by great Tin Pan Alley composers including Jerome Kern, Rodgers & Hart, George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Rudolf Friml. Note that Sorta-May was reissued on GNP Crescendo in 1996, coupled with May's 1955 Sorta Dixie album. May's Jimmie Lunceford tribute, first issued in 1957 as Great Jimmie Lunceford, is a hi-fidelity salute to the Mississippi-born and Memphis-raised African-American bandleader. May lent authenticity to the project by having ex-Lunceford bandmembers Dan Grissom, Willie Smith, Joe Thomas and Trummy Young stand in as vocalists.
---arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide
Billy May
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '90s
Born: Nov 10, 1916 in Pittsburgh, PA
Died: Jan 22, 2004 in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Orchestral Pop, Instrumental Pop, Swing, Traditional Pop
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, All Music Guide |
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