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Billy May
William E. "Billy" 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), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967), and Naked City (1960) and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among others.
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The Keely Smith Collection: 1949-62 [2018]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I'll Get By | 2:10 |
| I'll Never Smile Again | 3:06 |
| Sweet and Lovely | 3:44 |
| All the Way | 3:03 |
| Lullaby of the Leaves | 2:18 |
| East of the Sun | 3:28 |
| I Can't Get Started | 3:26 |
Ella Sings & Oscar Swings: The Harold Arlen Songbook [2017]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| It's Only a Paper Moon | 3:37 |
| The Man That Got Away | 2:40 |
| It's Only a Paper Moon [Bonus Track] [*] | 3:26 |
The Complete Original Song Books [2017]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| It's Only a Paper Moon | 3:37 |
| The Man That Got Away | 5:21 |
Four Classic Albums [2016]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bob White | |
| Ace in the Hole | |
| If I Had My Druthers | |
| Lonesome Polecat | |
| Mississippi Mud |
The Dean Martin Collection 1946-1962 [2016]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Open Up the Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) | 2:27 |
The Man with the Golden Touch: His 52 Finest 1939-1961 [2016]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Cherokee | |
| Perfidia | |
| Say it Isn't So | |
| Cheek to Cheek |
Selected Sides 1941-1962 [2014]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Just One of Those Things | 2:08 |
| Love For Sale | 2:44 |
| Easy To Love | 2:04 |
| You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To | 1:51 |
| I've Got You Under My Skin | 1:49 |
| Get Out of Town | 2:32 |
| What is This Thing Called Love | 2:32 |
| Night and Day | 2:02 |
| It's De Lovely | 2:06 |
| Johnny One Note | 1:52 |
| Ten Cents a Dance | 2:16 |
South of the Border [2014]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Cuban Love Song | 2:04 |
| South of the Border | 3:03 |
| Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga | 3:10 |
| Adios | 2:05 |
Teen Idols: Bobby Darin [2014]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| If I Had My Druthers | 3:57 |
| Lonesome Polecat | 3:27 |
| East of the Rockies | 2:50 |
| Bob White | 3:36 |
The Best Big Band Jazz: Classics From the 1950s [2014]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Autumn Leaves | |
| Moonlight Becomes You |
50 Rockin' Hits, Vol. 10 [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | 2:47 |
| It's Only a Paper Moon | 2:35 |
Jazz Journeys Presents High Speed Swing, Vol. 3: 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| It's Only a Paper Moon | 2:45 |
Jazz Journeys Presents High Speed Swing: 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| It's Only a Paper Moon | 2:45 |
Simply Swinging the American Songbook: Andy and Bobby [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Lonesome Polecat | 3:27 |
| East of the Rockies | 2:50 |
The Capitol Recordings, Vol. 5 (1954) [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Open Up the Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) | 2:30 |
The Hot 100: Anita O'Day - 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
Dynamic Swing [2012]
Rhythm Is His Business [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Perfidia | 3:02 |
| Autumn Leaves | 2:55 |
| Say It Isn't So | 2:19 |
| Star Eyes | 2:49 |
| If I Were a Bell | 2:18 |
Sway: The Audio Pearls Collection [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Open Up the Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) | 2:24 |
The Billy May Collection: 1939-60 [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Home Cookin' | 2:51 |
| Walkin' My Baby Back Home | 2:39 |
| What Does It Take | 2:45 |
| Two Brothers | 3:06 |
| River of No Return | 2:31 |
| Sh-Boom | 3:28 |
| Long Long Ago | 2:19 |
| Papa Loves Mambo | 2:42 |
| Street of Dreams | 3:04 |
| Aren't You Glad You're You | 2:06 |
| Send for Me | 2:38 |
| The Party's Over | 2:43 |
| Moonlight in Vermont | 3:31 |
| Come Fly with Me | 3:17 |
| Lullaby of the Leaves | 2:19 |
| Fancy MeetingYou Here | 2:27 |
| Frenesi | 2:42 |
| You'd Be So Easy to Love | 2:02 |
| South of the Border | 3:00 |
| The More I See You | 2:10 |
| People Will Say We're in Love | 1:58 |
| I Remember You | 2:33 |
| Moments Like This | 1:55 |
| Ten Cents a Dance | 2:14 |
| Muskrat Ramble | 2:56 |
| Little Ol' Tune | 3:01 |
| September in the Rain | 2:35 |
| Lonesome Polecat | 3:27 |
| It's Only a Paper Moon | 3:36 |
| The Man That Got Away | 5:16 |
The Many Sides of Mel Tormé: The Quintet and Beyond, 1944-1960 [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| South of the Border | 3:02 |
| Perfidia | 2:07 |
| Cuban Love Song | 2:03 |
Original Album Series [2010]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bob White | 3:37 |
| Ace in the Hole | 3:10 |
| East of the Rockies | 2:49 |
| Lonesome Polecat | 3:28 |
| Mississippi Mud | 1:56 |
The Very Best of Keely Smith [2008]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| All the Way [Stereo] | 3:02 |
| I Can't Get Started [Stereo] | 3:26 |
| Lullaby of the Leaves [Stereo] | 2:20 |
Anthology 1949-1955 [2007]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Walkin' My Baby Back Home | 2:42 |
| Walkin' | 2:52 |
| Angel Eyes | 3:15 |
| Lover, Come Back to Me | 2:32 |
Capitol Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein: “Hello, Young Lovers” [2007]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| People Will Say We're in Love | 1:58 |
| Younger Than Springtime | 3:10 |
Live in Tokyo '63 [DVD] [2007]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To [DVD] | |
| Night and Day [DVD] |
Sorta-May/Jimmie Lunceford in Hi Fi [2007]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| You Go to My Head | 2:49 |
| Ain't She Sweet | 2:51 |
| My Blue Heaven | 3:15 |
A Proper Introduction to Billy May: Billy's Best [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| If I Had You | 3:28 |
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | 2:52 |
| There Is No Greater Love | 2:39 |
| Perfidia | 3:04 |
| Love Is Just Around the Corner | 2:59 |
| High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) | 2:42 |
| Street Dreams | 3:08 |
A Tribute to Billy May [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Cherokee | 3:28 |
| American Patrol | 3:20 |
| I Get Ideas | 2:12 |
| Walkin' My Baby Back Home | 2:41 |
| Unforgettable | 2:37 |
Billy's Best [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| If I Had You | 3:26 |
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | 2:50 |
| There Is No Greater Love | 2:37 |
| Perfidia | 3:02 |
| Love Is Just Around the Corner | 2:57 |
By Arrangement [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Pompton Turnpike | 3:01 |
| On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe | 3:12 |
| Me and My Shadow | 2:43 |
| Home Cooking | 2:51 |
| I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues | 2:44 |
| Walkin' My Baby Back Home | 2:40 |
Plays the Standards [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue | 2:58 |
| Top Hat White Tie and Tails | 2:41 |
| Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) | 2:55 |
| Unforgettable | 2:39 |
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ella Fitzgerald [2003]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Blues in the Night | 7:10 |
All of Me [2003]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | 2:48 |
| I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan | 2:54 |
| Unforgettable | 2:37 |
| When Your Lover Has Gone | 3:13 |
| Please Be Kind | 2:33 |
| Perfidia | 3:01 |
| High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) | 2:41 |
Studio Recordings 1951-1953 [2003]
Hi-Lo's on Reprise [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Sixteen Tons | 2:55 |
| Careless Love | 2:22 |
| Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair | 3:40 |
| On Top of Old Smokey | 2:47 |
Let's Go to Town with Billy May & His Orchestra [2002]
Music to Lounge by: Instrumental Extravaganza [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) | 4:18 |
Sing the Dancing 20's/Fresh and Fancy Free [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Song Is You | 2:17 |
| You Do Something to Me | 2:52 |
| Nevertheless | 3:02 |
| Of Thee I Sing | 2:16 |
| Hooray for Love | 2:11 |
| Tea for Two | 2:27 |
| I Could Write a Book | 2:14 |
| Let There Be Love | 2:57 |
| Younger Than Springtime | 3:10 |
The Ultimate [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Say It Isn't So | 2:19 |
| Moonlight Becomes You | 2:17 |
| Autumn Leaves | 2:56 |
| Blues in the Night | 5:14 |
| Perfidia | 3:02 |
| If I Had You | 3:24 |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | 2:19 |
Capitol From the Vaults, Vol. 7: Capitol Goes to the Movies [2001]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat | 2:58 |
| Home Cookin' | 2:51 |
Classic Cocktail: Swingin' on the Floor, Vol. 1 [2001]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) | 4:19 |
A Band Is Born/Big Band Bash [2000]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| If I Had You | 3:25 |
| Unforgettable | 2:38 |
| There Is No Greater Love | 2:36 |
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | 2:48 |
| Perfidia | 3:02 |
Complete Anita O'Day Clef/Verve Sessions [2000]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Easy to Love | 2:01 |
| You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To | 1:48 |
| I Get A Kick Out Of You | 2:21 |
| I've Got You Under My Skin | 1:46 |
| Night And Day | 2:00 |
Naughty Operetta/Plays for Fancy Dancin' [1999]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| It Happened in Monterey | 2:33 |
| Say It Isn't So | 2:19 |
| Star Eyes | 2:49 |
| Stumbling | 2:47 |
| Azure | 2:37 |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | 2:19 |
The Girls and Boys on Broadway/The Sweetest Swingin' Sounds of "No Strings" [1999]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| If I Were a Bell | 2:20 |
1956-1962 [1998]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Just One of Those Things | 2:10 |
| Love for Sale | 2:45 |
| Easy to Love | 2:05 |
| I Get a Kick Out of You | 2:23 |
| What Is This Thing Called Love? | 2:32 |
| Night and Day | 2:02 |
| Get Out of Town | 2:32 |
| I've Got You Under My Skin | 1:51 |
| It's De-Lovely | 2:06 |
Billy May with the Four Freshmen [1998]
Brassmen's Holiday [1998]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Autumn Leaves | 2:55 |
| Moonlight Becomes You | 2:15 |
| Don't Bring Lulu | 2:46 |
| Barney Google | 1:52 |
| Back in Your Own Backyard | 3:19 |
| The Japanese Sandman | 3:09 |
The Capitol Years [21-CD] [1998]
Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 10: A Bachelor in Paris [1996]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) | 4:44 |
Capitol Sings Harry Warren, Vol. 18: An Affair to Remember [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| At Last | 0:03 |
| An Affair to Remember | 0:03 |
Jazz 'Round Midnight: Three Divas [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Man That Got Away | 5:19 |
| Ill Wind | 3:50 |
| My Shining Hour | 3:59 |
Satin Affair/Concerto for My Love [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I'm in the Mood for Love | 2:11 |
| I Fall in Love Too Easily | 2:58 |
| In Love in Vain [Centennial Summer] | 2:27 |
The Best of Billy May, Vol. 1 [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Unforgettable | 2:38 |
| There Is No Greater Love | 2:36 |
| Say It Isn't So | 2:19 |
| Young at Heart | 2:31 |
| Perfidia | 3:00 |
| Cheek to Cheek | 2:37 |
The Best of Billy May, Vol. 2 [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye Bye Blackbird | 2:13 |
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Strreet | 2:51 |
| It Happened in Monterey | 2:33 |
The Capitol Recordings [1994]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Nothing in Common | |
| I'll Never Smile Again | |
| All the Way | |
| Lullaby of the Leaves | |
| East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) |
Capitol Sings Cole Porter: Anything Goes [1991]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Get out of Town | 3:04 |
| You Do Something to Me | 2:51 |
Leading the Good Life [1990]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | |
| Perfidia | |
| Frenesi | |
| Blues in the Night |
The Capitol Years [1990]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Let's Get Away From It All | 2:10 |
| Autumn in New York | 4:36 |
| Come Fly With Me | 3:18 |
| Here Goes [#] | 2:43 |
| Just in Time | 2:24 |
| Come Dance With Me | 2:40 |
| On the Sunny Side of the Street | 2:42 |
| Almost Like Being in Love | 2:03 |
Billy May Today! [1966]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Strangers in the Night | |
| You've Got Your Troubles | |
| Lover's Concerto | |
| Don't Get Around Much Anymore | |
| The Shadow of Your Smile |
Cherokeely Swings [1962]
Two of a Kind [1961]
Two of a Kind [Deluxe] [1961]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bob White | 3:36 |
| If I Had My Druthers | 3:58 |
| Mississippi Mud | 2:11 |
| Mississippi Mud [Alternate Take][#][*] | 2:11 |
Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart [1960]
Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May [1959]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Just One of Those Things | 2:09 |
| Love for Sale | 2:45 |
| You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To | 1:51 |
| Easy to Love | 2:05 |
| I Get a Kick Out of You | 2:22 |
| Get Out of Town | 2:32 |
| I've Got You Under My Skin | 1:50 |
| Night and Day | 2:02 |
| It's De-Lovely | 2:06 |
| It's Delovely | 2:06 |
| I Love You | 1:59 |
| What Is This Thing Called Love? | 2:32 |
Olé Tormé: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May [1959]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Frenesi | 2:36 |
| Adios | 2:05 |
| Six Lessons from Madame la Zonga | 3:10 |
| South of the Border | 3:03 |
| Nina | 2:36 |
| Cuban Love Song | 2:04 |
| Perfidia | 2:08 |
Plays for Fancy Dancin' [1957]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| It Happened in Monterey | 2:33 |
| Say It Isn't So | 2:17 |
| Star Eyes | 2:49 |
| Stumbling | 2:44 |
| Azure | 2:35 |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | 2:19 |
Sorta-May (Sorta Dixie) [1955]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Blues in the Night | 3:57 |
| You Go to My Head | 2:49 |
| Just One of Those Things | 2:08 |
| You're the Top | 3:03 |
| Deep Purple | 3:13 |
| The Sheik of Araby | 4:58 |
| Riverboat Shuffle | 3:41 |
| Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Gal) | 2:58 |
A Band Is Born [1952]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| If I Had You | 3:25 |
| There Is No Greater Love | 2:31 |
| When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | 2:46 |
Plays the Standards
Simply: Bobby Darin
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| If I Had My Druthers | 3:57 |
| East of the Rockies | 2:50 |
| Ace in the Hole | 3:09 |
| Bob White | 3:36 |
| Lonesome Polecat | 3:27 |
The Best of "The Capitol Years"
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Perfidia | 2:58 |
| If I Had You | 3:20 |
| Say It Isn't So | 2:17 |
| Star Eyes | 2:49 |
| If I Were a Bell | 2:15 |
| Blues in the Night | 5:13 |
| Autumn Leaves | 2:52 |
The Capitol Years
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Sweet and Lovely | 3:44 |
| I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) | 2:10 |
| Lullaby of the Leaves | 2:20 |
| All the Way | 3:02 |
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