Sorta-May/Jimmie Lunceford in Hi Fi Billy May

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  • Release Date: 06/26/2007
  • 2 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 29,967
  • Label: COLLECTABLES
  • UPC: 090431291627

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Sorta-May/Jimmie Lunceford in Hi Fi

Disc 1
1LISTENThou Swell / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:52
2LISTENBlues in the Night / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:54
3LISTENChicago / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:33
4LISTENAll You Want to Do Is Dance / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:27
5LISTENYou Go to My Head / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:49
6LISTENSoon / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:44
7LISTENIn a Persian Market / Billy May & His Orchestra 4:16
8LISTENJust One of Those Things / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:09
9LISTENYou're the Top / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:02
10LISTENThe Donkey Serenade / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:35
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Disc 2
1LISTENT'Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:00
2LISTENAin't She Sweet / Jimmie Lunceford Quartet 2:51
3LISTENCharmaine / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:14
4LISTENUptown Blues / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:51
5LISTENMargie / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:06
6LISTENCoquette / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:11
7LISTENAnnie Laurie / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:06
8LISTENWell All Right Then / Billy May & His Orchestra 2:52
9LISTENBlues in the Night / Billy May & His Orchestra 5:15
10LISTENMy Blue Heaven / Billy May & His Orchestra 3:15
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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 All Music Guide

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