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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.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 and Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1966), Naked City and
collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and
orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among others. 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 and Rosemary Clooney. 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 the released an album, Sorta-May.
