Billy May
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- Christmas cocktails
- The best of "The Capitol Years"
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William E. May, (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) better known as Billy May was an American composer and musician. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he played trumpet professionally in big bands such as those of Charlie Barnet starting in 1939. 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. At Capitol, May wrote arrangements for many top artists <a href="https://www.last.f
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5 total works indexed
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- The Sequence of the Human Genome
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- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
· 2018 · cited 9,245x
- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
<i>Phenix</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,208x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,477x
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- date of birth
- 1916-11-10
- date of death
- 2004-01-22
- birth name
- Edward William May Jr.
- name in native language
- Billy May
- pseudonym
- Billy May
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