Billy May

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1916-11-10

Active to

2004-01-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

145,416

Total plays

705,454

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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,835x

2. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

3. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

   · 2018 · cited 9,610x

4. Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in <i>Phenix</i>

   · 2019 · cited 7,445x

5. 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 5,574x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

May

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Pittsburgh

Place of death

San Juan Capistrano

Occupation

recording artist

Award

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement

Genre

traditional pop

Instrument

trumpet

Record label

Capitol Records

Image

Billy May.tif

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