Contents

Collection Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Organization of the Billy May Arrangements

Selected Search Terms

Music, 1939-1995

Billy May Arrangements

Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress

2010

Biographical Note

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Scope and Content Note

The Billy May Arrangements principally consist of holograph or photocopied manuscript scores, parts, lead sheets, and sketches for works created between 1939 and 1995. Additional materials include printed scores, part changes, film cues, and a handful of counterpoint exercises. Although May worked almost exclusively as an arranger for long periods throughout his career, he did compose original music, and several of these titles are represented in this collection. I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat, Front Page Rag, and his film score for Sergeants Three are notable examples. Titles and cross-references are arranged alphabetically and standardized according to Jack Mirtle's The Music of Billy May: a Discography (1998). Part sets are complete unless indicated otherwise.

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Selected Search Terms

People

• Barnet, Charlie.
• May, Billy--Manuscripts.
• May, Billy.
• May, Billy.
• May, Billy. Selections.
• Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.

Subjects

• Arrangers (Musicians)--United States.
• Big band music.
• Motion picture music--Scores.
• Music--Manuscripts--United States.
• Popular music--United States.
• Television music--Scores.

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Organization of the Billy May Arrangements

The Billy May Arrangements are organized in one series:

• Music, 1939-1995

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Container List

Music, 1939-1995

All of me

Score

Parts

Always

Score

Angel eyes

Score

Aviation suite

Score

Short score

Back Bay shuffle

Scores

Be my love

Score

The beat goes on

Score

Beer barrel polka

Score

Blonde again

Score

Lead sheet

Blue and all alone

Score

Lead sheet

Blue suede shoes

Blues medley

Score

Short score/sketch

Bouncing runners

Score

Call me

Score

Can't I

Score

Carnival

Score

Cartoon medley

Score

Short score/sketch

Charmaine

Score

Parts

Cheek to cheek

Scores

Cherokee

Score

Chicago

Scores

Parts

Children of the night

Score

Christmas medley

Short score/sketch

Cocktails for two

Score

Come fly with me

Scores

Piano-conductor score

Come rain or come shine

Score

Horn-double bass score

Wind and string parts

Come together

Score

Concentrate

Short score/sketch

Congratulate me

Score

Cool water

Score

Dance of the hours

Score

Dancing on the ceiling

Scores

Parts

Dat dere

Score

Desert song

Score

Dichter und Bauer

Do nothin' 'till you hear from me

Score

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Score

Don't be that way

Score

Easy street

Score

Easy to love

Score

Ebb tide

Score

Es ist genug

Brass parts

Fat man boogie

Score

Filet of soul

Score

Finale--G minor symphony (Mozart)

Score

Fingers

Score

Five foot two

Scores

Wind parts

Frank Sinatra medley

Front page rag

Scores

Parts

Frenesi

Score

Gin and tonic

The girl from Ipanema

Score

A handful of stars

Scores

A hard day's night

Score

Hello out there, hello

Score

High noon

Score

Honest and truly

Score

How deep is the ocean?

Score

Huguette waltz

Score

Hungarian dance no. 5 (Brahms)

Score

I can't believe (you're in love with me)

Scores

I concentrate on you

Score

I don't know where I'm goin' (but I'm glad you come along)

Score

Lyric sheets

I guess I'll have to change my plans

Score

Parts

I taut I saw a puddy tat

Piano part

Lead sheet

I'll see you again

Score

In the mood disco

Score

Italian street song

Score

It's easy to remember

Score

I've got you under my skin

Score

Joanna

Short score/sketch

Jornal do Brasil

Score

King David

Brass parts

A kiss to build a dream on

Score

Late, late show

Score

Lean baby

Score

Parts

Little mo'

Short score/sketch

Long hair mambo

Score

Love is just around the corner

Score

Love wise

Score

Parts

Lover

Score

Lover come back to me

Score

Parts

Lullaby in rhythm

Score

Lulu's back in town

Score

Mad about the boy

Score

The man I love

Score

March of the toys

Score

Melody in F

Score

Michelle

Score

Miles behind

Score

Minuet (Paderewski)

Score

Minuet in G

Score

Moanin'

Score

Morning sunrise

Score

Music to watch girls by

Score

My last affair

Score

My little suede shoes

Score

My old flame

Short score/sketch

My silent love

Score

Parts

Nancy

Score

Nelson [i.e. D.D. Nelson] tunes

Lead sheets

Nova amor

Score

Nutty squirrels

Score

Oh by jingo

Score

Wind and brass parts

Old Cayucos

Score

Lead sheet

Old gold--Theme

Piano score

One kiss

Score

Opportunity rag

Score

Lead sheet

Opus one

Score

Orchids

Score

Overture '88

Score

Piano-conductor score

Ozzie's tune

Score

Panama

Score

Parts

Perfidia

Score

Parts

Persian market

Score

Parts

Pick yourself up

Score

Playboy's theme

Score

Poet and peasant

Score

The preacher

Score

Pretty playthings

Score

Lead sheet

Purple

Score

Condensed score

Quiet hours

Score

Reunion song

Score

Riverboat shuffle

Score

Rose Marie

Score

Santa Lucia

Score

Say it isn't so

Score

Parts

The second chase

Score

Serenade--Student Prince

Score

Sergeants Three (film, 1962)

Short scores

The setting sun

Score

Piano-conductor score

The shadow of your smile

Score

Short score/sketch

She didn't say yes

Score

The sheik of Araby

Score

Shiny stockings

Score

Silvery cloud

Score

Skyliner

Scores

Softly, as I leave you

Score

Solving the riddle

Score

Parts

The song is you

Score

Sooper sloop

Score

Sorta blues

Score

South Rampart Street parade

Scores

Parts

Star eyes

Score

Strangers in the night

Score

Parts

Studies and sketches

Exercises and miscellaneous sketches

Counterpoint exercises

Exercises and miscellaneous sketches

Exercises and miscellaneous sketches

Counterpoint exercises

Sunset colors

Score

Take the A train

Score

Tenderly

Scores

Parts

That old black magic

Parts

There is no greater love

Score

These are the good old days

Score

Lead sheet

Thou swell

Score

Turk's tune

Score

Twelve days of Christmas

Score

Uh! Oh!

Unforgettable

Score

Vilia

Score

Violin concerto (Tchaikovsky)

Violin and trumpet parts

Waltzing Matilda

Score

When I take my sugar to tea

Score

When my sugar walks down the street

Score

When the saints go marching in

Score

Short scores/sketches

When your lover has gone

Score

Whisper not

Score

Wings over Manhattan

You ain't makin' it

Score

You and the night and the music

Score

Parts

You may swing

Score

You stepped out of a dream

Score

You'd be so nice to come home to

Score

You're the top

Score

Parts

Unidentified

Score fragment