Musical Bacon: Billy May

Artist name	Roles	Recordings
Al Hendrickson	guitar	Whistle Stop
Alvin Stoller	drums	Whistle Stop
Chuck Gentry	saxophone	Whistle Stop
Conrad Gozzo	trumpet	Whistle Stop
Ed Kusby	trombone	Whistle Stop
Fred Fallensby	saxophone	Whistle Stop
Jimmy Bryant (session guitarist)	guitar	Whistle Stop
Joe Mondragon	bass	Whistle Stop
Johnny Best (jazz trumpeter)	trumpet	Whistle Stop
Ken Nelson (US record producer ('48-'76) Capitol Records, country music)	producer	Whistle Stop
Malibu (Italian house project, members Raf Marchesini & Simone Farina)	remixer	Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (Malibu remix)
Manny Klein	trumpet	Whistle Stop
Murray McEachern	trombone	Whistle Stop
Paul Smith (jazz pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader)	piano	Whistle Stop
Pullman "Tommy" Pederson	trombone	Whistle Stop
Si Zentner	trombone	Whistle Stop
Skeets Herfurt	saxophone	Whistle Stop
Ted Nash (40s-80s US swing reedman, uncle of the other)	saxophone	Whistle Stop
Uan Rasey	trumpet	Whistle Stop
Wilbur Schwartz	saxophone	Whistle Stop

Artist name	Roles	Recordings
[unknown]	conductor	Blue Lou, Blue Skies, By Heck, Casa Loma Stomp, Cavernism, Charmaine, Dance of the Lame Duck, Echoes of Harlem, Four or Five Times, Happy as the Day Is Long, Hors d'Oeuvre, I'm Walking Through Heaven With You, I've Found a New Baby, If Dreams Come True, Ja-Da, King Porter Stomp, Mad House, Mahogany Hall Stomp, Maniac's Ball, Mood Indigo, Muskrat Ramble, Rhythm Is Our Business, Rockin' in Rhythm, Rosetta, Sometimes I'm Happy, Sophisticated Lady, St. Louis Blues, Steppin' Pretty, Walk, Jennie, Walk, White Jazz
Frank Sinatra	arranger, conductor	All of You, Almost Like Being in Love, American Beauty Rose, But Not for Me, Cheek to Cheek, Come Fly With Me, Day by Day, Don’t Take Your Love From Me, Five Minutes More, How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me, I Had the Craziest Dream, I've Heard That Song Before, It Had to Be You, I’ve Heard That Song Before, Just in Time, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Lover, More Than You Know, My Shining Hour, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Paper Doll, Purple, River, Stay 'Way From My Door, Sentimental Journey, Street of Dreams, That Old Black Magic, The Song Is You, They All Laughed, Why Should I Cry Over You, Yes Indeed!
Ella Fitzgerald	arranger, conductor	Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, As Long as I Live, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Blues in the Night, Come Rain or Come Shine, Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, Get Happy, Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe, Hooray for Love, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, I've Got the World on a String, Ill Wind, It Was Written in the Stars, It's Only a Paper Moon, Let's Take a Walk Around the Block, Let's Take a Walk Around the Block (alternate take), Let’s Fall in Love, My Shining Hour, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Out of This World, Over the Rainbow, Sing My Heart, Sing My Heart (alternate take), Stormy Weather, That Old Black Magic, The Man That Got Away, This Time the Dream's on Me, When the Sun Comes Out
Keely Smith	arranger, conductor	All the Way, Cocktails for Two, East of the Sun (And West of the Moon), I Can't Get Started, I Never Knew, I'll Get By (As long as I Have You), I'll Never Smile Again, Lullaby of the Leaves, My Devotion, My Heart Cries for You, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Rags to Riches, S'Posin', Secret Love, Stranger in Paradise, Sweet and Lovely, That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day), The Song Is You, To Each His Own, Too Young, True Love, Where Is Your Heart? (Song From Moulin Rouge), Yellow Bird, Young at Heart
Glenn Miller Orchestra	conductor	American Patrol, Anvil Chorus, In the Mood, Little Brown Jug, Miller Medley: Kalamazoo / Moonlight Cocktail / Elmer's Tune / Moonlight Serenade / Chattanooga Choo Choo, Moonlight Serenade, Pennsylvania 6-5000, Perfidia, Song of the Volga Boatmen, That Old Black Magic, Too Little Time, Tuxedo Junction
Timeless Pulse	arranger, conductor	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Falling in Love With Love, Have You Met Miss Jones?, I Could Write a Book, I've Got Five Dollars, It Never Entered My Mind, Johnny One Note, Little Girl Blue, Lover, Spring Is Here, Ten Cents a Dance, To Keep My Love Alive
The Bristol Suspensions	arranger, conductor	Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me, Easy Street, Holiday for Trumpet, I'll Take Romance, Margie, Memories of You, Rumpus, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, That Old Feeling, Theme From Carnival, Till There Was You
Billy Eckstine	arranger	As Time Goes By, Blues in the Night, Cottage for Sale, I Apologize, I Hear a Rhapsody, I Love You, I'm Beginning to See the Light, Once More With Feeling, Secret Love, Stormy Weather, That Old Black Magic, With Every Breath I Take
James Horner	orchestrator	Jenny, Jenny's Rescue, Main Title / Takeoff, Neville Sinclair's House, Rendezvous at Griffith Park Observatory, Rocketeer to the Rescue / End Title, The Flying Circus, The Zeppelin
Gerlinde Bachinger	arranger	Back Bay Shuffle, Don't Be That Way, Frenesi, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Trumpet Blues and Cantabile, When the Saints Go Marchin' In (Trad./ Arr. Billy May)
Nat King Cole	conductor	I Should Care, Just One of Those Things, Let's Face the Music and Dance, The Party's Over, Walkin’ My Baby Back Home, You'll Never Know
Saptha Shakti	arranger	Fortune in Dreams, Great Times, Midnight Sun, Missy, Sweet & Lovely
Sarah Vaughan	arranger, conductor	Don't Go to Strangers, Love, The Green Leaves of Summer, Them There Eyes
Nancy Wilson	conductor	All of You, I Wish You Love, What a Little Moonlight Can Do, You've Changed
Sammy Davis Jr.	arranger	Pretend, Rambling Rose, Send for Me, Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Johnny Mercer	trumpet	Sam's Got Him, San Fernando Valley, Someone's in the Kitchen With Dinah
Kay Starr	conductor	I Got My Arms Open (And My Love Ready), Me Too, On a Honky-Tonk Hardwood Floor
Rosemary Clooney	arranger, conductor	How About You?, I Can't Get Started
Artie Shaw	conductor	Copenhagen, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Benny Goodman	conductor	Lullaby in Rhythm, Wrappin' It Up
Jack Teagarden's Chicagoans	trumpet	'Deed I Do, Stars Fell on Alabama
Diane Schuur	arranger	Love for Sale, Sweet Georgia Brown
Bob Crosby	conductor	Honky Tonk Train Blues, My Inspiration
Peggy Lee	trumpet	What More Can a Woman Do
Larry Clinton	conductor	My Reverie
Maya Cool	arranger	What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Carsten Gronholz	conductor	This Must Be the Place
Glen Gray	conductor	Memories of You
Nite Flights	arranger	Luck Be a Lady
Count Basie	conductor	Shorty George
Haggart-Baudue	conductor	Big Noise From Winnetka
Billy May & His Orchestra	arranger	Little Brown Jug
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	conductor	The Gal From Joe's
Jimmy Dorsey	conductor	John Silver
Earl Hines	conductor	Piano Man
The Capitol Jazzmen	trumpet	Casanova's Lament
Al Hirt	arranger, conductor	Green Hornet
Tommy Dorsey	conductor	Hawaiian War Chant (Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai)
Carpenters	arranger	I Can Dream Can't I

Blue Lou, Blue Skies, By Heck, Casa Loma Stomp, Cavernism, Charmaine, Dance of the Lame Duck, Echoes of Harlem, Four or Five Times, Happy as the Day Is Long, Hors d'Oeuvre, I'm Walking Through Heaven With You, I've Found a New Baby, If Dreams Come True, Ja-Da, King Porter Stomp, Mad House, Mahogany Hall Stomp, Maniac's Ball, Mood Indigo, Muskrat Ramble, Rhythm Is Our Business, Rockin' in Rhythm, Rosetta, Sometimes I'm Happy, Sophisticated Lady, St. Louis Blues, Steppin' Pretty, Walk, Jennie, Walk, White Jazz

Frank Sinatra

arranger, conductor

All of You, Almost Like Being in Love, American Beauty Rose, But Not for Me, Cheek to Cheek, Come Fly With Me, Day by Day, Don’t Take Your Love From Me, Five Minutes More, How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me, I Had the Craziest Dream, I've Heard That Song Before, It Had to Be You, I’ve Heard That Song Before, Just in Time, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Lover, More Than You Know, My Shining Hour, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Paper Doll, Purple, River, Stay 'Way From My Door, Sentimental Journey, Street of Dreams, That Old Black Magic, The Song Is You, They All Laughed, Why Should I Cry Over You, Yes Indeed!

Ella Fitzgerald

arranger, conductor

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, As Long as I Live, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Blues in the Night, Come Rain or Come Shine, Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, Get Happy, Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe, Hooray for Love, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, I've Got the World on a String, Ill Wind, It Was Written in the Stars, It's Only a Paper Moon, Let's Take a Walk Around the Block, Let's Take a Walk Around the Block (alternate take), Let’s Fall in Love, My Shining Hour, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Out of This World, Over the Rainbow, Sing My Heart, Sing My Heart (alternate take), Stormy Weather, That Old Black Magic, The Man That Got Away, This Time the Dream's on Me, When the Sun Comes Out

Keely Smith

arranger, conductor

All the Way, Cocktails for Two, East of the Sun (And West of the Moon), I Can't Get Started, I Never Knew, I'll Get By (As long as I Have You), I'll Never Smile Again, Lullaby of the Leaves, My Devotion, My Heart Cries for You, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Rags to Riches, S'Posin', Secret Love, Stranger in Paradise, Sweet and Lovely, That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day), The Song Is You, To Each His Own, Too Young, True Love, Where Is Your Heart? (Song From Moulin Rouge), Yellow Bird, Young at Heart

Glenn Miller Orchestra

conductor