[Trombone-l] billy mays sorta dixie

[Stan Brager]

I have a Stan Freberg Collectors Series CD (catalog Capitol CDP7 91627 2)
which contains many other collaborations between Freberg and Billy May
including "Try", "Sh-Boom", "The Great Pretender", "Banana Boat",
"Tele-Vee-Shun", "Wun'erful, Wun'erful", and "Green Christmas".

There are probably other CDs available but I haven't searched for them.

Stan
Stan Brager

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Lamb [mailto:htlamb at comcast.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 5:34 PM
> To: Stan Brager; 'Emil Orth'; trombone-l at samford.edu
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] billy mays sorta dixie
> 
> Loved Freberg's America. Great music. I wish I could find other
> collaborations by these guys.
> Billy arranged the Sinatra  Ellington album. It's interesting to hear
> Basie
> like figures interpreted by Duke's band.
> 
> Howard
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stan Brager" <sbrager at verizon.net>
> To: "'Emil Orth'" <herman28 at comcast.net>; <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] billy mays sorta dixie
> 
> 
> > Billy May was 22 years old when he joined the Charlie Barnet band
> around
> > July 1939. One night when the band was en route to a dance date in
> New
> > Jersey, Barnet mentioned to May that he was thinking about having an
> > arrangement made of the Ray Noble tune "Cherokee". By the time the
> bus
> > arrived, Billy had handed out the parts to members of the band.
> Barnet
> > recorded it on July 17, 1939.
> >
> > Various people who knew Billy May have told me that he had a
> wonderful
> > sense
> > of humor which can be heard in his music (he backed Stan Freberg on
> many
> > occasions). The Sorta-Dixie and the Sorta-May albums were whimsical
> joys.
> > And he wasn't a bad trumpet player either.
> >
> > Stan
> > Stan Brager
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Emil Orth [mailto:herman28 at comcast.net]
> >> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 9:33 PM
> >> To: John Jensen; trombone-l at samford.edu
> >> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] billy mays sorta dixie
> >>
> >> Thanks John for the lineup....wow, killer brass and so skillfully
> used
> >> and arranged....how in the world did he (billy) ever come up with
> all
> >> those swingin' ideas kinda blended together.  I stand in awe of a
> >> genius!!!
> >>
> >> Best to you, emil
> >>   ----- Original Message -----
> >>   From: John Jensen
> >>   To: Emil Orth ; trombone-l at samford.edu
> >>   Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 22:00
> >>   Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] billy mays sorta dixie
> >>
> >>
> >>   Yup!
> >>   Right next to the computer is the recording. Trombonists are: Ed
> >> Kusby, Si
> >>   Zentner, Tommy Pederson and Murray McEachern
> >>   Trumpets: Conrad Gazzo, Uan Rasey, John Best, Mannie Klein
> >>   Vince DeRosa plays french horn...
> >>   Great album!
> >>   John Jensen
> >>   http://johnlorenjensenmusic.com/
> >>   http://www.dcjazz.com/johnjensen/
> >>
> >>   ----- Original Message -----
> >>   From: "Emil Orth" <herman28 at comcast.net>
> >>   To: <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> >>   Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 7:48 PM
> >>   Subject: [Trombone-l] billy mays sorta dixie
> >>
> >>
> >>   > Hi listers, are there any of you that might have knowledge of
> the
> >> players
> >>   > that billy used on the sorta dixie album?  thanks, emil orth
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