A Band Is Born/Big Band Bash

Billy May | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 9, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B000055X29
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,304 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. All Of Me

2. If I Had You

3. Charmaine

4. Unforgettable

5. Fat Man Mambo

6. Lean Baby

7. My Silent Love

8. There Is No Greater Love

9. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan

10. Mayhem

11. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street

12. Lulu's Back In Town

13. You're Driving Me Crazy

14. When Your Lover Has Gone

15. Perfidia

16. My Last Affair

17. Easy Street

18. Gone With The Wind

19. Diane

20. Please Be Kind

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KILLER Arrangements ARE Billy May, November 24, 2001

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F. Barton "Forrest W. Barton" (Newport, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Band Is Born/Big Band Bash (Audio CD)

These two high-fidelity albums are finally, thankfully released by Collector's Choice. Thank God for them!!

To hear "Unforgettable" by just the May charts, makes the entire song new!! All those great Sinatra charts are reworked a bit, and do not need the vocalist at all!! These tracks are terrific, immortal and not dated in the least. The amount of talent, electricity and that GREAT '50s vacuum tube recording is abdundant in their remastering of the disc.

GRAB this while it is still in print. The ultimate CD to please just about anybody, will be a much-played addition to your library. Musicianship, talent, fun, and incredible beauty; it's ALL HERE!!

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive 50's Billy May, April 26, 2001

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This review is from: A Band Is Born/Big Band Bash (Audio CD)

Collector's Choice music continues to try to out do themselves. This recent two LP issue on one cd contains two classic mid 1950's May records.

These wonderful sides contain many of Mr. May's greatest hits of the 1950's and there simply isn't any mediocre material. For those who lived during that period, it's nostalgia galore.

For those unaware, May's big band was noted for its first rate musicianship, straight-ahead driving swing interjected with intermittent twists of humor and surprises. The excellent production values of this cd coupled with its outstanding sound quality makes this cd a bargain value. Get it while it's still in print.

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally awesome!, September 14, 2011

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David Keith "FurNTats" (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Band Is Born/Big Band Bash (Audio CD)

Over the past few years I've become a huge Billy May fan. I love his music. I discovered him through Sinatra, of course. But I completely relish these vocal free orchestra tracks. It's the perfect music for most anything. I can't recommend this CD highly enough.