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* Billy Strayhorn ( 1915 – 1967 ), composer, pianist, arranger
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Billy Strayhorn was an arranger of great renown in the Duke Ellington orchestra beginning in 1938.
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After 1941, he frequently collaborated with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his " writing and arranging companion.
" Take the " A " Train " which hit big in 1941, was written by Billy Strayhorn.
Three-minute masterpieces flowed from the minds of Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's son Mercer Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and members of the Orchestra.
Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.
There are hundreds of albums dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn by artists famous and obscure.
Duke Ellington and his longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn both appeared on exactly half the set's 38 tracks and wrote two new pieces of music for the album: " The E and D Blues " and a four-movement musical portrait of Fitzgerald ( the only Songbook track on which Fitzgerald does not sing ).
* Isfahan ( song ), a Billy Strayhorn composition on Duke Ellington's The Far East Suite
* Arrangers: Van Alexander, Ralph Burns, Toots Camarata, Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Ray Conniff, Eddie Durham, Duke Ellington, Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Bob Haggart, Buster Harding, Lennie Hayton, Neal Hefti, Fletcher Henderson, Horace Henderson, Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Jimmy Mundy, Sy Oliver, Nat Pierce, Johnny Richards, Edgar Sampson, Eddie Sauter, Billy Strayhorn
Aged 18, she moved in with her father in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others.
Following her 1993 performance at a tribute to the musical legacy of her good friend Billy Strayhorn ( Duke Ellington's longtime collaborator ), she decided to record an album composed largely of Strayhorn's and Ellington's songs the following year, We'll Be Together Again.
William Thomas " Billy " Strayhorn ( November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967 ) was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades.
As Ellington described him, " Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brain waves in his head, and his in mine.
Billy Strayhorn, New York, N. Y., between 1946 and 1948
* Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life at PBS, Independent Lens
* Billy Strayhorn: " Portrait Of A Silk Thread ", by John Twomey
* Billy Strayhorn at the glbtq Encyclopaedia
* Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers An online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Billy and 1915
* 1915 – Billy Daniels, American singer and actor ( d. 1988 )
* October 7 – Billy Daniels, American singer ( b. 1915 )
Julian's younger brother Gerald William ( Billy ) Grenfell was killed in action on 30 July 1915 within a mile of where Julian had been wounded.
William Morris " Billy " Hughes, CH, KC, ( 25 September 186228 October 1952 ), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.
Chaplin made 14 short comedies for Essanay in 1915, at both the Chicago and Niles studios, plus a cameo appearance in one of the Broncho Billy westerns.
On May 15, 1915, Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland opened up at Lamb's Cafe at Clark & Randolph Streets in Chicago, with Ray Lopez, cornet and manager ; Tom Brown, trombone and leader ; Gussie Mueller clarinet, Arnold Loyacano piano and string bass ; and Billy Lambert on drums.
* Billy Williams ( 1878 – 1915 )
* Billy Williams ( music hall performer ) ( 1878 – 1915 )
In 1915, umpire and sportswriter Billy Evans, writing about the scarcity of competent second basemen in baseball, listed Huggins, Collins, Pratt, Johnny Evers, and Nap Lajoie as the best in the game.
* Billy Sullivan ( American football ) ( 1915 – 1998 ), owner of an original franchise, the Boston Patriots, of the American Football League
* Whipper Billy Watson ( 1915 – 1990 ), Canadian wrestler
In October 1915, however, Fisher retired and O ' Malley returned to office in the first ministry of Billy Hughes, again as Minister for Home Affairs.
Upon assumption of office in October 1915, Labor Party Prime Minister Billy Hughes was eager to maintain, if not intensify, Australia's war effort.
He served as Treasurer in the ministry of Billy Hughes from 27 October 1915, until his resignation from the ministry on 27 October 1916.
* Burglarious Billy ( 1915 )( short )
* Billy the Bear Tamer ( 1915 )( short )
* Billy Beckett ( 1915 – 19 ??
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* 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
* 1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1991 )
* 1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player
* 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player
* 1952 – Billy West, American voice actor
* 1968 – Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
* 1939 – Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1943 – Billy J. Kramer, English singer
* 1918 – Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2004 )
* 1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
* 1962 – Billy Dean, American singer-songwriter
* 1925 – Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2011 )
* 1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
* 1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player ( d. 2006 )
* 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
* 1986 – Billy Butler, American baseball player
* 1940 – Billy Fury, British singer ( d. 1983 )
* 1908 – Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player ( d. 1977 )
* 2011 – Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( b. 1925 )
* 1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
* 1963 – Billy Gould, American musician, songwriter, and producer ( Faith No More, Harmful, Fear and the Nervous System, and Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine )
Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.
* The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy ( 2005 ) – Mrs. Claus ( voice ) in episode: " Billy and Mandy Save Christmas "
* 1938 – Billy Shaw, American football player
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