* Billy Strayhorn

* May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist ( b. 1915 )

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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Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy ( as he was known then ) turned fifteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.

In the comic, minor characters like Earl, Billy Bob, Clark Cobb, and Mistress Cora Anthrax would get repeated appearances ; Earl was quite regular, and Anthrax was in two issues and got to answer a letter's page.

Club captain Roger Byrne was also killed, along with Mark Jones, Billy Whelan, Eddie Colman and Geoff Bent.

Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

There was a return of Billy the Cat inside, as well as a new Super School strip by Lew Stringer.

Billy Graham ( evangelist ) | Billy Graham, who attended BJU for one semester, was later at odds with the University

One of the earliest controversies to center on BJU was the break that occurred in the late 1950s between separatist fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals represented by the newly prominent evangelist Billy Graham.

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

In 2006, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating with again with Perry and Billy Corgan in the writing and recording.

Love also briefly dated Billy Corgan in early 1991, but her most prolific relationship was undoubtedly with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

In 1966 and 1967, Sinatra charted with 13 titles, all of which featured Billy Strange as arranger and conductor.

One of her many hits written by Hazlewood, it received three Grammy Award nominations, including two for Sinatra and one for arranger Billy Strange.

** Billy Sherrill, American record producer and arranger

Musical satirist Stan Freberg and his frequent collaborator, arranger Billy May, recorded a scathing 1957 parody of the Welk TV show titled " Wun ' erful!

In 1959, Basie's band recorded a " greatest hits " double album The Count Basie Story ( Frank Foster, arranger ) and " Basie and Eckstine, Inc .": album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones ( as arranger ) and the Count Basie Orchestra.

* Billy Strayhorn-An American composer, pianist and arranger

Hirt was chosen to record the frenetic theme for the 1960s TV show " The Green Hornet ", by famed arranger and composer Billy May.

In 1962, in an effort to showcase him in a different musical setting, Hirt was teamed with arranger and composer Billy May and producer Steve Sholes to record an album titled Horn A Plenty that was a departure from the Dixieland material that he was generally associated with.

** Billy May ( arranger ) for " Come Dance with Me " performed by Frank Sinatra

Jazz composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn spent some of his summers in Hillsborough, NC with his grandparents.

Freberg's musical parodies were a byproduct of his collaborations with Billy May, a veteran big band musician and jazz arranger, and his Capitol Records producer, Ken Nelson.

# Billy Liebert ( 1974 – 1980 ) accordion, arranger

** Billy May ( arranger ) for Come Dance With Me!

William E. " Billy " May ( November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004 ) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter.

They worked closely with the production team of Gamble and Huff and producer / arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the O ’ Jays, the Stylistics, the Spinners, Wilson Pickett, and Billy Paul.

In Journey, he was the composer and arranger, but he also played electric piano and percussion, and was accompanied by many stars of jazz ( Randy and Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, Steve Gadd, Billy Cobham and many others ).

* Billy Strayhorn ( 1915 – 1967 ), composer, pianist, arranger

He worked as composer, arranger and pianist at the Don Ellis ( 1970 – 1975 ) Orchestra and the Billy Cobham Band ( 1971 – 77 ).

Svengali is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1973 by Evans with a orchestra featuring Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, Herb Bushler, David Sanborn, Billy Harper, Richard Williams, Trevor Koehler, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson.

As a session musician, arranger and producer, Faltermeyer has worked with several international pop stars including Donna Summer, Amanda Lear, Patti LaBelle, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Frey, Blondie, Laura Branigan, La Toya Jackson, Billy Idol, Jennifer Rush, Alexis, Cheap Trick, Sparks, Bob Seger, Chris Thompson, Bonnie Tyler, Valerie Claire and Pet Shop Boys.

* Billy Lawrence ( born 1971 ), American female singer, songwriter, record producer and arranger

Some legendary session musicians The Castells worked with later became known collectively as " The Wrecking Crew ". They included Billy Strange ( guitar ), Barney Kessel ( guitar ), Ray Pohlman ( bass & arranger of one of the group's sessions ), Frankie Capp ( any percussion device known to humanity ), Plas Johnson ( saxophone ), Glen Campbell ( guitar ), and Hal Blaine ( drums ).