Ended Rare-Autograph LP, Billy May + Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Condition: Good for its age. Slight scuffs on cover photo but on autographs or faces.



The album is autographed by Pat Longo, Billy May and Frank Sinatra, Jr,. and is unique in every way.
Original Cover and sleeve

Touted as and album that "Contains music that is constantly exciting,extraordinarily melodic and eminently danceable. It is by the contemporary Pat Lonogo band in its third outing on TownHall and is recommended for dark days, special, occasions, jaded appetites and for refugees from the hard news of the day. It is very much a "A Salute to Billy
May".

Billy May was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967),[1] and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.
May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews Sisters and Ella Mae Morse. He also collaborated with satirist Stan Freberg on several classic 1950s and 1960s satirical music albums.
As a trumpet player, during the 1940s big band May recorded such songs as "Measure for Measure", "Long Tall Mama", and "Boom Shot", with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra,[1] and "The Wrong Idea", "Lumby", and "Wings Over Manhattan" with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra.[1] With his own band, May had a hit single, "Charmaine", in 1952, and he released several albums including Sorta-May.

Frank Sinatra, Jr., was born in New Jersey, raised in California and educated in the showrooms of Las Vegas and on bandstands all over the world.
While studying music at the University of Southern California, Frank Jr. made his professional show business debut as a singer with the Elliot Brothers band, an outfit best known for its take-offs on name bands of the 1940s.
On the evening of September 8, 1963, the Royal Box of Americana Hotel in Manhattan re-opened for the fall season. Other hotels featured such established performers as Sheila and Gordon MacRae (Waldorf), Peter Duschin (St. Regis), and Xavier Cuget and Abbe Lane (Plaza).
Frank Jr. performed in major clubs and showrooms throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Brazil, and England. A favorite of variety and talk show audiences, Frank Jr. frequently appeared on programs hosted by legends such as Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and Johnny Carson.

In 1983, Frank Jr. teamed with the Pat Longo All-Star Jazz Band to record a tribute to arranger-conductor Billy May, contributing five songs to an album entitled, “Billy May For President.”

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