One of my favorite "old school" bandleaders was The Great Billy May. I met the man once…at a party at Stan Freberg's home and it was like…
"Mark, would you like to meet The Great Billy May?"
"That man over there…that's The Great Billy May!"
"Could we get a drink for The Great Billy May?"
It was like that was his name. He certainly recorded enough hit records in his day, with his band and with the top recording artists of the time. This is a video made recently to a song he did with The Great Johnny Mercer. Mercer co-wrote the song, which I like a lot, and sang the lead vocal on it. I'm not sure who set it to clips from old Warner Brothers cartoons directed by The Great Chuck Jones but whoever did it was probably The Great Somebody…