The Billy May Sessions

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Walkin’ My Baby Back Home
  2:41
• 2
  What Does It Take
  2:49
• 3
  Walkin’
  2:50
• 4
  I’m Hurtin’
  2:50
• 5
  Angel Eyes
  3:16
• 6
  Lover Come Back to Me
  2:32
• 7
  Can’t I?
  3:16
• 8
  Long, Long Ago

  Nat King Cole with Dean Martin
  2:19
• 9
  Open Up the Doghouse

  Nat King Cole with Dean Martin
  2:28
• 10
  Papa Loves Mambo
  2:41
• 11
  Teach Me Tonight
  3:13
• 12
  Blue Moon
  2:15
• 13
  With You on My Mind
  2:39
• 14
  Don’t Try
  2:24
• 15
  Send for Me
  2:40
• 16
  Let’s Make More Love (I Want Your Love)
  2:57
• 17
  Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  3:13
  5.0 ★
• 18
  The Song Is Ended
  2:47
• 19
  You’ll Never Know
  2:45
• 20
  Just for the Fun of It (alternate version)
  2:36
• 21
  Who’s Sorry Now?
  3:00
• 22
  These Foolish Things
  3:48
• 23
  Once in a While
  2:46
• CD 2
• 1
  Just One of Those Things
  2:16
• 2
  I Should Care
  2:49
• 3
  The Party’s Over
  2:45
• 4
  Just for the Fun of It
  2:37
• 5
  A Cottage for Sale
  2:59
• 6
  I Understand
  2:26
• 7
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:33
• 8
  Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (1961 reprise)
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Ebony Rhapsody
  3:06
• 10
  Day In, Day Out
  2:27
• 11
  Too Little, Too Late
  3:01
• 12
  When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
  2:11
• 13
  Cold, Cold Heart
  3:47
• 14
  Let’s Face the Music and Dance
  2:27
• 15
  Something Makes Me Want to Dance With You
  2:11
• 16
  I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
  2:38
• 17
  The Rules of the Road
  2:47
• 18
  Warm and Willing
  3:03
• 19
  Bidin’ My Time
  2:29
• 20
  Moon Love
  2:13
• 21
  Who’s Sorry Now (mono version)
  2:58
• 22
  When Your Lover Has Gone (mono version)
  2:32
• 23
  With You on My Mind (broadcast version)
  2:05
• 24
  Once in a While (broadcast version)
  2:56
• 25
  I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (broadcast version)
  2:28
• 26
  These Foolish Things (broadcast version)
  3:16
• 27
  Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (trio version)
  2:11

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10 Great Songs 2010

The Very Best of Nat King Cole

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Sings the Great Songs! / Thank You, Pretty Baby 2002

Night Lights

Night Lights 2001

Rockin' Boppin' & Blues

Rockin' Boppin' & Blues 2000

Where Did Everyone Go / Looking Back

Where Did Everyone Go / Looking Back 1999

Release credits

• Al Hendrickson
  guitar [10-11, 15]
• Alex Beller
  violin [10-11]
• Alvin Dinkin
  viola [10-11]
• Alvin Stoller
  drums (drum set) [1-4], percussion [10-11]
• Alvino Rey
  guitar [8]
• Andy Peele
  trumpet [5-7]
• Ann Mason Stockton
  harp [10-11]
• Barney Kessel
  guitar [1-4]
• Bill Miller
  piano [10-11]
• Billy May
  arranger [1-11, 15], conductor [2.8, 1.1-11, 1.15]
• Billy May & His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2, 5-8, 8-11]
• Bob Dawes
  clarinet [5-7], saxophone [5-7]
• Carlos Vidal
  percussion [10-11]
• Charles Deremo
  clarinet [5-7], saxophone [5-7]
• Charlie Harris
  bass [8-9, 15]
• Chuck Gentry
  baritone saxophone [1-4, 8-9], reeds [10-11]
• Cliff Fishback
  piano [5-7]
• Conrad Gozzo
  trumpet [1-11]
• Cy Bernard
  cello [10-11]
• Dean Martin
  vocal [8, 8-9]
• Dick Nash
  trombone [5-7]
• Ed Kusby
  trombone [1-4, 8-11]
• Eleanor Slatkin
  cello [10-11]
• Eudice Shapiro
  violin [10-11]
• Felix Slatkin
  violin [10-11]
• Fred Fallensby
  reeds [10-11], tenor saxophone [1-4]
• Harry Klee
  alto saxophone [8-9]
• Jack Agee
  bass [5-7]
• Jack Costanzo
  bongos [1-7], congas [1-7]
• Jack H. Laubach
  trumpet [5-7]
• Jimmy Priddy
  trombone [1-4]
• Jimmy Rowles
  piano [1-4]
• Joe Comfort
  bass [8]
• Joe Mondragon
  bass [10-11]
• John Collins
  guitar [5-9, 15]
• John Markham
  drums (drum set) [5-7]
• Johnny Best
  trumpet [1-4, 8-11]
• Karl DeKarske
  trombone [5-7]
• Lee Gillette
  producer [1.15, 2.8]
• Lee Young
  drums (drum set) [1.8-11, 1.15, 2.8]
• Lew Brown
  piano [8-9]
• Manny Klein
  trumpet [1-4, 8-11]
• Mischa Russell
  violin [10-11]
• Murray McEachern
  trombone [1-4, 8-11]
• Nat King Cole
  piano [8], vocal [1.1-8, 1.8-11, 1.15, 2.8]
• Nelson Riddle
  arranger [10-11], conductor [10-11]
• Paul Shure
  violin [10-11]
• Paul Smith
  piano [15]
• Phil Stephens
  bass [1-4]
• Plas Johnson
  tenor saxophone [15]
• Pullman “Tommy” Pederson
  trombone [1-4, 10-11]
• Ralph Peña
  bass [5-7]
• Ray Linn
  trumpet [1-4]
• Richard Clay
  tenor saxophone [5-7]
• Robert McKinzie
  trumpet [5-7]
• Robert Reisiger
  trombone [5-7]
• Si Zentner
  trombone [5-11]
• Skeets Herfurt
  alto saxophone [1-4, 8-9], reeds [10-11]
• Stanley Harris
  viola [10-11]
• Stevan Dweek
  percussion [10-11]
• Ted Nash
  tenor saxophone [1-9]
• Ted Nash
  reeds [10-11]
• The Herman McCoy Choir
  background vocals [15]
• Tony Facciuto
  trumpet [5-7]
• Uan Rasey
  trumpet [10-11]
• Victor Bay
  violin [10-11]
• Wilbur Schwartz
  alto saxophone [1-4], reeds [10-11]
• Willie Smith
  alto saxophone [5-7]
• [unknown]
  choir vocals [6, 10]
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Issues

• T
  (Combined release view)
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  T
  The Billy May Sessions

  2x CD
  1993
• T
  The Complete Billy May Sessions

  2x CD
  2017
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  T
  The Billy May Sessions

  2x Digital Media