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Posts Tagged Sorta-May

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August 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 506

Billy May and His Orchestra, Sorta-May [EP] (1955) One of a small handful of (small) records that I inherited from my pop – my dad’s dad. His music taste was so foreign to me when I was a kid, the cheesiest of country’n’western, opera, classical, some quite obscene folk music and then these weird albums […]
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March 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1166

Billy May and His Orchestra, Sorta-May (1955) I bought this back before I even knew who Billy May was – later I’d find out his fingerprints were all over so many tunes I loved, from great singers and other orchestras, across movie and TV soundtracks but back when I bought this – for 20c in […]
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