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==Early life and music== May was born in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. He started out playing the tuba in the high school band. "I sat in the rear of the [band]stand", he said. "I didn't realize it at the time, but I was intrigued with becoming an arranger and an orchestrator."<ref name="Friedwald">{{Cite book |title=Sinatra! The Song Is You |author=Will Friedwald |year=1997 |pages=278β82 |publisher=Hachette Books |isbn=978-0-306-80742-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDX1V3cap-MC }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> At the age of 17, he began playing with Gene Olsen's Polish-American Orchestra.<ref name="Friedwald"/>
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