Editing Billy May (section)

=== Other record labels ===
The Crosby-Clooney collaboration was a sequel to their earlier, more successful album on RCA Victor, ''[[Fancy Meeting You Here]]'', also arranged by May, whose other non-Capitol work included another Bing Crosby duet album, this time with [[Louis Armstrong]], entitled ''[[Bing & Satchmo]]''; a further duet album twinning [[Bobby Darin]] with [[Johnny Mercer]] (''Two of a Kind''); the sixth in [[Ella Fitzgerald]]'s acclaimed series of ''[[The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books|Song Books]]'' for [[Verve Records]], ''[[Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook]]''; similar dips into [[Cole Porter]] and [[Rodgers and Hart]] with [[Anita O'Day]] (''[[Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May]]'' and ''[[Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart]]''; both on Verve); [[Mel Tormé]]'s Latin-flavoured album (''[[¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May]]''); [[Jane Russell]]'s self-titled album on [[MGM Records]] in 1958; early albums by [[Jack Jones (singer)|Jack Jones]] (''Shall We Dance?'') and [[Petula Clark]] (''In Hollywood''); one solitary session with [[Sarah Vaughan]] for [[Roulette Records]] in 1960, to record the single "[[The Green Leaves of Summer]]" and three other tracks. May arranged and conducted ''[[Once More with Feeling (Billy Eckstine album)|Once More with Feeling]]'', a 1960 studio album by singer [[Billy Eckstine]] on Roulette.

May also arranged and recorded one album in Cleveland with Cosmic Records; ''Guess Who''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/221078937134/Jerry_Lee_w_Billy_May_Orchestra_Guess_Who_Cosmic_5100_Cheesecake_Private|title=CollectorsFrenzy - Jerry Lee w/ Billy May Orchestra "Guess Who" Cosmic 5100 Cheesecake; Private|access-date=2014-04-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408214247/http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/221078937134/Jerry_Lee_w_Billy_May_Orchestra_Guess_Who_Cosmic_5100_Cheesecake_Private|archive-date=2014-04-08}}</ref> for artist Jerry Lee (Jerry Principe) at the Golden Key Club; and two more albums with [[Keely Smith]], recorded nearly 40 years apart: ''CheroKeely Swings'' from 1962; and ''Keely Sings Sinatra'', one of May's last projects, from 2001.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

After Sinatra left Capitol to start his own label, [[Reprise Records]], May continued to provide arrangements for him, off and on, for nearly thirty more years, working on the albums ''[[Sinatra Swings]]'', ''[[Francis A. & Edward K.]]'' (with [[Duke Ellington]]) and ''[[Trilogy: Past Present Future|Trilogy 1: The Past]]'', as well as the chart for one of Sinatra's last ever solo recordings, "[[Cry Me a River (1953 song)|Cry Me a River]]" (1988).{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

May arranged Sinatra's knockabout duet with [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], "[[Me and My Shadow]]", which was a hit single on both sides of the Atlantic in 1962, while he contributed to Sinatra's ambitious "[[Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre]]" project, providing a few arrangements for three of its four albums, ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'', ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'' and ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'', May's charts being variously performed by Sinatra, Davis, Crosby, [[Dean Martin]], [[Jo Stafford]] and [[Lou Monte]] and yielding a perennial Sinatra concert favourite, "[[Luck Be a Lady]]" from ''Guys and Dolls''.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

In 1958, May arranged a Christmas album on [[Warner Bros. Records]] featuring [[The Jimmy Joyce Singers]], titled ''A Christmas to Remember''. In 1983, May arranged the song "He Came Here For Me" for [[the Carpenters]]' ''[[An Old-Fashioned Christmas]]'' album on A&M Records.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}