Billy Mure

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The Supersonic Guitar Man. Picking up the violin at the age of five, Mure added the guitar in his early teens. After leaving school, he joined Val Ernie's society band and played ritzy resorts like Palm Beach and glitzy clubs like the El Morocco for the next five years. Enlisted during World War II, he learned arranging while playing with an Air Force band. After the war, he first settled in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he got a lot of practice arranging for the many musical combos formed there by ex-service musicians. But he returned to New York City in 1947 and joined the staff orchestra at radio station WNEW. Mure stayed with WNEW for ten years, but picked up occasional studio work on the side. He played on a couple of the Three Suns' singles and in bands backing singers such as Helen Merrill and Della Reese. He wrote the arrangement for one of Reese's biggest hits, "My Heart Reminds Me," as will as Bobby Freeman's early rock hits, "Do You Want to Dance?" and "Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes." He also dabbled in film scoring, for Kim Novak's Five Against the House and No Down Payment, wrote the theme for legendary New York DJ Murray the K, and even composed and conducted music for several children's albums released by MGM in the mid-1960s. One of his odder odd-jobs was arranging and conducting a Beatles cash-in album by the Nutty Squirrels, better known as Don Elliott and Sascha Burland. Supersonic Guitars album cover But for space-age pop fans, Billy Mure is b

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