Composer/Bandleader Billy May Dead at 87

ABC News obit here.

Although he worked with such luminaries as Glen Miller, Frank Sinatra and Stan Freberg, most would recognize May as the purveyor of the oft-played “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Mambo” heard frequently throughout malls at Christmastime. Sadly, another of the few links to a gilded age of show-business is gone.