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Moon River. " Moon River " is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. [1] The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. [2]
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack from the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn. The tracks were re-arranged parts of the film music composed and conducted by Henry Mancini. At the 1962 Academy Awards, Mancini and lyricist Johnny Mercer won Oscars for Best Original Song for " Moon River ...
A significant portion of Zappa's discography consists of instrumental works, but many of these could be classified as modern classical or avant-garde music rather than rock. "Peaches en Regalia" (Hot Rats, 1969) "Eat That Question" (The Grand Wazoo) Sleep Dirt (1979 - reissues of this album featured overdubbed vocals on several tracks)
A Walk in the Black Forest. Walk, Don't Run (instrumental) The War Lord (instrumental) Washington Square (composition) Watermelon Man (composition) Wheels (The String-A-Longs song) Whipped Cream (song) White Summer. Wiggle Wobble.
Danny Williams (7 January 1942 – 6 December 2005) [ 1 ] was a South African-born British pop singer [ 1 ] who earned the nickname "Britain's Johnny Mathis ", for his smooth and stylish way with a ballad. [ 2 ] He is best known for his 1961 UK number one version of " Moon River " and his 1964 U.S. top ten hit, " White on White ".
Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes is the ninth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams. It was released on March 26, 1962, by Columbia Records and covered film songs that were mostly from the previous decade. The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated May 12 of that year and ...
In 2008, it was ranked at No. 7 on Billboard ' s "Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs" list (August 1958 - July 2008). [7] An updated version of the all-time list in 2013 ranked the song at No. 9. [15] Although it was written by Brooks as a love song, the devout Boone interpreted it as inspirational and proclaimed that it was instead God who "lit up her ...
"Theme from A Summer Place" remains the longest-running number one instrumental in the history of the Hot 100. Billboard ranked Faith's version as the number one song for 1960. The Faith version reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, spending 31 weeks on the chart, and it was also a number 1 hit in Italy under the title "Scandalo al sole".