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Bobby Darin Songs: Moon River, Mack the Knife, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Beyond the Sea, Dream Lover, Our Day Will Come
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-10-25.
ISBN 9781156039304
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Publisher description
Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Moon River, Mack the Knife, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Beyond the Sea, Dream Lover, Our Day Will Come, the Shadow of Your Smile, if I Were a Carpenter, (Up A) Lazy River, Splish Splash, the Letter, Things, You're the Reason I'm Living, Early in the Morning. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars at the beginning of his television show and also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. Williams' version was vetoed by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers. Andy Williams' version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962. The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs. Comments about the song have noted that it is particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern Unit...http://booksllc.net/?id=534458
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