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#1 2010-08-08 14:43:28
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'Moon River'
Music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was everywhere when I was very, very young. It was the kind of song, like 'Strangers In The Night', that I heard around the house and has stayed with me ever since. Haunting stuff. I don't like the movie, though.
#2 2010-08-08 14:52:52
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Re: 'Moon River'
Andy Williams was really big on TV.
There was less antipathy from youngsters to Williams than other middle of the road singer. He did not have to live for decades and then suddenly become a National Treasure.
He was quite well dressed too.
#3 2010-08-08 15:06:59
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Re: 'Moon River'
Which reminds me that they always played this tune at the cinema when the woman came around with choc ices. Might have been a Mantovani version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRu4aLAG2AI&feature=related
#4 2010-08-08 15:13:58
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Happy days at the Odeon. I always used to lose my mum on the way back from the toilets. It was a great art deco palace with massive marble steps, open as a cinema just long enough for me to take my first wife there. Now a naff nightclub. A ballroom on top offered tango and foxtrot lessons.
#5 2010-08-08 22:46:11
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Re: 'Moon River'
version on vince guaraldi "jazz impressions of black orpheus" my favorite.
I brush my teeth with minty paste/I hate when Liquor goes to waste.