Moon River Henry Mancini 101 Strings 1080p , Prof Howdy H. D. Album

Moon River is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its first performance by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany s. It also won Mancini the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Mercer the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Since its original performance, the song has been covered by many other artists. 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 eponymous television show and named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri, after it. Williams version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962. Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer disliked Williams version, as Bleyer believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers. The song s success was responsib