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Moon River

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Jerry Butler songs The Killers songs Bobby Vinton songs Rod Stewart songs Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Judy Garland songs Grammy Award for Record of the Year Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer Trini Lopez songs Aretha Franklin songs 1961 songs NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen songs Best Original Song Academy Award winning songs 1961 singles Connie Francis songs Perry Como songs Jim Reeves songs Frank Sinatra songs UK Singles Chart number-one singles 1960s jazz standards Grammy Award for Song of the Year Andy Williams songs Barbra Streisand songs Louis Armstrong songs Songs with music by Henry Mancini Ben E. King songs Eartha Kitt songs Jay and the Americans songs R.E.M. songs Westlife songs Dick and Dee Dee songs Willie Nelson songs Pop standards Johnny Mathis songs Paul Anka songs Bobby Darin songs

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%22Moon River%22 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 Mancini and Mercer the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. 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 was never released as a single, but charted as an LP track that he recorded for Columbia on a hit album of 1962. Cadence Records' president Archie Bleyer disliked Williams' version, as Bleyer believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers. Forty years later in 2002, a 74-year-old Williams sang the song at the conclusion of the live telecast of the NBC 75th Anniversary Special to a standing ovation.The song's success was responsible for relaunching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll had replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. The song's popularity is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.Comments about the lyrics have noted that they are particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States and his longing to expand his horizons. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song.

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Johnny Mercer

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