Monday, September 7, 2020

Johnny Mercer Henry Mancini - Moon River

After I posted that radio play that used the name of the song I realized I was going to have it going through my head over and over again till I did something about it.


I've posted this version of it before, the lyricist Johnny Mercer who was rare in that he was also a very fine singer and the composer, Henry Mancini doing a demo of the song that they wrote for Audrey Hepburn to sing in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

I used to say that Audrey Hepburn's non-singer singing of it was the best version till I heard Johnny Mercer sing it. Knocks ol' Blue Eye's crooning of it out of the water.   I prefer a singer to sing words as if they meant something.  Mercer knew how to do that, so many didn't.

 

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