another great song from the 70's. Have great sentimental value for me, as a young boy I built my very own radio, and the first audio I received, was
this song, and I can remember running up to my parents, telling them I received a police broadcast, quoting the FBI part, lol ..... (of course, we
were thousands of miles from the USA, lol) ......
I haven't got my head around posting links yet, but I just wanted to say what a fantastic thread, I was so chuffed to see Gong and Daevid Allen
featured, not to mention all the other great music of the time.
Absolutely brilliant.
Thanks folks.
The title track is an instrumental jam featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Jim Gordon. Jack Bruce is credited on the album cover with
bass guitar and co-writing the title song. However, in his interview for Polish rock magazine "Tylko Rock" he jokingly insisted to journalist Weiss
Wiesław that he had not played any bass guitar parts on Apostrophe ('), only the cello parts. Bruce learned cello as a child and plays it on some of
his other recordings. However, his cello comments regarding Apostrophe (') can't be taken seriously because there is in fact no cello on the title
song or on the album. His bass playing on Apostrophe (') does in fact sound at times very much like the bass lines that he played with Cream.
Andy Williams performs his signature song, "Moon River" on his television show, February 7, 1970. Andy was 42 years old at the time.
"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, and has since 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. Williams's
version was disliked by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers. Andy Williams's version never
charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962.
Williams said he never tired of singing "Moon River," whose melody he considered "beautiful" and whose lyrics he called "timeless."
"You wouldn't believe how 'Moon River' became a hit," he said in a 1989 interview with the Chicago Tribune. "I was having dinner with
[songwriters] Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, who had just finished recording the movie 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' with Audrey Hepburn singing
'Moon River' out on the balcony with a guitar.
"So Mancini and Mercer played this song for me, which I thought was great. But my record company was really into singles then, and they said: 'I
don't think phrases like 'my Huckleberry friend' will make it with the kids — they won't know what it means.'"
But about four weeks before the 1962 Academy Awards program, he recalled, "I was invited to sing 'Moon River' on the Oscars show, and Columbia
Records decided we ought to rush a 'Moon River' album into the stores, because that tune looked like a shoo-in for the 'best song' Oscar.
"So they quickly put out an album, had it in the stores on the day of the Oscars, and the next morning it sold 500,000 copies."
Andy Williams, one of the last crooners from the golden age of easy-listening pop music, died September 25, 2012 at his home in Branson, Mo. after a
long illness. He was 84.