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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on September 26, 2012, 11:34:45 AM

Title: Andy Williams, 84
Post by: IronDioPriest on September 26, 2012, 11:34:45 AM
Andy Williams, 84 (http://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/viewart/20120926/NEWS02/120926004/Crooner-Andy-Williams-dies-age-84?odyssey=nav|head)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — With a string of gold albums, a hit TV series and the signature “Moon River,” Andy Williams was a voice of the 1960s, although not the ‘60s we usually hear about.

“The old cliche says that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t there,” the singer once recalled. “Well, I was there all right, but my memory of them is blurred — not by any drugs I took but by the relentless pace of the schedule I set myself.”

Williams’ plaintive tenor, boyish features and wholesome, middle-America appeal helped him outlast many of the rock stars who had displaced him and such fellow crooners as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. He remained on the charts into the 1970s, hosting hugely popular Christmas TV specials, and continued to perform in his 80s at the Moon River Theatre he built in Branson, Mo.
Title: Re: Andy Williams, 84
Post by: Pandora on September 26, 2012, 11:36:28 AM
RIP.

Boy, they seem to be dropping like flies lately.
Title: Re: Andy Williams, 84
Post by: IronDioPriest on September 26, 2012, 11:38:04 AM
RIP.

Boy, they seem to be dropping like flies lately.

The older we get, the more they drop. It's just the nature of things, I suppose. As we come closer to the time when our peers begin to die of old age... well... it's the nature of things.
Title: Re: Andy Williams, 84
Post by: Libertas on September 26, 2012, 12:04:09 PM
My Father liked his tunes.

RIP Andy.
Title: Re: Andy Williams, 84
Post by: LadyVirginia on September 26, 2012, 03:15:47 PM
RIP

Andy Williams Christmas Special (1985) - Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kubaJAGoWeA#)


I've always liked his versions of Christmas songs.  You know when I was younger I thought he was so old.
Title: Re: Andy Williams, 84
Post by: Alphabet Soup on September 26, 2012, 10:07:38 PM
RIP.

Boy, they seem to be dropping like flies lately.

The older we get, the more they drop. It's just the nature of things, I suppose. As we come closer to the time when our peers begin to die of old age... well... it's the nature of things.

"I get up in the morning and scan the obituaries. If I don't see my name I make breakfast" - Henny Youngman
Title: Re: Andy Williams, 84
Post by: John Florida on September 27, 2012, 11:39:05 AM
My mom was very upset by this,she always saw him as a nice talented man.BTW he was a repub.