"track by director Blake Edwards, and an interview with Jack Lemmon. A LaserDisc was released in 1990. Days of Wine and Roses (film) Days of Wine and Roses is a 1962 drama film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 ""Playhouse 90"" teleplay of the same name. The movie was produced by Martin Manulis, with music by Henry Mancini, and features Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford and Jack Klugman. The film depicts the downward spiral of two average Americans who succumb to alcoholism and attempt to deal with their problems. An"
"Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (or simply Academy Award Winners) is a 1964 album by Frank Sinatra, focusing on songs that won the Academy Award for Best Song. The orchestra is arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing for Allmusic.com gave the album a lukewarm review, describing it as a 'professional and stylish album' but saying that it 'only yields a handful of true gems'. Erlewine found neither Sinatra or Riddle at fault, but"
"said that the record plays as 'a series of individual moments, not as a cohesive collection'. Erlewine praises ""The Way You Look Tonight"" as one of Sinatra's 'classic performances', and rates ""Three Coins in the Fountain"" and ""All the Way"" highly. Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (or simply Academy Award Winners) is a 1964 album by Frank Sinatra, focusing on songs that won the Academy Award for Best Song. The orchestra is arranged and conducted by Nelson"
"Grammy in 1963 for engineering the ""Hatari!"" soundtrack by Henry Mancini. The song ""Moon River"" and its won two Grammy awards in 1961 as well as an Academy Award for Best Song with its appearance in the film ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". He was awarded two Latin Grammy Awards in 2000 including Album of the Year. In 2005 he won five Grammys for his work on Ray Charles' ""Genius Loves Company"", including Album of the Year, setting the record for most Grammys won by an engineer or mixer in one night. In 2006, he was given the Grammy Trustees Lifetime Achievement"
"Henry Mancini Enrico Nicola ""Henry"" Mancini (; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the theme and soundtrack for the ""Peter Gunn"" television series as well as the music for ""The Pink Panther"" film series (""The Pink Panther Theme"") and ""Moon River"" from ""Breakfast"
"have covered the song include Rod Stewart in ""Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V"" (2010), which charted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and Barbra Streisand in ""The Movie Album"" (2003), a Grammy-nominated gold album. Diffuser.fm named these the ""Top 5 Alt-Rock"" versions of the song: The Killers, Glasvegas, R.E.M., Morrissey and Josh Ritter. Moon River ""Moon River"" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song"
"written. I played it for Audrey and Stanley. Both felt it was just right for the movie. Johnny Mercer added his poetry, and the song was nominated for an Oscar that year"". Henry Mancini's version reached #15 on the adult contemporary chart and #36 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1963. Andy Williams released a version that reached #100 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1964. Sammy Kaye also released a version in 1964 that reached #10 on the adult contemporary chart and #36 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. As with ""Moon River"" and ""The Days of Wine and Roses,"""
"Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes is the ninth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released on March 26, 1962 by Columbia Records and covered film songs that were mostly from the previous decade. The album made its first appearance on ""Billboard"" magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated May 12 of that year and remained there for 176 weeks (the longest chart run of any of his albums), peaking at number 3. The album received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on October"
"Andy Williams Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold-certified and three platinum-certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted ""The Andy Williams Show"", a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, and numerous TV specials. ""The Andy Williams Show"" won three Emmy awards. The Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri is named after the song for which he is best known—Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's ""Moon River"". He sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including more"
"mind when he composed his Academy Award-winning theme to the film ""Days of Wine and Roses"": ""For the first yawning notes of this score, he was hearing the solid round tone of studio veteran French horn soloist Vince DeRosa, and that became the voice of solitude in the film.” This theme won the 1962 Academy Award for best song. DeRosa's impact on studio horn playing was significant, and set a new standard for studio horn parts. As a sideman on thousands of sessions and a horn instructor at USC and elsewhere, DeRosa influenced many musicians and composers. The list below"
"Gotta Give"". In 1961, he wrote the lyrics to ""Moon River"" for Audrey Hepburn in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" and for ""Days of Wine and Roses,"" both with music by Henry Mancini, and Mercer received his third and fourth Oscars for Best Song. The back-to-back Oscars were the first time a songwriting team had achieved that feat. Mercer, also with Mancini, wrote ""Charade"" for the 1963 Cary Grant-Audrey Hepburn romantic thriller with the same name. The Tony Bennett classic ""I Wanna Be Around"" was written by Mercer in 1962, as was the Sinatra hit ""Summer Wind"" in 1965. An indication of"
"their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""Hatari!"" (1962), ""Touch of Evil"" (1958) and ""Wait Until Dark"" (1967) were also nominated for the list. Mancini was nominated for seventy-two Grammy Awards and won twenty. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards and won four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 1961, Mancini won two Academy Awards, one for ""Moon River"" for Best Original Song and one for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for the movie ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". In"
"Hits"". From the liner notes for the original album: The Academy Award-Winning ""Call Me Irresponsible"" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies The Academy Award-Winning ""Call Me Irresponsible"" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies is the fourteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1964 by Columbia Records. Williams had already had great success with his albums named after Henry Mancini's Oscar winners from 1961 and 1962, ""Moon River"" and ""Days of Wine and Roses"", and was asked to sing Mancini and Johnny Mercer's title song collaboration from the 1963 film"
"Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the ""golden age"" of musical theatre. Five of their Broadway shows, ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", ""South Pacific"", ""The King and I"" and ""The Sound of Music"", were outstanding successes, as was the television broadcast of ""Cinderella"" (1957). Of the other four that the team produced on Broadway during their lifetimes, ""Flower Drum Song"" was"
"Nellee Hooper Nellee Hooper (born 15 March 1963) is a British record producer, remixer and songwriter known for his work with many major recording artists beginning in the late 1980s. He also debuted as a motion picture music composer with famed Scottish composer Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries for the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's ""Romeo + Juliet"" in 1996. Hooper has produced six Grammy Award-winning albums for artists including Smashing Pumpkins, U2 (best song and album), Soul II Soul, and Sinead O'Connor. He has also been awarded ""Q"" magazine's Best Producer award and twice been Music Week Producer of"
"Burt Bacharach Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. , he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music. His music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background"
"Marty Manning Martin ""Marty"" Manning (April 26, 1916 – November 22, 1971) was a Grammy-winning American arranger and conductor of popular music, most noted for his work at Columbia Records in the 1950s and early 1960s when he was ""one of the most in-demand arrangers and conductors on the New York studio scene"". He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and learned the violin. By the early 1940s, he was established as a freelance arranger and worked on radio shows for both NBC and CBS. He started working regularly for Columbia Records in the early 1950s, and found success in 1953"
"McNutt (""Mandy and Alecto""); Ernest Buckler (""The Valley and the Mountain""); Archibald MacMechan (""Red Snow on Grand Pré""), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (long poem ""Evangeline""); Lawrence Hill (""The Book of Negroes"") and John Mack Faragher (""Great and Nobel Scheme""). Nova Scotia has produced numerous musicians. The Grammy Award winners include Denny Doherty (from The Mamas & the Papas), Anne Murray, and Sarah McLachlan. Other musicians include country singer Hank Snow, country singer George Canyon, jazz singer Holly Cole, opera singers Portia White and Barbara Hannigan, multi-Juno Award nominated rapper Classified, Rita MacNeil, Matt Mays, Sloan, Feist, Todd Fancey, The Rankin Family,"
"of the rhyme and metre of the works, a Blakean performance could be approximately replicated. In 1969, he conceived, arranged, directed, sang on, and played piano and harmonium for an album of songs entitled ""Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake, tuned by Allen Ginsberg"" (1970). The composer William Bolcom completed a setting of the entire collection of poems in 1984. In 2005, a recording of Bolcom's work by Leonard Slatkin, the Michigan State Children's Choir, and the University of Michigan on the Naxos label won four Grammy Awards: Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best Classical Album,"
"Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music. Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top American entertainment awards in television, recording, movies and Broadway – an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award"
"fortnight ago."" William Ruhlmann of Allmusic felt that Williams did a ""masterful version"" of the title track and ""also does well with the rest of the songs,"" calling the album ""a highlight in the singer's career."" From the liner notes for the original album: Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes is the ninth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released on March 26, 1962 by Columbia Records and covered film songs that were mostly from the previous decade. The album made its first appearance on ""Billboard"" magazine's Top"
"David Rose (songwriter) David Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were ""The Stripper"", ""Holiday for Strings"", and ""Calypso Melody"". He also wrote music for many television series, including ""It's a Great Life"", ""The Tony Martin Show"", ""Little House on the Prairie"", ""Highway to Heaven"", ""Bonanza"", and ""Highway Patrol"" under the pseudonym ""Ray Llewellyn."" Rose's work in composing music for television programs earned him four Emmys. In addition, he was musical director for ""The Red Skelton Show"" during its 21-year run on the CBS and"
"David Rose (songwriter) David Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were ""The Stripper"", ""Holiday for Strings"", and ""Calypso Melody"". He also wrote music for many television series, including ""It's a Great Life"", ""The Tony Martin Show"", ""Little House on the Prairie"", ""Highway to Heaven"", ""Bonanza"", and ""Highway Patrol"" under the pseudonym ""Ray Llewellyn."" Rose's work in composing music for television programs earned him four Emmys. In addition, he was musical director for ""The Red Skelton Show"" during its 21-year run on the CBS and"
"14, 1963, and thus became Williams's earliest recording to achieve this honor but not, however, the first to do so. His ""Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests"" album, which was released in April 1963, received its Gold certification just one month prior to this one. By 1967, the album had sold more than two million copies. ""Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes"" was released on compact disc for the first time by Columbia in 1987. It was also released as one of two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution on May 15, 2001, the"
"30 films over 35 years. Along with Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Leith Stevens and Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini was a pioneer of the inclusion of jazz elements in the late romantic orchestral film and TV scoring prevalent at the time. Mancini's scores for Blake Edwards included ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (with the standard ""Moon River"") and ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (with the title song, ""Days of Wine and Roses""), as well as ""Experiment in Terror"", ""The Pink Panther"" (and all of its sequels), ""The Great Race"", ""The Party"", ""10"" (including ""It's Easy to Say"") and ""Victor Victoria"". Another director with"
"and Henry Mancini. Williams recorded with Henry Mancini the film scores of 1959's ""Peter Gunn"", 1962's ""Days of Wine and Roses"", and 1963's ""Charade"". (Williams actually played the well-recognized opening riff to Mancini's ""Peter Gunn"" theme.) Williams (sometimes credited as ""Johnny Williams"", because of the already established actor of the same name) composed music for various television programs in the 1960s: the pilot episode of ""Gilligan's Island"", ""Bachelor Father"" (1959–1960), the ""Kraft Suspense Theatre"", ""Lost in Space"" (1965–68), ""The Time Tunnel"" (1966–67), and ""Land of the Giants"" (the last three created by the prolific TV producer, Irwin Allen). Williams's first"
"Rob Wasserman Rob Wasserman (April 1, 1952 – June 29, 2016) was an American composer and bass player. A Grammy Award and NEA grant winner, he played and recorded with a wide variety of musicians including Bob Weir, Bruce Cockburn, Elvis Costello, Ani di Franco, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Stéphane Grappelli, Rickie Lee Jones, Van Morrison, Aaron Neville, Lou Reed, Pete Seeger, Jules Shear, Brian Wilson, Chris Whitley, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Perkins, Banyan, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and Ratdog. He is best known for his own work on the trilogy of albums, ""Solo"", ""Duets"","
"Think You Can Dance"" with judges Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Carly Rae Jepsen. Laura Sullivan (composer) Laura Sullivan is an American composer, arranger, pianist, producer, author, and a New-age, World, Spoken Word, Native American, and Pop music artist. She has worked with leading musicians of the industry and Grammy award winners including Eric Sullivan, Nancy Rumbel, Jeff Oster, Eugene Friesen, and Will Ackerman. She is best known for her album, ""Love's River"", which won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. ""Love’s River"" was recognized as one of the best commercial productions"
"Earle Brown Earle Brown (December 26, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems. Brown was the creator of open form, a style of musical construction that has influenced many composers since—notably the downtown New York scene of the 1980s (see John Zorn) and generations of younger composers. Among his most famous works are ""December 1952,"" an entirely graphic score, and the open form pieces ""Available Forms I & II"", ""Centering"", and ""Cross Sections and Color Fields"". He was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award (1998). Brown was"
"Joe South Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for ""Games People Play"" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for ""Rose Garden"". South started his pop career in July 1958 with the NRC Records novelty hit ""The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor"". After this hit, South's music grew increasingly serious. In 1959, South wrote two songs which were recorded by Gene Vincent: ""I Might"
"Laura Sullivan (composer) Laura Sullivan is an American composer, arranger, pianist, producer, author, and a New-age, World, Spoken Word, Native American, and Pop music artist. She has worked with leading musicians of the industry and Grammy award winners including Eric Sullivan, Nancy Rumbel, Jeff Oster, Eugene Friesen, and Will Ackerman. She is best known for her album, ""Love's River"", which won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. ""Love’s River"" was recognized as one of the best commercial productions by Will Ackerman after 2009. Laura Sullivan was raised in a farm in NorCal"
"ever written throughout the 1960s and '70s, ""Days of Heaven"" earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Score, with his score up against Jerry Goldsmith's ""The Boys from Brazil"", Dave Grusin's ""Heaven Can Wait"", Giorgio Moroder's ""Midnight Express"" (the eventual winner) and John Williams's ""Superman: The Movie"" at the Oscar ceremonies in 1979. In 1979, Morricone provided the music for the thriller ""Bloodline"", directed by Terence Young, best known for directing the James Bond films ""Dr. No"" (1962), ""From Russia with Love"" (1963), and ""Thunderball"" (1965). Subsequently, the composer was asked to score Michael Ritchie's ""The Island"" (1980,"
"Rod McKuen Rodney Marvin ""Rod"" McKuen (April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and actor. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. McKuen's translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of"