Reviews for Moon River and Me: A Memoir

The average rating for Moon River and Me: A Memoir based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-01 00:00:00 Terence Mullins I guess I am a little biased on this book.... Andy Williams was to me one of the best singers, a legend and up there with the best.... Also one of my all time favourite songs is "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" I really enjoy an autobiography when you really have some great stories about all the legends, singers, actors and much more. Really was a singer from twelve years old and worked hard from such a young age singing alongside three brothers and yes hard work and they found fame.. But the interesting stories come in later years as a solo artist, working with so many great stars, talents, seeing new stars, findings new stars and telling so many funny stories about them. Andy Williams in a sincere, honest and a hard working singer, who spent his life trying to believe he was a good singer, and as good as many other singers, and gosh he was ! A story that explains so clearly his deep friendships, his great heartbreaks, his hard work singing in clubs after clubs for years before finding success in the late 50's and early 60's. To his success in Las Vegas, his stories about Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop, Bobby Kennedy, The Osmonds, and so many more but especially Fred MacMurray and Sean Connery! His love for golf, tennis, painting, and his gamble building The Moon River Theatre. I loved this book, the stories, the honesty and the humour. A legend. Five stars from me

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-06 00:00:00 Evan Oller What happens in Oslo, stays in Oslo. That is why I purchased this memoir by Andy Williams. While I had heard his music and knew him as a famous singer, it was an appearance he made on the radio show, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me that had me looking at him in a different way. The boyish tenor had a sense of humor? Okay, let me read about that. Williams does not spend the book dissing his peers or going on too much about himself. The reader discovers that Andy never had great confidence and he mostly dreaded going onstage to perform. As he grew older and more famous, he eventually learned to love his profession and his one chapter on the dark side of his life, when he had to sing in tiny clubs to people who didn't care, showed he made his own luck. Williams had a father who drove Andy and his brothers to perform as a group (they were the Williams Brothers before Andy broke out) and the book compares the stressful situations to the fathers of the Osmond Brothers and the Jackson 5. Interesting. Thanks to YouTube, I found a clip featuring the brothers Williams and Osmonds performing a Christmas show. I didn't know that Williams had an ex-wife who was accused of killing her famous skiing boyfriend. Williams believed she was innocent and stuck by her, although I always have suspicions whenever a person is "accidentally" killed in their bathroom as they are just about to step into the shower. I didn't know that Andy Williams was the very first host of the Grammy Awards or that he changed the Branson, Missouri scene when he opened his top-of-the-line showplace there. I didn't know that it was Williams who paid to have the "W" letter replaced in the iconic Hollywood sign when Hollywood was staggering. So I did learn a few things. But I prefer the Andy Williams of the 1960s, wearing those cool Sixties sweaters and singing in that angelic tenor. Later plastic surgery made him look rather strange to me, but his music lives on. Music which, thanks to this book, I am now downloading and appreciating. If I'm remembered at all, I hope to be thought of as a good man who brought much joy to many people, but above all I want to be remembered for my music. Book Season = Summer (convene to make the scene)