I remember Christmas shopping with my Mom & Dad in Quincy Mass. Lee worked in the family store Remick's of Quincy. fond memories. Rest in peace Lee; you are loved..
To those who think today's music is good. Listen to the clarity of the voice. Listen to the beauty of the instruments and the arrangement. Listen to the background voices. To those who think today's music is good......this is what is called good music....pay attention.
When I was kid I watched the movie 'Days of Wine and Roses' on TV. It really had an effect on me. Such a sad movie. I was only twelve but as I became an adult and my friends would drink I remembered this movie. I was determined not to let alcohol ruin my life. I love the song and it takes me back. When my kids were little we would listen Andy Williams as we ate our dinner. The kids would sing it was a wonderful time of my life. What's happened to music?
@torrents4u2c The new generation. My generation does not know music. They know screaming and cussing and drugs, alcohol, and sex. They do not know anything about what Andy Williams spoke of. Sadly my friend, my generation is ignorant.
@ImDavidGurney Perhaps "John Rocker" shouldn't have tried to hit people over the head with the message!...these things have to be done subtly, beautifully, as is the fine example provided by our man Andy Williams here. Just like the Days of Wine and Roses, class acts like his are becoming faded memories...
Was a hard film to watch, surprised it didn't win oscars. If it makes you cry to see alchoholics destroy lives it must be the same w drug users. Play this song and watch those before and after photos of crack users.
This song and singer are making me nostalgic for our youth. The comments about missing our parents are choking me up. We had it good, our parents had it good and the music...well, it was simply incredible everywhere you turned...bravo Andy and Henry...
@erinmwt - interesting statement. Comparing Bill Evans to Andy Williams is like comparing the sun to the the skyline of a major city at night. Both can be impressive, both can command your attention but, like our sun, there is only one Andy Williams and like a very talented Bill Evans, there are many cities.
Such a memorable song by an extraordinary singer~~Thanks Andy Williams for spreading a bit of happiness & joy in this world & thanks "sakaopt" for posting this favorite of so many persons on YouTube. Oh the memories~!
A great melody written by Henry Mancini, sung by a fantastic singer. I use to watch him as a kid in the living room with the family. These 'cats' could sing. Just a mic them and good arrangement. CLASSIC ANDY....
A beautiful romantic song and such a sad story. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick were fantastic. How I miss the era of fine acting, and without all of the profanity, sex and violence you see in most films today.
This song reminds me of both my mom and dad who just recently passed away only within a few months of each other......they were just like Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon, a true classic....it just puts me back in my very young childhood years that were filled with love and happiness.....Mom and Dad, I miss you both very much, the tears are just streaming down as I am listening to one of their favorite songs......
@blonde789 Hi :) my parents are gone too. worst feeling I have ever had. and when i listen to this .I think of them,,,glad it was poster TY Sakaopt...Take care blonde786.
I hear this and I miss my Dad so much. I remember our childhood home in Los Angeles in the early 60's,my Mom and my brothers and all the love we had and the security of our home. It really hits my heart to hear this song.
@LosAngeleno1959 I also grew up in LA in the 60s and had great parents that listened to beautiful music like this. The younger generation has no clue.
@goodvideos101 -The younger generation still makes good music , It just doesn't get much exposure and it doesn't have to be slow and romantic to be good.
@LosAngeleno1959,I have the EXACT feelings when hearing this song for the EXACT reasons you stated.Hard to listen to but it brings back great memories of my mom/dad
Classic & beautiful. Although it's a sad movie this takes me back to an innocent time in life. Before the chaos & filth. When Mr. Hoover kept us all safe & all we had to worry about was the Mafia. Before terrorism came to our land.
Quiet serenity and beauty. The imagination takes over and i go back to a time where this music played...and people listened in appreciation. i hope to live long enough to see such an era again...
To me, the greatest singer of the hole world, even better than sinatra, and this song is not for the beginners rsrsr.....such a feeling inside!!!thanks for post!!!
I heard this song a few years ago. Then, I heard it on the radio today. Now that I am in my older years (I am 107, or at least it feels that way), and after a lifetime of living, it has such a deeper meaning. What a great song and singer. Anyone who has faced any kind of addiction knows exactly what this song means. "...aclosing door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before...", just brilliant. Thanks so much for the song.
I stop and take in this song,and my mind goes back to being a kid in the early 60's and I envision me and my brothers in our front yard,mt Dad washing his 1960 Chevy Impala and I can clearly see evry bit of that old house the way it was and both sides of my grandparents just one block away. Oh what secure wonderful times and music we had.
I've got to buy Andy williams greatest hits to play in my car. I'd forgotten what good music sounded like. i've been cruising around youtube for subjects from the 1950's up to very early 60's. I was a teenager in 1968..that was when i thought everything went into the toilet. maybe we can make a comeback.
I'm in my 20s and wish a singer like Andy Williams could come about. American Idol has been on for like 10 years and none, very sad. Maybe Simon and crew don't give a shit about this type of music, but he should since Susan Boyle is so popular, a male crooner of this type would do so well.
@DominoRyder I don't think they even teach this simpler smoother style of singing anymore. I took my daughter to 2 different techers after looking around, and neither of them gave anything like the background to be able to sing like this!
ahhhh....so beautiful and nostaligic..andy williams, this song, henry mancinni...OMG...was this song from the famous movie of the same name?? Or am I confused. In any case, LOVELY!!! The way America used to be...cultured, poetic, etc. ...Gosh, I miss those days...Love, peace, and music of the highest kind to all my fellow beings.
@handsupbud you deserve the roses, and the wine that day. like omar khayyam asked, an emptied wine cup turned down, so all will know your life carries on through other's lives.
@handsupbud You will be there. See Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. They went to their own funeral. Mark Twain doesn't lie. So start preparing your own eulogoy -- I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a funeral.
Though it's hard to argue against Andy having the best pure voice, it's important to appreciate all of them for their immense contributions and savor how unique each is. Whether it's Andy, Frank, Dean, Perry, Vic, Johnny...try to enjoy them all.
Over ten months ago, fellow-American bingelow, forty years my junior, responded to a note I'd dropped here about a third party's "coarse commentary." Now spammed, his note in part read "Simple ignorance is the only way. Loosen up or die."
So bingelow measures for us the extent of the decline my homeland has undergone in a simple generation and a half. I don't wish to encroach upon Andy Williams' space, so I hope he'd be happy to know I've used it in defense of the standards he helped establish.
Is it possible, is it even POSSIBLE, that this music could attract such coarse commentary as we see here? In 2009, the answer seems obviously to be yes. One must wonder if Western civilization is, after all, worth saving from the hordes who are assembling at the gate this very moment.
I doubt that it had occurred to any of us until the last few years that some in Paris may have been cheering for Attila during the Battle of Châlons in 451. Actually, though, the people who would have cheered were probably unaware that Attila was in the neighborhood. They were too busy smarting off at a civilization they were not contributing to.
Andy Williams contributed to my civilization, a civilization that seems off the radar of a great many contemporary Americans.
I have a tee shirt—they were first thought of as golfing shirts—that says "Proof that time runs backwards: my old self was young, my new self is old." But a better proof is that bingelow just dropped three profane notes to my profile and opened a separate account in the name of LSavage (dated August 8) to double his assault.
This isn't a competition between me and him but between a past that did display some grace and a present in which so many are too lost to distinguish grace from disgrace.
@bangfarang the way the hordes beat the chinese at the great wall was the guards slowly became a part of the horde, after generations of interaction. in the end they let them through, because, after all, they were the same people...
Worthwhile poem, aachel. The version I just found reads "Vice is a monster of such frightful mien / That, to be hated, needs but to be seen; / But seen too oft, familiar with her face, / We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I'd never seen that.
@bangfarang hun i just repeated that verse to myself those lines so often that i forgot the actual words. i don't even remember if it was alexander pope, drayton, southey, or someone else. i was told it at church camp (or somewhere similar) when i was a little child. you MUST have what i was originally told.
His phrasing is so clean...and like most all great vocalists from that era, he recorded "live" with the studio musicians on-site instead of adding the backing tracks later. (The movie of the same title is worth watching, also. Very sad.)
This melancholy rendering conceals a tortured outcome; Williams skillfully softens the pain; carries the sensation; mesmerizes the hearer ... and we forget the ending in the glorious memory ...
I hear this and I'm taken back to my childhood home in Los Angeles in the early 60's and I wish I could stay there. I had my Mom,Dad and brothers in our home and I had everything. What great days those were and a great time to be a kid.
andy did such a wonderful job in this recording but unfortunately for him, mr sinatra cut a rendition of it that is now FRANCIS ALBERT'S DNA, IT'S IN A CLASS ALL ITS OWN, try to get a copy, it's so great you want to hear it again and again, just like all of fas classics
Andy has a beautiful way of presenting the melody of a song. His early recordings and holiday selections are a true part of the great American songbook.
I really like all these deep classic voices.... today's voices are so much different..... not saying that they're worse or better..... but these old ones have a certain soothing ring to it, while modern ones (the slow, deep ones, I mean) just won't do that trick..... Wish I could go to one of this guy's concerts
It's because the method of learning was different. But, you really had to know how to SING in those days. There was no frills and no special effects to mask a lack of talent. Those old microphones and speakers were unforgiving!
This is a beautiful song, sung by one of the greatest entertainers of alltimes. The loss of the "Twin Towers and the thousands of innocent lives" is extremely sad but something that took place that must never be forgotton.
I love this song! and that's movie is beautiful!!
zonotty 1 week ago
This is a very "descriptive" video. =p
rebeccaruiz70 2 weeks ago
I remember Christmas shopping with my Mom & Dad in Quincy Mass. Lee worked in the family store Remick's of Quincy. fond memories. Rest in peace Lee; you are loved..
SrPatepluma 1 month ago
escuchen la versión de dina boncheva, es fabulosa xD
DragonyWC 1 month ago
hermosa melodia, pero la pelicula es muy triste, inolvidable.
adolfo3039 2 months ago in playlist Más vídeos de sakaopt
To those who think today's music is good. Listen to the clarity of the voice. Listen to the beauty of the instruments and the arrangement. Listen to the background voices. To those who think today's music is good......this is what is called good music....pay attention.
mrbigkell 2 months ago
Beautiful song!!(*^。^*)☆
MilkyPinkPet 2 months ago
When I was kid I watched the movie 'Days of Wine and Roses' on TV. It really had an effect on me. Such a sad movie. I was only twelve but as I became an adult and my friends would drink I remembered this movie. I was determined not to let alcohol ruin my life. I love the song and it takes me back. When my kids were little we would listen Andy Williams as we ate our dinner. The kids would sing it was a wonderful time of my life. What's happened to music?
torrents4u2c 5 months ago
@torrents4u2c The new generation. My generation does not know music. They know screaming and cussing and drugs, alcohol, and sex. They do not know anything about what Andy Williams spoke of. Sadly my friend, my generation is ignorant.
rippletail 5 months ago
OMG, the beautiful New York skyline with the twin towers!... sigh.... such wonderful memories, that world seems like another universe away now...
TheEldoradoKid 6 months ago
@TheEldoradoKid This is what John Rocker was trying to tell the world but they wouldn't listen.
ImDavidGurney 6 months ago
@ImDavidGurney Perhaps "John Rocker" shouldn't have tried to hit people over the head with the message!...these things have to be done subtly, beautifully, as is the fine example provided by our man Andy Williams here. Just like the Days of Wine and Roses, class acts like his are becoming faded memories...
TheEldoradoKid 6 months ago
Was a hard film to watch, surprised it didn't win oscars. If it makes you cry to see alchoholics destroy lives it must be the same w drug users. Play this song and watch those before and after photos of crack users.
jbadal1 7 months ago
This song and singer are making me nostalgic for our youth. The comments about missing our parents are choking me up. We had it good, our parents had it good and the music...well, it was simply incredible everywhere you turned...bravo Andy and Henry...
woolleybugger2 7 months ago
what is this genre called?
Zkrudriverz 8 months ago
@Zkrudriverz Easylistening music..or as some would say....elevator music.
willida11 5 months ago
@willida11 naah but it's in a lot of movies too! this kind of music that is
Zkrudriverz 5 months ago
Bill Evans......... Ten times better
erinmwt 11 months ago
@erinmwt - interesting statement. Comparing Bill Evans to Andy Williams is like comparing the sun to the the skyline of a major city at night. Both can be impressive, both can command your attention but, like our sun, there is only one Andy Williams and like a very talented Bill Evans, there are many cities.
Squirrlyburt 11 months ago
@Squirrlyburt well......VERY well put
sirwob 9 months ago
@erinmwt How can You compare pianist and singer?
arthurjohnblond 10 months ago
Andy does this beautiful song, pure justice!! Thanks Hank & Andy!
(this will be played at my memorial service!)
BrentAW100 11 months ago 2
Youre right, play it in my funeral too.
Deathbringer86 11 months ago
absolutely wonderful - thank you for posting this!
crazyam808 1 year ago 2
Such a memorable song by an extraordinary singer~~Thanks Andy Williams for spreading a bit of happiness & joy in this world & thanks "sakaopt" for posting this favorite of so many persons on YouTube. Oh the memories~!
OldTownSpringTX 1 year ago
The voice of velvet wrapped by silk touching the tenderness of the naked skin.
Imagin Snoop dog sings this song-how can you describe it?
I feel sorry for this generation,we live in the society of low quality.
I am so pleased I was his fan since I was a young girl. Thanks Andy
Williums for giving us a wonderful world of good music.
56EnTiTy 1 year ago
I think I'll scalp tickets for handsupbud's funeral. Y'innerested, bangfarang?
nauort23 1 year ago
beautiful song, delivered by a guy who got lost amongst the male vocalists of his era, yes, andy was one of the best, truly smooth
RonyMexico 1 year ago
A great melody written by Henry Mancini, sung by a fantastic singer. I use to watch him as a kid in the living room with the family. These 'cats' could sing. Just a mic them and good arrangement. CLASSIC ANDY....
peppersax 1 year ago
A beautiful romantic song and such a sad story. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick were fantastic. How I miss the era of fine acting, and without all of the profanity, sex and violence you see in most films today.
emeraldvenus 1 year ago 2
l love the movie and the song!! great version by andy williams!!
TheLadyjazzy1 1 year ago
the pics go with the video. no half naked chicks with their boobs hanging out.
TheNeergnhoj 1 year ago
This song reminds me of both my mom and dad who just recently passed away only within a few months of each other......they were just like Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon, a true classic....it just puts me back in my very young childhood years that were filled with love and happiness.....Mom and Dad, I miss you both very much, the tears are just streaming down as I am listening to one of their favorite songs......
blonde789 1 year ago 7
@blonde789 Hi :) my parents are gone too. worst feeling I have ever had. and when i listen to this .I think of them,,,glad it was poster TY Sakaopt...Take care blonde786.
MdNgtRyder 2 months ago
Absolutely beautiful!
tasceaie1493 1 year ago
I hear this and I miss my Dad so much. I remember our childhood home in Los Angeles in the early 60's,my Mom and my brothers and all the love we had and the security of our home. It really hits my heart to hear this song.
LosAngeleno1959 1 year ago 25
@LosAngeleno1959 I also grew up in LA in the 60s and had great parents that listened to beautiful music like this. The younger generation has no clue.
interiorhighlands 11 months ago
@interiorhighlands Old age has also given you a moronic generalization and ignorant stereotype of the younger generation.
goodvideos101 10 months ago
@goodvideos101 -The younger generation still makes good music , It just doesn't get much exposure and it doesn't have to be slow and romantic to be good.
appapo3 9 months ago
@LosAngeleno1959,I have the EXACT feelings when hearing this song for the EXACT reasons you stated.Hard to listen to but it brings back great memories of my mom/dad
MrRusty058 1 month ago 2
Classic & beautiful. Although it's a sad movie this takes me back to an innocent time in life. Before the chaos & filth. When Mr. Hoover kept us all safe & all we had to worry about was the Mafia. Before terrorism came to our land.
StevieB1362 1 year ago
*Sigh!* SO nice. The photo montage was lovely, & made me feel deeply homesick.
RainbowZen999 1 year ago
no one else can touch this....
Geraldolini 1 year ago
i did alot of drinking in this city way too much its over now i hope oh how easy it is too get into and so hard to get out.
neweast1 1 year ago
sakaopt, thanks for posting. Awesome visuals along with the one of the world's greatest songs.
pjstrupp 1 year ago
@pjstrupp
neweast1 1 year ago
@pjstrupp and cities
neweast1 1 year ago
Theme from the 1962 movie "The Days of Wine and Roses" starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick.
nancyfloressantos 1 year ago
Just e-mail me and I'll show up.
handsupbud 1 year ago
Quiet serenity and beauty. The imagination takes over and i go back to a time where this music played...and people listened in appreciation. i hope to live long enough to see such an era again...
MrGchiasson 1 year ago
Andy is simply untouchable on The Godfather theme and Love Story theme. I like this song but he's just amazing on those.
mcpm4 1 year ago
To me, the greatest singer of the hole world, even better than sinatra, and this song is not for the beginners rsrsr.....such a feeling inside!!!thanks for post!!!
douglasmrjones 1 year ago
can anyone find...coloring book by andy williams???? my fav song...my papa sang it to me
revsowan 1 year ago
A closing door, indeed -and its still close, as it will remain..
tomk773 1 year ago
I remember this song from my childhood -it makes me cry...
tomk773 1 year ago
I heard this song a few years ago. Then, I heard it on the radio today. Now that I am in my older years (I am 107, or at least it feels that way), and after a lifetime of living, it has such a deeper meaning. What a great song and singer. Anyone who has faced any kind of addiction knows exactly what this song means. "...aclosing door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before...", just brilliant. Thanks so much for the song.
pepperquentin 1 year ago
Just too beautiful I wonder if there's anyone else who can make such great songs in the 21st century.
KaliumPoppi 1 year ago
@KaliumPoppi none
virgie0714 1 year ago
my all time favorite song and singer !!! oh how glorious listening to him !!!
78cnup 1 year ago
The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before
The lonely night discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you
puffykhan 1 year ago
I stop and take in this song,and my mind goes back to being a kid in the early 60's and I envision me and my brothers in our front yard,mt Dad washing his 1960 Chevy Impala and I can clearly see evry bit of that old house the way it was and both sides of my grandparents just one block away. Oh what secure wonderful times and music we had.
LosAngeleno1959 1 year ago 2
Is Andy Williams still alive? Does he work with COSMIO PROPELLOR?
electricslipper 1 year ago
I've got to buy Andy williams greatest hits to play in my car. I'd forgotten what good music sounded like. i've been cruising around youtube for subjects from the 1950's up to very early 60's. I was a teenager in 1968..that was when i thought everything went into the toilet. maybe we can make a comeback.
MrGchiasson 1 year ago
Where I live, you can't hear decent songs on the radio like this. Just rap r&b, metal, classical, rock, top 40. Nothing from my parents era.
Sheri451 1 year ago
The perfect style and voice for this song
denidowi 1 year ago
I'm in my 20s and wish a singer like Andy Williams could come about. American Idol has been on for like 10 years and none, very sad. Maybe Simon and crew don't give a shit about this type of music, but he should since Susan Boyle is so popular, a male crooner of this type would do so well.
DominoRyder 1 year ago
@DominoRyder I don't think they even teach this simpler smoother style of singing anymore. I took my daughter to 2 different techers after looking around, and neither of them gave anything like the background to be able to sing like this!
denidowi 1 year ago
ahhhh....so beautiful and nostaligic..andy williams, this song, henry mancinni...OMG...was this song from the famous movie of the same name?? Or am I confused. In any case, LOVELY!!! The way America used to be...cultured, poetic, etc. ...Gosh, I miss those days...Love, peace, and music of the highest kind to all my fellow beings.
lotusbuds2000 1 year ago
mancini and mercer and andy's chillingly smooth vocals...perfection
4bawbees 1 year ago
Essa música é uma das maiores relíquias de Mancini! Andy Williams é um grande intérprete de músicas românticas!
Edinhordg 1 year ago
so touching, soothing, sad and melancholy.
alaswoe2u 1 year ago
A great song, and a great movie.... but very very sad.
gwatson678 1 year ago
a song about drinking, youth and romance, of days gone by.
alaswoe2u 1 year ago
my fav andy williams song ! PURE MINT !!!!!!
78cnup 2 years ago
I hope they play this song at my funeral...if anybody comes.
handsupbud 2 years ago 69
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kimoltr 1 year ago
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kimoltr 1 year ago
.... are you sure...? :)
gwatson678 1 year ago
@handsupbud you echoed my thoughts. what a sweet comment. thank you.
lotusbuds2000 1 year ago
@handsupbud I'll come if food is served.... and I'll bring a date
gwatson678 1 year ago
@handsupbud I'll come. If I go first, will you come to minbe?
laff2010 1 year ago
@handsupbud no one will show up except for me to take a dump on your headstone
LSavageIV 1 year ago
@handsupbud I think too....Aer you feel lonly? Me too....I drunk and sing this song.....
piyochanlove 1 year ago
@handsupbud you deserve the roses, and the wine that day. like omar khayyam asked, an emptied wine cup turned down, so all will know your life carries on through other's lives.
aachelabelaaron 1 year ago
@handsupbud
:-))) ...ironic thought, but witty...
MagnusFogg 1 year ago
@handsupbud
I'm sure they will, don't think about such things!!
Janbo995 1 year ago
@handsupbud that's a very sad statement.
gwatson678 1 year ago
@handsupbud .....will there be food?
gwatson678 9 months ago
@handsupbud You're loved more than you may know...
Sincopare 9 months ago
@handsupbud Well ,nothings happened yet but December 21 2012 is just around the corner so we'll see.
handsupbud 8 months ago
@handsupbud You will be there. See Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. They went to their own funeral. Mark Twain doesn't lie. So start preparing your own eulogoy -- I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a funeral.
redfordforpresident 5 months ago
@handsupbud We played it at my mum's funeral, although that was Matt Monroe's version which is better IMO.
geoffmurrell 5 months ago
@handsupbud forever alone
lehman 4 months ago
Wonderful Henry Mancini...
ciatro 2 years ago
...what a sad,beautiful song....
OlymPigs2010 2 years ago
My most favorite song
jb478000 2 years ago 3
Wow..now I feel like going to the city.
xxDarkHeartxx731 2 years ago 2
Perry Como sings this just as good as Andy.
LDis1 2 years ago
The beautiful soft falsetto voice of one of the greatest singers ever! I could just listen to him all day. Priceless!!
54nomore 2 years ago
The art of music and Andy Williams, Thankyou God.
SidewayRocking 2 years ago 3
Wonderful lyrics and beautiful singing an unstoppable combination.
ErichH68 2 years ago 4
I love it;-)
agnesqs 2 years ago
my girlfriend used to sing this song so beautifully.
OrangeDynamo 2 years ago
Song based on Ernest Dowson's 19th century poem "Vita Summa Brevis":
They are not long the weeping and the laughter
Love and desire and hate
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate
They are not long the days of wine and roses
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while then closes
Inside a dream
zzheavensdoor 2 years ago 2
yes this it....xxxx
mdbristow1 2 years ago 2
best version hands down and the ending is so smooth and beautiful I could listen to that all day.
ruedydude 2 years ago 2
one of the most beautiful songs-ever
RonyMexico 2 years ago 3
Better than Sinatra.
giverson000 2 years ago
@giverson000 And with less Mafia!
LeighHobnob 2 years ago
(Thank God there's American music)
micheletbruno 2 years ago
magnifique...
micheletbruno 2 years ago
one of the most intuitive and feeling singers ever with a super smoothness never matched. thanks-
btsg 2 years ago 6
Keep it simple-it's just beautiful music
tinker4917 2 years ago 3
Though it's hard to argue against Andy having the best pure voice, it's important to appreciate all of them for their immense contributions and savor how unique each is. Whether it's Andy, Frank, Dean, Perry, Vic, Johnny...try to enjoy them all.
MrUnc82alum 2 years ago 5
His voice simply smooths, like a 20-year scotch.
Sincopare 2 years ago 9
@Sincopare Oh yes I agree. Smooth as aged Scotch!
ChowHallCommando 9 months ago
pleasant:)
loopsnhoops 2 years ago
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Blow it out your aggrandizing ass bangfarang. Simple ignorance is the only way. Loosen up or die.
bingelow08 2 years ago
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bangfarang 1 year ago
Over ten months ago, fellow-American bingelow, forty years my junior, responded to a note I'd dropped here about a third party's "coarse commentary." Now spammed, his note in part read "Simple ignorance is the only way. Loosen up or die."
So bingelow measures for us the extent of the decline my homeland has undergone in a simple generation and a half. I don't wish to encroach upon Andy Williams' space, so I hope he'd be happy to know I've used it in defense of the standards he helped establish.
bangfarang 1 year ago
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dust the cob webs of your senile old cock Andy
bingelow08 2 years ago
Is it possible, is it even POSSIBLE, that this music could attract such coarse commentary as we see here? In 2009, the answer seems obviously to be yes. One must wonder if Western civilization is, after all, worth saving from the hordes who are assembling at the gate this very moment.
bangfarang 2 years ago 29
@bangfarang hey, base humor is what America is all about.... :)
gwatson678 1 year ago
I doubt that it had occurred to any of us until the last few years that some in Paris may have been cheering for Attila during the Battle of Châlons in 451. Actually, though, the people who would have cheered were probably unaware that Attila was in the neighborhood. They were too busy smarting off at a civilization they were not contributing to.
Andy Williams contributed to my civilization, a civilization that seems off the radar of a great many contemporary Americans.
bangfarang 1 year ago
@bangfarang You sir are a fucking moron
LSavageIV 1 year ago
I have a tee shirt—they were first thought of as golfing shirts—that says "Proof that time runs backwards: my old self was young, my new self is old." But a better proof is that bingelow just dropped three profane notes to my profile and opened a separate account in the name of LSavage (dated August 8) to double his assault.
This isn't a competition between me and him but between a past that did display some grace and a present in which so many are too lost to distinguish grace from disgrace.
bangfarang 1 year ago
@bangfarang the way the hordes beat the chinese at the great wall was the guards slowly became a part of the horde, after generations of interaction. in the end they let them through, because, after all, they were the same people...
"That evil hath such a frightful mien,
that to abhor it, it need but be seen.
And yet too often, familiar with her face,
we first endure, then pity, then embrace...."=C
aachelabelaaron 1 year ago
Worthwhile poem, aachel. The version I just found reads "Vice is a monster of such frightful mien / That, to be hated, needs but to be seen; / But seen too oft, familiar with her face, / We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I'd never seen that.
bangfarang 1 year ago
@bangfarang hun i just repeated that verse to myself those lines so often that i forgot the actual words. i don't even remember if it was alexander pope, drayton, southey, or someone else. i was told it at church camp (or somewhere similar) when i was a little child. you MUST have what i was originally told.
aachelabelaaron 1 year ago
@aachelabelaaron i called dryden "drayton" lol =D
aachelabelaaron 1 year ago
@bangfarang
My gosh how beautiful you said that,
I come here to hear the music of my youth,cry because it is gone.
But more than that ,that whole way of life is gone, and believe me kids,it will never ever be as good as our
youth years, I'm 62 and just love 40's,50'sand 60's music. THE BEST EVER !!!
peacequiet 1 year ago
You're very generous, peacequiet.
bangfarang 1 year ago
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Hey Goldnuggetby,, you're an asshole too! are you I06's bitch,,,,,,,,,,,bitch! you can both eat shit and die. How do you like them apples?:(
colonelcorn56 2 years ago
cancion bellisima. un artista de cuerpo entero. cuando lo escucho, pienso en mi vida, mi familia
oh dios que voz privilegiada
mrdiario1 2 years ago
Infinera06, your such a disrespectful asshole. Grow up dope.
colonelcorn56 2 years ago
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infinera06 is right, you should go and suck an enormous
goldnuggetby 2 years ago
Hey Infinera06, What a stupid comment!!! Ask Mr. Williams about Mr. Sinatra's voice.,,,,,,,,Dope!
colonelcorn56 2 years ago
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Sinatra is dead, so you can stop fellating him already.
infinera06 2 years ago
Sinatra voice is timeless.
LDis1 2 years ago
True... but this is not Sinatra...
Gnolog11 2 years ago
i completely agree, ur right
goldnuggetby 2 years ago
Goodbye Dad I love you!
Lar24man 2 years ago 5
Los Angeleno1959...your words brought huge tears to my eyes.
handsupbud 2 years ago
His phrasing is so clean...and like most all great vocalists from that era, he recorded "live" with the studio musicians on-site instead of adding the backing tracks later. (The movie of the same title is worth watching, also. Very sad.)
oldiesfan52 2 years ago
No body sings that song better than Andy Williams. Great song and great memories.
PaulRevere2009 2 years ago
This melancholy rendering conceals a tortured outcome; Williams skillfully softens the pain; carries the sensation; mesmerizes the hearer ... and we forget the ending in the glorious memory ...
lesnixon 2 years ago 2
a moving song
liebegreen 2 years ago 4
I saw a bus lol!!!
Maggiesimi 2 years ago 2
I hear this and I'm taken back to my childhood home in Los Angeles in the early 60's and I wish I could stay there. I had my Mom,Dad and brothers in our home and I had everything. What great days those were and a great time to be a kid.
LosAngeleno1959 2 years ago 8
A great genuine crooner not a faker like michael cheesy buble! Andy was truly amazing
tdtd98 2 years ago 4
andy did such a wonderful job in this recording but unfortunately for him, mr sinatra cut a rendition of it that is now FRANCIS ALBERT'S DNA, IT'S IN A CLASS ALL ITS OWN, try to get a copy, it's so great you want to hear it again and again, just like all of fas classics
beriflor 2 years ago
Yeah....I can hear Sinatra's flat voice singing this song. No thanks.
infinera06 2 years ago
Andy has a beautiful way of presenting the melody of a song. His early recordings and holiday selections are a true part of the great American songbook.
BRGradyTate255 2 years ago 2
pretty good song. but check out "wine & roses" by lars frederiksen and the bastards
christobean 2 years ago
so great
llind1943 2 years ago
I really like all these deep classic voices.... today's voices are so much different..... not saying that they're worse or better..... but these old ones have a certain soothing ring to it, while modern ones (the slow, deep ones, I mean) just won't do that trick..... Wish I could go to one of this guy's concerts
ratu4000 2 years ago 10
It's because the method of learning was different. But, you really had to know how to SING in those days. There was no frills and no special effects to mask a lack of talent. Those old microphones and speakers were unforgiving!
hartley8184 2 years ago 4
let's just hope that technology won't replace talent completely as time passes by
ratu4000 2 years ago
Andy is still performing live, but he doesn't sound like this anymore.
infinera06 2 years ago
Andy performs in Branson Missouri live on weekends.
caprice6 2 years ago
well, people DO get old...... so, I guess that's normal..... the world will miss his early days, won't it?
ratu4000 2 years ago
A very beautiful song. I wish I could hear it sung live by a beautiful woman.
OrangeDynamo 2 years ago
Pure class! His voice is like soft velvet, but ya didn't hear that from me!!!!!!!!
WFCaxeman 2 years ago 11
Just beautiful.
ReadMeReadYou 2 years ago 3
Johnny Mercer god bless you. For writing these amazing lyrics.
idahovandal 2 years ago 5
the song fits so perfectly with the scenery! his voice reminds me of a big fancy city like new york!
SpeedPic2782 2 years ago 2
Oh so sweet that Andy. When men were romantic - when men were "really" men.
vlmcgive 2 years ago 7
this song has alot of meaning especially for those who remeber the days however it was the wine thatgot them in trouble
neweast1 2 years ago 5
Why is it impossible to find the Sinatra version of this song on youtube?
limestoneroad 2 years ago
they are diligent in protecting and collecting for his work.
btsg 2 years ago 2
This song and those New York City pictures are a beautiful combination.
cha5 2 years ago 2
The best song I've ever heard!!
561REPRESENT 3 years ago
I love Andy Williams amazing voice and effortless style here in "Moon River."
This song by him, is both very romantic and most nostalgic of the early 1960s....
Thanks for posting and sharing!
KathyK50 3 years ago 7
The best movie theme singer of all time! He has such a soft falsetto it captures you like no other cabaret type singer of today and yesteryear.
54nomore 3 years ago 3
Nefis bir ses,duygu dolu bir şarkı.I remember a dramatic movie as a same words..
empkarsi 3 years ago 3
I'll take Andy Williams any day over Crosby, Sinatra, Como, Bennett, Martin etc.
All were great, but Andy had more feeling than any of them.
InfiniteMusic 3 years ago 4
nice tribute video to a wonderfull song, thank you for sharing
HotRodAlley 3 years ago 2
This is a beautiful song, sung by one of the greatest entertainers of alltimes. The loss of the "Twin Towers and the thousands of innocent lives" is extremely sad but something that took place that must never be forgotton.
kilpatrick1690 3 years ago 3