"Moon River" é uma canção composta por Henry Mancini com letras de Johnny Mercer. Foi originalmente interpretada por Audrey Hepburn no filme de 1961, Breakfast at Tiffany's, ganhando um Óscar de melhor canção original, em 1962.[1] A canção também ganhou dois Grammy Award em 1962 nas categorias: gravação do ano e canção do ano.[2]
A canção foi regravada por muitos outros artistas.[3] Tornou-se a canção-tema de Andy Williams, que gravou pela primeira vez em 1962 (e a apresentou na cerimônia do Óscar daquele ano). Ele cantou os primeiros oito compassos da canção no começo de cada episódio de seu programa de televisão homônimo, em sua autobiografia intulutada de "Moon River" and Me. A versão de Williams nunca foi lançada como single, mas foi uma faixa de LP que ele gravou para a Columbia em um álbum de 1962, Moon River and Other Great Themes.[4]
O sucesso da canção foi responsável por relançar a carreira de Mercer como compositor, que havia parado em meados dos anos 1950, porque o rock and roll substituiu o jazz standard como a música popular da época. A popularidade da canção é tal que ela foi usada como amostra de teste em um estudo sobre as memórias das pessoas de canções populares.[5]
Ver também
- Lista de singles número um da década de 1960 no Reino Unido
Precedido por "Tower of Strength" de Frankie Vaughan |
Número um na UK Singles Chart (versão de Danny Williams) 28 de dezembro de 1961 — 11 de janeiro de 1962 |
Sucedido por "The Young Ones" de Cliff Richard e The Shadows |
Referências
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums 19th ed. London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 135. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
- ↑ «Moon River by Henry Mancini». songfacts.com
- ↑ Cryer, Max. "The story behind the song: Moon River", The Telegraph, 7 de outubro de 2008, acessado 6 de janeiro de 2016
- ↑ Thomas, Bob; Salter, Jim (26 de setembro de 2012). «'Moon River' Crooner Andy Williams Dies at Age 84». Associated Press. Consultado em 10 de maio de 2015
- ↑ Bartlett, James C., and Snelus, Paul; Snelus, Paul (setembro de 1980). «Lifespan Memory for Popular Songs». University of Illinois Press. The American Journal of Psychology. 93 (3): 551–560. JSTOR 1422730. doi:10.2307/1422730
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- "The Continental" de Con Conrad & Herb Magidson (1935)
- "Lullaby of Broadway" de Harry Warren & Al Dubin (1936)
- "The Way You Look Tonight" de Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields (1937)
- "Sweet Leilani" de Harry Owens (1938)
- "Thanks for the Memoryl" de Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin (1939)
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| 1940—1949 |
- "Over the Rainbow" de Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg (1940)
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- "All the Way" de Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn (1958)
- "Gigi" de Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner (1959)
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| 1960—1969 |
- "High Hopes" de Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn (1960)
- "Never on Sunday" de Manos Hadjidakis (1961)
- "Moon River" de Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer (1962)
- "Days of Wine and Roses" de Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer (1963)
- "Call Me Irresponsible" de Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn (1964)
- "Chim Chim Cher-ee" de Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman (1965)
- "The Shadow of Your Smile" de Johnny Mandel & Paul Francis Webster (1966)
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- "Talk to the Animals" de Leslie Bricusse (1968)
- "The Windmills of Your Mind" de Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (1969)
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- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" de Burt Bacharach & Hal David (1970)
- "For All We Know" de Fred Karlin, Jimmy Griffin & Robb Royer (1971)
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- "Evergreen" de Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams (1977)
- "You Light Up My Life" de Joseph Brooks (1978)
- "Last Dance" de Paul Jabara (1979)
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- "It Goes Like It Goes" de David Shire & Norman Gimbel (1980)
- "Fame" de Michael Gore & Dean Pitchford (1981)
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- "Take My Breath Away" de Giorgio Moroder & Tom Whitlock (1987)
- "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" de John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz, Franke Previte & Franke Previte (1988)
- "Let the River Run" de Carly Simon (1989)
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2001: "Beautiful Day" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson
2002: "Fallin'" – Alicia Keys
2003: "Don't Know Why" – Jesse Harris
2004: "Dance with My Father" – Richard Marx & Luther Vandross
2005: "Daughters" – John Mayer
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2015: "Stay with Me" (Darkchild version) – James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith
2016: "Thinking Out Loud" – Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge
2017: "Hello" – Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin
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2019: "This Is America" – Donald Glover & Ludwig Göransson
2020: "Bad Guy" – Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell
2021: "I Can't Breathe" – Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas
2022: "Leave the Door Open" – Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II & Bruno Mars
2023: "Just Like That" – Bonnie Raitt
2024: "What Was I Made For?" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell
2025: "Not Like Us" – Kendrick Lamar
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