Farewell, Andy. The crooner who made the everyday sound romantic

“We’re after the same rainbow’s end/ Waitin’ round the bend/ My huckleberry friend/ Moon river and me”… Millions of devotees of high-class schmaltz will hum the beautiful but lyrically inscrutable “Moon River” when they hear the sad news. Andy Williams, the most clean-cut and laid-back of the crooner generation, has died of cancer, aged 84.

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