Moon River Best Cover

Frank ocean unveiled a serene cover of the pop standard moon river the singer posted the track to tumblr with the note in the late night.

Moon river best cover. The cover finds ocean weaving together an. See more ideas about moon river holly golightly breakfast at tiffanys. I haven t done a classic for you guys for quite some time. Props where they re due to writer anthony easton who looked back at moon river back in march for the twin cities alt weekly city pages when ocean s cover dropped and did his own look at.

Moon river was just as popular in henry mancini s instrumental version as it was with hepburn s vocal performance. Moon river is a song composed by henry mancini with lyrics by johnny mercer. Not many songs fall in the venn diagram circle between r e. The honey trees perform a beautiful cover of moon river from breakfast at tiffany s video.

It was covered by bob kames laura simó harry stoneham stringspace and other artists. Join our email subscription for more. Beck begins with a touching emotive instrumental for the first verse of the song displaying all the longing to get away and explore the world that hepburn displays with her wistful. The song also won the 1962 grammy awards for record of the year and song of the year.

It became the theme song for andy williams. The song moon river was written by henry mancini and johnny mercer and was first recorded and released by henry mancini and his orchestra and chorus in 1961. It s that spirit then that eric clapton and jeff beck display in their version. One of the songs i hear my parents sing growing up.

Oct 28 2015 the song moon river was written specifically for audrey hepburn s role as holly golightly in breakfast at tiffany s. It was originally performed by audrey hepburn in the 1961 movie breakfast at tiffany s winning an academy award for best original song. Moon river is a song composed by johnny mercer lyrics and henry mancini music in 1961 for whom it won that year s academy award for best original song. It is most well known for being sung in the movie breakfast at tiffany s by audrey hepburn although it has been covered by many other artists it became the theme song for andy williams who first recorded the song in 1961 and performed.

So here is one from breakfast at tiffany s.