Posted on 07/16/2012 11:48:39 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Singer Andy Williams has returned home to spend his final days with his family after doctors told him they can do nothing more to treat his bladder cancer.
The Moon River crooner, 84, is now at his Branson, Missouri, home surrounded by his wife, children and friends.
He has asked them to remember the good times and the music he has created over a career that has last three-quarters of a century.
'They are all desperately sad to see their father suffer,' a source told the Sunday Express. 'But he has told them all not to cry for him and remember him when he has gone through the music he has loved all his life.'
Williams announced he was suffering from bladder cancer onstage at a show at the Moon River Theater in Branson last December.
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I vaguely remember William Windom in that show.....just VAGUELY.
However, he's a lifelong Republican and accused Obama of "following Marxist theory" among other arrows he has shot at the Usurper.
There were four singing Williams brothers, Bob, Don, Dick and Andy. I tried really hard to track down if the other brothers were still living, but no success. All I found was that of 2000 all four were still breathing. Maybe someone has the answer to that question.
Leni
That’s too bad. I saw a lot of Andy Williams as a teenager on TV, on variety-show specials and so forth. I probably wouldn’t like his kind of music if I hadn’t heard it from him first.
Bob is deceased, think the others are still alive
My favorite lyrics:
I touch her hand . . . she’s always there.
From the song “She’ll be there.”
What a touching song, and it has special significance for me.
No, the title is “Where do I begin.”
Love that song, listening to it now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxEazBfPVFg
Andy Williams - Love Story
A great singer and entertainer and remember him from way back.
God speed, Andy.
Free Republic has had a lot of celebrity deaths listed today and they are all older than dirt....makes my 73 years seem like a teenagers.
That’s a shame. Prayers that his suffering will be eased.
I caught his show in Branson with Petula Clark back in 2005. I was (at 31) the youngest person in the audience !
Saw him with Henry Mancini in the early 70s.
“I was (at 31) the youngest person in the audience !”
Most likely by at least a generation.
My favorite version of this tune is by Karel Gott (1971) available here.
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