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Singer Andy Williams returns home to spend his dying days surrounded by family
Daily Mail ^ | July 16, 2012 | Graham Smith

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: andywilliams; branson; hospice; music; williams
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To: fish hawk

I vaguely remember William Windom in that show.....just VAGUELY.


61 posted on 07/16/2012 2:25:52 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; mickie; flaglady47
Andy was solid friends with RFK and Ethel. He solemnly sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at Bobbie's funeral in 1968. He has been one of the aged Ethel's closest friends up till the present.

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

62 posted on 07/16/2012 3:13:48 PM PDT by MinuteGal (I'll take the Mormon over the Moron any day.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


63 posted on 07/16/2012 4:23:51 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: MinuteGal

Bob is deceased, think the others are still alive


64 posted on 07/16/2012 4:24:39 PM PDT by Sammie42 ( Today is the tomorrow that we worried about yesterday)
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To: girlangler; All

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.


65 posted on 07/16/2012 5:38:54 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: girlangler; billhilly; Grammy; jazusamo

No, the title is “Where do I begin.”

Love that song, listening to it now.


66 posted on 07/16/2012 5:46:08 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: girlangler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxEazBfPVFg
Andy Williams - Love Story


67 posted on 07/16/2012 5:46:40 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: girlangler; Free ThinkerNY

A great singer and entertainer and remember him from way back.

God speed, Andy.


68 posted on 07/16/2012 6:04:46 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


69 posted on 07/16/2012 7:05:08 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Perdogg; Impy; GOPsterinMA; Clintonfatigued

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 !


70 posted on 07/16/2012 8:05:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Saw him with Henry Mancini in the early 70s.


71 posted on 07/16/2012 8:23:30 PM PDT by TwoSue
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To: LibertarianLiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFtb3EtjEic
72 posted on 07/16/2012 8:32:02 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Remember these guests on Andy's show?


73 posted on 07/17/2012 5:32:56 AM PDT by fredhead (It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Free ThinkerNY; Perdogg; Impy; Clintonfatigued

“I was (at 31) the youngest person in the audience !”

Most likely by at least a generation.


74 posted on 07/17/2012 11:23:30 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The Glove don't fit.)
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To: Liberty Valance
Love Story

My favorite version of this tune is by Karel Gott (1971) available here.

75 posted on 09/26/2012 1:26:29 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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