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The VERY colorful truthfulness about the king of the crooners: How Andy Williams wife was tried for murder - and singer had 'affair' with Bobby Kennedy's widow
- The singer died on Tuesday at home in Branson, Missouri, aged 84
By CHRISTOPHER STEVENS FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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With his perma-tanned encounter and tinted spectacles, Andy Williams looked nothing like a multiple Grammy winner, a survivor of Sixties party madness or a political insider.
The risky charisma of Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr was absent. He looked more like a celebrity golfer in a cosy pullover - a role he loved to play.
But his hits are instantly remarkable, from Moon River and Music To Watch Girls By, to Born Free and Can’t Obtain My Eyes Off You. Yesterday, Williams died aged 84, after a year-long battle with bladder cancer.
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It was a being that began with a strict, Presbyterian upbringing in Midwest obscurity - but spiralled up to national fame, notoriety and scandal with his involvement in one of the most talked-about public figure murder trials ever staged.
Williams was born in 1927
Golden: The Story of Andy Williams
I knew nothing about Andy Williams until my late 20s – around the year 2000 – by which time I was married with two miniature boys. As I began to survey the new-to-me world of Easy Livin’ Classics (Sinatra & Friends, lounge and easy listening, etc.), I became aware of the long and stellar career of Howard Andrew Williams. I explored his music and it was clear to me that his career mirrored that of his Columbia labelmate’s, Johnny Mathis. While Andy may not contain moved as many units as Johnny – few did – he did release scores of LPs through the Sixties and Seventies that attempted to attract listeners with milk & honey treatments of Top 40 hits. And while Williams sometimes frustrates me with his sedate versions of the “hits of the day”, I grew to adore and respect the man and his music, particularly around Christmas time.
Andy was born in Wall Lake, Iowa on December 3, 1927 to Florence and Jay. He was the fourth of six children; after Andy came the only girl, Janey and the baby was Buddy, who died at two due to complications from spinal meningitis. The family was poor and Jay soon bar
Obituary of Tom H. Williams
Tom H. Williams
1935 - 2022
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Tom H. Williams, age 87 longtime Johnson County area farmer died Friday, June 10, 2022, at the Feathered House, Hospice Residence of Johnson County. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 pm Thursday, June 16, 2022, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service with Masonic Memorial Services beginning at 7pm. Graveside services will be held at 10am Friday June 17th, at the Welsh Church Cemetery, rural Sharon Center. In lieu of flowers memorial donations can be made in his memory to the Shriners Hospitals for Children. To share a thought, memory or condolence please call on the funeral abode website @ www.gayandciha.com. Tom was born on April 1st, 1935, in a house on Kirkwood Avenue in Iowa City, Iowa the son of Everett and Louise (Hastings) Williams. Attending schools in Iowa Metropolis he graduated from City High Academy with the Class of 1955.
Front Row & Backstage
The 20th century show-biz firmament was filled with stars who, genetically anyway, were forced to be known as “The Williams Brothers” (apparently none of them could foresee an internet with a helpful identifier called Wikipedia, rendered muddled by housing several groups with the same name). So as not to clutter this page with “not to be confused with”s, we’ll pass out the name tags now:
The Willliams Brothers is a traditional Black gospel group from Jackson, Mississippi, who began in 1960, and are still going! That should make it easy to tell them apart from the subject of our article here….except these Williams Brothers once spent day on Warner Bros. Records, just like our former teeny-bopper Williams Bros! OK, we can do this! Here are those okay singers, The Williams Brothers, who, with various members through the decades, possess released some 2 dozen albums:
The Williams Brothers from 1997 and their album, Still Standing, on Blackberry Records, “I’m Too Close,” featuring Stevie Wonder, who produced:
The Williams Brothers (Bob, Don, Dick, and Andy Williams) formed a singing quartet in the mid-1930s in Wall Lake, Iowa. The act brok