Meet one of the most popular and beloved entertainers of the twentieth century.
Andy Williams
Performing and discussing
Moon River and Me (Viking, $25.95)
Saturday, October 17, 7pm
Temple Judea, 5500 Granada Boulevard, Coral Gables
TALK & PERFORMANCE: Mr. Williams will intersperse songs with his talk at this event – an evening you won’t want to miss!
TICKETS: Purchase a copy of Moon River and Me($25.95) at any Books & Books location and you will receive (2) two tickets for entry to the event. You may also purchase the book and tickets at the door on the evening of the event, beginning at 6pm. Mr. Williams will be autographing books after the event, but will not have time to personalize them. No posed pictures will be allowed, but you may hand your camera to a designated photographer from our staff who will be happy to snap your picture with Mr. Williams, in passing. Mr. Williams will only sign books at the autographing and will not be able to sign any records or memorabilia, so please leave these at home.
When in the mid-1950s Andy Williams reached a low point in his career, singing in dives to ever-smaller audiences, the young man from Wall Lake, Iowa, had no inkling of the success he would one day achieve. Before being declared a national treasure by President Ronald Reagan, Williams would chart eighteen gold and three platinum albums, headline at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for more than twenty years, and host an enormously popular weekly television variety show whose Christmas specials still occupy a tender spot in every baby boomer’s heart.
Williams knew everybody who was anybody during his seven remarkable decades in show business (including Judy Garland, John Huston, Jack Lemmon, John Lennon, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, and Barbra Streisand, among others) and was a close friend of Bobby Kennedy for many years, and he shares memories of them all inMoon River and Me. His millions of fans guarantee a huge audience for the autobiography of the plush baritone who— at the age of eighty-one—still draws thousands of fans to his Moon River Theater in Branson, Missouri.