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Moon River

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"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. [1]

91 relations: Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Awards, AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, AllMusic, Amy (2015 film), Amy Winehouse, Andy Williams, Archie Bleyer, Aretha Franklin, Asif Kapadia, Associated Press, Audrey Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Billboard Hot 100, Born on the Fourth of July (film), Branson, Missouri, Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture, BuzzFeed, Charade (1963 song), Chevy Chase, Clay Aiken, Danny Williams (singer), Dave Koz, Days of Wine and Roses (song), Documentary film, Easy listening, Elton John, Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V, Frank Sinatra, George Peppard, Glasvegas, Goin' Your Way, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Henry Mancini, Huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn, Jazz standard, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jerry Butler, Joe Reisman, Joey McIntyre, Johnny Mercer, Josh Ritter, Judy Garland, Lawrence Welk, Lisa Hannigan, ..., List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1960s, Louis Armstrong, Mad Men (season 6), Max Cryer, Moon River (radio program), Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes, Morrissey, Music recording certification, My Huckleberry Friend, National Youth Jazz Orchestra, NBC, Neil Finn, News Corp Australia, Paramount Music, Paramount Pictures, Patty Griffin, Paul Kelly (Australian musician), Pop music, Popular music, R.E.M., Random House, RCA Records, Robert Wright (journalist), Rock and roll, Rod Stewart, Sarah Brightman, Sarah Vaughan, Savannah, Georgia, Southern United States, Sydney Opera House, The Andy Williams Show, The Atlantic, The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Killers, The Movie Album (Barbra Streisand album), The New York Times, The Sweetheart Tree, Townsquare Media, Tried and True, Westlife. Expand index (41 more) »

Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Amy (2015 film)

Amy is a 2015 British documentary film about the life and death of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse.

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Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter.

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Andy Williams

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.

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Archie Bleyer

Archie Bleyer (June 12, 1909 – March 20, 1989) was an American song arranger, bandleader, and record company executive.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Asif Kapadia

Asif Kapadia (born 1972) is a British filmmaker.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 192920 January 1993) was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.

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Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician and producer with a career that has spanned more than 50 years.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Born on the Fourth of July (film)

Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American war drama film based on the eponymous 1976 autobiography by Ron Kovic.

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Branson, Missouri

Branson is a city in Stone and Taney counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by George Axelrod, loosely based on Truman Capote's novella of the same name.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture

Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack from the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn.

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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media company based in New York City.

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Charade (1963 song)

"Charade" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer performed in the 1963 film of the same name starring by Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

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Chevy Chase

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American actor, comedian and writer.

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Clay Aiken

Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom, November 30, 1978) is an American singer, television personality, actor, politician, and activist.

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Danny Williams (singer)

Danny Williams (7 January 1942 – 6 December 2005) was a British, South African-born pop singer.

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Dave Koz

David Stephen Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.

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Days of Wine and Roses (song)

"Days of Wine and Roses" is a popular song, from the 1962 movie of the same name.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V

Fly Me to the Moon...

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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George Peppard

George Peppard Jr. (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.

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Glasvegas

Glasvegas are a Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow.

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Goin' Your Way

Goin' Your Way is a live album collaboration recorded by Neil Finn and Paul Kelly during a performance at the Sydney Opera House on 10 March 2013.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to sales or chart position." The Record of the Year award is one of the four most prestigious categories at the awards (alongside Best New Artist, Song of the Year and Album of the Year) presented annually since the 1st Grammy Awards in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Song of the Year

The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores.

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Huckleberry

Huckleberry is a name used in North America for several plants in the family Ericaceae, in two closely related genera: Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.

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Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer and director.

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Jerry Butler

Jerry Butler, Jr. (born December 8, 1939) is an American soul singer-songwriter and politician.

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Joe Reisman

Joseph "Joe" Reisman (born September 16, 1924 in Dallas - died September 15, 1987 in Los Angeles) was an American musician (tenor and baritone saxophone, clarinet), bandleader, arranger, and record producer in the swing era.

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Joey McIntyre

Joseph Mulrey McIntyre (born December 31, 1972), known professionally as Joey or Joe McIntyre, is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Johnny Mercer

John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer.

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Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author who performs and records with The Royal City Band.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian.

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Lawrence Welk

Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted the television program The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982.

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Lisa Hannigan

Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician.

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List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1960s

The UK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Mad Men (season 6)

The sixth season of the American television drama series Mad Men premiered on April 7, 2013, with a two-hour episode, and concluded on June 23, 2013.

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Max Cryer

John Maxwell "Max" Cryer is a New Zealand television producer and presenter, radio broadcaster, entertainment producer, singer, cabaret performer and writer.

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Moon River (radio program)

Moon River was a long-running late-night American radio program which originated from WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes

Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released on March 26, 1962 by Columbia Records and covered film songs that were mostly from the previous decade.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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My Huckleberry Friend

"...My Huckleberry Friend": Johnny Mercer Sings the Songs of Johnny Mercer is an album by singer/composer Johnny Mercer, released in 1974.

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National Youth Jazz Orchestra

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) is a British jazz orchestra founded in 1965 by Bill Ashton.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neil Finn

Neil Mullane Finn (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer/songwriter and musician.

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News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited) is one of Australia's largest media companies, employing more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists.

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Paramount Music

Paramount Music Corporation was an American music publishing company owned by Paramount Pictures.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Patty Griffin

Patricia Jean Griffin (born March 16, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Paul Kelly (Australian musician)

Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Robert Wright (journalist)

Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American journalist who writes about science, history and religion, including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, Why Buddhism is True, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart, (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter.

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Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, musician, songwriter, conductor, and dancer.

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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The Andy Williams Show

The Andy Williams Show was an American television variety show that ran from 1962 to 1971 (alternating during the summer of 1970 with Andy Williams Presents Ray Stevens), and a short-lived run in syndication, beginning in the fall of 1976.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Killers

The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001 by members Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards, bass) and Dave Keuning (lead guitar, backing vocals).

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The Movie Album (Barbra Streisand album)

The Movie Album is the thirtieth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on October 14, 2003, by Columbia Records.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sweetheart Tree

The Sweetheart Tree is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on September 30, 1965, and included songs associated with Italy ("Arrivederci Roma"), France ("Clopin Clopant"), Ireland ("Danny Boy"), and Scotland ("The Skye Boat Song") as well as several selections, such as "I'll Close My Eyes" and "The Very Thought of You", from English composers.

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Townsquare Media

Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Tried and True

Tried and True is the fifth full-length studio album by Clay Aiken, released on June 1, 2010.

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Westlife

Westlife were an Irish pop vocal group, formed in Dublin in 1998 and disbanded in 2012.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_River

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