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Williams originally recorded a version titled "I Can't Cry Hard Enough" with Victoria Williams for the latter's 1990 album Swing the Statue!. The following year, the version by both David and Andrew Williams as the Williams Brothers was released as a single. It peaked at number 42 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1992.
Swing the Statue! is the second album by American singer/songwriter Victoria Williams, released in 1990 by Rough Trade Records . Background. Williams’ debut, 1987's Happy Come Home, received some good critical reviews but made zero commercial impact, selling only fourteen thousand copies. [4] .
Victoria Williams showed up soon after the song was finished, and chose to record it with David Williams for her 1990 album Swing The Statue!. The Williams Brothers included in on their...
3 ott 1991 · SF. David and Andrew recorded the song for their self-titled 1991 release and Marvin recorded it in 1992 for his album The Mandolin Man. However, the first recording was by David and Andrew’s sister Victoria for her 1990 album Swing the Statue!
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The four Williams Brothers—Bob, Don, Dick and Andy Williams—formed a singing quartet in the mid-1930s in Wall Lake, Iowa. Their father, Jay Williams, managed and promoted the group. They entertained on radio stations, first at WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, and later at WLS in Chicago and WLW in Cincinnati, before they moved to Los Angeles in 1943, where...
Robert F. Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, USA on January 1, 1918. He was a singer and actor. He appeared in the films Janie (1944) and Something in the Wind (1947). He reunited with his brothers yearly from 1962 to 1990 for Andy's Christmas specials. He died on September 23, 2003, in Terra Bella, California.
Donald J. Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, on October 9, 1922. After The Williams Brothers broke up, Don Williams moved back to Los Angeles. In LA, he worked on TV shows, where he sang on the Eddie Fisher and Nat King Cole television shows. He put together his own act the "Don Williams Singers" and sang for a number of TV commercials. He also ...
Liza Minnelli has paid tribute to the Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers act in The South Bank Show (2008). In her 2008 tour, Minnelli devoted much of the performance to recreating the act, using Thompson's trademark music. The success of this tribute led to Minnelli's return to Broadway in December 2008. "Liza's at the Palace!" opened at New Y...
Twin brothers Andrew Williams and David Williams (born February 22, 1959, in Henderson, Nevada, USA), nephews of singer Andy Williams, recorded as the Williams Brothers in the 1990s, and made the Billboard Hot 100 with their song "Can't Cry Hard Enough" in 1992. As teen idols, they also made the Hot 100 in 1974, billed as "Andy and David Williams",...
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Teen albums 1. 1973: Meet Andy & David Williams 2. 1973: One More Time Albums released after their teens 1. 1987: Two Stories 2. 1991: The Williams Brothers 3. 1993: Harmony Hotel 4. 2022: Memories To Burn(originally recorded in 1995) Compilations 1. 2002: The Williams Brothers: Andy & David
Singles
1. 1972: "I Won't Last a Day Without You" / "I'll Love You" 2. 1972: "Fly Pretty Baby" / "Dirt Bike Rider" 3. 1973: "One More Time" 4. 1973: "What's Your Name" [(`74) #92 Billboard H100; #68 Canada's RPM Top 100 Singles] 5. 1973: "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" [UK Official Chart: #37] 6. 1973: "Baby Love" / "I Don't Know Why" 7. 1987: "How Long" 8. 1987: "Some Become Strangers" 9. 1991: "Can't Cry Hard Enough" (#42 Billboard H100;#29 Cashbox Top 100 1992)
Detroit News Pictorial. December 14, 1947.Chicago Daily News. Thursday, June 17, 1948.This Week in Montreal. Friday, December 31, 1948.Paul V. Coates. “Well, Medium and Rare”. Los Angeles Mirror. Monday, July 31, 1951. p. 10.The Williams Brothers discography at Discogsas The Williams BrothersThe Williams Brothers discography at Discogsas Williams Brothers QuartetThe Williams Brothers at IMDb7 nov 2020 · Here are some of the highlights from Statue, a very solid record. The album starts off with the whimsical “Why Look at the Moon.” The clip below is from an appearance on The Tonight Show (short interview with Carson at the end).
5 ott 2022 · Motown, Stax, British Invasion, Simon & Garfunkel, West Coast sounds like The Beach Boys, Mamas & The Papas, Sly And The Family Stone, the list goes on and on. In the early ‘70s all the singer-songwriter stuff, Tapestry, Cat Stevens’ Tea For The Tillerman, Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions, Paul Simon’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.
