Roger Williams - Essential Classics, Vol. 507: Roger Williams (2024)

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Artist: Roger Williams
Title: Essential Classics, Vol. 507: Roger Williams
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Essential Classics
Genre: Pop
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 1:03:56
Total Size: 300 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:
1. Tammy (3:27)
2. Autumn Leaves (2:58)
3. O Mio Babbino Caro (Oh My Beloved Daddy) (2:47)
4. Winter Wonderland (3:03)
5. Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 (3:00)
6. Theme from Picnic (3:16)
7. An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair) (3:34)
8. Moonlight Sonata (4:53)
9. Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (3:30)
10. Wanting You (3:08)

1. Main Theme from Exodus (3:27)
2. In My Merry Oldsmobile / Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis (1:57)
3. Unchained Melody (2:58)
4. Moonglow Theme from Picnic (2:44)
5. Silent Night (3:51)
6. La Vie en Rose (2:58)
7. It's Now or Never (O Sole Mio) (3:28)
8. None but the Lonely Heart (2:51)
9. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (1:36)
10. Traumerei (4:21)

He was born Louis Jacob Weertz October 1, 1924, the son of a Lutheran minister Rev. Frederick J. Weertz) and a music teacher (Dorothea Bang Weertz), in Omaha, Nebraska, but before his first birthday the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa. He first played the piano at age three.

His first wife, Joy Dunsmoor, bore him three children. After divorcing her, he married again in 1985, to Louise DiCarlo.

In 1955 Williams recorded "Autumn Leaves", the only piano instrumental to reach #1 on Billboard magazine's popular music charts.

Until his death on October 8, 2011 from complications of pancreatic cancer, Williams resided in Encino, California and had recently bought the rights to his Kapp masters from the Universal Music Group.

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