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Andy Williams is a Country and Jazz act. Their catalogue also touches Pop. Their sound grew out of A Song For You, Buffy Sainte-Marie, James Last, Francis Lai and Happy Xmas (War Is Over). Those roots explain a lot about how Andy Williams arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Perry Como, Ray Conniff, Doris Day, Bobby Vinton and Amy Grant, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Scott Walker, Lorrie Morgan and Ray Stevens, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Andy Williams, reaching back through A Song For You and forward to Scott Walker. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Andy Williams connections
Andy Williams grew out of A Song For You, Buffy Sainte-Marie, James Last and Francis Lai, shares an orbit with Perry Como, Ray Conniff, Doris Day and Bobby Vinton, went on to shape Scott Walker, Lorrie Morgan and Ray Stevens. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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