{"id":10526,"date":"2012-09-26T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10526"},"modified":"2012-09-26T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:38:14","slug":"andy-williams-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10526","title":{"rendered":"Andy Williams Dies, Aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"andy_williams\"<\/a>Sad to see this on a newsflash<\/a> this afternoon. Singing legend, Andy Williams, has died at the age of 84 after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t realise that he provided backing vocals for Bing Crosby\u2019s Swingin\u2019 on a Star – which dates from as far back as 1944! Blimey, that\u2019s not long after my dad was born!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny that I know a lot of these old songs and artistes, which date from way before my birth. I remember listening to them on the radio when I was young. But when I talk to pupils on lessons, many these days don\u2019t seem to know anything from before they were born.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all a bit sad, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sad to see this on a newsflash this afternoon. Singing legend, Andy Williams, has died at the age of 84 after a battle with cancer. I didn\u2019t realise that he provided backing vocals for Bing Crosby\u2019s Swingin\u2019 on a Star – which dates from as far back as 1944! Blimey, that\u2019s not long after my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102,97,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related","category-music-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t