Moon River have covered the song include Rod Stewart in "Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V" (2010), which charted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and Barbra Streisand in "The Movie Album" (2003), a Grammy-nominated gold album. Diffuser.fm named these the "Top 5 Alt-Rock" versions of the song: The Killers, Glasvegas, R.E.M., Morrissey and Josh Ritter. Moon River "Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song
Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage "Sabrina" opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. In the same year Hepburn garnered the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying the titular water nymph in the play "Ondine". Her next role was as Natasha Rostova in the 1956 film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace". In 1957 Hepburn starred with Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier in Billy Wilder's "Love in the Afternoon", and with Fred Astaire in the musical film "Funny Face". Two years later she appeared in the romantic adventure film "Green Mansions", and played a nun in "The Nun's Story". In 1961, Hepburn