The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies is the fourteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1964 by Columbia Records. Williams had already had great success with his albums named after Henry Mancini's Oscar winners from 1961 and 1962, "Moon River" and "Days of Wine and Roses", and was asked to sing Mancini and Johnny Mercer's title song collaboration from the 1963 film "Charade" at the Academy Awards on April 13, 1964,
I Wished on the Moon to a long argument between the singer and producer Jack Kapp. Eventually Crosby prevailed. Crosby recorded the song again in 1954 for his album . Little Jack Little recorded the song for Columbia (catalog 3068) on June 28, 1935 and also enjoyed chart success with the song in 1935 reaching the #13 spot. Ruth Etting also recorded the song for Columbia (3070) on July 1, 1935. I Wished on the Moon "I Wished on the Moon" is a song composed by Ralph Rainger, with lyrics by Dorothy Parker. Bing Crosby sang the song in "The Big Broadcast of 1936". Crosby