The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies Hits". From the liner notes for the original album: 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
Down by the River (Neil Young song) Down by the River (Neil Young song) "Down by the River" is a song composed by Neil Young. It was first released on his 1969 album with Crazy Horse, "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere". Young explained the context of the story in the liner notes of his 1977 anthology album "Decade", stating that he wrote "Down by the River," "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" while delirious in bed in Topanga Canyon with a fever. The lyrics are apparently about someone who kills his lover by shooting her, as in a murder ballad." An author argues the killer's motive