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
Fly Me to the Moon and the Bossa Nova Pops" released in early 1963, which reached No. 3 stereo album on the "Billboard" Top LP's chart. Versions of the song were released by many other 1960s instrumental artists, including Roy Haynes, Al Hirt and Oscar Peterson. Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album "It Might as Well Be Swing", accompanied by Count Basie. The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones, who had worked with Count Basie a year earlier on the album "This Time by Basie", which also included a version of "Fly Me to the Moon". Will Friedwald commented