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
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