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
The Man Who Sold the Moon is multi-staged, while "Destination Moon" uses a single-stage-to-orbit spaceship that takes off and lands vertically, both on Earth and the Moon. (Dialogue in the film makes it very clear that the spaceship is nuclear powered.) The novella also inspired David Bowie's song "The Man Who Sold the World", in both its title and its central themes. Harriman appears in "Requiem" as an old man who has still not been able to go to the Moon. It was published in 1940, 11 years before "The Man Who Sold the Moon". The name "Harriman" reappears in many "Future History" stories as the