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He became a major star the same year as Elvis Presley, 1956, with the Sinatra-like swing “Canadian Sunset,” and for a time he was pushed into such Presley imitations as “Lips of Wine” and the No. Williams died Tuesday night at his home in Branson following a yearlong battle with the disease, his Los Angeles-based publicist, Paul Shefrin, said Wednesday. In November 2011, when Williams announced that he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer, he vowed to return to performing the following year: His 75th in show business. He remained on the charts into the 1970s, and continued to perform in his 80s at the Moon River Theatre he built in Branson, Mo.

Williams’ plaintive tenor, boyish features and easy demeanor helped him outlast many of the rock stars who had displaced him and such fellow crooners as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. “Well, I was there all right, but my memory of them is blurred – not by any drugs I took but by the relentless pace of the schedule I set myself.” “The old cliche says that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t there,” the singer once recalled. – With a string of gold albums, a hit TV series and the signature “Moon River,” Andy Williams was a voice of the 1960s, although not the `60s we usually hear about. But his own purpose came at age four when a barnstorming pilot landed a biplane in the wheat fields near his house. His mother’s Southern Baptist faith offered some answers. Mitchell’s lifelong search began with boyhood questions. There, on February 5, 1971, he became the sixth man to walk on the lunar surface. But it was his homeward epiphany that led him into fields that that seem a little, well, spacy. Life took Edgar Mitchell from the plains of West Texas to the moon’s Fra Mauro Highlands. But only one went from the moon to a lifelong search for meaning, wherever that search might lead.

Some became professors, politicians, CEOs.

From that pinnacle, all descended into daily life. It wasn’t them and us, it was ‘That’s me. As the Apollo 14 spacecraft slowly revolved, earth, stars, and sun passed in his window. Suddenly “I realized that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft had been manufactured in an ancient generation of stars.” Mitchell felt “an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness. On his way home from the moon, Edgar Mitchell had a vision.