Days of Wine and Roses is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1962 film of the same name. The tune won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and earned Mancini and Mercer Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1964. The lyric is notable for consisting of just two complex sentences - each forming one of the song's two stanzas. The best known recording is Andy Williams' 1963 single from the album Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests, released on Columbia and generally regarded as easy listening; the piece has since become a jazz standard. The film and Mancini's score helped establish the tune as a memorable part of film music and the easy listening/jazz-pop repertoire.
