song: Moon River
artist: Audrey Hepburn
performance: from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
writers: Music by Henry Mancini / Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

acoustic guitar: Bob Bain
voice: Audrey Hepburn

This is the original guitar-performance of the songwriter masterpiece by Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer. This is an easy-to-play jazz guitar-song, and great for beginners.

The movie score and the original scene (the upper-left video) is a different version than the studio recording. In my opinion, the movie score version (the lower-left video) is the best.

To few people’s surprise, Audrey Hepburn is not actually playing the guitar part in this scene. It was in fact played by session guitarist Bob Bain - read this wonderful article by Fretboard Journal commemorating him. Click the clip (below) to watch the man himself play through the song at age 88.