Roger Williams, a pianist who died topped the Billboard pop in the late 1950s and played for nine U.S. presidents in a long career on Saturday.
He was 87th The electrifying performer and a skilled improviser, died at his home in Los Angeles as a result of pancreatic cancer, according to reports.
Williams 1955 hit "Autumn Leaves" is the only piano instrumental to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts and remains best-selling piano recording of all time.
Synchronized playing of the "Pianist of the President," Chief Williams for each of Harry Truman to George W. Bush. It was a good friend of many years.Williams was a close friend of Jimmy Carter, with whom he was a birthday gift. When the two men 80 years old, Mr. Williams in the Jimmy Carter Library has played.
As a teenager, Williams had his own radio show on KRNT scored 15 minutes, broadcast live from Des Moines, Iowa (his hometown), the department stores.Later he organized a program of the WHO, where he named a lot of young athletes Ronald "Dutch" Reagan. The two became friends - more than six decades.
Williams moved to New York to study jazz at the Juilliard School of Music. The success is attributed to at least 22 of 37 commercially successful albums.Not to be confused with the 17-century English theologian has confused the name of the University of Rhode Iceland, and it's huge Jwoww friend Roger Williams.
Williams 1955 hit "Autumn Leaves" is the only piano instrumental to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts and remains best-selling piano recording of all time.
Synchronized playing of the "Pianist of the President," Chief Williams for each of Harry Truman to George W. Bush. It was a good friend of many years.Williams was a close friend of Jimmy Carter, with whom he was a birthday gift. When the two men 80 years old, Mr. Williams in the Jimmy Carter Library has played.
As a teenager, Williams had his own radio show on KRNT scored 15 minutes, broadcast live from Des Moines, Iowa (his hometown), the department stores.Later he organized a program of the WHO, where he named a lot of young athletes Ronald "Dutch" Reagan. The two became friends - more than six decades.
Williams moved to New York to study jazz at the Juilliard School of Music. The success is attributed to at least 22 of 37 commercially successful albums.Not to be confused with the 17-century English theologian has confused the name of the University of Rhode Iceland, and it's huge Jwoww friend Roger Williams.
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