Andy (album)

Andy
Studio album by Andy Williams
Released	1976
Recorded	March 31, 1976 May 18, 1976 May 19, 1976 May 28, 1976 June 21, 1976 July 16, 1976[1]
Genre	Vocal pop Traditional pop[2]
Length	35:44
Label	Columbia
Producer	Larry Brown[3]
Andy Williams chronology
The Other Side of Me (1975) Andy (1976) Reflections (1977)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Billboard	Recommended LPs[4]

Andy is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1976 by Columbia Records.^[4] Williams is not as focused on covering pop hits and standards on this album and instead relies mainly on original or lesser-known songs. In the liner notes for the album's 2002 CD release, writer Richard M. Erickson explains that the album "was recorded at six different studios to accommodate Andy's touring schedule. One recording session was at a portable studio set up at a Marriott hotel."^[1]

Andy was released on compact disc for the first time by Collectables Records in 2002 with eight bonus tracks that were taken from four of Williams's Columbia singles released between 1974 and 1979.^[5] Collectables included this CD in a box set entitled Classic Album Collection, Vol. 2, which contains 15 of his studio albums and two compilations and was released on November 29, 2002.^[6]

Two of those four bonus A-sides made the Billboard charts, including "Love Said Goodbye", which started a seven-week Easy Listening run in the magazine's January 11, 1975, issue that took the song to number 24.^[7] The other, "Tell It Like It Is", entered that same chart in the December 20, 1975, issue and reached number 17 over the course of 10 weeks, and its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 came four weeks later, in the issue for January 17, 1976, and led to a peak at number 72 during a six-week stay.^[8] Williams's cover of the song marked his last of 44 appearances on the Easy Listening chart, dating back to its inception in 1961, and his last of 53 hits on the Hot 100, the first being "Walk Hand in Hand" in 1956.^[9][10]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Yellow Beach Umbrella" (Craig Doerge, Judy Henske) – 4:02
2. "Sailin'" (Kim Carnes, David Ellingson) – 3:28
3. "Thank You, Baby" (Bruce Johnston) – 3:18
4. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 2:54
5. "My Lonely Room" (Peter Skellern) – 4:06

Side two

1. "Put Your Blues to Bed" (Harry Garfield, Jay Graydon) – 4:00
2. "If You Ever Believed" (Elizabeth Dasheff, Andrew Goldmark) – 3:27
3. "Groovin'" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere) – 3:54
4. "Tryin' to Forget I Loved You" (Nancy Ames, Danny Ward) – 3:37
5. "The Poem" (Paulinho Nogueira, Byron Walls) – 3:03

CD Bonus Tracks

1. "Love Said Goodbye" (Larry Kusic, Nino Rota) – 2:54
2. "One More Time" (David Paich) – 3:32
3. "Tell It Like It Is" (George Davis, Lee Diamond) – 2:42
4. "Goin' Through the Motions" (Tom Bahler) – 3:17
5. ^[A]"Are You in There?" (John Barry, David Pomeranz) – 3:49
6. ^[A]"Are You in There? (Disco Version)" (John Barry, David Pomeranz) – 4:59
7. "Jason" (Deborah Kay Hupp, Robert E. Morrison) – 3:14
8. "I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore" (Laurie Andrew, Cedric Chiles) – 3:04

• ^A Titled "Are You There?" on the Collectables CD packaging.

Recording dates_^[1]

Original LP

• March 31, 1976 – "If You Ever Believed", "Since I Fell for You"
• May 18, 1976 – "My Lonely Room", "Yellow Beach Umbrella"
• May 19, 1976 – "The Poem"
• May 28, 1976 – "Put Your Blues to Bed"
• June 21, 1976 – "Sailin'", "Thank You, Baby"
• July 16, 1976 – "Groovin'", "Tryin' to Forget I Loved You"

CD bonus tracks

• December 6, 1974 – "Love Said Goodbye", "One More Time"
• August 21, 1975 – "Goin' Through the Motions"
• September 30, 1975 – October 1, 1975 – "Tell It Like It Is"
• December 1, 1976 – "Are You in There?", "Are You in There? (Disco Version)"
• September 27, 1979 – "I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore"
• October 8, 1979 – "Jason"

Song information

"Since I Fell for You" had three trips to the top 10 by the time of this album: a recording by Paul Gayten and His Trio with Annie Laurie on vocal made Billboard magazine's Most-Played Juke Box Race Records in 1947,^[11] Lenny Welch reached the Hot 100^[12] and Easy Listening^[13] charts with it in 1963, and Charlie Rich put the song on the Country chart in 1975.^[14] Aaron Neville's 1966 recording of "Tell It Like It Is" got as high as number two on the Hot 100^[15] and spent five weeks in the top spot on the magazine's R&B chart.^[16] Bruce & Terry released their recording of "Thank You, Baby" in 1966,^[17] and the Captain & Tennille covered the song on their 1976 album Song of Joy.^[18] In 1967 "Groovin'" earned The Young Rascals four weeks at number one on the Hot 100,^[19] peak positions at number three R&B^[20] and number eight in the UK,^[21] and Gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[22]

"My Lonely Room" was recorded by Jack Jones for his 1973 album Together^[23] and by Dee Dee Bridgewater for her self-titled 1976 album, which also included a recording of "Goin' Through the Motions".^[24] "Yellow Beach Umbrella" was previously recorded by Perry Como in 1975^[25] and by Three Dog Night for their 1976 album American Pastime.^[26]

Personnel

Adapted from the Andy liner notes.^[3]

Production

Notes

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