Andy (1976 album)

Andy
Studio album by
Andy Williams
Released1976
RecordedMarch 31, 1976
May 18, 1976
May 19, 1976
May 28, 1976
June 21, 1976
July 16, 1976[1]
Genre
Length35:44
LabelColumbia
ProducerLarry Brown[2]
Andy Williams chronology
The Other Side of Me
(1975) 		Andy
(1976) 		Reflections
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
BillboardRecommended LP[4]

Andy is the thirty-sixth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, 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 originated as instrumental tracks from film scores and had lyrics added that were never heard in the film or on the corresponding soundtrack album: "Love Said Goodbye" is subtitled "Love Theme from The Godfather Part II" and "Are You in There?" is also labeled as "Main Theme from King Kong".

"Love Said Goodbye" was also one of two of the bonus tracks that made the Billboard charts, starting 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]

  1. ^ a b (2002) Album notes for Andy by Andy Williams, [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music.
  2. ^ (1976) "Andy" by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records PC 34299.
  3. ^ "Andy – Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Billboard Recommended LPs". Billboard. 1976-11-06. p. 70.
  5. ^ "Andy (Bonus Tracks) – Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  6. ^ "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 2". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  7. ^ Whitburn 2007, p. 296.
  8. ^ Whitburn 2009, p. 1060.
  9. ^ Whitburn 2007, pp. 295–296.
  10. ^ Whitburn 2009, pp. 1059–1060.