Honey (Andy Williams album)

Honey
Studio album by
Andy Williams
Released1968
Recorded1968
Genre
Length35:07
LabelColumbia
ProducerNick DeCaro[2]
Andy Williams chronology
Love, Andy
(1967) 		Honey
(1968) 		The Andy Williams Sound of Music
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
New Record Mirror[4]

Honey is the twenty-second studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in the spring of 1968 by Columbia Records.[1] In reviewing the LP William Ruhlmann of Allmusic traced the progression of the Williams formula, noting that "he had been drawing on the recent hit parade for some of his material for years. But Honey marked his complete crossover to such an approach. Where earlier Williams albums had been a canny mix of movie songs, standards, pop hits, and foreign -- especially French -- material, ten of Honey's 11 tracks were songs that had been Top 40 hits in the last two years."[1]

The album made its first appearance on Billboard's Top LPs chart in the issue dated June 8, 1968, and remained there for 40 weeks, peaking at number nine.[5] It entered the UK album chart shortly thereafter in July and reached number four over the course of 17 weeks,[6] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated June 1, of that year, and remained on the chart for 21 weeks, peaking at number 14[7] and the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album Gold certification on November 1 of that year.[8]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on March 23, 1999, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the spring of 1969, Happy Heart.[9] This same pairing was also released as two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 2000.[10] The Collectables CD was included in a box set entitled Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1, which contains 17 of his studio albums and three compilations and was released on June 26, 2001.[11]

  1. ^ a b c d "Honey". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  2. ^ (1968) Honey by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9662.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1498. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference NRM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
  6. ^ "Andy Williams". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  7. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 406. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  8. ^ "Gold & Platinum". riaa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2017. Type Andy Williams in the Search box and press Enter.
  9. ^ "Honey/Happy Heart". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
  10. ^ "Honey/Happy Heart by Andy Williams". rateyourmusic.com. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
  11. ^ "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1 - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 May 2011.