| The Andy Williams Show | ||||
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| Released | 1970 | |||
| Recorded | March 21, 1968 April 8, 1970 July 13, 1970 August 31, 1970[1] | |||
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| Length | 31:50 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Mike Post Nick DeCaro[3] | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [2] |
| Billboard | Spotlight Pick[4] |
The Andy Williams Show is the twenty-sixth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1970 by Columbia Records.[2] In his review on AllMusic.com, William Ruhlmann writes that "The Andy Williams Show LP was not a soundtrack recording from the TV series, and it was not really a live album, although it gets categorized as such. What appears to be the case is that Columbia Records took a group of Williams' studio recordings, most of them made during the summer of 1970 and consisting of his versions of recent soft rock hits, and added a lot of canned applause along with some of the kind of musical interludes used to usher numbers on and off on the show, including bits of its "Moon River" theme music at the start and the finish."[2]
The album made its first appearance on the Top LP's chart in the issue of Billboard magazine dated November 14, 1970, and remained on the album chart for 17 weeks, peaking at number 81.[5] It entered the UK album chart the following month, on December 5, and reached number 10 over the course of six weeks.[6]
The Andy Williams Show was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on February 5, 2002, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from August 1971, You've Got a Friend.[2] 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.[7]
- ^ (2002) Album notes for The Andy Williams Show/You've Got a Friend by Andy Williams, [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music.
- ^ a b c d e "The Andy Williams Show/You've Got a Friend - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
- ^ (1970) "The Andy Williams Show" by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records KC 30105.
- ^ "Album Reviews". Billboard. 1970-10-31. p. 66.
- ^ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
- ^ "Andy Williams". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 2". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 16 October 2010.