The Shadow of Your Smile (Andy Williams album)

The Shadow of Your Smile
Studio album by
Andy Williams
ReleasedApril 1966
Recorded1966
Genre
Length34:18
LabelColumbia
ProducerRobert Mersey[2]
Andy Williams chronology
May Each Day
(1966) 		The Shadow of Your Smile
(1966) 		In the Arms of Love
(1966)

The Shadow of Your Smile is the eighteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in April 1966 by Columbia Records[1] and included covers of "Michelle" and "Yesterday", the same pair of Beatles ballads that labelmate Johnny Mathis recorded for his 1966 album of the same name. For Williams these selections initiated a trend away from the traditional pop formula that his album output at Columbia up until this point had adhered to.

The Williams release made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated May 14 of that year and remained on the album chart for 54 weeks, peaking at number six.[3] It entered the UK charts in July and spent four weeks there, reaching number 27.[4] The album received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on September 27, 1966.[5]

The A-side from this album, "Bye Bye Blues", "bubbled under" Billboard's Hot 100, reaching number 127,[6] and got to number 18 on the magazine's Easy Listening (or Adult Contemporary) chart.[7]

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 1965, Andy Williams' Dear Heart.[8] It was also released as one of two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution on December 28, 1999, paired this time with Williams's Columbia album from the fall of 1962, Warm and Willing.[9] 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.[10]

  1. ^ a b "The Shadow of Your Smile". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
  2. ^ (1966) The Shadow of Your Smile by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9299.
  3. ^ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
  4. ^ "Andy Williams". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Gold & Platinum". riaa.com. Retrieved 27 March 2017. Type Andy Williams in the Search box and press Enter.
  6. ^ Whitburn 2009, p. 866.
  7. ^ Whitburn 1993, p. 256.
  8. ^ "Dear Heart/The Shadow of Your Smile". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  9. ^ "Warm and Willing/The Shadow of Your Smile". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
  10. ^ "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1 - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 May 2011.