Under Paris Skies

This article is about the 1960 LP recording by Andy Williams. For the 1951 song, see Sous le ciel de Paris (song). For the 1951 film for which the song was written, see Under the Sky of Paris.
Under Paris Skies
Studio album by
Andy Williams
Released1960[1]
RecordedJune 1960
StudioBarclay Studios, Paris[2]
Genre
Length35:03
LabelCadence
Andy Williams chronology
The Village of St. Bernadette
(1960) 		Under Paris Skies
(1960) 		Andy Williams' Best
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Billboard[4]
New Record Mirror[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]

Under Paris Skies is the seventh studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the fall of 1960 by Cadence Records. This, his final LP for the label, is a collection of songs that Joseph Laredo describes in the liner notes of the CD release by Varèse Sarabande as "a delightful program of twelve compositions, selected by Williams, that proved an engaging mixture of genuine French popular songs and American-penned emulations."[1]

The title song "bubbled under" the Hot 100 in Billboard magazine for two weeks that began in the issue of the magazine dated August 8, 1964, and took it to number 121.[7]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time in 1997 after being digitally remastered by Varèse Sarabande.[3] It was also released as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on September 12, 2000, the other album being a 1962 Cadence compilation entitled Andy Williams' Best.[8] Collectables included this CD 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.[9]

  1. ^ a b (1997) Under Paris Skies by Andy Williams, [CD booklet]. Studio City: Varèse Sarabande.
  2. ^ "The Cadence Era: "Canadian Sunset" brightens Andy's disk career". Billboard. 1967-11-11. p. AW-21.
  3. ^ a b c "Under Paris Skies - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Albums". The Billboard. 1960-10-31. p. 46.
  5. ^ Watson, Jimmy (21 September 1963). "Andy Williams: Under Paris Skies" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 132. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1498. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  7. ^ Whitburn 2009, p. 1059.
  8. ^ "Andy Williams' Best/Under Paris Skies - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  9. ^ "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1 - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 May 2011.