You've Got a Friend (Andy Williams album)

You've Got a Friend
Studio album by
Andy Williams
Released1971
RecordedApril 22, 1971
June 10, 1971
July 7, 1971[1]
Genre
Length35:35
LabelColumbia
ProducerDick Glasser[3]
Andy Williams chronology
Love Story (UK version)
(1971) 		You've Got a Friend
(1971) 		The Impossible Dream
(1972)
Singles from You've Got a Friend
  1. "A Song for You"
    Released: August 1971
Alternate cover
A Song for You (UK)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
BillboardSpotlight Pick[4]

You've Got a Friend is the twenty-eighth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in August 1971 by Columbia Records. The album bears a striking resemblance to the Johnny Mathis album You've Got a Friend released that same month. Besides sharing their name, the two albums are both made up of covers of easy listening hits of the time, with 11 songs each, and the two albums have seven songs in common that are positioned in a similar order.

The Williams album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated August 28, 1971, and remained there for 12 weeks, peaking at number 54.[5] For its release in the UK, the album was entitled A Song for You.

The single from the album, "A Song for You", entered the Hot 100 in the US in the issue of Billboard dated August 21, 1971, and stayed on the chart for four weeks, eventually peaking at number 82.[6] The song entered the magazine's list of the 40 most popular Easy Listening songs of the week in the following issue, on August 28, for its first of five weeks, during which time it reached number 29.[7]

You've Got a Friend 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 the fall of 1970, The Andy Williams Show.[8] 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.[9]

  1. ^ (2002) Album notes for The Andy Williams Show/You've Got a Friend by Andy Williams, [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music.
  2. ^ a b "You've Got a Friend - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  3. ^ (1971) You've Got a Friend by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records KC 30797.
  4. ^ "Album Reviews". Billboard. 1971-08-21. p. 33.
  5. ^ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
  6. ^ Whitburn 2009, p. 1060.
  7. ^ Whitburn 1993, p. 256.
  8. ^ "The Andy Williams Show/You've Got a Friend". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  9. ^ "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 2". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 16 October 2010.