Ambrosia (album)

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Ambrosia
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1975
Recorded1974
Studio Mama Jo's, North Hollywood
Genre Progressive rock
Length40:00
Label 20th Century Fox
Producer Freddie Piro
Ambrosia chronology
Ambrosia
(1975)
Somewhere I've Never Travelled
(1976)
Singles from Road Island
  1. "Holdin' on to Yesterday"
    Released: June 1975
  2. "Nice, Nice, Very Nice"
    Released: June 1975

Ambrosia is the debut album by Ambrosia. It was released in 1975 on 20th Century Fox Records. It spawned the top 20 chart single "Holdin' on to Yesterday" as well as the minor hit "Nice, Nice, Very Nice". The latter sets to music the lyrics to a poem in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle . The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording (other than Classical). Alan Parsons was the mixdown engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Nice, Nice, Very Nice" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond [lower-alpha 1] Puerta5:49
2."Time Waits for No One"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPack and Puerta5:01
3."Holdin' on to Yesterday"Puerta, PackPack4:19
4."World Leave Me Alone"PackPack3:17
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
5."Make Us All Aware"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPack4:28
6."Lover Arrive"PackPack3:12
7."Mama Frog"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPuerta6:06
8."Drink of Water"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPuerta with Pack6:29

Personnel

Ambrosia
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Album
YearChartPosition
1975Billboard 20022
Singles
YearSingleChartPosition
1975"Holdin' on to Yesterday"Billboard Hot 10017
Billboard Easy Listening46
Cash Box Top 100 [1] 18
Canada RPM Top Singles [2] 37
Dutch Single Top 100 [3] 36
"Nice, Nice, Very Nice"Billboard Hot 10063

Notes

  1. Though the album packaging does not delineate who wrote the music and who wrote the lyrics for most of the songs, in the case of "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" the insert credits as follows: Lyrics - Vonnegut, Puerta; Music - Puerta, Pack, North, Drummond.

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References

  1. CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, August 23, 1975
  2. RPM Weekly, August 30, 1975
  3. "Holdin' on to Yesterday (NED)". Dutch Charts . Retrieved December 4, 2019.