Ambrosia (album)

Ambrosia
Studio album by Ambrosia
Released	February 1975
Recorded	1974
Studio	Mama Jo's, North Hollywood
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	40:00
Label	20th Century Fox
Producer	Freddie Piro
Ambrosia chronology
Ambrosia (1975) Somewhere I've Never Travelled (1976)
Singles from Road Island
"Holdin' on to Yesterday" Released: June 1975 "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.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Nice, Nice, Very Nice"	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond [a]	Puerta	5:49
2.	"Time Waits for No One"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Pack and Puerta	5:01
3.	"Holdin' on to Yesterday"	Puerta, Pack	Pack	4:19
4.	"World Leave Me Alone"	Pack	Pack	3:17

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
5.	"Make Us All Aware"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Pack	4:28
6.	"Lover Arrive"	Pack	Pack	3:12
7.	"Mama Frog"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Puerta	6:06
8.	"Drink of Water"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Puerta with Pack	6:29

Personnel

Ambrosia

• David Pack – guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards on "Lover Arrive"
• Christopher North – keyboards, backing vocals
• Joe Puerta – bass, lead and backing vocals
• Burleigh Drummond – drums, backing vocals, percussion, bassoon

Additional musicians

• Daniel Kobialka – violin
• James Newton Howard – synthesizer programming

Production

• Producer: Freddie Piro
• Engineers: Chuck Johnson, Billy Taylor, Freddie Piro, Tom Trefethen
• Mixing: Alan Parsons
• Art direction and illustration: Eddie Douglas

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1975) Peak position Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [1] 54 US Billboard 200 [2] 22

Year-end charts Chart (1975) Position US Billboard 200 [3] 81

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1975	"Holdin' on to Yesterday"	Billboard Hot 100	17
		Billboard Easy Listening	46
		Cash Box Top 100 [4]	18
		Canada RPM Top Singles [5]	37
		Dutch Single Top 100 [6]	36
	"Nice, Nice, Very Nice"	Billboard Hot 100	63

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.

References

1. "Top RPM Albums: Issue 4021b". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
2. "Album / Ambrosia / Ambrosia". Billboard Database. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
3. "Top US Billboard 200 Albums - Year-end 1975". BestSellingAlbums.org. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
4. CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, August 23, 1975
5. RPM Weekly, August 30, 1975
6. "Holdin' on to Yesterday (NED)". Dutch Charts . Retrieved December 4, 2019.

• Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2002-10-05. p.  18. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved 2015-11-10.
• "Ambrosia - Ambrosia | Credits | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.