Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests is the eleventh studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in April 1963 by Columbia Records following his first season as host of his variety series,The Andy Williams Show. The LP has a studio recording of the closing theme from the show,"May Each Day",and continues the format of his previous Columbia releases by including songs from the 1920s,1930s,1940s,and 1950s.
The Wonderful World of Andy Williams is the thirteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released by Columbia Records to coincide with the December 31,1963,broadcast of The Andy Williams Show. Various tracks were recorded with members of his family,including The Williams Brothers,who joined him for a remake of his first top 10 hit,"Canadian Sunset",from 1956.
Andy Williams' Dear Heart is the sixteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1965 by Columbia Records and was the last of his Columbia releases that remained exclusively within the realm of traditional pop. After covering two Beatles hits on his next non-holiday studio album,The Shadow of Your Smile,he would try out samba music on In the Arms of Love,aim for a much younger crowd with "Music to Watch Girls By" on Born Free,and focus more on contemporary material on subsequent albums.
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 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.
Born Free is the twentieth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released on April 10,1967,by Columbia Records and includes half a dozen songs associated with movies or musicals. Two of these tracks,however,originated in the scores of the films indicated on the album jacket but had lyrics added later:the melody for "Strangers in the Night" was written for A Man Could Get Killed,and "Somewhere My Love" began as "Lara's Theme" from Doctor Zhivago.
Love,Andy is the twenty-first studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams,released on October 16,1967,by Columbia Records to coincide with the NBC special of the same name,which aired on November 6. The LP had a mix of covers of old and recent hits that included two songs from the 1940s that also had chart success in 1966 via Chris Montez:"The More I See You" and "There Will Never Be Another You".
Happy Heart is the twenty-third studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams,released in the spring of 1969 by Columbia Records and continued the trend of his recent albums in relying exclusively on contemporary material. This particular project eschewed offerings from Broadway and Hollywood that had been predominant on his LPs with Columbia.
The Andy Williams Show is the twenty-sixth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1970 by Columbia Records. In his review on AllMusic.com,William Ruhlmann writes that "The Andy Williams Show LP was not a soundtrack recording from the TV series,and it was not really a live album,although it gets categorized as such. What appears to be the case is that Columbia Records took a group of Williams' studio recordings,most of them made during the summer of 1970 and consisting of his versions of recent soft rock hits,and added a lot of canned applause along with some of the kind of musical interludes used to usher numbers on and off on the show,including bits of its "Moon River" theme music at the start and the finish."
Love Story is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the UK in July 1971 by the CBS Records division of Columbia and was mainly composed of tracks that had not been included on his studio LPs.
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.
Love Theme from "The Godfather" is the twenty-ninth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams,released on March 21,1972,by Columbia Records. The two new songs on what was otherwise another LP of covers of hits by other artists were the title track and "Music from Across the Way",which came from the songwriters behind his recent hits "Happy Heart" and "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story".
Alone Again (Naturally) is the thirtieth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams,released in September 1972 by Columbia Records and mainly consisting of songs originated by other artists. For its release in the UK,the album was titled The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face),and three of the songs were replaced with the 7-inch single tracks "Who Was It?" and "Marmalade,Molasses &Honey" and a recording that was not released on vinyl in the U.S.,"If You're Gonna Break Another Heart".
Solitaire is the thirty-first studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams,released in the fall of 1973 by Columbia Records and was an attempt to move away from his formulaic series of recent releases that relied heavily on songs that other artists had made popular.
The Way We Were is the thirty-second studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams,released in the spring of 1974 by Columbia Records and was a return to singing songs that his audience was already familiar with after Solitaire,his previous LP that was less reliant on covers of recent pop hits,did not perform well.
You Lay So Easy on My Mind is the thirty-fourth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams,released in November 1974 by Columbia Records. The idea for this LP was mentioned in an interview with Williams in the November 3,1973,issue of Billboard magazine that emphasized his desire to move away from recording albums of Easy Listening covers of hits by other artists,noting that he was "planning an album to be cut in Nashville with Columbia's high-flying country-pop producer,Billy Sherrill." The article coincided with the release of his first attempt to shift directions,Solitaire,which performed poorly. A return to the Easy Listening hits formula,The Way We Were,followed in the spring of 1974 but failed to even chart,so this next attempt to eschew soft rock songs leaned heavily on Country hits.
You've Got a Friend is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on August 11,1971,by Columbia Records. The phrase "Today's Great Hits" can be found above the title on both sides of the record jacket as well as both sides of the LP label as if to emphasize that this is essentially an album covering songs that were recently on the charts. This was a common practice of many vocalists of the period,so much so in fact that fellow Columbia artist Andy Williams also released an album titled You've Got a Friend in August 1971 on which he coincidentally covers seven of the 11 tracks that Mathis recorded for this album.
Song Sung Blue is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on September 13,1972,by Columbia Records and featured his renditions of mostly recent chart hits.
Me and Mrs. Jones is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in January 1973 by Columbia Records. While it does cover several big chart hits of the day like his last album,Song Sung Blue,did,it also includes songs that didn't make the US Top 40 or had never charted.
When Will I See You Again is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in March 1975 by Columbia Records and was again predominantly composed of covers of recent hit songs by other artists.
Feelings is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on October 20,1975,by Columbia Records and strayed slightly from the practice of covering hits by other artists to include two new songs,both of which were written by Jerry Fuller:"Hurry Mother Nature" and "That's All She Wrote",which Ray Price took to number 34 on the Country chart the following spring.
