Love Story (Andy Williams album, UK version)

Last updated
Love Story
Williams-Story-UK.jpg
Compilation album by
Andy Williams
ReleasedJuly 1971
RecordedFebruary 10, 1965
September 17, 1969
July 28, 1970
December 17, 1970
April 1971 [1]
Genre
Length31:36
Label CBS Records
Andy Williams chronology
Love Story
(1971)		Love Story
(1971)		 You've Got a Friend
(1971)

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.

Contents

The compilation entered the UK album chart on July 31 of that year and reached number 11 over the course of 11 weeks. [2]

The title track from the album, which was subtitled "Where Do I Begin?", entered the Hot 100 in the US in the issue of Billboard magazine dated February 6, 1971, and stayed on the chart for 13 weeks, eventually peaking at number nine. [3] The song also entered the magazine's list of the 40 most popular Easy Listening songs of the week in that same issue for its first of 15 weeks, later spending four weeks at number one and tying his previous record there, which was set by "Can't Get Used to Losing You" in 1963. [4] Its lifespan on the UK singles chart began on March 20 of that same year and lasted 18 weeks, during which time it reached number four. [2]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Someone Who Cares" from Fools (Alex Harvey) – 3:15
  2. "Long, Long Time" (Gary White) – 3:37
  3. "What Am I Living For" (Art Harris, Fred Jay) – 3:06
  4. "Whistling Away The Dark" from Darling Lili (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 3:19
  5. "If You Could Read My Mind" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:52

Side two

  1. "I'll Be There" (Hal Davis, Berry Gordy, Willie Hutch, Bob West) – 2:39
  2. "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (Bob Russell, Bobby Scott) – 2:59
  3. "Autumn" from Cyrano [5] (Richard Maltby, Jr., David Shire) – 2:19
  4. "The Last Time I Saw Her" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:25
  5. "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" (Francis Lai, Carl Sigman) – 3:10

Recording dates

Song information

Kenny Rogers and the First Edition recorded "Someone Who Cares" for the 1970 film Fools [8] and reached number four on Billboard magazine's Easy Listening chart [9] and number 51 on the Hot 100. [10] "Long, Long Time" by Linda Ronstadt reached number 25 on the Hot 100 [11] and number 20 Easy Listening. [12] Chuck Willis had a number one R&B hit in Billboard magazine with "What Am I Living For", [13] which also reached number nine on the pop chart. [14] "Whistling Away The Dark" comes from the 1970 film Darling Lili , where it was sung by the film's star, Julie Andrews. [15] "If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot peaked at number five on the Hot 100, [16] spent a week at number one Easy Listening, [17] and reached number 30 on the UK singles chart. [18]

The Jackson 5 song "I'll Be There" had five weeks at number one on the Hot 100 [19] and six weeks at number one R&B [20] and reached number 24 Easy Listening [21] and number four UK. [22] By the time of this release by Williams, The Hollies had made it to number three on the UK singles chart [23] and number seven pop [24] with "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", and Neil Diamond took his rendition of the song to number 20 pop [25] and number four Easy Listening. [26] "Autumn" originated in the 1958 musical Cyrano [5] and was recorded by Barbra Streisand in 1964 for her album People . [27] Glen Campbell's recording of "The Last Time I Saw Her" reached number 61 on the Hot 100, [28] number 12 Easy Listening, [29] and number 21 Country. [30]

Related Research Articles

<i>Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams</i> 2009 compilation album by Andy Williams

Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released on October 13, 2009. A note from Williams inside the CD booklet explains that the album "was put together to coincide with my memoir Moon River and Me, published by Viking/Penguin. It includes many of the songs that you made hits. I truly appreciate that, and I hope you enjoy the songs we selected for this CD." The collection covers a wide assortment of his material, including crossover hits, stabs at the youth market, a pair of Mancini-Mercer Oscar winners, a Christmas classic, and a eulogy to Robert F. Kennedy.

<i>Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests</i> 1963 studio album by Andy Williams

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.

<i>The Wonderful World of Andy Williams</i> 1964 studio album by Andy Williams

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.

<i>The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits</i> 1964 studio album by Andy Williams

The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits is the fifteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in September 1964 by Columbia Records, one month before the premiere of the film version of My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn.

<i>Andy Williams Dear Heart</i> 1965 studio album by Andy Williams

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.

<i>In the Arms of Love</i> (album) 1966 studio album by Andy Williams

In the Arms of Love is the nineteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released on December 19, 1966, by Columbia Records and was the last of twelve consecutive Williams studio LPs produced by Robert Mersey.

<i>Love, Andy</i> 1967 studio album by Andy Williams

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".

<i>Happy Heart</i> (album) 1969 studio album by Andy Williams

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.

<i>The Andy Williams Show</i> (album) 1970 studio album by Andy Williams

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."

<i>Love Story</i> (Andy Williams album) 1971 studio album by Andy Williams

Love Story is the twenty-seventh studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released on February 3, 1971, by Columbia Records. This was another in his series of cover albums, but the title track, subtitled "Where Do I Begin", was the one song included that he originated.

<i>Youve Got a Friend</i> (Andy Williams album) 1971 studio album by Andy Williams

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.

<i>Love Theme from "The Godfather"</i> (album) 1972 studio album by Andy Williams

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".

<i>Alone Again (Naturally)</i> (album) 1972 studio album by Andy Williams

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".

<i>The Way We Were</i> (Andy Williams album) 1974 studio album by Andy Williams

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.

<i>You Lay So Easy on My Mind</i> 1974 studio album by Andy Williams

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.

<i>Andy Williams Newest Hits</i> 1966 compilation album by Andy Williams

Andy Williams' Newest Hits is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released early in 1966 by Columbia Records and was the first LP to compile the singer's Columbia material. Seven of the 12 tracks had reached the charts in Billboard magazine, and another had been released as a single in the UK. Three album cuts were also included along with a recent B-side.

<i>Andy Williams Greatest Hits Vol. 2</i> 1973 compilation album by Andy Williams

Andy Williams' Greatest Hits Vol. 2 is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in June 1973 by Columbia Records. This collection follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Andy Williams' Greatest Hits, in that it is not limited to his biggest and most recent hit singles, although his final two US Top 40 entries were included. It also has an album track not released as a single, a couple of hits from his time with Cadence Records, two other singles that could have been included on the first volume, and two Easy Listening chart entries that never made the Billboard Hot 100.

<i>B Sides and Rarities</i> (Andy Williams album) 2003 compilation album by Andy Williams

B Sides and Rarities is a compilation album by the American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Collectables Records on May 27, 2003. Although the collection starts with two 1947 recordings by Kay Thompson and The Williams Brothers, the rest of the material comes from his time at Columbia Records and includes covers of contemporary hits as well as lesser-known material from the songwriters of "Can't Get Used to Losing You", "Home Lovin' Man" and "Moon River".

<i>Youve Got a Friend</i> (Johnny Mathis album) 1971 studio album by Johnny Mathis

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.

<i>16 Most Requested Songs: Encore!</i> 1995 compilation album by Andy Williams

16 Most Requested Songs: Encore! is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Columbia Records on May 16, 1995.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 (2003) Album notes for B Sides and Rarities by Andy Williams, [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music.
  2. 1 2 "Andy Williams". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 1060.
  4. ↑ Whitburn 1993 , p. 256.
  5. 1 2 "Richard Maltby, Jr". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  6. ↑ (2002) Album notes for The Complete Columbia Chart Singles Collection by Andy Williams, [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music.
  7. ↑ (2002) Album notes for The Andy Williams Show/You've Got a Friend by Andy Williams, [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music.
  8. ↑ "Fools by Various Artists". rateyourmusic.com. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
  9. ↑ Whitburn 1993 , p. 203.
  10. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 831.
  11. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 836.
  12. ↑ Whitburn 1993 , p. 205.
  13. ↑ Whitburn 2004 , p. 628.
  14. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 1065.
  15. ↑ "Darling Lili (1970) - Soundtracks". imdb.com. Amazon.com. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
  16. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 573.
  17. ↑ Whitburn 1993 , p. 141.
  18. ↑ "Gordon Lightfoot". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  19. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 481.
  20. ↑ Whitburn 2004 , p. 287.
  21. ↑ Whitburn 1993 , p. 118.
  22. ↑ "Jackson 5". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  23. ↑ "Hollies". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  24. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 447.
  25. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 274.
  26. ↑ Whitburn 1993 , p. 72.
  27. ↑ "People - Barbra Streisand". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  28. ↑ Whitburn 2009 , p. 153.
  29. ↑ Whitburn 1993 , p. 39.
  30. ↑ Whitburn 2002 , p. 53.

Bibliography

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.