My Cup Runneth Over (album)

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My Cup Runneth Over
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Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedSeptember 25, 1965 – December 13, 1966
Studio Webster Hall
Genre Traditional pop
Label RCA Victor
Producer Jim Foglesong
Ed Ames chronology
Try to Remember
(1965)
My Cup Runneth Over
(1967)
Time, Time
(1967)

My Cup Runneth Over is a 1967 studio album by Ed Ames. At the 10th Annual Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Album of the Year. [1]

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My Cup Runneth Over debuted at number 137 on the Billboard 200 on March 4, 1967. [2] By March 25, 1967, My Cup Runneth Over had already sold three times as many copies as the Ames Brothers had ever sold. [3] The album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 on April 22, 1967. [4]

Track listing

Side 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."My Cup Runneth Over (From I Do, I Do! )" Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones 2:44
2."In The Arms Of Love (From What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? )" Henry Mancini, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans 2:37
3."Au Revoir (From Sherry! )" James Lipton, Laurence Rosenthal 2:35
4."Don't Blame Me" Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields 2:43
5."Watch What Happens (From The Umbrellas of Cherbourg )" Michel Legrand, Norman Gimbel 2:27
6."Melinda (From On a Clear Day You Can See Forever )" Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane 2:05
Side 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bon Soir Dame"Bud Dashiell2:48
2."There's A Time For Everything" Al Stillman, Alex Alstone2:38
3."True Love (From High Society )" Cole Porter 2:56
4."Our Love Is A Living Thing" David Blume, Jerry Keller 2:09
5."Edelweiss (From The Sound Of Music )" Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers 2:25
Total length:28:12

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References

  1. "1967 GRAMMY WINNERS: 10th Annual GRAMMY Awards". Grammys. The Recording Academy.
  2. "Billboard 200: Week of March 4, 1967". Billboard.
  3. Tiegel, Eliot (25 March 1967). "Ending a Chart Beginning for Ames". Billboard. Vol. 79, no. 12. p. 24.
  4. "Billboard 200: Week of April 22, 1967". Billboard.