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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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,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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love Song for Jeffrey is the fifth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy,released on March 25,1974,by Capitol Records. The album focused on her family,giving special attention to those who had died within the past year. A tribute on the back cover reads:"In memory of my mother,Stella Lamond Reddy,July 1973,my father,Max Reddy,September 1973,and my beloved aunt,Helen Reddy Sr.,January 1974."
Free and Easy is the sixth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in the fall of 1974 by Capitol Records. The album included rare forays into rock and vaudeville ("Showbiz"). The album debuted on Billboard's Top LP's &Tapes chart in the issue dated November 2,1974,and reached number eight during its 28 weeks there. The following month,on December 18,the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album with Gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. In the UK it peaked at number 17,and in Canada's RPM magazine it got as high as number nine on its list of the top LPs in the issue dated January 11,1975. On January 27,2004,it was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD,the other album being her other 1974 release,Love Song for Jeffrey.
Music,Music is the eighth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in the summer of 1976 by Capitol Records and later described by J. Scott McClintock for AllMusic:"There are breezy,Bacharach-ian excursions,bluesy numbers,light country ('Mama'),jazzy ballads,and even a little Philly soul. On August 2 of that year the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album with Gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. It debuted on Billboard's Top LP's &Tapes chart that same month,in the issue dated August 14,and got as high as number 16 during its 13 weeks there,and in Canada's RPM magazine it peaked at number 14. The third album recorded by Reddy with producer Joe Wissert,Music,Music was cited in 1977 by Reddy as a personal favorite from among her albums. On August 23,2005,Music,Music was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two Helen Reddy albums on one CD,the other album being her 1975 studio release,No Way to Treat a Lady.
