Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams

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Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams
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Released2005 [1]
Recorded1958–1973, 2002
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Label Sony Music Entertainment
Andy Williams chronology
B Sides and Rarities
(2003)
Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams
(2005)
I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up
(2007)

Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Sony Music Entertainment in 2005.

The compilation first appeared on the UK album chart on July 9 of that year and remained there for two weeks, peaking at number 50. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Music to Watch Girls By" (Tony Velona, Sid Ramin) – 2:38
  2. "Can't Get Used to Losing You" (Jerome "Doc" Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 2:25
  3. "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 2:46
  4. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio) – 3:15
  5. "On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:12
  6. "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:36
  7. "House of Bamboo" (William Crompton, Norman Murrells) – 2:06
  8. "Happy Heart" (James Last, Jackie Rae) – 3:15
  9. "Born Free" from Born Free (Don Black, John Barry) – 2:27
  10. "Spooky" (Buddy Buie, James B. Cobb, Jr., Harry Middlebrooks, Mike Shapiro) – 3:18
  11. "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" from Man of La Mancha (Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh) – 2:39
  12. "Unchained Melody" (Hy Zaret, Alex North) – 3:16
  13. "Can't Help Falling in Love" (Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss) – 3:15
  14. "Somethin' Stupid" (C. Carson Parks) – 2:59
  15. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:11
  16. "I Think I Love You" (Tony Romeo) – 2:42
  17. "The Look of Love" from Casino Royale (Bacharach, David) – 2:55
  18. "We've Only Just Begun" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) – 3:15
  19. "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from Hair ; performed with The Osmond Brothers (Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni) – 3:51
  20. "It's So Easy" (Dor Lee, Dave Watkins) – 2:29
  21. "Wives and Lovers" (Bacharach, David) – 2:20
  22. "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses (Mancini, Mercer) – 2:48
  23. "Stranger on the Shore" (Acker Bilk) – 2:50
  24. "Solitaire" (Phil Cody, Neil Sedaka) – 4:22
  25. "May Each Day" from The Andy Williams Show (Mort Green, George Wyle) – 2:54
  26. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" performed with Denise van Outen (Crewe, Gaudio) – 3:43

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References

  1. (2005) Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams by Andy Williams [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music Entertainment 5203422
  2. "Andy Williams". Official Charts. Retrieved 21 July 2017.