Honey (Andy Williams album)
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| Studio album by Andy Williams | ||||
| Released | 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 1968 | |||
| Genre | AM pop Traditional pop Vocal pop Soft rock[1] |
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| Length | 35:07 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Nick DeCaro[2] | |||
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| Allmusic |    [1] |
| Billboard | [3] |
Honey is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1968 by Columbia Records.[1] The album made its first appearance on Billboard's Top LP's chart in the issue dated June 8, 1968, and remained there for 40 weeks, peaking at number nine.[4] It entered the UK album chart shortly thereafter in July and reached number four over the course of 17 weeks,[5] and the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album Gold certification on November 1 of that year.[6]
The album was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on March 23, 1999, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the spring of 1969, Happy Heart.[7] This same pairing was also released as two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 2000.[8] The Collectables CD was included in a box set entitled Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1, which contains 17 of his studio albums and three compilations and was released on June 26, 2001.[9]
Reception
William Ruhlmann of Allmusic continued to trace the progression of the Williams formula, noting that "he had been drawing on the recent hit parade for some of his material for years. But Honey marked his complete crossover to such an approach. Where earlier Williams albums had been a canny mix of movie songs, standards, pop hits, and foreign -- especially French -- material, ten of Honey's 11 tracks were songs that had been Top 40 hits in the last two years."[1] He gave the album a mixed review, writing, "The singer did his best and was rewarded with yet another Top Ten gold-record seller, but the album lacked the balance of earlier efforts."[1]
Track listing
Side one
- "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh) – 2:39
- "This Is My Song" (Charles Chaplin) – 2:53
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:49
- "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls" (André Previn, Dory Previn) – 3:40
- "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon) – 3:46
- "Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)" (Brian Blackburn, Pierre Cour, André Popp) – 2:46
Side two
- "Honey (I Miss You)" (Bobby Russell) – 4:30
- "Windy" (Ruthann Friedman) – 2:25
- "Our Last Goodbye" (Nick DeCaro, William "Ju Ju" House) – 2:25
- "Spooky" (Buddy Buie, James B. Cobb, Jr., Harry Middlebrooks, Mike Shapiro) – 3:18
- "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:36
Personnel[2]
- Andy Williams - vocals
- Nick DeCaro - arranger, producer
- Rafael O. Valentin - recording engineer
- Bob Cato - photographer
Notes
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- ↑ RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Andy Williams
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