Andy Williams

Andy Williams – The Andy Williams Christmas Album (1963/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:36 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Christmas
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The Andy Williams Christmas Album was the first Christmas album released by Andy Williams and was issued by Columbia Records in 1963. Featuring classic holiday tunes such as “White Christmas” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, the album was the number one selling Christmas album for 1963 and was certified Gold less than a year after its release. It would eventually achieve Platinum certification in 1986.

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Andy Williams – Merry Christmas (1965/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:03 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Christmas
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“Merry Christmas” is a Christmas album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Columbia Records in 1965. This, his second holiday LP, is focused exclusively on 20th century compositions, unlike 1963’s The Andy Williams Christmas Album, which, of its 12 tracks, had six with origins predating the turn of the century. For the six consecutive holiday seasons from 1965 through 1970, Merry Christmas charted on Billboard magazine’s special year-end weekly Christmas Albums sales chart. The album spent two weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1966 and one week atop that same chart in 1969. The single from the album, “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, reached number 18 on the Christmas Singles chart in 1965. On May 23, 1968, Merry Christmas was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. Platinum certification for sales of one million copies followed on November 10, 1989.

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Andy Williams – Born Free (1967/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:02 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Pop
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“Born Free” is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released on April 10, 1967, by Columbia Records and includes half a dozen songs associated with movies or musicals. Two of these tracks, however, originated in the scores of the films indicated on the album jacket but had lyrics added later: the melody for “Strangers in the Night” was written for A Man Could Get Killed, and “Somewhere My Love” began as “Lara’s Theme” from Doctor Zhivago.
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