Alone Again (Naturally) (album)
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| Studio album by Andy Williams | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 8/29/70 1972 |
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Traditional pop Soft rock |
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| Length | 37:11 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Dick Glasser | |||
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The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) (UK)
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Alone Again (Naturally) is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in September 1972 by Columbia Records. It made its first appearance on the Billboard 200 chart in the issue dated September 30, 1972, and remained on the album chart for 18 weeks, peaking at number 86. For its release in the UK, the album was entitled The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face), and three of the songs were replaced.
The only song on the album ever released as a single by Williams was "Home Lovin' Man", which had already had its chart run on Billboard magazine's list of the 40 most popular Easy Listening songs of the week in the U.S. back in 1970, when it reached number 10. The song had also reached number seven on the UK singles chart by the end of that year. Coinciding with its first North American release on a Williams LP, the same recording entered the Easy Listening chart again in the November 4, 1972, issue of Billboard and made it to number 27 during its five weeks there.
Alone Again (Naturally) was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on February 19, 2002, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the fall of 1973, Solitaire. Collectables included this CD in a box set entitled Classic Album Collection, Vol. 2, which contains 15 of his studio albums and two compilations and was released on November 29, 2002.The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) was paired with Solitaire as two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 2003.
The recording of "Pieces of April" by Three Dog Night peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the magazine's Easy Listening chart. "Day by Day", from the original cast album of the musical Godspell, reached number 13 pop and number eight Easy Listening. The duet between Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway entitled "Where Is the Love" got as high as number five pop and number 29 on the UK singles chart and spent a week at number one on the Easy Listening and R&B charts. The single also received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America and earned Flack and Hathaway the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus. "If I Could Go Back" was written for the 1973 remake of Lost Horizon.
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