Andy Williams' Dear Heart

Studio album by Andy Williams

Released

1965

Recorded

1965

Genre

Traditional pop,
Vocal pop,
Early pop/rock,

Length

31:49

Andy Williams chronology

The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits
(1964)

Andy Williams' Dear Heart
(1965)

Canadian Sunset
(1965)

Alternative cover

UK Cover

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Andy Williams' Dear Heart is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1965 by Columbia Records. It made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated April 10 of that year and remained on the album chart for 65 weeks, peaking at number four. The name of the album was changed to Andy Williams' Almost There for its release in the UK, where it became Williams's first album chart entry, spending 46 weeks there and peaking at number four. (Two of his previous albums, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests—which was retitled Can't Get Used to Losing You and Other Requests for its UK release—and The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits, appeared on the album chart in the UK following the success of this album.)

Andy Williams' Dear Heart received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on July 30, 1965. This was Williams's sixth album to receive this award as well as the one to do so the fastest thus far in terms of the amount of time between chart debut and certification, having accomplished this feat in less than four months as compared to the previous recordholder, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests, which did so in five months.

Williams's acting role in the 1964 film I'd Rather Be Rich included a performance of the original song "Almost There", which makes its first album appearance here. As the B-side of "On the Street Where You Live" (the single from his last album), "Almost There" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue of the magazine dated November 14, 1964, eventually reaching number 67 during its five-week stay. It performed even better on the Easy Listening (or Adult Contemporary) chart, going as high as number 12 during its four weeks there. The song's biggest success was in the UK, where it spent three weeks at number two during a 17-week run on the singles chart. This album's A-side, "Dear Heart", written for the 1964 Glenn Ford/Geraldine Page movie of the same name, debuted on the pop and Easy Listening charts just two weeks later and spent 11 weeks on each of them, peaking at number 24 on the Hot 100 and spending a week at number two Easy Listening.

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