I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up

Studio album by Andy Williams

Released

June 18, 2007

Recorded

2006

Genre

Traditional pop
vocal pop

Length

51:25

Andy Williams chronology

Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams
(2005)

I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up
(2007)

Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams
(2009)

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I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up is the final studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the UK by the Demon Music Group in 2007. In the liner notes of the album Williams writes, "Over the past few years I have come across songs that I really wanted to record. I picked 13 of my favorites and set out to make a new record." While the title track is the only new song, the other 12 selections were chart hits for other artists or, as is the case with "Desperado" by the Eagles, received critical acclaim without having been released as a single.

Neil Sedaka's first recording of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" reached number one on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in 1962, but on this album Williams pays tribute to Sedaka's much slower 1975 version that went to number one on the magazine's Adult Contemporary chart and got as high as number eight pop. "The Shadow of Your Smile" is the title track from Williams's spring of 1966 release, and "Desperado" comes from the 1973 album of the same name by the Eagles. Rod Stewart's first recording of "I Don't Want to Talk About It" was released in 1979 and peaked at number 46 on the pop chart, but his 1990 remake, while not a Hot 100 hit, did reach the Adult Contemporary chart, where it made it to number two.

The Police spent eight weeks at number one on the Hot 100 with "Every Breath You Take" in 1983. "Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh reached number two Adult Contemporary and number three pop in 1987, the same year in which Smokey Robinson got to number eight pop, number two R&B, and number one Adult Contemporary with "Just to See Her". Van Morrison took "Have I Told You Lately" to number 12 Adult Contemporary in 1989, and Rod Stewart spent five weeks at number one with the song on that same chart in addition to peaking at number five pop in 1993.

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