The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies
| The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies | ||||
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| Studio album by Andy Williams | ||||
| Released | 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 1964 | |||
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Traditional pop, Early pop/rock, Film music, Soundtracks, Standards |
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| Length | 35:30 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Robert Mersey | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Billboard | Spotlight Pick |
The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1964 by Columbia Records. Williams had already had great success with his albums named after Henry Mancini's Oscar winners from 1961 and 1962, "Moon River" and "Days of Wine and Roses", and was asked to sing Mancini and Johnny Mercer's title song collaboration from the 1963 film Charade at the Academy Awards on April 13, 1964, after it was nominated for Best Original Song, but the winner that year was the other song that Williams performed at the ceremony, "Call Me Irresponsible".
The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated May 9 of that year and remained on the album chart for 63 weeks, peaking at number five. It received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on December 18, 1964.
As the B-side of the single "A Fool Never Learns," the album's opening track, "Charade", made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 18, 1964, spending its only week on the chart at number 100.
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 album from September 1964, The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits. This same pairing was also released as two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 2000. 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.
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