The Way We Were (Andy Williams album)
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| Studio album by Andy Williams | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | March 1974 | |||
| Genre | Vocal pop Traditional pop Soft rock |
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| Length | 38:27 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Mike Curb | |||
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The Way We Were (UK)
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The Way We Were is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1974 by Columbia Records. This was his first studio album out of 25 released by Columbia that didn't make either the Billboard 200 or Christmas Albums charts, but it did reach number seven in the UK during a 10-week run that began on June 15 of that year. The UK release featured a different cover photo, but the track listing for both versions was the same. On December 1, 1974, the British Phonographic Industry awarded the album with Silver certification for sales of 60,000 units in the UK.
The single "Love's Theme" entered Billboard magazine's list of the 40 most popular Easy Listening songs of the week in the US in the issue dated June 8, 1974, and stayed on the chart for 11 weeks, peaking at number 16.
The Way We Were was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on January 22, 2002, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the spring of 1972, Love Theme from "The Godfather". 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.
Ray Price's recording of "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" reached number one on Billboard magazine's Country chart, and the version of the song by Gladys Knight & the Pips, which used the title "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me", went to number one on the magazine's R&B chart. The highest charting rendition of "I Won't Last a Day Without You" was by The Carpenters, who took the song to number one on the magazine's list of the most popular Easy Listening recordings. "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack had its best chart appearance as a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and Diana Ross also reached number one pop as well as number one Easy Listening with "Touch Me in the Morning".
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