tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628083921981318027.post4561445556778312129..comments2024-03-19T21:55:53.205-07:00Comments on EARLY '70S RADIO: Andy Williams: The Early '70s Charting SinglesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628083921981318027.post-30284361479491645652020-11-19T02:44:43.658-08:002020-11-19T02:44:43.658-08:00Thanks for this Tony - you've got me curious a...Thanks for this Tony - you've got me curious about that missing four bars. I've also always liked "Yellow Beach Umbrella" in Andy's and various other versions.Kim Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15256930777086071266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628083921981318027.post-19218278757851621172020-09-21T09:23:07.423-07:002020-09-21T09:23:07.423-07:00I apologize for being 3 years late to this party. ...I apologize for being 3 years late to this party. I wish you would discuss the 1976 Andy album and particularly the song Tryin' To Forget I Loved You, also written by Nancy Ames. It simply sounds like such a big hit, in the vein of what people like Barry Manilow and Helen Reddy were doing at the time. Perhaps it's released was ill-timed or maybe Andy was not in the right spirits for promoting it, having such a downer of a year. I wonder why no one else has ever recorded it since it he's such a fiery ballad. I recently had a chance to look at the sheet music of it and discovered that Andy cut out four bars whose lyric was so banal that it might have rendered it as a teen hit.<br /><br />Also worth mentioning is that the Andy album included the song Sailing co-written by Kim Carnes and featuring her as a backup vocalist.Tony Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00575970269332444012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628083921981318027.post-89158793932101034132018-09-28T09:11:37.010-07:002018-09-28T09:11:37.010-07:00Andy Williams returned to the Top 40 in the Billbo...Andy Williams returned to the Top 40 in the Billboard Hot Hundred chart in December 2017 with his holiday standard, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8078575/camila-cabello-andy-williams-hot-100-chart-movesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com