Happy Heart (album)

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Happy Heart
File:Williams-Happy-2.jpg
Studio album by Andy Williams
Released 1969
Recorded 1969
Genre AM pop
Traditional pop
Vocal pop
Soft rock[1]
Length 36:59
Label Columbia
Producer Jerry Fuller[2]
Andy Williams chronology
The Andy Williams Sound of Music
(1969)The Andy Williams Sound of Music1969		 Happy Heart
(1969)		 Get Together with Andy Williams
(1969)Get Together with Andy Williams1969
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2.5/5 stars[1]
Billboard 5/5 stars[3]

Happy Heart is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1969 by Columbia Records.[1] The album made its first appearance on the Top LP's chart in the issue of Billboard magazine dated May 17, 1969, and remained there for 23 weeks, peaking at number nine.[4] It entered the UK album chart on July 26 of that year and reached number 22 over the course of 10 weeks,[5]

The title song from the album had been released as a single that March and entered the Easy Listening chart in the issue of Billboard dated April 5, 1969, eventually spending 14 weeks there and two of those weeks at number one.[6] The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 one week later and reached number 22 over the course of 11 weeks.[7] In the UK it entered the singles chart for the week of May 10 that year and stayed there for 10 weeks, peaking at number 19.[5]

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 release from the spring of 1968, Honey.[8] This same pairing was also released as two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 2000.[9] 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.[10]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden) – 2:54
  2. "Where's the Playground, Susie?" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:51
  3. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux) – 3:43
  4. "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:55
  5. "Happy Heart" (James Last, Jackie Rae) – 3:15
  6. "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford) – 3:10

Side two

  1. "Didn't We" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:27
  2. "Memories" (Mac Davis, Billy Strange) – 3:47
  3. "Little Green Apples" (Bobby Russell) – 4:03
  4. "Here, There and Everywhere" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:15
  5. "Abraham, Martin and John" (Dick Holler) – 3:43

Personnel[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 (1969) Happy Heart by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9844.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Whitburn 1993, p. 256.
  7. ↑ Whitburn 1999, p. 702.
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