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Andy Williams recorded 42 studio albums, 17 of which (along with the 1970 compilation ''Andy Williams' Greatest Hits'') received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for selling 500,000 units.〔(RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for titles by Andy Williams )〕 Three of those recipients went on to reach one million in sales, for which they were awarded Platinum certification.〔 Between studio, Christmas, and compilation albums he had 35 entries on the pop albums chart in ''Billboard'' magazine with 12 of those making the top 10.〔.〕 One of those 12, his 1963 album ''Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests'', spent 16 weeks at number one〔.〕 and comes in at number five on the list of the top albums released in the 1960s in terms of ''Billboard'' chart performance.〔.〕 During the 1960s and early 1970s two of his Platinum LPs, ''The Andy Williams Christmas Album'' and ''Merry Christmas'', made annual appearances on the magazine's Christmas Albums chart, where they each reached the number one position in multiple holiday seasons.〔.〕 In a ranking of the top album artists of the 1960s in terms of ''Billboard'' chart performance, he comes in at number eight.〔.〕 Williams also recorded 45 songs that reached ''Billboard'' magazine's Hot 100 chart in the United States and another eight that "bubbled under" the Hot 100.〔.〕 Eight of these 53 recordings made the top 10 (including 1957's "Butterfly", which spent three weeks at number one),〔.〕 and 32 of them are also on the list of 44 entries that Williams had on the magazine's Easy Listening chart,〔.〕 which was started in 1961.〔.〕 19 of those 44 songs made the top 10 on that list, and four of them ("Can't Get Used to Losing You", "In the Arms of Love", "Happy Heart", and "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story") went on to number one.〔.〕 In a ranking of ''Billboards top Adult Contemporary chart performers from 1961 to 1969, he comes in at number five.〔.〕 In 1963 the Williams recording of "White Christmas" was released to promote ''The Andy Williams Christmas Album'' and spent the last five weeks of the year at number one on ''Billboards Christmas Singles chart.〔.〕 The album also included "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", which was written for ''The Andy Williams Show'' and became a staple of his annual Christmas specials.〔Williams, Andy. Interviewed by Karen Herman. Archive of American Television, A Program of the Television Academy Foundation. emmytvlegends.org, 19 September 2005. Retrieved 12 October 2011.〕 Although covers of the song he originated by artists such as Garth Brooks〔.〕 and Harry Connick, Jr.〔.〕 had single chart runs in ''Billboard'' upon initial release, the recording by Williams enjoyed widespread popularity several decades after it debuted. The list of the "Top 10 Holiday Songs (Since 2001)" that was published by ''Billboard'' in 2009 ranked the Williams recording at number five, and on the 2010 countdown of holiday songs receiving the most radio airplay as determined by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (also known as ASCAP) the Williams classic came in at number four.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Sleigh Ride" Tops ASCAP's List of Most-Played Holiday Songs in 2010 )〕 Since the British Phonographic Industry began its awards in 1973 Williams had six albums receive Silver certification for selling 60,000 units in the UK, and two of those albums eventually sold the 100,000 units necessary for receiving Gold certification.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Certified Awards )〕 On the UK album chart he had 30 entries with 11 of those making the top 10.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andy Williams )〕 He also had 23 recordings that reached the UK singles chart with nine of those reaching the top 10, including "Butterfly", which spent two weeks at number one.〔 == Label X and the Cadence years == Williams's first recordings as a solo artist were done in two sessions for the RCA Victor subsidiary Label X in the mid-1950s. Two songs were recorded at the first session, "Groundhog" and "There Is a Time", but according to Williams, "Nothing came of this date.... The numbers are still on the shelf."〔 The four songs from the other session produced two singles: "Why Should I Cry Over You?"/"You Can't Buy Happiness"〔(1954) "Why Should I Cry Over You?/You Can't Buy Happiness" by Andy Williams (single ). New York: RCA Records 4X-0036.〕 and "Now I Know"/"Here Comes That Dream Again".〔(1955) "Now I Know/Here Comes That Dream Again" by Andy Williams (single ). New York: RCA Records 4X-0091.〕 In 1967 Williams described something he learned in moving from RCA to Cadence Records in 1955: "I realized that what I had done for Label X wasn't the right kind of product -- in fact, the proof of this is that even years later, when I was selling big on Columbia, those sides were never reissued on RCA."〔 When Williams arrived at Cadence on December 1, 1955, label founder Archie Bleyer immediately had him record two holiday songs, "The Wind, the Sand and the Star" and "Christmas Is a Feeling in Your Heart".〔 But Williams explains in his autobiography that his new boss "didn't get the record released until a few days before Christmas" and that "it sold only 10,000 copies."〔.〕 His next single, however, included his first song to reach the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, "Walk Hand in Hand",〔 and it became the first of half a dozen hits to be packaged together with their corresponding B-sides on his first compilation album, which was simply entitled ''Andy Williams''.〔(1958) ''Andy Williams'' by Andy Williams, (jacket ). New York: Cadence Records CLP 3002.〕 For his first studio album Williams decided to pay tribute to the songwriting talent of his ''Tonight Show'' colleague Steve Allen because, he explains, "I thought that if I recorded an album of Steve's own compositions, he might let me sing one or two on the show."〔.〕 Allen, in fact, had Williams eventually perform the entire album on the show by having him sing a different song each night.〔 Williams turned to the popular duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for his second Cadence LP, which included songs from their Broadway musicals ''Carousel'', ''The King and I'', ''Oklahoma!'', and ''South Pacific''.〔(1958) "Andy Williams Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein" by Andy Williams (jacket ). New York: Cadence Records CLP 25005.〕 Indeed each of the long players he made for the label had its own specific focus, such as songs from Hawaii or France, and it was during this phase that he recorded ''Lonely Street'', his first release to reach the pop albums chart in ''Billboard'' magazine.〔 The singles that Williams recorded for Cadence charted much more frequently. Of his 16 A-sides that made the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and its predecessors during this period, 11 of them made it into the top forty positions on the chart, and six of those reached the top ten.〔 Some of these hits fit in nicely with the ballads or what is now called the traditional pop format of many of his LPs at the time. In fact three of the more successful songs from this era ("The Hawaiian Wedding Song", "Lonely Street", and "The Village of St. Bernadette") inspired the themes of the albums on which they later appeared.〔 But several singles, including "Butterfly", "I Like Your Kind of Love", and "Lips of Wine", followed the burgeoning rock and roll trend. "Archie wasn't trying to turn me into a poor man's Elvis; he was just trying to find hit songs. If they were rock and roll, then he wanted them sung that way."〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andy Williams discography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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