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〕 | Length = 32:34| Label = Columbia | Producer = Dick Glasser〔(1970) ''Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'' by Andy Williams (jacket ). New York: Columbia Records CS 9896.〕| Last album = ''Andy Williams' Greatest Hits'' (1970)| This album = ''Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'' (1970)| Next album = ''The Andy Williams Show'' (1970)| Misc = }} ''Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'' is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1970 by Columbia Records.〔 It made its first appearance on the Top LP's chart in the issue of ''Billboard'' magazine dated June 13, 1970, and remained on the album chart for 19 weeks, peaking at number 43.〔.〕 For its release in the UK, the name of the album was changed to ''Can't Help Falling in Love'', and the song selection and track order were slightly different.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Can't Help Falling in Love by Andy Williams )〕 It entered the UK album chart that same month, on June 20, and reached number seven over the course of 48 weeks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andy Williams )〕 The song "Can't Help Falling in Love" was one of the two tracks from the UK version of the album that did not appear on the original release. As a non-album single in the US, it entered ''Billboard'' magazine's Hot 100 chart in the issue dated February 28, 1970, and spent three weeks there, getting as high as number 88.〔.〕 It also began a three-week run on the magazine's chart of the week's 40 most popular Easy Listening (or Adult Contemporary) songs in that issue, where it eventually made it to number 28.〔.〕 The song debuted on the UK singles chart on March 14, 1970, and lasted there 17 weeks, four of which were spent at number three.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andy Williams - Can't Help Falling in Love )〕 The other song that was on the UK album but not the original was "It's So Easy", which entered the UK singles chart on August 1 of that year and peaked at number 13 over the course of 14 weeks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andy Williams - It's So Easy )〕 The track from ''Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'' that was left off of the ''Can't Help Falling in Love'' album in the UK was a new recording of "Sweet Memories", a song that Williams originally recorded in March 1968 with Nick DeCaro producing and arranging.〔(2002) Album notes for ''The Complete Columbia Chart Singles Collection'' by Andy Williams, (booklet ). New York: Sony Music.〕 That version was released as a non-album single on April 30, 1968, and reached number 75 pop and number four Easy Listening.〔〔 ''Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'' 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 fall of 1969, ''Get Together with Andy Williams''. 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. ==Liner notes〔== "About a year ago, I received a call from Mason Williams, excited about an idea he had for Andy. He asked me if I would like to produce this album with him. The concept was to give Andy's fans one complete side of continuous music, without any interruptions, and make it mean something. To me this medley represents a living story of life, which has been led by millions of people. Starting with "Little Boy" and "If Wishes Were Horses", right to the end with "Both Sides Now". The other side of the album is equally satisfying with such songs as "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "Bridge over Troubled Water", and "Sweet Memories". All in all this album has been a lot of work and fun. I have worked with a lot of artists, but this has been a personal experience which I am pleased to be a part of as a producer." -- Dick Glasser "I worked in commercial television for about three years, mostly on ''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'', but I also did two TV specials for Andy. One of the standard forms of TV writing is the medley. In television the medley is usually those parts of popular songs most identifiable to the public, strung together in a musical collage with some kind of theme or storyline connecting them. I always thought it would be a nice experiment, rather than take the most popular parts of songs, to take good parts of good songs (not necessarily popular) and string them together to have a good theme or storyline instead of just a familiar one. It's a slightly different use of the TV medley concept applied to recording. I did this when I was interested in interpolating the forms of one medium into the forms of another. I think it worked out fine for Andy." -- Mason Williams 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「Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Andy Williams album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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