Andy Williams (1927-2012) enjoyed a career that lasted over six decades. Early on, he was part of a vocal group with his brothers; then as a solo artist, he sold tens of millions of records and had a popular television variety series from 1962-1971. He was an easy listening crooner whose smooth style allowed him to remain commercially successful during the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll era.<\/p>\n
Real Gone music has now raided the Williams\u2019 vaults and released The Complete Christmas Recordings.<\/i> They should have put Columbia in the title as he released two albums of Christmas music after he left his longtime label and they are not included. Still, there is a lot of Christmas music here. His three Columbia Label albums, The Andy Williams Christmas Album <\/i>(1963), Merry Christmas <\/i>(1965), and Christmas Present <\/i>(1974), are combined with three non-album Christmas singles and previously unreleased Spanish and Italian versions of \u201cWhite Christmas.\u201d The sound is clean and a booklet of his life and music is included. It all forms the definitive release of his Christmas material. <\/p>\n
Williams was a pure pop singer from the beginning to the end of his career. His big hits, \u201c(Where Do I Begin) Love Story,\u201d \u201cI Like Your Kind Of Love,\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t Get Used To Loving You,\u201d \u201cDays Of Wine And Roses,\u201d \u201cThe Village Of Saint Bernadette,\u201d and the number one \u201cButterfly\u201d are all far from a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll sound. <\/p>\n
The three original studio albums, when combined, form one long Christmas release. The songs are interchangeable as his style was always the same. The music is a combination of traditional Christmas Carols such as \u201cO Holy Night,\u201d \u201cSilent Night Holy Night,\u201d \u201cO Little Town Of Bethlehem,\u201d and \u201cO Come All Ye Faithful,\u201d and pop Christmas songs including \u201cSilver Bells,\u201d \u201cJingle Bells,\u201d \u00a0<\/i>\u201cA Song And A Christmas Tree (The Twelve Days Of Christmas),\u201d and \u201cSleigh Ride.\u201d <\/p>\n
The music of Andy Williams is what it is. If you are a fan or appreciate an easy listening vocal sound and are in a Christmas mood, then this is an album for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":31732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6514],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-43442","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-andy-williams","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43442"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}