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Million Seller Songs
Compilation album by
Andy Williams
Released1962
Recorded1956–1961[1]
Genre
Length33:46
LabelCadence Records
Andy Williams chronology
Warm and Willing
(1962) 		Million Seller Songs
(1962) 		Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Million Seller Songs is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1962 by Cadence Records.[4] This third album to compile the singer's material features some of the most successful songs Williams had recorded to date (albeit, in most cases, successful for another artist).

The collection made its first appearance on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated January 12, 1963, and remained there for 43 weeks, peaking at #54.[5] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated December 15, of that year, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks, peaking at number 24[6]

The album was issued on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on September 12, 2000, the other album being Williams's Cadence release from the summer of 1959, To You Sweetheart, Aloha.[7] Collectables included this CD 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.[8]

Track listing

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Side one

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  1. "Twilight Time" (Artie Dunn; Al Nevins; Morton Nevins; Buck Ram) - 2:38
  2. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 2:44
  3. "Canadian Sunset" (Norman Gimbel, Eddie Heywood) - 2:37
  4. "The Three Bells" (Bert Reisfeld, Jean Villard) - 3:49
  5. "It's All in the Game" (Charles Gates Dawes, Carl Sigman) - 2:55
  6. "Butterfly" (Bernie Lowe, Kal Mann) - 2:21

Side two

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  1. "Suddenly There's a Valley" (Biff Jones, Charles Meyer) - 2:52
  2. "Love Letters in the Sand" (J. Fred Coots, Charles Kenny, Nick Kenny) - 2:32
  3. "Mam'selle" (Mack Gordon, Edmund Goulding) - 3:33
  4. "So Rare" (Jerry Herst, Jack Sharpe) - 2:01
  5. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" (traditional) - 3:07
  6. "Picnic" (Steve Allen, George Duning) - 2:33

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The Cadence Era: "Canadian Sunset" brightens Andy's disk career". Billboard. 1967-11-11. p. AW-20.
  2. ^ a b "Million Seller Songs - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1498. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Pop Spotlight: Million Seller Songs". Billboard. November 24, 1962. p. 14.
  5. ^ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
  6. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 406. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  7. ^ "Million Seller Songs/To You Sweetheart, Aloha - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  8. ^ "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1 - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  9. ^ (1962) Album notes for Million Seller Songs by Andy Williams, [album jacket]. New York: Cadence Records CLP 25061.

Bibliography

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  • Whitburn, Joel (2010), Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition, Record Research Inc., ISBN 978-0-89820-183-3
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