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"MacArthur Park"
Artwork for US single release, also used for German release
Single by Richard Harris
from the album A Tramp Shining
B-side
"Didn't We?"
Released
April 1968
Format
7"
Recorded
December 21, 1967 – January 6, 1968
Genre
Baroque pop, orchestral pop
Length
7:21
Label
Dunhill Records
Songwriter(s)
Jimmy Webb
Producer(s)
Jimmy Webb
Richard Harris singles chronology
"Here in My Heart (Theme from This Sporting Life)"
(1963) "MacArthur Park"
(1968) "The Yard Went on Forever"
(1968)
"Here in My Heart (Theme from This Sporting Life)"
(1963) "MacArthur Park"
(1968) "The Yard Went on Forever"
(1968)
"MacArthur Park" is a song written and composed by Jimmy Webb. Richard Harris was the first to record the song in 1968: his version peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number four on the UK Singles Chart. "MacArthur Park" was subsequently covered by numerous artists, including a hit version in 1969 by country music singer Waylon Jennings. Among the best-known covers is Donna Summer's disco arrangement from 1978 which topped the Billboard Hot 100.[1]
In 1967 the producer Bones Howe had asked Webb to create a pop song with classical elements, different movements and changing time signatures. Hence Webb delivered MacArthur Park to Howe with "everything he wanted", but Howe did not care for the ambitious arrangement or unorthodox lyrics and the song was rejected by the group The Association, for whom it was originally intended. [2]

Contents
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1 Jimmy Webb
1.1 Composition
2 Richard Harris version
2.1 Background and release
2.2 Legacy
3 Chart history
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
4 Donna Summer version
4.1 Background and release
4.2 Chart performance
4.2.1 Weekly charts
4.2.2 Year-end charts
5 Other versions
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Jimmy Webb[edit]
Composition[edit]
"MacArthur Park" was written and composed by Jimmy Webb in the summer and fall of 1967 as part of an intended cantata. Webb initially brought the entire cantata to The Association, but the group rejected it.[3] The inspiration for the song was his relationship and breakup with Susie Horton[4]. MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, was where the two occasionally met for lunch and spent their most enjoyable times together.[5] At that time (the middle of 1965), Horton worked for a life insurance company whose offices were located just across the street from the park.[1] When asked by interviewer Terry Gross what was going through his mind when he wrote the lyric, Webb replied that it was meant to be symbolic and referred to the end of a love affair. In an interview with Newsday in October 2014, Webb explained:
Everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park. ... Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper.[4]
Webb and Horton remained friends, even after her marriage to another man. The breakup was also the primary influence for "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," another song written and composed by Webb.[1] After his relationship breakup, Webb stayed for a while at the residence of Buddy Greco, upon whose piano the piece was composed and originally dedicated. Greco closed all his shows with this number for forty years.
The idea to write and compose a classically structured song with several movements that could be played on the radio came from a challenge by music producer Bones Howe, who produced recordings for The Association.[4] The song begins as a poem about love, then moves into a lover's lament. The song consists of four sections or movements:
A mid-tempo introduction and opening section, called "In the Park" in the original session notes,[6] is built around piano and harpsichord, with horns and orchestra added. This arrangement accompanies the song's main verses and choruses.
A slow tempo and quiet section follows, called "After the Loves of My Life."[6]
An up-tempo instrumental section, called "Allegro,"[6] is led by drums and percussion, punctuated by horn riffs, and builds to an orchestral climax.
A mid-tempo reprise of the first section, concludes with the final choruses and climax.
Richard Harris version[edit]
Background and release[edit]
"MacArthur Park" was first recorded by Richard Harris, after he met the composer at a fundraiser in East Los Angeles, California in late 1967. Webb had been invited to provide the musical backdrop at the piano. Out of the blue, Harris, who had just starred in Camelot, and had performed several musical numbers in the film, suggested to Webb that he wanted to release a record. At first, Webb did not take Harris seriously, but later he received a telegram from Harris, requesting that Webb "come to London and make a record."[1] Webb flew to London and played Harris a number of songs for the project, but none seemed to fit for Harris's pop music debut. The last song that Webb played for Harris was "MacArthur Park," originally written for The Association, whose members had promptly rejected it because of its length, complex structure, and unorthodox lyrics. Harris selected "MacArthur Park" for his pop music debut.[1]
The track was recorded on December 21, 1967, at Armin Steiner's Sound Recorders in Hollywood. String, woodwind, and brass overdubs were recorded over two sessions on December 29 and 30.[6] The musicians in the original studio recording included members of the famous "Wrecking Crew" of Los Angeles-based studio musicians who played on many of the hit records of the 1960s and 1970s. Personnel used included Hal Blaine on drums, Larry Knechtel on keyboards, Joe Osborn on bass guitar, and Tommy Tedesco and Mike Deasy on guitars,[6] along with Webb himself on harpsichord.
The song was included on Harris's album A Tramp Shining in 1968 and selected for release as a single, an unusual choice, given the song's length and complex structure. It was released in April 1968[7] and was played by 77 WABC on Tuesday April 9, 1968.[8] It made its way onto the Hot 100 at number 79 on May 11, 1968, peaking at number 2 on June 22, 1968 behind Herb Alpert's "This Guy's in Love with You". It peaked at number 10 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey and was number 8 on WABC's overall 1968 chart.[9] It topped the music charts in Europe and Australia and also won the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).[10]
Legacy[edit]
In 1992, Miami Herald journalist Dave Barry conducted a poll among his readers who selected Harris' recording as the worst song of all time, both in terms of "Worst Lyrics" and "Worst Overall Song". Barry commented: "[I]t's hard to argue with survey respondents who chose it as the worst."[11]
Chart history[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1968)
Peak
position
Australia 1
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[12] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[13] 9
UK 4
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 2
US Billboard Easy Listening[15] 10
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1968)
Rank
Australia [16] 9
Canada [17] 33
UK [18] 60
US Billboard Hot 100[19] 51
Donna Summer version[edit]
"MacArthur Park"
Artwork for the Spain single release, also used for the German release under different printing
Single by Donna Summer
from the album Live and More
B-side
"Once Upon a Time" (Live) (U.S.)
"Last Dance" (Live) (France)
"MacArthur Park" (Part 2) (Japan)
"One of a Kind" (12")
"Heaven Knows (12")
"MacArthur Park Suite" (12")
Released
September 24, 1978
Format
7" vinyl single
12" vinyl single
Recorded
1978
Genre
Disco
Length
8:27 (album version)
3:59 (single version)
Label
Casablanca
Songwriter(s)
Jimmy Webb
Producer(s)
Giorgio Moroder
Pete Bellotte
Donna Summer singles chronology
"Je t'aime... moi non plus"
(1978) "MacArthur Park"
(1978) "Heaven Knows"
(1978)
"Je t'aime... moi non plus"
(1978) "MacArthur Park"
(1978) "Heaven Knows"
(1978)
Background and release[edit]
In September 1978, American singer Donna Summer released a multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of "MacArthur Park": was number one on the Billboard pop charts the week of November 11, 1978, for 3 weeks, the track earned Summer her first nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Summer was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Female at the American Music Awards where her album Live and More took the award for Favorite Disco Album. She became the first female artist of the modern era to have the number one single and album simultaneously on the Billboard pop charts (the week of November 11, 1978).
Italian producer Giorgio Moroder would recall that he and his collaborator Pete Bellotte had been interested in the concept of either remixing a track - as yet undecided on - which had been a hit in the 1960s or else remaking a 1960s hit as a dance track: Moroder - "I remember that I was driving in... on the Hollywood Freeway, and I heard the original song [i.e. "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris] on the radio. I thought: 'That's it – that's the song we've been looking for almost a year.'" Moroder asked Neil Bogart, president of Casablanca Records, to provide him with a copy of the Richard Harris version of "MacArthur Park" to serve as basis for Moroder's envisioned discofied reinvention: Bogart obliged with an 8-track tape containing Harris' version, which Moroder had to specially buy an 8-track player to hear.[20]
Moroder readily identified "MacArthur Park" as (quote) "a great song for Donna – with all those high notes, it was perfect [for her]...First, I [located] a key that she could sing really high, but still with a big voice – that took an hour or two. I played a little piano and she sang it with my accompaniment. We found a key and we had Greg Mathieson do the arrangement – and then I did something very special" - that "something very special" being Moroder's recording of his own voice to form a choir heard behind Summer on the song's chorus: "I recorded about 20 seconds of all the notes, which I was able to sing on a 24-track. I made a loop of those notes, and put that loop in the [Solid State Logic] desk. I could form eight chords by having C-E-G right on the group. I played the chords by moving the track according to the chord that I needed." Of basing a discofied arrangement on the template for Webb's arrangement on the Harris version Moroder would recall: "To be honest, it was a very difficult song to [arrange], especially the brass, but we had the best musicians in town."[20]
Summer's recording of "MacArthur Park", included as part of the "MacArthur Park Suite" on her double album Live and More, was eight minutes and forty seconds long. The shorter seven-inch vinyl single version - which omits the song's balladic second movement - afforded Summer her first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, also becoming the last of seven hit versions of compositions by Jimmy Webb to reach the Top Ten on the Hot 100, with "MacArthur Park" by Donna Summer being the only recording of a Webb composition to top the Hot 100.
The nearly 18-minute musical medley "MacArthur Park Suite" incorporated the original songs "One of a Kind" and "Heaven Knows", the latter being issued as the second single off Live and More. This medley was also sold as a 12-inch (30 cm) vinyl recording, and it stayed at number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart for five weeks in 1978.
The versions of this medley in Live and More and in the 12-inch recording are notably different in the presentation of the two original songs. In the 12-inch version, "Heaven Knows" was extended to incorporate the instrumental string introduction and the bridge horn solo of the single version for radio stations, but left out the second verse and "One of a Kind" was trimmed of a large part of the instrumental break but included the second verse. Lyrically, Summer's rendition is also curious, in that it adds the word, "Chinese," to clarify what type of checkers were being played.
"MacArthur Park Suite" was not included on the compact disc version of Live and More because of early CD limitations; however, the album version is available on 1987's The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles. The 12" Special One-Sided Disco DJ Single has been digitally remastered and included on the Bad Girls digipak double CD release. In 2012, "Live and More" was remastered in Japan and included the original Lp version of the "MacArthur Park Suite".
In 2013, the song was remixed by Laidback Luke for the Donna Summer remix album Love To Love You Donna (it was also remixed by Ralphi Rosario and Frank Lamboy), which was released to dance clubs all over America, having a successful peaking at No. 1, giving Summer her first posthumous No. 1 and her twentieth No. 1 overall.[21]
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1978-79)
Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[22] 1
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[23] 1
Canada Dance/Urban (RPM)[24] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[25] 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[26] 8
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[27] 9
Spain Singles (Promusicae)[28] 13
Spain Radio (Los 40)[28] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[29] 1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[30] 24
U.S. Billboard Hot Disco Singles 1
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 1
Chart (2013)
Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs[31] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[29] 1
US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)[32] 20
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1978)
Rank
Australia [33] 96
Canada (RPM) Top Singles [34] 33
US Cash Box [35] 27
Other versions[edit]
A cover version of "MacArthur Park" was recorded by country music singer Waylon Jennings on his 1969 album Country-Folk, which included the family group The Kimberlys. This version charted at number 23 on Hot Country Songs and number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100, making its chart debut on August 23, 1969.[36] It also won both acts the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.[36][37]
The Four Tops version (1971) reached #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart[38] and #37 in Canada.[39] The Andy Williams version (1972) "bubbled under" the Hot 100 for four weeks that began in the August 5, 1972, issue and reached number 102.[citation needed] It also debuted on the Easy Listening chart in that same issue and made it to number 26 there over the course of five weeks.[40]
See also[edit]
List of number-one dance singles of 2013 (U.S.)
Jurassic Park (song)
References[edit]
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External links[edit]
Cite from Fred Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Billboard, 1988
Link to The Lou Gordon Home Page
Preceded by
"You Needed Me" by Anne Murray Billboard Hot 100 number one single (Donna Summer version)
November 11, 1978 (3 weeks) Succeeded by
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
Preceded by
Instant Replay by Dan Hartman (all cuts) Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single (Donna Summer version)
October 21, 1978 – November 18, 1978 Succeeded by
"Le Freak" / "I Want Your Love" / "Chic Cheer" by Chic
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Richard Harris
Studio albums
A Tramp Shining
The Yard Went On Forever
Singles
"MacArthur Park"
"The Yard Went on Forever"
"Didn't We?"
"My Boy"
Related
Filmography
Elizabeth Rees-Williams (first wife)
Damian Harris (son)
Jared Harris (son)
Jamie Harris (son)
Ann Turkel (second wife)
Annabelle Wallis (niece)
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Jimmy Webb
Original albums
Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb (1968)
Words and Music (1970)
And So: On (1971)
Letters (1972)
Land's End (1974)
El Mirage (1977)
Angel Heart (1982)
Suspending Disbelief (1993)
Ten Easy Pieces (1996)
Twilight of the Renegades (2005)
Live and at Large (2007)
Just Across the River (2010)
Still Within the Sound of My Voice (2013)
Collaborative albums
Up, Up, and Away (1966)
The Magic Garden (1967)
Rewind (1967)
A Tramp Shining (1968)
The Yard Went On Forever (1968)
Sunshower (1969)
The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972)
Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974)
Earthbound (1975)
Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977)
Watermark (1977)
Breakwater Cat (1980)
The Last Unicorn (1983)
The Animals' Christmas (1986)
Light Years (1988)
Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989)
Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
This Kind of Love (2008)
Cottonwood Farm (2009)
Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session (2012)
Compilation albums
Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb (1972)
And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... (1998)
Archive (1994)
Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 (1999)
Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004)
Archive & Live (2005)
Songs
"All I Know"
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
"Didn't We"
"Galveston"
"The Girls' Song"
"Highwayman"
"Honey Come Back"
"MacArthur Park"
"Still Within the Sound of My Voice"
"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
"Up, Up and Away"
"Where's the Playground Susie"
"Wichita Lineman"
"The Worst That Could Happen"
Related articles
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Awards
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Lady of the Night
Love to Love You Baby
A Love Trilogy
Four Seasons of Love
I Remember Yesterday
Once Upon A Time
Bad Girls
The Wanderer
I'm a Rainbow
Donna Summer
She Works Hard for the Money
Cats Without Claws
All Systems Go
Another Place and Time
Mistaken Identity
Christmas Spirit
Crayons
Live albums
Live and More
Live & More Encore
Compilations
On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II
The Summer Collection: Greatest Hits
The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles
The Donna Summer Anthology
Endless Summer
The Ultimate Collection (2003)
The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer
Gold
The Ultimate Collection (2016)
Singles
"Love to Love You Baby"
"I Feel Love"
"Last Dance"
"MacArthur Park"
"Heaven Knows"
"Hot Stuff"
"Bad Girls"
"Dim All the Lights"
"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"
"On the Radio"
"The Wanderer"
"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)"
"She Works Hard for the Money"
"This Time I Know It's for Real"
Concert tours
Once Upon a Time Tour
Bad Girls Tour
The Wanderer Tour
Hard for the Money Tour
Silver Girl Tour
All Systems Go Tour
Live & More Encore Tour
Greatest Hits Tour
Crayons Tour
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Sunshine
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Waylon Jennings
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Singles
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The One and Only
Hangin' On
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Just to Satisfy You
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The Taker/Tulsa
Cedartown, Georgia
Good Hearted Woman
Ladies Love Outlaws
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
Honky Tonk Heroes
This Time
The Ramblin' Man
Dreaming My Dreams
Are You Ready for the Country
Ol' Waylon
I've Always Been Crazy
What Goes Around Comes Around
Music Man
Black on Black
It's Only Rock + Roll
Waylon and Company
Never Could Toe the Mark
Turn the Page
Sweet Mother Texas
Will the Wolf Survive
Hangin' Tough
A Man Called Hoss
Full Circle
The Eagle
Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.
Ol' Waylon Sings Ol' Hank
Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals & Dirt
Waymore's Blues (Part II)
Right for the Time
Closing In on the Fire
Waylon Forever
Goin' Down Rockin': The Last Recordings
Live albums
Waylon Live
Never Say Die: Live
Live from Austin, TX
Never Say Die: The Final Concert
Notable singles
1960s
"That's the Chance I'll Have to Take"
"Stop the World (And Let Me Off)"
"Anita, You're Dreaming"
"Time to Bum Again"
"(That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me"
"Green River"
"Mental Revenge"
"The Chokin' Kind"
"Walk On Out of My Mind"
"I Got You" with Anita Carter
"Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line"
"Yours Love"
"Something's Wrong in California"
"The Days of Sand and Shovels"
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
1970s
"Singer of Sad Songs"
"The Taker"
"(Don't Let the Sun Set on You) Tulsa"
"Mississippi Woman"
"Under Your Spell Again" with Jessi Colter
"Cedartown, Georgia"
"Good Hearted Woman"
"Sweet Dream Woman"
"Pretend I Never Happened"
"You Can Have Her"
"We Had It All"
"You Ask Me To"
"This Time"
"I'm a Ramblin' Man"
"Rainy Day Woman"
"Dreaming My Dreams with You"
"Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"
"Bob Wills Is Still the King"
"Can't You See"
"Are You Ready for the Country"
"Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)"
"I've Always Been Crazy"
"Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand"
"Amanda"
"Come With Me"
"I Ain't Living Long Like This"
1980s – 1990s
"Clyde"
"Good Ol' Boys"
"Storms Never Last" with Jessi Colter
"Shine"
"Just to Satisfy You" with Willie Nelson
"Women Do Know How to Carry On"
"Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)"
"Breakin' Down"
"Hold On, I'm Comin'" with Jerry Reed
"The Conversation" with Hank Williams Jr.
"I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain't Used Up)"
"Never Could Toe the Mark"
"America"
"Waltz Me to Heaven"
"Drinkin' and Dreamin'"
"The Devil's on the Loose"
"Working Without a Net"
"Will the Wolf Survive"
"What You'll Do When I'm Gone"
"Rose in Paradise"
"Fallin' Out"
"My Rough and Rowdy Days"
"If Ole Hank Could Only See Us Now"
"How Much Is It Worth to Live in L.A."
"Which Way Do I Go (Now That I'm Gone)"
"Trouble Man"
"You Put the Soul in the Song"
"Wrong"
"Where Corn Don't Grow"
"What Bothers Me Most"
"The Eagle"
"Just Talkin'"
"Too Dumb for New York City"
"Wild Ones"
"I Know About Me Don't Know About You"
"Outlaw Shit"
Collaborations
Waylon & Willie
Albums: Waylon & Willie
WWII
Take It to the Limit
Clean Shirt
Super Hits
Singles: "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)"
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"
"Take It to the Limit"
"If I Can Find a Clean Shirt"
Other collaborations
Country-Folk with The Kimberlys
Leather and Lace with Jessi Colter
Heroes with Johnny Cash
Old 97's & Waylon Jennings with Old 97's
Collaboration singles
"MacArthur Park" with The Kimberlys
"Suspicious Minds" with Jessi Colter
"Good Hearted Woman" with Willie Nelson (Re-recording)
"Suspicious Minds" with Jessi Colter (Re-release from Wanted! The Outlaws)
"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" with Johnny Cash
"Wish I Was Crazy Again" with Johnny Cash
"The Wild Side of Life/It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" with Jessi Colter
"Leave Them Boys Alone" with Hank Williams Jr. and Ernest Tubb
"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" with Johnny Cash
"Ballad of Forty Dollars" with Johnny Cash
"Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" with John Anderson
"High Ridin' Heroes" with David Lynn Jones
"One Good Love" with Neil Diamond
Compilations
The Best of Waylon Jennings
Don't Think Twice
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
Heartaches by the Number
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1960s
1964
"Baby I Need Your Loving"
"Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)"
1965
"Ask the Lonely"
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
"It's the Same Old Song"
"Something About You"
1966
"Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"
"Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever"
"Reach Out I'll Be There"
"Standing in the Shadows of Love"
1967
"Bernadette"
"7-Rooms of Gloom" / "I'll Turn to Stone"
"You Keep Running Away"
1968
"Walk Away Renée"
"If I Were a Carpenter"
"Yesterday's Dreams"
"I'm in a Different World"
1969
"What Is a Man"
"Do What You Gotta Do"
"Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me"
1970s
1970
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (re-issue)
"It's All in the Game"
"Still Water (Love)"
"River Deep – Mountain High" (with The Supremes)
1971
"Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)"
"You Gotta Have Love in Your Heart" (with The Supremes)
"In These Changing Times"
"MacArthur Park (Part II)"
1972
"A Simple Game"
"Bernadette" (re-issue)
"Walk with Me, Talk with Me, Darling"
"(It's the Way) Nature Planned It"
"Keeper of the Castle"
1973
"Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)"
"Are You Man Enough"
"Sweet Understanding Love"
1974
"I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind"
"One Chain Don't Make No Prison"
"Midnight Flower"
1975
"Seven Lonely Nights"
"We All Gotta Stick Together"
1976
"Catfish"
"I'm Glad You Walked into My Life"
1980s
1981
"When She Was My Girl"
"Don't Walk Away"
1982
"Let Me Set You Free"
"Back to School Again"
"Sad Hearts"
"Tonight I'm Gonna Love You All Over"
1983
"I Believe in You and Me"
"I Just Can't Walk Away"
1985
"Sexy Ways"
1988
"Reach Out I'll Be There" (re-issue)
"If Ever a Love There Was" (with Aretha Franklin)
"Indestructible"
1989
"Loco in Acapulco"
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Studio albums
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Two Time Winners
To You Sweetheart, Aloha
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The Village of St. Bernadette
Under Paris Skies
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Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes
Warm and Willing
Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests
The Andy Williams Christmas Album
The Wonderful World of Andy Williams
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The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits
Andy Williams' Dear Heart
Merry Christmas
The Shadow of Your Smile
In the Arms of Love
Born Free
Love, Andy
Honey
Happy Heart
Get Together with Andy Williams
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
The Andy Williams Show
Love Story
You've Got a Friend
Love Theme from "The Godfather"
Alone Again (Naturally)
Solitaire
The Way We Were
Christmas Present
You Lay So Easy on My Mind
The Other Side of Me
Andy
Let's Love While We Can
Greatest Love Classics
Close Enough for Love
I Still Believe in Santa Claus
Nashville
We Need a Little Christmas
I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up
Compilations
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Andy Williams' Best
Million Seller Songs
Canadian Sunset
Andy Williams' Newest Hits
May Each Day
The Andy Williams Sound of Music
Andy Williams' Greatest Hits
The Impossible Dream
Love Story
Andy Williams' Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (CBS)
Andy Williams' Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Reflections
The Best of Andy Williams (1992)
Personal Christmas Collection
16 Most Requested Songs: Encore!
The Best of Andy Williams (1996)
The Love Songs
In the Lounge with...
The Very Best of Andy Williams (2000)
Andy
The Essential Andy Williams
B Sides and Rarities
Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams
Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams
The Very Best of Andy Williams (2009)
The Classic Christmas Album
Live albums
Greatest Hits
The New Andy Williams Christmas Album
Singles
"Walk Hand in Hand"
"Canadian Sunset"
"Butterfly"
"I Like Your Kind of Love"
"Lips of Wine"
"Are You Sincere?"
"Promise Me, Love"
"The Hawaiian Wedding Song"
"Lonely Street"
"The Village of St. Bernadette"
"Danny Boy"
"Fly by Night"
"Stranger on the Shore"
"Don't You Believe It"
"Twilight Time"
"Can't Get Used to Losing You"
"Days of Wine and Roses"
"Hopeless"
"A Fool Never Learns"
"Charade"
"Wrong for Each Other"
"On the Street Where You Live"
"Almost There"
"Dear Heart"
"...and Roses and Roses"
"Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)"
"May Each Day"
"You're Gonna Hear from Me"
"Bye Bye Blues"
"How Can I Tell Her It's Over"
"In the Arms of Love"
"Music to Watch Girls By"
"Holly"
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
"Sweet Memories"
"Battle Hymn of the Republic"
"Happy Heart"
"Live and Learn"
"A Woman's Way"
"Can't Help Falling in Love"
"One Day of Your Life"
"It's So Easy"
"Home Lovin' Man"
"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story"
"A Song for You"
"You've Got a Friend"
"Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)"
"MacArthur Park"
"Solitaire"
"Love's Theme"
"Another Lonely Song"
"Cry Softly"
"Sad Eyes"
"The Other Side of Me"
"Tell It Like It Is"
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
B-Sides
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
"I Want to Be Wanted"
"Summertime"
"So Rare"
"Emily"
"Red Roses for a Blue Lady"
"I'll Remember You"
"Something"
"My Love"
"They Long to Be Close to You "
"I Love My Friend"
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