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A rather sub par release featuring songs from the Andy Williams TV show. LP criticized for its fake live pretence, unnecessary musical interludes and canned applause. (US:81 UK:10)
"Released at the start of Andy Williams' ninth and (as it turned out) final season as an NBC television host, The Andy Williams Show LP was not a soundtrack recording from the TV series, and it was not really a live album, although it gets categorized as such. What appears to be the case is that Columbia Records took a group of Williams' studio recordings, most of them made during the summer of 1970 and consisting of his versions of recent soft rock hits, and added a lot of canned applause, along with some of the kind of musical interludes used to usher numbers on and off on the show, including bits of its Moon River theme music at the start and the finish."
"The Andy Williams Show was a 'live' album of songs that Andy sang on his TV show and it includes a 'station break', and 'musical bridges' between songs."
"This is Andy Williams at his very best. The Andy Williams Show LP brought back a lot of memories for me when times were a little easier. A must-have for Andy fans."
"Except that there wasn't quite enough of it, there was nothing wrong with the material; what was wrong was all that irritating applause, so obviously dubbed in (it even faded in and out). Williams' fans responded to the shoddiness of the project, and it suffered relatively mediocre sales. Given that Williams' popularity was starting to fade anyway, the album was a real blunder."
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