Andy Williams

Andy Williams

• Ceremony was on November 3, 1982

Recording Star for Andy Williams

Location: 6667 Hollywood Boulevard
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Two Time Winners

You can't keep a good song down. No matter when the song was first introduced and regardless of the style in which it was first performed, a good song always has a lasting quality which can bring it back to new popularity years after its introduction.

The song's magical quality is the basic ingredient, of course, but something special is required to make it a winner again. That "something special" is usually a performer who with an arranger can successfully adapt an old song to a modern style.

"The Hawaiian Wedding Song" is a perfect example. Its magical qualities have been there for the past twenty years but it was not until Andy Williams combined his vocal styling with Archie Bleyer's arrangement and direction that the song acquired the new sound that was needed to make it a "two time winner"

The musical combination that brought out the magic in "The Hawaiian Wedding Song" has done the same for all the other tunes in this album. All have had their comeback and in Andy's performance it's easy to see why. He brings to the ballads and the rhythm numbers the appropriate moods: soft, sweet, moody and exciting. That he excels in such varied styles is indicated by his list of hit records which includes "Butterfly" "Canadian Sunset", "Baby Doll", "1 Like Your Kind Of Love" and "Are You Sincere".

This album presents Andy Williams in top form singing the best of the TWO TIME WINNERS.

Songs

• Sail Along Silv'ry Moon
• Twilight Time
• So Rare
• The Hawaiian Wedding Song
• Blueberry Hill
• Sweet Leilani
• Love Letters in The Sand
• It's All in The Game
• Blue Hawaii
• Be Mine Tonight
• My Happiness
• Near You

To You Sweetheart Aloha

Lovers everywhere desire to find a word to express the many tender emotions romance weaves over those who share it; in the Hawaiian "aloha they find their answer, and in this beautiful album Andy Williams interprets musically "aloha" and all its meanings.

Hawaii's "aloha," rich with expression, meaning "hello," "farewell," and "welcome," is also possibly the world's most beautiful word for "l love you." To say "aloha" is to translate love's personal and private language into words. The Hawaiian, child of nature that he is, has always chosen to express aloud what we could leave unsaid, and has done so in his love songs for centuries.

Andy Williams has chosen a group of rich and warm songs about the Islands and about one's beloved that will provide a glorious and welcome background for romance to lovers everywhere. This bouquet of romantic songs inspired by the Hawaiian "aloha" is dedicated to all those who have ever loved or been loved.

In this recording of Hawaiian love songs, the traditional native instruments so familiar in most Hawaiian albums have been abandoned to present a completely fresh viewpoint. Archie Bleyer has arranged and directed an orchestra of lush strings to accompany Andy's warm vocal styling, a combination which captures the elusive spell of romance and Hawaii, but in the truly modern idiom of Andy's famous "Hawaiian Wedding Song," which gained instantaneous popularity in the Islands as well as throughout the rest of the world.

At last, here is the perfect gift for your beloved-the gift that goes on saying "I love you" after your presence is but a memory.

Songs

• To You Sweetheart, Aloha
• Blue Hawaii
• I'll Weave a Lei of Stars For You
• Sweet Leilani
• The Moon of Manakoora
• The Hawaiian Wedding Song
• Song of The Islands
• A Song of Old Hawaii
• Love Song of Kalua
• Beyond The Reef
• Ka-Lu-A
• Aloha Oe