16 Most Requested Songs

Andy Williams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000265H
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,426 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to watch the sunset by!, June 6, 2000

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John A. Kuczma "RogueUlfric" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 16 Most Requested Songs (Audio CD)

Andy Williams possesses one of the most distinct and memorable voices of the entire pop era. His songs may be lively or mellow, but they are always easy on the ears but hard to get off the mind.

This Columbia compilation brings together many of his best, even reaching back into the Cadence years for 1956's beautiful "Canadien Sunset" and 1958's "Hawaiian Wedding Song."

Andy was one of the first artists to experiment with double tracked recording, allowing him to sing his own harmonies. The experiments were exquisitely successful, as attested to by the superb "Can't Get Used to Losing You", a number two hit in 1963.

The title of this album is significant, as these are Andy Williams' 16 Most Requested Songs, not his 16 greatest hits. In fact, many of the cuts on this album did not make the pop charts. Nonetheless, they are memorable in their own right, such as "More", "Moon River", "Red Roses for a Blue Lady", the hauntingly beautiful "Maria" and the magnificant "Born Free." If nothing else, this collection proves that chart position is not always indicative of the quality of music.

Whether you listen to them by firelight, candlelight, moonlight or the light of the setting sun, Andy Williams' 16 Most Requested Songs will delight your ears and warm your heart. This is an album not to be missed.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REASSESSING ANDY WILLIAMS, February 16, 2000

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This review is from: 16 Most Requested Songs (Audio CD)

This collection and its sequel (Encore!) covers almost all the essential hits that Mr Williams' have made. Get them instead of the brand new box set from Collectable which is actually four original albums rolled into one box and missing the earlier and later hits (Moon River, Love Story). Mind you, those are very worthy albums, especially Love Andy, but not if you're only looking for greatest hits.

For additional cravings, get the fantastic "In The Lounge With Andy Williams" collection from the UK...you'd only get a minimum of duplicated tracks, and the songs are more contemporary and portray Mr Williams as a genuinely cool artist with an open ear and mind to youth culture.

I can't think of anyone else before or since with a voice like Andy Williams, the kind of smokey quality that seems to harmonize with itself. Only Art Garfunkel comes close.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You just don't hear these songs anymore......, July 20, 2005

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N. Mondano (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 16 Most Requested Songs (Audio CD)

Listening to Andy Williams brought back lots of memories. You just don't hear these songs played on free radio anymore. Now I can listen anytime I want. Great CD!