Andy Williams - Days of Wine and Roses (1963) Vinyl LP • TV Requests

Catalog Number: CS-8815

Record Grading: Very Good (VG), Sleeve Grading: Good Plus (G+)

Condition Details:

Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; scuffing, surface abrasions, and surface impressions, wrinkling from possible water danage (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white); one seam mostly split. Spine is partly readable with wear and splits. Shelf-wear across top/bottom-edge. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. Stereo pressing. Red 2-eye label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Falling In Love With Love
• (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco
• You Are My Sunshine
• What Kind Of Fool Am I?
• When You're Smiling
• Days Of Wine And Roses
• It's A Most Unusual Day
• My Coloring Book
• Can't Get Used To Losing You
• I Really Don't Want To Know
• Exactly Like You
• May Each Day

About The Record:

Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests, by Andy Williams, has a studio recording of the closing theme from the show, May Each Day, and continues the format of his previous Columbia releases by including songs from the 1920s ("When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)), 1930s (Exactly Like You, Falling in Love with Love), 1940s (It's a Most Unusual Day, You Are My Sunshine), and 1950s (I Really Don't Want to Know). The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated April 20 of that year and remained on the album chart for 107 weeks, spending 16 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on September 19, 1963, becoming his first to do so, while his 1962 album Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes followed suit one month later. For its release in the UK, the album was retitled Can't Get Used to Losing You and Other Requests, and it spent its only week on the album chart there at No. 16 in 1965. The single from the album, Can't Get Used to Losing You, made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 7, 1963, eventually spending four weeks at No. 2 during its 15-week stay. On the Easy Listening chart it spent four weeks at No. 1. Its B-side, Days of Wine and Roses reached No. 26 on the Hot 100 and No. 9, Easy Listening.