Million Seller Songs

Million Seller Songs is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1962 by Cadence Records.^[4] This third album to compile the singer's material features some of the most successful songs Williams had recorded to date (albeit, in most cases, successful for another artist).

Million Seller Songs
Compilation album by Andy Williams
Released	1962
Recorded	1956–1961[1]
Genre	Early pop/rock traditional pop vocal pop standards soft rock[2]
Length	33:46
Label	Cadence Records
Andy Williams chronology
Warm and Willing (1962) Million Seller Songs (1962) Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests (1963)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

The collection made its first appearance on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated January 12, 1963, and remained there for 43 weeks, peaking at #54.^[5] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated December 15, of that year, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks, peaking at number 24^[6]

The album was issued on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on September 12, 2000, along with Williams's 1959 Cadence album, To You Sweetheart, Aloha.^[7] Million Seller Songs was included in a box set entitled Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1, which contains 17 of his studio albums and three compilations and was released on June 26, 2001.^[8]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Twilight Time" (Artie Dunn; Al Nevins; Morton Nevins; Buck Ram) - 2:38
2. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 2:44
3. "Canadian Sunset" (Norman Gimbel, Eddie Heywood) - 2:37
4. "The Three Bells" (Bert Reisfeld, Jean Villard) - 3:49
5. "It's All in the Game" (Charles Gates Dawes, Carl Sigman) - 2:55
6. "Butterfly" (Bernie Lowe, Kal Mann) - 2:21

Side two

1. "Suddenly There's a Valley" (Biff Jones, Charles Meyer) - 2:52
2. "Love Letters in the Sand" (J. Fred Coots, Charles Kenny, Nick Kenny) - 2:32
3. "Mam'selle" (Mack Gordon, Edmund Goulding) - 3:33
4. "So Rare" (Jerry Herst, Jack Sharpe) - 2:01
5. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" (traditional) - 3:07
6. "Picnic" (Steve Allen, George Duning) - 2:33

Personnel

• Andy Williams - vocalist
• Archie Bleyer - arranger, conductor^[1]
• Hugh Cherry - liner notes^[9]

References

1. "The Cadence Era: "Canadian Sunset" brightens Andy's disk career". Billboard. 1967-11-11. p. AW-20.
2. "Million Seller Songs - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
3. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1498. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
4. "Pop Spotlight: Million Seller Songs". Billboard. November 24, 1962. p. 14.
5. Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
6. Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 406. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
7. "Million Seller Songs/To You Sweetheart, Aloha - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
8. "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1 - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
9. (1962) Album notes for Million Seller Songs by Andy Williams, [album jacket]. New York: Cadence Records CLP 25061.

Bibliography

• Whitburn, Joel (2010), Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition, Record Research Inc., ISBN 978-0-89820-183-3