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Ambrosia is the debut album by Ambrosia. It was released in 1975 on 20th Century Fox Records. It spawned the top 20 chart single "Holdin' on to Yesterday" as well as the minor hit "Nice, Nice, Very Nice". The latter sets to music the lyrics to a poem in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording (other than Classical). Alan Parsons was the mixdown engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.
| Ambrosia | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | February 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1974 | |||
| Studio | Mama Jo's, North Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 40:00 | |||
| Label | 20th Century Fox | |||
| Producer | Freddie Piro | |||
| Ambrosia chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Road Island | ||||
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Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond[a] | Puerta | 5:49 |
| 2. | "Time Waits for No One" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Pack and Puerta | 5:01 |
| 3. | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Puerta, Pack | Pack | 4:19 |
| 4. | "World Leave Me Alone" | Pack | Pack | 3:17 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5. | "Make Us All Aware" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Pack | 4:28 |
| 6. | "Lover Arrive" | Pack | Pack | 3:12 |
| 7. | "Mama Frog" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Puerta | 6:06 |
| 8. | "Drink of Water" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Puerta with Pack | 6:29 |
Personnel
edit- Ambrosia
- David Pack – guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards on "Lover Arrive"
- Christopher North – keyboards, backing vocals
- Joe Puerta – bass, lead and backing vocals
- Burleigh Drummond – drums, backing vocals, percussion, bassoon
- Additional musicians
- Daniel Kobialka – violin
- James Newton Howard – synthesizer programming
- Production
- Producer: Freddie Piro
- Engineers: Chuck Johnson, Billy Taylor, Freddie Piro, Tom Trefethen
- Mixing: Alan Parsons
- Art direction and illustration: Eddie Douglas
Charts
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| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Billboard 200 | 22 |
- Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1975 | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Billboard Hot 100 | 17 |
| Billboard Easy Listening | 46 | ||
| Cash Box Top 100[1] | 18 | ||
| Canada RPM Top Singles[2] | 37 | ||
| Dutch Single Top 100[3] | 36 | ||
| "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" | Billboard Hot 100 | 63 |
Notes
edit- ^ Though the album packaging does not delineate who wrote the music and who wrote the lyrics for most of the songs, in the case of "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" the insert credits as follows: Lyrics - Vonnegut, Puerta; Music - Puerta, Pack, North, Drummond.
References
edit- ^ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, August 23, 1975
- ^ RPM Weekly, August 30, 1975
- ^ "Holdin' on to Yesterday (NED)". Dutch Charts. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2002-10-05. p. 18. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- "Ambrosia - Ambrosia | Credits | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.