I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up

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{{Infobox album

| name = I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up

| type = album

| artist = Andy Williams

| cover = Williams-Remember.jpg

| alt =

| released = June 18, 2007{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-dont-remember-ever-growing-up-r940887|title=I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up - Andy Williams|work=allmusic.com|publisher=Rovi Corporation|accessdate=8 November 2011}}

| recorded = 2006(2007) I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up by Andy Williams [CD booklet]. London: Demon Music Group DMGCD006.

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Traditional pop|vocal pop}}

| length = 51:25

| label = Demon Music Group

| producer = Andy Williams

| prev_title = Music to Watch Girls By: The Very Best of Andy Williams

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams

| next_year = 2009

}}

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|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}

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I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up is the forty-third and final studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in the UK by the Demon Music Group in 2007. In the liner notes of the album Williams writes, "Over the past few years I have come across songs that I really wanted to record. I picked 13 of my favorites and set out to make a new record." While the title track is the only new song, the other 12 selections were chart hits for other artists or, as is the case with "Desperado" by the Eagles, received critical acclaim without having been released as a single.{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rstone.html#500Songs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211024228/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rstone.html#500Songs|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 11, 2006|title=The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - 2004|work=rocklistmusic.co.uk|publisher=rocklist.net|accessdate=9 November 2011}}

Track listing

Song information

Neil Sedaka's first recording of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" reached number one on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in 1962, but on this album Williams pays tribute to Sedaka's much slower 1975 version that went to number one on the magazine's Adult Contemporary chart and got as high as number eight pop.{{Harvnb|Whitburn|2009|p=866}}. "The Shadow of Your Smile" is the title track from Williams's spring of 1966 release, and "Desperado" comes from the 1973 album of the same name by the Eagles.

Personnel

From the liner notes:

; Production

  • Artie Butler - arranger (except as noted), supervisor
  • Bruce Botnick - engineering, mixing, mastering
  • Peter Fuchs - string engineer
  • Joe Galante - arranger ("Just to See Her")
  • Nick Hazard - arranger ("The Shadow of Your Smile")
  • Chad Heasley - lead vocal engineer
  • Ken Thorne - arranger ("Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?", "Every Breath You Take", "One Sweet Day")
  • Andy Williams - producer
  • Dick Williams - background vocal arranger

; Performers

References

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Bibliography

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| year = 2004

| publisher = Record Research Inc.

| isbn = 0-89820-160-8

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  • {{citation

| last = Whitburn

| first = Joel

| title = Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006

| year = 2007

| publisher = Record Research Inc.

| isbn = 978-0-89820-169-7

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