ANDY WILLIAMS - DEAR HEART

DEAR HEART

ANDY WILLIAMS

SONGWRITERS: HENRY MANCINI; JAY LIVINGSTON & RAY EVANS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ANDY WILLIAMS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1965

Andy Williams' Dear Heart is the sixteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1965 by Columbia Records and was the last of his Columbia releases that remained exclusively within the realm of traditional pop. After covering two Beatles hits on his next non-holiday studio album, The Shadow of Your Smile, he would try out samba music on In the Arms of Love, aim for a much younger crowd with "Music to Watch Girls By" on Born Free, and focus more on contemporary material on subsequent albums.

This album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated April 10 of that year and remained on the album chart for 65 weeks, peaking at number four. The name of the album was changed to Andy Williams' Almost There for its release in the UK, where it became Williams's first album chart entry, spending 46 weeks there and peaking at number four. (Two of his previous albums, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests—which was retitled Can't Get Used to Losing You and Other Requests for its UK release—and The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits, appeared on the album chart in the UK following the success of this album.).

Andy Williams' Dear Heart received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on July 30, 1965. This was Williams's sixth album to receive this award as well as the one to do so the fastest thus far in terms of the amount of time between chart debut and certification, having accomplished this feat in less than four months as compared to the previous recordholder, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests, which did so in five months.

"Dear Heart" is a song written by Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, and Jay Livingston and performed by Andy Williams. The song reached #2 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart and #24 on the Billboard chart in 1964. It appears on the 1965 Andy Williams album, Andy Williams' Dear Heart.

The song was the theme to the 1964 movie Dear Heart. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and also nominated for best song at the 22nd Golden Globe Awards.

Dear heart wish you were here to warm this night

My dear heart, seems like a year since you've been out of my sight

A single room, a table for one

It's a lonesome town all right

But soon I'll kiss you hello at our front door

And dear heart I want you to know

I'll leave your arms never more

(a single room, a table for one)

It's a lonesome town all right

But soon I'll kiss you hello at our front door

And dear heart I want you to know

I'll leave your arms never more.