ANDY WILLIAMS - LONELY STREET

LONELY STREET

ANDY WILLIAMS

SONGWRITERS: CARL BELEW; KENNY SOWDER & W. S. STEVENSON (WILLIAM AUBREY BILL MCCALL)

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ANDY WILLIAMS

LABEL: CADENCE RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1959

Lonely Street is the fifth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in late 1959 through Cadence Records. This, his fifth LP of new material for the label, is described by William Ruhlmann on AllMusic.com as "an album full of songs of lost love and loneliness that found Williams using more of the Mel Tormé-like foggy lower register of his voice." The liner notes on the back of the album jacket read, "The selections in Lonely Street, Andy confides, are those for which he feels a special affection. Every vocalist has a few personal favorites... and it is quite clear to the listener that this collection presents songs which Andy Williams believes, feels -- and loves."

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold-certified and three platinum-certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, and numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Showwon three Emmy awards. The Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri is named after the song for which he is best known—Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's "Moon River". He sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.

Williams was active in the music industry for 74 years.

Where's this place called "Lonely Stree-ee-ee-eet?"

I'm looking for that lonely street

I've got a sad, sad tale to tell

I need a place to go and weep

Where's this place called "Lonely Stree-ee-ee-eet?"

A place where there's just loneliness

Where dim lights bring forgetfulness

Where broken dreams and mem'ries meet

Where's this place called "Lonely Stree-ee-ee-eet?"

Perhaps upon that lonely street

There's someone such as I

Who came to bury broken dreams

And watch an old love di-ie

If I could find that lonely street

Where dim lights bring forgetfulness

Where broken dreams and mem'ries meet

Where's this place called "Lonely Stree-ee-ee-eet?"

Where's this place called "Lonely Stree-ee-ee-eet?"