THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
ANDY WILLIAMS
SONGWRITER: PAUL
FRANCIS WEBSTER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE SHADOW OF
YOUR SMILE
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1966
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 3
platinum-certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971
along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won
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
over 70 years until his death in 2012.
The Shadow
of Your Smile is the eighteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in April 1966 by Columbia Records and included covers of "Michelle" and "Yesterday",
the same pair of Beatles ballads that labelmate Johnny Mathis recorded for his 1966 album of the same name. For Williams these selections initiated a
trend away from the traditional pop formula that his album output at
Columbia up until this point had adhered to.
The Williams
release made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated May 14 of
that year and remained on the album chart for 54 weeks, peaking at number six. It
entered the UK charts in July and spent four weeks there, reaching number 27. The
album received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on September 27, 1966.
The A-side from this album, "Bye Bye Blues", "bubbled under"
Billboard's Hot 100, reaching number 127, and got to number 18 on the
magazine's Easy Listening (or Adult Contemporary) chart.
The album
was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD
by Collectables
Records on
March 23, 1999, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the spring of 1965, Andy Williams' Dear Heart. It was also released as one of two albums on one CD
by Sony Music Distribution
on December 28, 1999, paired this time with Williams's Columbia album from the fall of 1962, Warm and Willing. The Collectables CD 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.
One day we walked
along the sand
One day in early spring
You held a piper in your hand
To mend its broken wing
Now I'll remember many a day
And many a lonely mile
The echo of a piper's song
The shadow of a smile
The shadow of your
smile
When you are gone
Will color all my dreams
And light the dawn
Look into my eyes
My love and see
All the lovely things
You are to me
Our wistful little
star
Was far too high
A teardrop kissed your lips
And so did I
Now when I remember spring
All the joy that love can bring
I will be remembering
The shadow of your smile.
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