Ambrosia (album)

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Ambrosia
Mama Jo's, North Hollywood
GenreProgressive rock
Length40:00
Label20th Century Fox
ProducerFreddie Piro
Ambrosia chronology
Ambrosia
(1975)
Somewhere I've Never Travelled
(1976)
Singles from Road Island
  1. "Holdin' on to Yesterday"
    Released: June 1975
  2. "Nice, Nice, Very Nice"
    Released: June 1975

Ambrosia is the debut album by

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engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Nice, Nice, Very Nice"
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond[a]
Puerta5:49
2."Time Waits for No One"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPack and Puerta5:01
3."Holdin' on to Yesterday"Puerta, PackPack4:19
4."World Leave Me Alone"PackPack3:17
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
5."Make Us All Aware"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPack4:28
6."Lover Arrive"PackPack3:12
7."Mama Frog"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPuerta6:06
8."Drink of Water"Drummond, North, Pack, PuertaPuerta with Pack6:29

Personnel

Ambrosia
Additional musicians
Production
  • Producer: Freddie Piro
  • Engineers
    : Chuck Johnson, Billy Taylor, Freddie Piro, Tom Trefethen
  • Mixing: Alan Parsons
  • Art direction and illustration: Eddie Douglas

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1975 Billboard 200 22
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
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

  1. ^ 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

  1. ^ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, August 23, 1975
  2. ^ RPM Weekly, August 30, 1975
  3. ^ "Holdin' on to Yesterday (NED)". Dutch Charts. Retrieved December 4, 2019.