Honey (Andy Williams album)

Honey
Studio album by
Released1968
Recorded1968
Genre
Length35:07
LabelColumbia
ProducerNick DeCaro
Andy Williams chronology
Love, Andy
(1967)
Honey
(1968)
The Andy Williams Sound of Music
(1969)

Honey is the twenty-second studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in the spring of 1968 by Columbia Records. In reviewing the LP William Ruhlmann of Allmusic traced the progression of the Williams formula, noting that "he had been drawing on the recent hit parade for some of his material for years. But Honey marked his complete crossover to such an approach. Where earlier Williams albums had been a canny mix of movie songs, standards, pop hits, and foreign -- especially French -- material, ten of Honey's 11 tracks were songs that had been Top 40 hits in the last two years."

The album made its first appearance on Billboard's Top LPs chart in the issue dated June 8, 1968, and remained there for 40 weeks, peaking at number nine. It entered the UK album chart shortly thereafter in July and reached number four over the course of 17 weeks, it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated June 1, 1968, and remained on the chart for 21 weeks, peaking at number 14 and the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album Gold certification on November 1, 1968.

The album was released on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on March 23, 1999, along with Williams's 1969 Columbia album, Happy Heart. This same pairing was also released as two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 2000. The Collectables included this CD 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.