Ambrosia | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Ambrosia |
Cover: | Ambrosia(album).jpeg |
Released: | February 1975 |
Recorded: | 1974 |
Studio: | Mama Jo's, North Hollywood |
Genre: | Progressive rock |
Length: | 40:00 |
Label: | 20th Century Fox |
Producer: | Freddie Piro |
Next Title: | Somewhere I've Never Travelled |
Next Year: | 1976 |
Ambrosia is the debut album by Ambrosia. It was released in 1975 on 20th Century Fox Records. It spawned the top 20 chart single "Holdin' on to Yesterday" as well as the minor hit "Nice, Nice, Very Nice". The latter sets to music the lyrics to a poem in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording (other than Classical). Alan Parsons was the mixdown engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.
Freddie Piro
Chuck Johnson, Billy Taylor, Freddie Piro, Tom Trefethen
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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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 | |