Andy Williams
American singer (1927–2012)www.andywilliams.com
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Nov 1, 2026
Allison WeeksHOST
Okay, we're going to do a little bit of rapid fire questions, Christmas style.
Allison WeeksHOST
Okay, you ready? Okay, favorite Christmas song or carol? Happy Holidays by Andy Williams.
Allison WeeksHOST
Oh yeah.
Allison WeeksHOST
That just makes you smile.
Jason SmithHOST
Happy holidays.
Jason SmithHOST
All of a sudden, Andy Williams
Mike HarmonHOST
is singing to us, and away we go.
Jason SmithHOST
Oh, yeah.
Jason SmithHOST
Hey, as we turn the page to Halloween.
Jason SmithHOST
Hey, happy holidays, everybody.
Jason SmithHOST
Here's Andy Williams.
Jason SmithHOST
That's it.
SamHOST
Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, all that good stuff.
SamHOST
Andy Williams, all that.
SamHOST
I eat that stuff up.
SamHOST
So good.
Champ HerrenHOST
Christmas was a dying institution in the English speaking world until um the christmas carol
Todd WilkinsonGUEST
and one of the customs that's become popular in the last five or ten years at christmas is the victorian custom of telling ghost stories on christmas eve think about it when andy williams sings it's the most wonderful time of the year there's a line in there about scary ghost stories
Champ HerrenHOST
tales of the glories and carry scary ghost stories of christmas is long long ago A Christmas Carol is a ghost story.
Champ HerrenHOST
It is a ghost story.
Matt DorbinGUEST
And that is where...
Matt DorbinGUEST
Herb Alpert, and also Andy Williams come into the picture by seeing her performance, but it led to this being the lead-off single of this album.
Jeremy RugglesHOST
Perfect.
Jeremy RugglesHOST
Good place to start.
Sean HartmanHOST
Yeah, and maybe you could tell by that vocal delivery, but she is not from Brazil, although she does a great bossa nova.
Sean HartmanHOST
I think her kind of breathy, soft pop take on music works really well for the bossa nova style that was big at the time.
Peter CookHOST
Yeah, I was asking my mother yesterday if she was familiar with Claudine, and she's immediately said, oh yeah, the French singer who used to perform, she was with Andy Williams and used to perform on television all the time.
Peter CookHOST
And then later, I'm not going to spoil it, but she definitely knew.
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yeah
Marc BurrowsGUEST
and partying and you i think you can feel that spirit like the earliest british the earliest english language christmas song the earliest english english language christmas carol is a drinking song i think there is there is actually um there is actually like something of the spirit of that raucousness and that party season that stayed with us and when those bands you know working class bands went to write christmas songs they instinctively went for that they didn't go for being crosby and they didn't go for for um you know for let it snow let it snow let it snow they didn't want to be andy williams they didn't want to be judy garland They wanted to write raucous Christmas songs that reflected their experience of Christmas growing up.
Marc BurrowsGUEST
And it caught on.
Marc BurrowsGUEST
It caught people's imaginations in a way that I don't think even they realised it would.
Andy RobinsonHOST
Welcome to Shooby Dooby Doo-Wop, the podcast where we talk about pop music, specifically by deep diving around the chosen UK top 10 singles chart from the past.
Andy RobinsonHOST
I'm Andy Robinson.
Andy RobinsonHOST
And I'm James Cook.
Andy RobinsonHOST
And in part two, what chart randomly selected are we looking at this week? It is from the
Andy RobinsonHOST
A love
James CookHOST
song that sounds creepy on more than one level.
Andy RobinsonHOST
Down two places to number seven, it's Solitaire by Andy Williams.
James CookHOST
The soundtrack to whiling away your life playing games on your phone.
IanHOST
Shout out to Anthony Davis.
IanHOST
Shout out to Andy Williams.
IanHOST
And shout out to
DeathHOST
P. Diddy for winning at prison.
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so, at the end of the second inning, the score, the Dodgers 2, the Twins nothing.
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bob Hope, Roger Miller, and Mary Tyler Moore join Andy Williams tonight at 10, 9 Central Time on the Andy Williams Show, immediately following Dr. Kildare in color here on NBC.
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In the Twins' third...
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Don Mincher, Frank Quillacy, and Jim Cott to face Sandy Koufax as the Dodgers lead by two to nothing.
12 MINS LATER
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He has a fine fastball, and he throws a great change.
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I'd like to make a correction right now while young Boswell is warming up.
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Earlier we said that on the Andy Williams show tonight at 10 that you could watch Bob Hope, Roger Miller, and Mary Tyler Moore.
Ray ScottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Not so.
Suno AIUNKNOWN
It's full of the songs that define the holiday.
Suno AIUNKNOWN
Andy Williams, Nat King, Cole, Kenny G, and Michael Bublé.
Suno AIUNKNOWN
Then Ella and Elvis always get it right.
Suno AIUNKNOWN
With Henry Mancini throughout the night.
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