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.
Track listing
Side one| Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals |
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| 1. | "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond[a] | Puerta | 5:49 |
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| 2. | "Time Waits for No One" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Pack and Puerta | 5:01 |
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| 3. | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Puerta, Pack | Pack | 4:19 |
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| 4. | "World Leave Me Alone" | Pack | Pack | 3:17 |
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Side two| Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals |
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| 5. | "Make Us All Aware" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Pack | 4:28 |
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| 6. | "Lover Arrive" | Pack | Pack | 3:12 |
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| 7. | "Mama Frog" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Puerta | 6:06 |
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| 8. | "Drink of Water" | Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta | Puerta with Pack | 6:29 |
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Personnel
- Ambrosia
- Additional musicians
- Production
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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- Singles
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Single
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Chart
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Position
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| 1975
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"Holdin' on to Yesterday"
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Billboard Hot 100
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17
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| Billboard Easy Listening
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46
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| Cash Box Top 100[4]
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18
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| Canada RPM Top Singles[5]
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37
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| Dutch Single Top 100[6]
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36
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| "Nice, Nice, Very Nice"
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Billboard Hot 100
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63
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Notes
- ^ 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.
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