Williams starts Christmas tour, releases LP
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Andy Williams, who is identified
with Christmas from years of TV
specials, is touring with a holiday
show for the sixth year. And he has
made his fourth Christmas alburn, his
first new Christmas album in 10 years.
It’s “I Still Believe in Santa Claus,”
on Curb, released through Capitol.
He said it was fun to make.
“I’ve done just about every Christ
mas carol in different albums,” he
said “One was all carols. The other
two were half-carols and half-pop
songs. I didn’t do any carols this time.”
Columbia Records re-releases Wil
liams’ first three Christmas albums
every year.
“Usually, when you do a record,
you go in with 10 songs and a certain
size orchestra, and all the songs sound
a little bit alike because you use the
same instrumentation,” Williams said.
Each one of these is different. It
makes a nice album.”
One song is “The Hawaiian Christ
mas Song,’’ written by the same man
who wrote “The Hawaiian Wedding
Song, which was a hit record for
Williams in 1958. He heard both songs
about the same time.
. ^ didn’t have English lyrics.
Neither did ‘The Hawaiian Wedding
Song, he said. “English lyrics were
written for it and for this. I recorded it
and never released it. Twenty-five
years later I recorded it again.”
He said he listened to his old
Hawaiian Christmas Song” record
ing. It’s a great song, but the record
sounded dated.”
He sang “Blue Christmas,” which
Elvis Presley had on his 1957 Christ
mas album. “I did that with a country
backup group. It’s typical country,
very good country.”
“What Are You Doing New Year’s
Eve?” uses a Dixieland arrangement,”
he said. “Then I did a tongue-in
cheek T Saw Mommy Kissing Santa
Claus’ with 1940s movie-musical-type
music. I tap-dance in the middle of it.
I put down a board and tap-danced.
When my brothers and I and Kay
Thompson had an act, we danced a
little bit.
“There’s a commercial I used to
like on TV, Anheuser-Busch Clydes
dale horses traveling down small-town
streets in snow, with a choir singing
‘oohs,’ I did ‘I’ll Be Home for Christ
mas’ very quiet with sleighbells in it,
trying to get the feeling I got from
watching that commercial.”
Williams’ touring with a Christ
mas show began “when I did a sym
phony date in Seattle and the lady in
charge wanted me to sing some Christ
mas songs in the show. So I did, at the
last minute. The next year, word had
got around. I did six or seven sym
phonies during the month of Decem
ber.
“It was so popular I decided to do
a tour the next year, taking an orches
tra with me,” Williams said. “That
third year was the beginning of this
touring. The following year I added a
set and lights. It has developed into a
stage show instead of a concert. A
medley of hit songs Tve had from
movies is the only music that isn’t
Christmas.”
He uses local choruses, sending
the music ahead, and goes to different
cities each year.
“It’s a large show. We carry 40
people, 28 in the orchestra, 12 crew.
We have snow, Christmas trees, Santa
Claus. The stage looks beautiful. We
rent and carry the swiveling lights
rock ‘n’ rollers use. They get nervous
if they don’t move them every three
seconds. We use them to make pic
tures.”
The orchestra goes by bus, the
crew by minibus, and the sound and
light equipment in two trucks. Wil
liams and 11 people fly. They could
put on a show if ground vehicles
didn’i arrive, but have never had to.
When he tours with his regular
concert in February and for a week of
one-nighters in Florida in March,
Williams will take the same orches
tra, put together by A1 Cobine in
Indianapolis, of Indiana University
music graduates.
“They’re terrific musicians,” Wil
liams said. “It’s almost like finding a
Count Basie Orchestra in the Mid
west.”
Williams said that his Christmas
shows sell out more quickly than his
shows during the rest of the year. “I
think people really want this kind of
show. Christmas music gives a joy
ous kind of feeling.”
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Yistin Gaggii, another Navaho, is
the able and ample bad guy who has
learned how to access the computer
web and bring the ancient powers to
the modern, futuristic world.
As he shifts the emphasis from
mystery to science fiction, Foster’s
credibility gets strained, making vague
references to past visits by intelligent
aliens who left tremendous powers
behind.
Along the way, Foster leaves the
reader with some wonderful words,
as when describing the descent of a
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but things fall together (or apart) too
quickly at the end.
The result is a fair mystery or
science fiction novel, but the blend
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successful, since the mystery is solved
only when science fictional themes
are introduced and that shift is strained.
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