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Also known as Howard Andrew Williams

American singer (1927–2012)

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Andy Williams (1927–2012) was an American male vocalist whose career began in 1938. He was recognized for his work in easy listening, jazz, and traditional pop genres. His musical output included easy listening soundtracks and musicals. Williams was recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection.

As an author, he is credited with 82 works. Notable titles include *The villages of Surrey*, *Secure Your WordPress Website with HTTPS for Free*, *SEO 2015 and Beyond*, *Complete SEO 2015 and Beyond*, and *When Golfo Saved Christmas*. Crossref lists five of his works.

Williams had 1,915,267 listeners and 16,488,660 plays on Last.fm, where he was tagged with oldies, 60s, pop, easy listening, and male vocalists. He maintained an official website and had 159,000 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
82

Top works

  • The villages of Surrey
  • Secure Your WordPress Website with HTTPS for Free
  • SEO 2015 and Beyond
  • Complete SEO 2015 and Beyond
  • When Golfo Saved Christmas

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1927-12-03
Active to
2012-09-25
easy listeningeasy listening soundtracks and musicalsjazztraditional pop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,915,267
Total plays
16,488,660

Tags

oldies60spopeasy listeningmale vocalists

Howard Andrew Williams (born December 3, 1927 in Wall Lake, Iowa, died September 26, 2012), known as Andy Williams, was an American pop singer. He first performed in a children's choir at his local Presbyterian church. Williams and his three older brothers Bob, Dick, and Don, formed a quartet, the Williams Brothers, in the late 1930s. The brothers performed on radio in the Midwest, first at WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, and later at WLS in Chicago and WLW in Cincinnati. <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PHQ-9

    · 2001 · cited 39,465x

  2. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    · 2006 · cited 28,927x

  3. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

    · 1986 · cited 24,386x

  4. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,289x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,617x

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Key facts

Born
Howard Andrew Williams , ( 1927-12-03 ) December 3, 1927, Wall Lake, Iowa , US
Died
September 25, 2012 (2012-09-25) (aged 84) , Branson, Missouri , US
Genres
Traditional pop easy listening
Occupation
Singer
Years active
1938–2012
Labels
Cadence Columbia London Polydor
Formerly of
The Williams Brothers
Spouses
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Website
andywilliams .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy Awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.

Williams was active in the music industry for over 70 years until his death in September 2012 from bladder cancer, at the age of 84.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andy Williams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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