Ambrosia (album)

Ambrosia
Studio album by Ambrosia
Released	February 1975
Recorded	1974
Studio	Mama Jo's Recording Studio, North Hollywood, California
Genre	Progressive rock, soft rock
Length	40:00
Label	20th Century Fox
Producer	Freddie Piro
Ambrosia chronology
Ambrosia (1975) Somewhere I've Never Travelled (1976)Somewhere I've Never Travelled1976

Ambrosia is the self-titled 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 engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.

Track listing

1. "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" – 5:49 (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond)
2. "Time Waits for No One" - 5:01 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)
3. "Holdin' on to Yesterday" - 4:19 (Pack, Puerta)
4. "World Leave Me Alone" - 3:17 (Pack)
5. "Make Us All Aware" - 4:28 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)
6. "Lover Arrive" – 3:12 (Pack)
7. "Mama Frog" – 6:06 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)
8. "Drink of Water" – 6:29 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)

Personnel

Ambrosia

• David Pack - guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards
• Christopher North - keyboards, backing vocals
• Joe Puerta - bass, lead and backing vocals, guitar
• Burleigh Drummond - drums, backing and lead vocals, percussion, bassoon

Production

• Producers: Freddie Piro
• Engineers: Alan Parsons, Chuck Johnson, Bobby Ross, Jeff Casper
• Mixing: Alan Parsons

Charts

Singles

References

• Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 18. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-11-10. 
• "Ambrosia - Ambrosia | Credits | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.