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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
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Nice, Nice, Very Nice"	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond^[a]	Puerta	5:49
2.	"Time Waits for No One"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Pack and Puerta	5:01
3.	"Holdin' on to Yesterday"	Puerta, Pack	Pack	4:19
4.	"World Leave Me Alone"	Pack	Pack	3:17

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
5.	"Make Us All Aware"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Pack	4:28
6.	"Lover Arrive"	Pack	Pack	3:12
7.	"Mama Frog"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Puerta	6:06
8.	"Drink of Water"	Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta	Puerta with Pack	6:29

Personnel

Ambrosia

David Pack – guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards on "Lover Arrive"
Christopher North – keyboards, backing vocals
Joe Puerta – bass, lead and backing vocals
Burleigh Drummond – drums, backing vocals, percussion, bassoon

Additional musicians

Daniel Kobialka – violin
James Newton Howard – synthesizer programming

Production

Producer: Freddie Piro
Engineers: Chuck Johnson, Billy Taylor, Freddie Piro, Tom Trefethen
Mixing: Alan Parsons
Art direction and illustration: Eddie Douglas

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Billboard 200	22

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1975	"Holdin' on to Yesterday"	Billboard Hot 100	17
		Billboard Easy Listening	46
		Cash Box Top 100^[1]	18
		Canada RPM Top Singles^[2]	37
		Dutch Single Top 100^[3]	36
	"Nice, Nice, Very Nice"	Billboard Hot 100	63

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.

References

^ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, August 23, 1975
^ RPM Weekly, August 30, 1975
^ "Holdin' on to Yesterday (NED)". Dutch Charts. Retrieved December 4, 2019.

Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2002-10-05. p. 18. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
"Ambrosia - Ambrosia | Credits | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.

[1] 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.

[2] CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, August 23, 1975

[3] RPM Weekly, August 30, 1975

[4] "Holdin' on to Yesterday (NED)". Dutch Charts. Retrieved December 4, 2019.

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Ambrosia
Joe Puerta Burleigh Drummond Christopher North Doug Jackson Mary Harris Kipp Lennon David Pack David C. Lewis Royce Jones Ken Stacey Robert Berry
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Singles	"Holdin' on to Yesterday" "Magical Mystery Tour" "How Much I Feel" "Biggest Part of Me" "You're the Only Woman (You & I)"
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