Ambrosia (album)

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.

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


 * Singles