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.
Contents
Personnel
Ambrosia
David Pack – guitar, keyboards (6), lead vocals (2–6, 8), backing vocals
Joe Puerta – bass, lead vocals (1, 2, 7, 8), backing vocals
Burleigh Drummond – drums, percussion, bassoon, backing vocals
Christopher North – keyboards, backing vocals
Chuck Girard – backing vocals
Keith Johnson – backing vocals
Jim West – backing vocals
Fletch Wiley – arrangements
Odessa Balalaika Ensemble
David Lieberman – Balalaika
Peter Rothe – Balalaika
Judy Sherman – Balalaika
Linda O'Brien – Balalaika
Jonathan Rothe – Domra
Stephen Wolownik – Domra
Daniel Kobialka – violin
Michael Granger – synthesizer programming
James Newton Howard – synthesizer programming
Technical
Produced by Freddie Piro
Engineered by Chuck Johnson, Billy Taylor, Freddie Piro, and Tom Trefethen
Mixed by Alan Parsons
Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
Cover art – Shusei Nagaoka
Cover lettering – Michael Manoogian
Photography – Eddie Douglas
Charts
Singles