Ambrosia (album)
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. Alan Parsons was the mixdown engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.
Track listing
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
- Daniel Kobialka - violin
- James Newton Howard - synthesizer programming
- Producer: Freddie Piro
- Engineers: Chuck Johnson, Billy Taylor, Freddie Piro, Tom Trefethen
- Mixing: Alan Parsons
- Art direction and illustration: Eddie Douglas
Charts
;Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
| 1975 | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Billboard Hot 100 | 17 |
| 1975 | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Billboard Easy Listening | 46 |
| 1975 | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Cash Box Top 100 | 18 |
| 1975 | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Canada RPM Top Singles | 37 |
| 1975 | "Holdin' on to Yesterday" | Dutch Single Top 100 | 36 |
| 1975 | "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" | Billboard Hot 100 | 63 |