The Christmas Music of Johnny Mathis: A Personal Collection contains 15 highlights culled from the many holiday albums Johnny Mathis recorded for Columbia records over the...
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This Heart of Mine includes Mathis standards like "Wonderful! Wonderful!," "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?," "Laura" and "Misty." ~ Keith Farley, All Music...
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Columbia has repackaged Johnny Mathis' sophomore album, Warm, no less than three times. Warm is an example of the classic romantic mood that made Mathis a superstar. The...
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Hearing Johnny Mathis perform Barry Manilow's breakthrough hit "Mandy" a dozen years after he tackled Bob Lind's "Elusive Butterfly" is a journey through the years with a...
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Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams made a fine team on this collection of sentimental love songs and light pop ballads. They had had previous success on the title track,...
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One of Mathis's best recordings to date. Contemporary updates of fifties classics such as "You Belong to Me" and "It's All in the Game." Take 6 supplies guest vorals on the...
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The original greatest-hits package, which stayed on the charts for ten years; includes "Chances Are," "It's Not for Me to Say, " "Wonderful! Wonderful!" and "The Twelfth of...
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Johnny Mathis' All-Time Greatest Hits, a 20-track double-LP set released in 1972, was the most comprehensive compilation of the singer's best-known material up to its time....
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Johnny Mathis chooses an interesting, varied set list for this 1984 concert collection. Of course, there are a few of his big 1950s hits -- "Misty," "A Certain Smile," "The...
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The early 1970s was a tough time for established ballad singers, but Johnny Mathis, who was younger than his peers and Columbia Records labelmates like Tony Bennett and Andy...
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The Love Story album from Johnny Mathis is one of his most realized, produced during a decade when he worked with producers ranging from Richard Perry and Jerry Fuller to...
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Of the several Christmas LPs Johnny Mathis has recorded, this one gets the nod. With empathetic arrangements by Percy Faith, it's impossible to say how many babies were born...
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Columbia Records invented the "greatest hits" album by releasing Johnny Mathis' Johnny's Greatest Hits in March 1958, and was rewarded with a long-running #1 hit that spent...
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This mix of doo-wop oldies and new pop has an outstanding street corner-style singing on "Outside Looking in" and the title tune. There are strong R&B flavors on "Whisper to...
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Jerry Fuller's production of The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) for Johnny Mathis is a pleasant and much-needed change in sound, as his same formula continues -- songs of...
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16 Most Requested Songs is a bit of a misnomer here -- although this midline-priced collection spotlights some of Johnny Mathis' best-known and most popular performances for...
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Johnny Mathis didn't have many hits in the latter half of the '70s -- actually, he only had two, which were both duets with Deniece Williams. The low number of hits would...
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Includes Mathis's romantic duets with Regina Belle, Patti Austin, Deniece Williams, Take 6, Angela Bofill, Jane Olivor, Dionne Warwick. Aside from the million-selling duet,...
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By the time Johnny Mathis released Christmas with Johnny Mathis in the early '70s, he had already recorded a few holiday records and was justly famous for his smooth style....
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The Music of Johnny Mathis: A Personal Collection is exactly that, a four-disc box set of recordings hand-picked by Johnny Mathis, with an accompanying booklet filled with...
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Produced by Jack Gold with great arrangements by Gene Page, Feelings is one of Johnny Mathis' best '70s era albums. The choice tracks are "The Greatest Gift," "99 Miles From...
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Heavenly is Johnny Mathis' most successful regular album release, exceeded in his catalog only by the compilation Johnny's Greatest Hits and the seasonal Merry Christmas...
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Heavenly/Faithfully consists of two complete albums on one cassette originally released on Columbia in 1959 -- Heavenly and Faithfully -- by smooth pop crooner Johnny...
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The year before Johnny Mathis would get his first number one hit in 21 years -- the duet with Deniece Williams, "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" -- Jack Gold produced an...
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Eleven heavily string-orchestrated renditions of Alan & Marilyn Bergman and Michel LeGrand tunes such as "Something New in My Life," "Summer Me, Winter Me" and "Something in...
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In 1976, the Johnny Mathis/Jack Gold singer/producer team reunited after 1975's stint with producer John Florez for the When Will I See You Again album. It's right back to...
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When Johnny Mathis got around to recording an album dedicated to Duke Ellington, he had been in the upper echelon of pop vocalists for more than 30 years. While his voice is...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three of Johnny Mathis' most popular albums -- Heavenly, Greatest Hits and Live -- as a slip-cased box set. It's not a bad way to acquire the...
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A straight-up reissue of Johnny's debut album from 1956. Often referred to as "the jazz album," it features Mathis backed by legends like J.J. Johnson, Buck Clayton, John...
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The voice of Johnny Mathis is always distinctive and compelling but when blended with Nelson Riddle, whose magic made recordings by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Judy...
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This 1963 album was Johnny's first with arranger/bandleader Don Costa, and it's one of his best. It's a nice blend of standards, show tunes and then-new compositions, with...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three latter-day Johnny Mathis albums -- That's What Friends Are For, You Light Up My Life and Better Together -- as a slip-cased box set....
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The title may be a little presumptuous, but The Ultimate Hits Collection lives up to its billing. Spanning over 20 years, from Johnny Mathis' first entry on the charts...
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Since Diane Warren was the most successful songwriter of the 1990s, it is surprising that nobody devoted an entire album to her songs until Johnny Mathis did in 1998. Of...
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While the title track is the biggest hit here, Misty contains enough worthy performances to make it worthwhile to Johnny Mathis fans on a budget; most notable are his...
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Though Johnny Mathis has recorded many individual songs from Broadway musicals over the years, the last time he devoted an entire album to them was 1960's The Rhythms and...
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Johnny's Greatest Hits remains the definitive Johnny Mathis album, but it has to be said that Columbia's budget-line collection Super Hits does an excellent job of capturing...
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In case you've lost track (or were never keeping track), this is Johnny Mathis' sixth newly recorded Christmas album following Merry Christmas (1958), The Sound of Christmas...
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Yes, Love Songs is a compilation targeted toward the Valentine's Day market. And how many Johnny Mathis albums, really, could not be said to consist primarily of "love...
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Johnny Mathis is teamed with producer, arranger and writer Thom Bell and his cohort, lyricist Linda Creed. Both became very popular for their works with the Spinners,...
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Of the several Christmas LPs Johnny Mathis has recorded, this one gets the nod. With empathetic arrangements by Percy Faith, it's impossible to say how many babies were born...
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Although a good number of Johnny Mathis' performances have become standards in the pop songbook, and he's recorded hundreds of classic love songs during his career, there...
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The 1978 duet album That's What Friends Are For was far more of a highlight in Deniece Williams' career than it was in Johnny Mathis'. Nonetheless, it's well-done, lightly...
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