Johnny's Greatest Hits
| Johnny's Greatest Hits | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greatest hits album by | ||||
| Released | March 17, 1958[1] | |||
| Recorded | September 20, 1956 June 16, 1957 October 1, 1957 October 31, 1957 January 7, 1958[1] | |||
| Studio | CBS 30th Street Studio New York City | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 32:47 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Mitch Miller[1] Al Ham[A] | |||
| Johnny Mathis chronology | ||||
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| Alternate covers | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  link |
| The Billboard | positive[3] |
Johnny's Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Johnny Mathis. It was released on 17 March, 1958 through Columbia Records and went to number 1 for three weeks in the United States and spent a then record 490 weeks in the countdown.
Track listing[change | change source]
Side one[change | change source]
- "Chances Are" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:03
- rec. 6/16/57, rel. 8/12/57;[1] Most Played by Jockeys[B]: #1 (1 week)[5]
- "All the Time"[C] from the Broadway musical Oh, Captain! (1958); performed with Ray Ellis & His Orchestra[4] (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 2:44
- "The Twelfth of Never" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1] (Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:28
- "When Sunny Gets Blue" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 2:41
- rec. 9/20/56, rel. 11/5/56;[1] B-side of "Wonderful! Wonderful!"
- "When I Am with You" performed with Ray Ellis & His Orchestra[4] (Stillman, Ben Weisman) – 2:58
- rec. 10/31/57, rel. 12/30/57;[1] B-side of "Come to Me"
- "Wonderful! Wonderful!" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra & Chorus[4] (Sherman Edwards, Ben Raleigh) – 2:49
Side two[change | change source]
- "It's Not for Me to Say" from Lizzie (1957); performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Allen, Stillman) – 3:05
- "Come to Me" from the Kraft Television Theatre episode "Come to Me" (1957) (Allen, Peter Lind Hayes) – 3:05
- "Wild Is the Wind" from Wild Is the Wind (1957); performed with Ray Ellis & His Orchestra[4] (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:27
- "Warm and Tender" from Lizzie (1957); performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:25
- rec. 9/20/56, rel. 2/25/57;[1] B-side of "It's Not for Me to Say"
- "No Love (But Your Love)" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Billy Myles) – 2:19
- "I Look at You" performed with Ray Ellis & His Orchestra[4] (Johnny Mathis, Jessie Mae Robinson) – 2:43
- rec. 1/7/58, rel. 3/17/58[1]
- B All of the tracks on this compilation were released before Billboard created its Hot 100 chart for tracking song performance.
- C For the initial release of the album in the UK, "All the Time" was replaced by "Teacher, Teacher", which was included on the US version of More Johnny's Greatest Hits.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 (2015) The Singles by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records 88875120552.
- ↑ "Johnny's Greatest Hits - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ "Review Spotlight on Popular Albums". Billboard. 1958-04-07. p. 22.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 (1988) Johnny's Greatest Hits by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records CK 34667.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Whitburn 2009, p. 628.
