Johnny Mathis - The Singles [2015] (4 x CD's)

JOHNNY MATHIS

Johnny Mathis -  The Singles [2015] (4 x CD's)

The Singles is a four-disc box set by the American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in 2015 by Columbia Records to commemorate the singer's 80th birthday. In his review of the collection Joe Marchese explains that it "doesn't bring together every track released by the legendary artist on 45 RPM; such an endeavor would take far more than four discs. Instead, it features the tracks originally released by Mathis on Columbia in the singles format, in other words, non-LP sides, between the years of 1956 and 1981, in their original single mixes." His description of the compilation echoes that of the compilation's producer Didier C. Deutsch in the liner notes as explanation for the exclusion of the hit singles "Misty" from Heavenly (1959) and his "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" duet with Deniece Williams from You Light Up My Life (1978). Deutsch excuses these as "songs extracted from specific albums to call attention to these albums." The set does, however, include "Ten Times Forever More" and "I Was There" from his 1971 LP, Love Story, and a shorter version of "If We Only Have Love" than the one that was included on his other 1971 album, You've Got a Friend.

This 4-disc set including landmark hits "It's Not For Me to Say," "Chances Are" and "The Twelfth of Never" and more plus 31 of the 87 tracks are released on CD for the very first time. Over his extensive recording career Johnny Mathis has made many singles that never made their way on to his albums. I have sometimes heard a song such as "Take Good Care of Her" on the radio and thought, "I wonder which album that song is on?" because I liked it and wanted to own it. That song and many others have been unavailable for decades except on their original 45's which were extremely difficult to find and usually in dubious condition. Now, at last, some extremely fine songs are available  (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Johnny Mathis Wonderful! Wonderful! 2:49

02 Johnny Mathis When Sunny Gets Blue 2:41

03 Johnny Mathis It's Not for Me to Say 3:05

04 Johnny Mathis Warm and Tender 2:25

05 Johnny Mathis Chances Are 3:02

06 Johnny Mathis The Twelfth of Never 2:27

07 Johnny Mathis Wild Is the Wind 2:26

08 Johnny Mathis No Love (But Your Love) 2:19

09 Johnny Mathis When I Am with You 2:58

10 Johnny Mathis Come to Me 3:05

11 Johnny Mathis All the Time 2:44

12 Johnny Mathis Teacher, Teacher 2:41

13 Johnny Mathis A Certain Smile 2:50

14 Johnny Mathis Let It Rain 2:41

15 Johnny Mathis Call Me 2:47

16 Johnny Mathis Stairway to the Sea (Scalinatella) 2:38

17 Johnny Mathis You Are Beautiful 3:09

18 Johnny Mathis Let's Love 2:44

19 Johnny Mathis Someone 2:57

20 Johnny Mathis Very Much In Love 2:47

21 Johnny Mathis I Look at You 2:43

22 Johnny Mathis The Flame of Love 2:48

CD2

01 Johnny Mathis Small World 3:21

02 Johnny Mathis You Are Everything to Me 2:59

03 Johnny Mathis The Story of Our Love 2:27

04 Johnny Mathis The Best of Everything 2:45

05 Johnny Mathis Cherie 2:48

06 Johnny Mathis Starbright 2:52

07 Johnny Mathis All Is Well 2:32

08 Johnny Mathis Hey Love 2:29

09 Johnny Mathis My Love for You 3:07

10 Johnny Mathis Oh That Feeling 2:34

11 Johnny Mathis How to Handle a Woman 3:03

12 Johnny Mathis While You're Young 2:55

13 Johnny Mathis You Set My Heart to Music 2:44

14 Johnny Mathis Jenny 2:57

15 Johnny Mathis Should I Wait (Or Should I Run to Her) 2:49

16 Johnny Mathis Laurie, My Love 2:26

17 Johnny Mathis Wasn't the Summer Short 2:55

18 Johnny Mathis There You Are 2:49

19 Johnny Mathis My Kind of Christmas 3:02

20 Johnny Mathis Christmas Eve 2:58

21 Johnny Mathis Sweet Thursday 2:31

22 Johnny Mathis One Look 2:46

23 Johnny Mathis Marianna 2:53

24 Johnny Mathis Unaccustomed As I Am 2:57

25 Johnny Mathis That's the Way It Is 2:49

CD3

01 Johnny Mathis I'll Never Be Lonely Again 3:10

02 Johnny Mathis Gina 2:46

03 Johnny Mathis I Love Her That's Why 2:29

04 Johnny Mathis What Will My Mary Say 3:09

05 Johnny Mathis Quiet Girl 2:58

06 Johnny Mathis Every Step of the Way 3:23

07 Johnny Mathis Sooner or Later 3:19

08 Johnny Mathis I'll Search My Heart 3:05

09 Johnny Mathis All the Sad Young Men 3:04

10 Johnny Mathis Don't Talk to Me 3:13

11 Johnny Mathis Among the First to Know 2:57

12 Johnny Mathis Long Winter Nights 2:35

13 Johnny Mathis Night Dreams 2:49

14 Johnny Mathis Whoever You Are, I Love You 3:58

15 Johnny Mathis For All We Know 3:00

16 Johnny Mathis Wherefore and Why 3:23

17 Johnny Mathis The Last Time I Saw Her 5:11

18 Johnny Mathis Darling Lili 2:51

19 Johnny Mathis Sign of the Dove 2:52

20 Johnny Mathis Christmas Is... 3:05

21 Johnny Mathis Ten Times Forever More 2:37

CD4

01 Johnny Mathis I Was There 2:27

02 Johnny Mathis Evie 3:09

03 Johnny Mathis Think About Things 2:57

04 Johnny Mathis If We Only Have Love 2:44

05 Johnny Mathis This Way Mary 3:13

06 Johnny Mathis Sometimes 3:02

07 Johnny Mathis I 3:08

08 Johnny Mathis Take Good Care of Her 3:01

09 Johnny Mathis Walking Tall 3:34

10 Johnny Mathis Turn the Lights Down 4:12

11 Johnny Mathis Christmas In the City of the Angels 2:49

12 Johnny Mathis The Very First Christmas Day 3:06

13 Johnny Mathis The Lord's Prayer 3:27

14 Johnny Mathis When a Child Is Born 3:56

15 Johnny Mathis Nothing Between Us but Love 3:24

16 Johnny Mathis It Doesn't Have to Hurt Every Time 3:42

17 Johnny Mathis There! I've Said It Again 2:48

18 Johnny Mathis Three Times a Lady 4:17

19 Johnny Mathis The Way You Look Tonight 3:16

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