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Early Years: Selected Albums 1956-58
Artist:
Johnny Mathis
Format: CD
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1. Autumn in Rome
2. Easy to Love
3. Street of Dreams
4. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere
5. Prelude to a Kiss
6. Babalu
7. Caravan
8. In Other Words (Fly Me to the Moon)
9. Star Eyes
10. It Might as Well Be Spring
11. Cabin in the Sky
12. Angel Eyes
13. Will I Find My Love Today?
14. Looking at You
15. Let Me Love You
16. All Through the Night
17. It Could Happen to You
18. That Old Black Magic
19. Too Close for Comfort
20. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
21. Year After Year
22. You Stepped Out of a Dream
23. Early Autumn
24. Day In, Day Out
25. Warm
26. My One and Only Love
27. Baby, Baby, Baby
28. Handful of Stars
29. By Myself
30. Then I'll Be Tired of You
31. I'm Glad There Is You
32. What'll I Do
33. Lovely Things You Do
34. There Goes My Heart
35. While We're Young
36. You Hit the Spot
37. It's De-Lovely
38. Get Me to the Church on Time
39. Like Someone in Love
40. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
41. Love Walked In
42. This Heart of Mine
43. Sweet Lorraine
44. Can't Get Out of This Mood
45. I've Got the World on a String
46. Easy to Say (But So Hard to Do)
More Info:
Johnny Mathis - Early Years: Selected Albums 1956-58 - The collection offers a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for his unique talent. Johnny Mathis, who, as these notes are being written in March 2026, is still a much-loved and respected figure in popular music at the age of 90, has been one the most distinctive and successful singers in popular music for the last seven decades. His velvet voice and immaculate phrasing enabled him to transcend the genres to encompass, sophisticated pop, jazz, easy listening and even disco over the years, and he had over 80 hits from the 1950s through to the '80s (see Johnny Mathis " The Complete US Singles As & Bs 1957-62" Acrobat ADDCD3171). He began his recording career just as the long-playing album format was becoming a burgeoning medium, soon followed by the stereo boom and he was ideally placed to take advantage of that. This 46-track 2-CD collection features just about all the titles from his first albums for Columbia, "Johnny Mathis", "Wonderful, Wonderful", "Warm" and "Swing Softly". Mostly comprising his trademark versions of classics from the Great American Songbook, and with accompaniments directed by great arranger/composers of the day - Percy Faith, Ted Macero, Bob Prince, Manny Albam, Gil Evans, and John Lewis - the collection offers a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for his unique talent as a song stylist, captured at the start of what would be a long and illustrious career.
