Love Is Everything (Johnny Mathis album)
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Love Is Everything is the 22nd original studio album released by Johnny Mathis. It was his sixth album for Mercury Records.
Overview
After the experimentation with his masterful last album Olé, Mathis returned to more familiar musical ground with this album a solid collection of ballads originating from Broadway, films and the great American songbook. As was generally the case with his albums at this time, some less well-known material was included. The album was under the musical direction of Glenn Osser who had scored a number of the singer's albums for Columbia Records. This was their first album collaboration for Mercury Records.
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Track listing
- "Never Let Me Go" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) - 2:31
- "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) - 3:08
- "A Thousand Blue Bubbles" (Bart Howard, Carlo Rossi) - 2:40
- "Love Is Everything" (Edward Pola, George Wyle) - 2:56
- "Young and Foolish" (Albert Hague, Arnold Horwitt) - 3:40
- "An Affair to Remember" (Harold Adamson, Leo McCarey, Harry Warren) - 2:42
- "Come Ride the Wind with Me" (Alfred Bartles, Bryan Lindsay) - 3:01
- "Go Away Little Girl" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 3:19
- "Dancing in the Dark" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 2:52
- "Long Ago (And Far Away)" (Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin) - 3:42
- "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) - 4:04
- "One More Mountain" (Eddie Snyder, Paul Vance) - 2:24
Billboard Album Chart
While his previous album failed to chart, this album found Mathis back on track with a peak position on the Billboard album chart of #52.[1] This is his 26th album to place on the chart.
Highlights
As with many of his previous albums, Mathis looked to Broadway and Hollywood for musical inspiration on this album. The 1964 show "Funny Girl helped to propel Barbra Streisand to superstardom. From its score he included "People", a song that would become one of Streisand's signature tunes. "Dancing in the Dark" was first heard in the 1931 review "The Band Wagon", though today it is remembered as underscoring one of the finest on screen dances by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in the 1953 film of the same name. Hollywood also provided "Never Let Me Go" from the 1953 film of the same name and "Long Ago (And Far Away)" from 1944's "Cover Girl" which starred Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The song, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, has gone on to become a standard.
"This Is All I Ask" is the work of arranger/conductor Gordon Jenkins. Originally written for Nat King Cole it is best remembered by the version recorded by Frank Sinatra in the same year as the Mathis version for the album "September of My Years". "Go Away Little Girl" is the work of Gerry Goffin and Carole King and was a 1962 hit for Steve Lawrence.