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Johnny's Greatest Hits

1958 greatest hits album by Johnny Mathis

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.

Johnny's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Johnny Mathis
ReleasedMarch 17, 1958[1]
RecordedSeptember 20, 1956
June 16, 1957
October 1, 1957
October 31, 1957
January 7, 1958[1]
StudioCBS 30th Street Studio
New York City
Genre
Length32:47
LabelColumbia
ProducerMitch Miller[1]
Al Ham[A]
Johnny Mathis chronology
Good Night, Dear Lord
(1957) 		Johnny's Greatest Hits
(1958) 		Swing Softly
(1958)
Alternate covers
Alternative cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic5/5 stars link
The Billboardpositive[3]

Track listing

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Side one

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  1. "Chances Are" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:03
  2. "All the Time"[C] from the Broadway musical Oh, Captain! (1958); performed with Ray Ellis & His Orchestra[4] (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 2:44
    • rec. 1/7/58, rel. 3/17/58;[1] Most Played by Jockeys: #21[5]
  3. "The Twelfth of Never" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1] (Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:28
    • rec. 6/16/57, rel. 8/12/57;[1] B-side of "Chances Are"; Most Played by Jockeys: #9[5]
  4. "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!"
  5. "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"
  6. "Wonderful! Wonderful!" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra & Chorus[4] (Sherman Edwards, Ben Raleigh) – 2:49
    • rec. 9/20/56, rel. 11/5/56;[1] Most Played by Jockeys: #14[5]

Side two

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  1. "It's Not for Me to Say" from Lizzie (1957); performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Allen, Stillman) – 3:05
    • rec. 9/20/56, rel. 2/25/57;[1] Most Played by Jockeys: #5[5]
  2. "Come to Me" from the Kraft Television Theatre episode "Come to Me" (1957) (Allen, Peter Lind Hayes) – 3:05
    • rec. 10/31/57, rel. 12/30/57;[1] Most Played by Jockeys: #22[5]
  3. "Wild Is the Wind" from Wild Is the Wind (1957); performed with Ray Ellis & His Orchestra[4] (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:27
    • rec. 10/1/57, rel. 11/11/57;[1] B-side of "No Love (But Your Love)"; Most Played by Jockeys: #22[5]
  4. "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"
  5. "No Love (But Your Love)" performed with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra[1][4] (Billy Myles) – 2:19
    • rec. 6/16/57, rel. 11/11/57;[1] Most Played by Jockeys: #21[5]
  6. "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

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  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Johnny's Greatest Hits - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Review Spotlight on Popular Albums". Billboard. 1958-04-07. p. 22.
  4. ↑ 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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Whitburn 2009, p. 628.
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