More Johnny's Greatest Hits

More Johnny's Greatest Hits
Compilation album by
Johnny Mathis
ReleasedJune 22, 1959[1]
Recorded1957–1959
Genre
Length34:22
LabelColumbia
ProducerMitch Miller
Al Ham[1]
Johnny Mathis chronology
Open Fire, Two Guitars
(1959)		 More Johnny's Greatest Hits
(1959)		 Heavenly
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4.5/5 stars link

More Johnny's Greatest Hits is a 1959 greatest hits album by Johnny Mathis. It was released on June 22, 1959 through Columbia Records and went to number 2 in the United States. It contains mostly A-sides and B-sides.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Small World" from Gypsy: A Musical Fable (Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim) - 3:21
  2. "Someone" (William J. Tennyson Jr.) - 2:58
    • rec. 9/26/58, rel. 3/9/59;[1] Billboard Hot 100: 35[3]
  3. "Very Much in Love" (Ray Ellis, Al Stillman) - 2:48
    • rec. 11/10/58, rel. 3/9/59;[1] B-side of "Someone"
  4. "You Are Everything to Me" (Percy Faith, Carl Sigman) - 2:58
    • rec. 11/10/58, rel. 5/25/59;[1] Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart: 109;[3] B-side of "Small World"
  5. "Let It Rain" (Al Frisch, Sid Wayne) - 2:40
    • rec. 1/7/58, rel. 6/2/58;[1] B-side of "A Certain Smile"
  6. "The Flame of Love" (Lee Pockriss, Jerry Vance) - 2:50
    • rec. 4/29/59, rel. 6/22/59;[1] previously unreleased

Side two

  1. "A Certain Smile" from A Certain Smile (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:48
    • rec. 5/12/58, rel. 6/2/58;[1] Billboard Most Played by Jockeys: 14[3]
  2. "Call Me" (Belford Hendricks, Clyde Otis) - 2:48
    • rec. 5/12/58, rel. 9/8/58;[1] Billboard Hot 100: 21[3]
  3. "You Are Beautiful" from Flower Drum Song (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:10
    • rec. 11/10/58, rel. 12/1/58;[1] Billboard Hot 100: 60;[3] B-side of "Let's Love"
  4. "Teacher, Teacher" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) - 2:41
    • rec. 10/31/57, rel. 3/17/58;[1] Billboard Most Played by Jockeys: 21;[3] B-side of "All the Time"
  5. "Stairway to the Sea (Scalinatella)" (Albert Beach, Giuseppe Cioffi) - 2:36
    • rec. 5/12/58, rel. 9/8/58;[1] B-side of "Call Me"
  6. "Let's Love" (Richard Ferraris, Norman Kaye) - 2:44
    • rec. 9/26/58, rel. 12/1/58;[1] Billboard Hot 100: 44[3]

On the UK version of More Johnny's Greatest Hits, "Teacher, Teacher" was replaced with "The Best of Everything", which made its U.S. compilation debut five years later on I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (2015) The Singles by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records 88875120552.
  2. ↑ "More Johnny's Greatest Hits - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Whitburn 2009, p. 628.
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