I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits

I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records in April 1964[4] and gathered up five A-sides that reached the Billboard Hot 100, a corresponding B-side, and six songs that had previously been unreleased.

I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits
Greatest hits album by
Johnny Mathis
Released1964
Recorded1959–1963
GenreVocal[1]
Length35:05
LabelColumbia
ProducerErnie Altschuler[2]
Al Ham[3]
Mitch Miller[3]
Irving Townsend[3]
Johnny Mathis chronology
Tender Is the Night
(1963)		 I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits
(1964)		 The Wonderful World of Make Believe
(1964)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboardpositive[4]

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LPs chart the following month, in the issue dated May 9, and got as high as number 35 during its 16 weeks there.[5]

Reception

Billboard wrote, "A most attractive blend of voice and strings on the Mathis-Columbia package. The album contains fine singing on a number of telling but off-beat tunes for which the singer is noted."[4]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Starbright" (Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:51
  2. "Every Step of the Way" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:23
  3. "Wherever You Are It's Spring" (Arthur Hamilton) – 2:33
    • rec. 2/8/61; previously unreleased[8]
  4. "The Joy of Loving You" (Bart Howard) – 3:05
    • rec. 3/29/62; previously unreleased[9]
  5. "Each Time We Kiss" (Clyde Otis, Colin Towns) – 2:39
    • rec. 3/4/61; previously unreleased[9]
  6. "A Clock Without Hands" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:58
    • rec. 3/29/62; previously unreleased[9]

Side two
  1. "I'll Search My Heart" (Allyn Ferguson, Ernie Richman, Neil Weston) – 3:05
    • rec. 8/9/62, rel. 11/5/63;[3] Billboard Hot 100: #90[6]
  2. "Sooner or Later" (Thomas Garlock, Alan Jefferys) – 3:19
    • rec. 8/9/62, rel. 7/30/63[3] Billboard Hot 100: #84[6]
  3. "My Favorite Dream" (Pockriss, Vance) – 2:55
    • rec. 10/9/61; previously unreleased[9]
  4. "The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything (Sammy Cahn, Alfred Newman) – 2:45
    • rec. 9/8/59, rel. 9/28/59[3] Billboard Hot 100: #62[6]
  5. "What to Do About Love" (Leon Carr, Vance) – 2:28
    • rec. 5/31/60; previously unreleased[9]
  6. "All the Sad Young Men" (Livingston, Webster) – 3:04
    • rec. 3/29/62, rel. 11/5/63; B-side of "I'll Search My Heart"[3]

Personnel
  • Johnny Mathis – vocals
  • Ernie Altschuler – producer (except as noted)[2]
  • Al Ham – producer ("The Best of Everything", "Starbright")[3]
  • Mitch Miller – producer ("Every Step of the Way")[3]
  • Irving Townsend – producer ("All the Sad Young Men")[3]
  • M. Harkavy – cover photographic process[2]

References
  1. "I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  2. (1964) I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 8943.
  3. (2015) The Singles by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records 88875120552.
  4. "Albums Reviews". Billboard. 1964-04-18. p. 68.
  5. Whitburn 2010, p. 504.
  6. Whitburn 2009, p. 628.
  7. Whitburn 2007, p. 178.
  8. (1996) I'll Buy You a Star by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records CK 64892.
  9. (2017) The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music Entertainment 88985 36892 2.

Bibliography
  • Whitburn, Joel (2007), Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-169-1
  • Whitburn, Joel (2009), Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 1955-2008, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0898201802
  • Whitburn, Joel (2010), Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-183-7
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