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.
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Released | 1964 | |||
Recorded | 1959–1963 | |||
Genre | Vocal[1] | |||
Length | 35:05 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Ernie Altschuler[2] Al Ham[3] Mitch Miller[3] Irving Townsend[3] | |||
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Source | Rating |
Billboard | positive[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
- "Starbright" (Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:51
- rec. 4/29/59, rel. 2/15/60;[3] Billboard Hot 100: #25[6]
- "Every Step of the Way" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:23
- rec. 5/31/60, rel. 5/7/63;[3] Billboard Hot 100: #30[6] Easy Listening: #10[7]
- "Wherever You Are It's Spring" (Arthur Hamilton) – 2:33
- rec. 2/8/61; previously unreleased[8]
- "The Joy of Loving You" (Bart Howard) – 3:05
- rec. 3/29/62; previously unreleased[9]
- "Each Time We Kiss" (Clyde Otis, Colin Towns) – 2:39
- rec. 3/4/61; previously unreleased[9]
- "A Clock Without Hands" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:58
- rec. 3/29/62; previously unreleased[9]
Side two
- "I'll Search My Heart" (Allyn Ferguson, Ernie Richman, Neil Weston) – 3:05
- "Sooner or Later" (Thomas Garlock, Alan Jefferys) – 3:19
- "My Favorite Dream" (Pockriss, Vance) – 2:55
- rec. 10/9/61; previously unreleased[9]
- "The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything (Sammy Cahn, Alfred Newman) – 2:45
- "What to Do About Love" (Leon Carr, Vance) – 2:28
- rec. 5/31/60; previously unreleased[9]
- "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
References
- "I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- (1964) I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 8943.
- (2015) The Singles by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records 88875120552.
- "Albums Reviews". Billboard. 1964-04-18. p. 68.
- Whitburn 2010, p. 504.
- Whitburn 2009, p. 628.
- Whitburn 2007, p. 178.
- (1996) I'll Buy You a Star by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records CK 64892.
- (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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