All About Love (Johnny Mathis album)

All About Love (Johnny Mathis album)
Studio album by Johnny Mathis
Released May 3, 1996[1]
Recorded A&M Recording Studios,
Hollywood, California[2]
Genre Vocal[1]
Length 41:42
Label Columbia
Producer Phil Ramone[2]
Johnny Mathis chronology

The Hits of Johnny Mathis
(1995)		 All About Love
(1996)		 The Ultimate Hits Collection
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Billboard (positive)[3]

All About Love is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in May 1996 by Columbia Records[1] and pairs him with producer Phil Ramone. The album was his first venture into contemporary material since 1985's Right from the Heart and reached number 119 during its one week on the Billboard 200 album chart.[4]

Reception

Mathis's new offering earned the approval of Billboard magazine: "From the layered string sounds of 'I Will Walk Away' to the intimacy of 'Why Goodbye' to the catchy chorus of 'Every Beat of My Heart,' Mathis soothes with his trademark silky tenor."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Let Your Heart Remember" (Stephen Bishop, Jeff Jones) – 4:36
  2. "I Will Walk Away" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:59
  3. "Every Beat of My Heart" (Earl Rose, Brian McKnight) – 3:58
  4. "Why Goodbye" (Diane Warren) – 4:50
  5. "Like No One in the World" (Burt Bacharach, John Bettis) – 4:31
  6. "One More Night" (Stephen Bishop) – 3:26
  7. "Let Me Be the One" (Burt Bacharach, Denise Rich, Taja Sevelle) – 5:00
  8. "Welcome Home" (Ray Chafin, Dobie Gray, Bud Reneau) – 3:20
  9. "Sometimes Love's Not Enough" (Kenny Denton, Danny Saxon) – 4:37
  10. "Could It Be Love This Time" (Mark Radice) – 3:18

Personnel

Performers[2]
  • Johnny Mathis – vocals
  • Mark Portmann – arrangements; keyboards
  • Michael Thompson – guitar ("Let Me Be the One", "Let Your Heart Remember", "Why Goodbye")
  • Dean Parks – guitar ("Welcome Home", "Like No One in the World", "One More Night", "I Will Walk Away")
  • Warren Wiebe – background vocals ("Let Me Be the One", "Let Your Heart Remember", "Like No One in the World", "Every Beat of My Heart", "I Will Walk Away", "Why Goodbye", "Welcome Home")
  • Alexandra Brown – background vocals ("Let Me Be the One", "Let Your Heart Remember", "Like No One in the World", "Every Beat of My Heart")
  • Carmen Twillie – background vocals ("Let Me Be the One", "Let Your Heart Remember", "Like No One in the World", "Every Beat of My Heart")
  • Monalisa Young – background vocals ("Let Me Be the One", "Let Your Heart Remember", "Like No One in the World", "Every Beat of My Heart")
  • Danny Saxon – background vocals ("Sometimes Love's Not Enough")
Production
  • Phil Ramone – producer, mixer
  • Bill Malina – engineer
  • Kaz Masumoto – mixer
  • Mike Baumgartner – associate mixing engineer
  • Don Devito – A&R
  • Krish Sharma – assistant engineer
  • John Srebalus – assistant engineer
  • Susanne Marie Edgren – production coordinator
  • Chie Masumoto – production coordinator
  • Nancy Donald – art direction
  • Hooshik – design
  • Rocky Schenck – photography

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "All About Love - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 (1996) All About Love by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records CK 67509.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Reviews & Previews". Billboard. 1996-05-25. p. 83.
  4. ↑ Whitburn 2010, p. 504.

References

  • Whitburn, Joel (2010), Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-183-7