Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (Johnny Mathis album)

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (Johnny Mathis album)
Studio album by Johnny Mathis
Released 1977
Recorded 1977 at
A&M Recording Studios,
Hollywood, California
H. B. Barnum Studios,
Los Angeles, California[1]
Genre Vocal[2]
Length 28:30
Label Columbia
Producer Jack Gold [1]
Johnny Mathis chronology

The Mathis Collection
(1977)		 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
(1977)		 You Light Up My Life
(1978)
Alternate cover
Sweet Surrender (UK)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the summer of 1977 by Columbia Records. Although it did not reach Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart, it did spend a week in the issue dated September 17, 1977, at number 201 on the Bubbling Under the Top LP's chart,[3] which, according to Joel Whitburn, "listed albums that were on the rise in sales that did not quite achieve the sales necessary to make Billboard's main 200-position pop albums chart."[4] For its release in the UK, the album was entitled Sweet Surrender,[5] which was also the name of the song that was added on to the original track listing but had first appeared on his 1973 album Me and Mrs. Jones.[6] Sweet Surrender spent its one week on the UK album chart at number 55[7] but received Silver certification for sales of 60,000 units in the UK from the British Phonographic Industry on January 4, 1978.[8]

In 1995 the title track from the album was used in the film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar[9] but was not included on the soundtrack recording.[10]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" (Harry Noble) – 2:56
  2. "We're All Alone" (Boz Scaggs) – 3:22
  3. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:33
  4. "One" (Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban) – 2:26
  5. "When I Need You" (Albert Hammond, Carole Bayer Sager) – 3:26

Side 2

  1. "The Most Beautiful Girl" (Rory Michael Bourke, Billy Sherrill, Norris Wilson) – 2:30
  2. "Tomorrow" (Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse) – 2:29
  3. "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams) – 3:15
  4. "I Always Knew I Had It in Me" (Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser) – 3:02
  5. "Don't Give Up on Us" (Tony Macaulay) – 3:57

For the Sweet Surrender album in the UK, the succeeding title track was inserted at the end of side one, but the order of the original 10 songs was unchanged.

Personnel[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (1977) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records PC 34872.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Whitburn 2010, p. 504.
  4. ↑ Whitburn 2004, pp. 106–107.
  5. ↑ (1977) Sweet Surrender by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. London: CBS Records 86036.
  6. ↑ (1973) Me and Mrs. Jones by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records KC 32114.
  7. ↑ "Johnny Mathis - Albums". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  8. ↑ "BPI search results". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar - Soundtracks - IMDb". imdb.com. Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  10. ↑ (1995) "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar – Music from the Motion Picture" by various artists [CD booklet]. Universal City: MCA Records MCD 11132

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