Johnny's Greatest Hits

Johnny's Greatest Hits
UK album cover
Greatest hits album by Johnny Mathis
Released	1958
Genre	Pop
Length	32:27
Label	Columbia
Johnny Mathis chronology
Good Night, Dear Lord (1957) Johnny's Greatest Hits (1958) Swing Softly (1958)

Johnny's Greatest Hits is the fifth album release by vocalist Johnny Mathis and the first compilation of his hit singles released by Columbia Records in 1958 as catalog number CL 1133. A Electronically Re-channeled for Stereo version of this album was released as catalog number CS 8634 and reissued in 1977 with new cover artwork as catalog number PC 34667. It was also issued in the UK by Fontana Records.

Overview

The album holds the distinction of being the first "Greatest Hits" collection ever released and for being the second longest charting album in the history of the Billboard album chart, charting for 490 weeks.^[1] The arranger/conductors were Ray Conniff* and Ray Ellis**.

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
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Track listing

1. "Chances Are"* (Robert Allen/Al Stillman) - 3:19
2. "All the Time"** (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans) - 3:00
3. "The Twelfth of Never"* (Jay Livingston/Paul Francis Webster) - 2.42
4. "When Sunny Gets Blue"* (Marvin Fisher/Jack Segal) - 2:56
5. "When I Am with You"** (Al Stillman/Ben Weisman) - 3:15
6. "Wonderful! Wonderful!"* (Sherman Edwards/Ben Raleigh) - 3:05
7. "It's Not for Me to Say"* (Robert Allen/Al Stillman) - 3:21
8. "Come to Me"** (Robert Allen/Peter Lind Hayes) - 3:21
9. "Wild Is the Wind"** (Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington) - 2:40
10. "Warm and Tender"* (Burt Bacharach/Hal David) - 2:37
11. "No Love (But Your Love)"* (Billy Myles) - 2:34
12. "I Look at You"** (Johnny Mathis/Jessie Mae Robinson) - 2:59

"Teacher, Teacher" - replaced track 2 on Fontana UK vinyl issue 1958, CBS UK vinyl issues were as above

Billboard Album Chart

When originally released, the album peaked at #1 on the Billboard Album chart, a testament to Mathis' immense popularity at the time.^[2]

Hit singles

The album features eight charting singles.^[3] They are listed as follows:

Mathis earned Gold records for "Wonderful! Wonderful!", "It's Not for Me to Say" and "Chances Are".

Grammy Hall of Fame

Further establishing the enduring quality of Mathis' early work is the fact that two of the songs on this collection are included in the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old at the time of being honored and that have "qualitative or historical significance."^[4] Those songs are "Chances Are" inducted 1998, and "It's Not for Me to Say" inducted 2008.

References

External links

• All Music Review
• Johnny Mathis singing "Chances Are" & "It's Not For Me To Say"