''Johnny's Mood'' is an
album
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by American pop singer
Johnny Mathis
John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer. Starting his 69-year career with singles of standard (music), standard music, Mathis is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century and became highly popular as ...
that was released on July 18, 1960,
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s by other artists.
The original album cover featured a sketch of Mathis on an orange background, but a second cover with his headshot against an orange background was also released.
The album made its debut on ''Billboard
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'' magazine's album chart in the August 29, 1960, issue and got as high as number four over the course of 65 weeks.[.]
The 1959 Mathis LP '' Faithfully'' and ''Johnny's Mood'' were both released for the first time on compact disc on June 21, 2002, as two albums on one CD.
Reception
''Billboard'' had good things to say. "Johnny Mathis is right at home in this collection of mood items, and at the top of his form he's one of the most potent chanters around."[
]
Track listing
Side one
#"I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life" (Cy Coleman
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Life and career
Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, to Ashkenazi, Eastern European Jewish parents, an ...
, Joseph McCarthy
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) – 3:35
#"Stay Warm" ( Buddy Greco) – 3:13
#" There's No You" (Tom Adair
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Adair was born on 15 June 1913, in Newton, Kansas, where his father owned a clothing store; he was the only child of Willia ...
, George Durgom, Hal Hopper
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Hopper was a member of The Pied Pipers singing group. He composed the themes tune to several t ...
) – 3:55
#"How High the Moon
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" from '' Two for the Show'' (Nancy Hamilton
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Nancy Hamilton was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania on July 27, 1908, daughter of Charles Lee Hami ...
, Morgan Lewis) – 3:22
#"I'm So Lost" (Shirley Cowell) – 3:52
#"Once" (Otis G. Clements, Sydney Shaw) – 3:47
Side two
#" Goodnight My Love" from ''Stowaway
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'' (Mack Gordon
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Harry Revel) – 3:42
#"The Folks Who Live On the Hill "The Folks Who Live on the Hill" is a 1937 popular song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
It was introduced by Irene Dunne in the 1937 film '' High, Wide, and Handsome'' and was recorded that year by Bing Crosby for Decc ...
" from '' High, Wide, and Handsome'' (Jerome Kern
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, Oscar Hammerstein II
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) – 3:50
#" April in Paris" from '' Walk a Little Faster'' (Vernon Duke
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E. Y. Harburg) – 3:35
#"Corner to Corner" (Robert Marcus, Harold Mott) – 3:05
#"In Return" (Leon Carr
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, Paul Vance
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His most successful song compositions, all written with Lee Po ...
) – 3:27
#"I'm in the Mood for Love
"I'm in the Mood for Love" is a popular song published in 1935. The music was written by Jimmy McHugh, with the lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The song was introduced by Frances Langford in the movie '' Every Night at Eight'' released that year.
It ...
" from ''Every Night at Eight
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'' (Jimmy McHugh
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, Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include " The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (193 ...
) – 5:00
Recording dates
From the liner notes for '' The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection'':[
*September 8, 1959 — "Once"
*May 24, 1960 — "Corner to Corner", "How High the Moon", "I'm in the Mood for Love", "There's No You"
*May 25, 1960 — "The Folks Who Live On the Hill", "Goodnight My Love", "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life"
*May 26, 1960 — "April in Paris", "I'm So Lost", "In Return", "Stay Warm"
]
Personnel
*Johnny Mathis – vocals
*Mitch Miller
Mitchell William Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American choral conductor, record producer, record-industry executive, and professional oboist. He was involved in almost all aspects of the industry, particularly as a conductor ...
– producer (except as noted)[
*]Al Ham
Albert W. Ham (February 6, 1925 in Malden, Massachusetts — October 4, 2001 in Spring Hill, Florida) was an American composer and jingle writer. He was notable as the composer of the '' Move Closer to Your World'' music package used since the ...
– producer ("Once")[
* Glenn Osser – arranger and conductor][(1960) ''Johnny's Mood'' by Johnny Mathis lbum jacket New York: Columbia Records CL 1526.]
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