Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert

Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert
Studio album by Johnny Mathis
Released 1970[1]
Recorded Sides one and two:
1969 at
Studio Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany[2]
Sides three and four:
1959–1960
1968–1970
Genre Vocal
Pop/Rock[3]
Length 64:30
Label Columbia
Producer Jack Gold[4]
Al Ham[5]
Robert Mersey[4]
Mitch Miller[5]
Johnny Mathis chronology
Close to You
(1970)		 Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert
(1970)		 Love Story
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboardpositive[1]
UK Cover Art for single lp version

Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the fall of 1970 by Columbia Records.[1] While one half of the two-record set was a compilation of tracks from his previous albums that were composed by Burt Bacharach, the other consisted of new recordings of songs composed by Bert Kaempfert, including a new version of "Strangers in the Night", which Mathis had already recorded in 1966 for his LP Johnny Mathis Sings. Although the Kaempfert tribute was similar to recent Mathis albums in that he was mainly covering songs made popular by other singers, it was absent of hits from the 12 months previous to its release that had become the pattern of his output at this point. The latest US chartings of any of the Kaempfert compositions as of this album's debut came from 1967 recordings of "Lady" by Jack Jones and "The Lady Smiles" by Matt Monro.[6]

The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated January 23, 1971, and reached number 169 during its seven weeks there.[7]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Wonderland by Night" (Lincoln Chase, Klaus-Gunter Neumann) – 3:34
  2. "Spanish Eyes" (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder) – 3:00
  3. "The Lady Smiles" (Richard Ahlert, Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein) – 3:06
  4. "Danke Schoen" (Milt Gabler, Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach) – 2:56
  5. "The Times Will Change" (Kaempfert, Rehbein, Carl Sigman) – 3:09
  6. "Remember When (We Made These Memories)" (Kaempfert, Singleton, Snyder) – 2:58

Side two

  1. "Strangers in the Night" (Kaempfert, Singleton, Snyder) – 3:34
  2. "Don't Stay" (Ahlert, Kaempfert, Rehbein) – 2:51
  3. "If There's a Way" (Kaempfert, Jimmy Radcliffe, Rehbein, Buddy Scott) – 2:55
  4. "Lady" (Kaempfert, Larry Kusik, Rehbein, Singleton) – 3:00
  5. "L-O-V-E" (Gabler, Kaempfert) – 2:30

Side three

  1. "Walk On By" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:00
  2. "The Look of Love" from Casino Royale (Bacharach, David) – 3:41
  3. "I Say a Little Prayer" (Bacharach, David) – 2:14
    • above three recorded and released in 1968 for the album Love Is Blue
  4. "Heavenly" (Bacharach, Sidney Shaw) – 3:19
    • rec. and rel. in 1959 for the album Heavenly
  5. "This Guy's in Love with You" (Bacharach, David) – 4:35

Side four

  1. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" from Promises, Promises (Bacharach, David) – 3:00
  2. "Alfie" from Alfie (Bacharach, David) – 3:13
  3. "Odds and Ends" (Bacharach, David) – 3:02
  4. "Faithfully" (Bacharach, Shaw) – 2:32
  5. "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" (Bacharach, David) – 2:21
    • rec. and rel. in 1968 for the album Love Is Blue

For the single LP release in the UK, side two had a sixth track, "It Makes No Difference", written by Gabler, Kaempfert, and Rehbein.[2]

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Album Reviews". Billboard. 1970-12-05. p. 63.
  2. 1 2 3 4 (1969) Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bert Kaempfert by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. London: CBS Records S 63524.
  3. ↑ "Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (1970) Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CG 30350.
  5. 1 2 3 4 (1993) The Music of Johnny Mathis: A Personal Collection by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records C4K-48932.
  6. ↑ Whitburn 2007, p. 194.
  7. ↑ Whitburn 2010, p. 503.
  8. 1 2 (1968) Love Is Blue by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9637.
  9. 1 2 (1970) Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 1005.
  10. ↑ (1969) Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (A Time for Us) by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9909.
  11. ↑ (1968) Those Were the Days by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9705.

Bibliography

  • Whitburn, Joel (2007), Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0898201691 
  • Whitburn, Joel (2010), Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-183-7 
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