Johnny Mathis in Person: Recorded Live at Las Vegas
| Johnny Mathis in Person: Recorded Live at Las Vegas | ||||
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| Live album by Johnny Mathis | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Vocal pop[1] | |||
| Length | 49:57 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Sid Feller[2] | |||
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| Billboard | [3] |
Johnny Mathis in Person: Recorded Live at Las Vegas is a live album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was recorded at Caesar's Palace[2] and released in the winter of 1972 by Columbia Records. All but five of the 23 songs performed had appeared on his studio albums, while the five previously unrecorded songs (described below) have not appeared on a Mathis studio album since. The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated February 5, 1972, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 128.[4]
Track listing
Side 1
- "In the Morning" (Barry Gibb) – 3:22
- Medley – 4:40
a. "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
b. "We've Only Just Begun" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) - Medley – 4:29
a. "Dreamy" (Erroll Garner, Sydney Shaw)
b. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) - "Come Runnin'" (Roc Hillman) – 2:20
Side 2
- "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" (Francis Lai, Carl Sigman) – 3:00
- "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:32
- "Day In, Day Out" (Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom) – 3:01
Side 3
- Medley – 8:52
a. "The Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster)
b. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington)
c. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal)
d. "It's Not for Me to Say" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman)
e. "Chances Are" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman)
f. "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (A Time for Us)" (Larry Kusik, Nino Rota, Eddie Snyder)
g. "Tonight" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim)
h. "Dulcinea" (Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh)
i. "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh)
j. "Wonderful! Wonderful!" (Sherman Edwards, Ben Raleigh) - "And Her Mother Came Too" (Ivor Novello, Dion Titheradge) – 2:49
Side 4
- "I Got Love" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell) – 3:34
- "Maria" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:54
- "If We Only Have Love" (Eric Blau, Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman) – 5:05
- "If We Only Have Love" (instrumental) – 1:23
Song information
"In the Morning" was recorded by the Bee Gees in 1966.[5] "Dreamy" had previously been recorded by Erroll Garner,[6] Eileen Farrell,[7] and Sarah Vaughan.[8] Lena Horne included "Come Runnin'" on a live album in 1957.[9] "And Her Mother Came Too" was first performed in the 1921 musical A to Z,[10] and "I Got Love" originated in the 1970 musical Purlie.[11]
Personnel[2]
- Johnny Mathis - vocals
- Jack Gold - executive producer
- Sid Feller - producer
- Roy M. Rogosin - conductor
- Perry Botkin, Jr. - arranger ("(Where Do I Begin) Love Story")
- Jack Elliott - arranger ("Day In, Day Out", "I Got Love")
- Allyn Ferguson - arranger ("Come Runnin'")
- D'Arneill Pershing - arranger (except as noted)
- David Rhodes - arranger ("Maria")
- Rafael O. Valentin - engineer
- Beverly Parker - photos
- Guy Webster - cover photos
- Morgan Ames - liner notes
Notes
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 (1972) Johnny Mathis in Person: Recorded Live at Las Vegas by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records KG 30979.
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- ↑ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
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- ↑ (1957) Other Voices by Erroll Garner [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CL 1014
- ↑ (1961) Here I Go Again by Eileen Farrell [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 8453
- ↑ (1960) Dreamy by Sarah Vaughan [album jacket]. New York: Roulette Records R 50246
- ↑ (1957) Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria by Lena Horne [album jacket]. New York: RCA Records RD 27021
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References
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