Mathis Is...

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Mathis Is...
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Studio album by Johnny Mathis
Released 1977
Recorded 1977 at
Kaye-Smith Studios,
Seattle, Washington
Western Recorders,
Los Angeles, California
Sound Labs,
Los Angeles, California[1]
Genre Vocal[2]
Length 39:09
Label Columbia
Producer Thom Bell[1]
Johnny Mathis chronology
The Johnny Mathis Collection
(1976)The Johnny Mathis Collection1976		 Mathis Is...
(1977)		 The Mathis Collection
(1977)The Mathis Collection1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[2]

Mathis Is... is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the winter of 1977 by Columbia Records and reunites the singer with producer Thom Bell for the first time since their collaboration on I'm Coming Home in 1973. As with that project, Mathis Is... focuses primarily on new songs, the one exception being a cover of "Sweet Love of Mine" from the 1975 Pick of the Litter album by The Spinners.[3]

Mathis Is... made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated March 19, 1977, and remained there for five weeks, peaking at number 139.[4] One of the songs from the album, "Loving You-Losing You", entered the magazine's list of the 50 most popular Easy Listening songs in the US the following month, in the April 2 issue, and peaked at number 29 over the course of five weeks.[5]

Track listing

All songs written by LeRoy Bell and Thom Bell except as noted:

Side 1

  1. "As Long As We're Together" (Anthony Bell, Thom Bell, Jo Dee Omer) – 4:59
  2. "Lullaby of Love" – 3:43
  3. "Loving You-Losing You" – 4:33
  4. "I'll Make You Happy" – 4:57

Side 2

  1. "Heaven Must Have Made You Just for Me" – 4:09
  2. "Hung Up in the Middle of Love" (Thom Bell, Sherman Marshall) – 4:22
  3. "World of Laughter" (Thom Bell, Casey James) – 3:23
  4. "I Don't Want to Say No" – 5:16
  5. "Sweet Love of Mine" (Vinnie Barrett, Bobby Eli) – 3:47

Real Gone Music CD Bonus Tracks

On March 10, 2015, Real Gone Music released Life Is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions, a two-disc set featuring remastered editions of Mathis Is... and Mathis and Bell's other LP collaboration, I'm Coming Home, along with bonus tracks on each disc.[6] This was the first release of Mathis Is... on compact disc.

Disc one (I'm Coming Home) bonus tracks
  1. "I'm Coming Home" (Stereo Single Version) – 3:24
  2. "I'm Stone in Love with You" (Unreleased Instrumental Version) – 3:30
  3. "And I Think That's What I'll Do" (Unreleased Instrumental Version) – 4:36
  4. "Life Is a Song Worth Singing" (Mono Single Edit - Short Version) – 3:20
Disc two (Mathis Is...) bonus tracks
  1. "Betcha by Golly, Wow" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed) – 2:49 (from The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face))
  2. "Break Up to Make Up" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed, Kenneth Gamble) – 3:50 (from Killing Me Softly with Her Song)
  3. "You're As Right As Rain" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed) – 3:02 (from When Will I See You Again)
  4. "You Brought Me Love" performed with Patti Austin (Andy Goldmark) – 4:07 (from Better Together: The Duet Album)
  5. "You Make Me Feel Brand New" (performed with Yolanda Adams) (Thom Bell, Linda Creed) – 5:12 (from A Night to Remember)
  6. "Loving You-Losing You" (Mono Single Version) – 3:46

Personnel

Original album[1]

Production
  • George Bell – assistant engineer
  • Thom Bell – arranger (except as noted), conductor, producer
  • Tony Bell Sr. – arranger ("I'll Make You Happy", "Sweet Love of Mine")
  • Nancy Donald – design
  • Ron Gangnes – assistant engineer
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering engineer
  • Winslow Koots – assistant engineer
  • Don Murray – chief engineer
  • Buz Richman – assistant engineer
  • Norman Seeff – photography
  • Tom Steele – design
  • Linda Tyler – assistant engineer
Performers
  • Davis Barnett – viola
  • Tony Bell Sr. – guitar
  • George Bohanon & His Horn Section – horns
  • Gary Coleman – vibraphone
  • Jack Faith – alto & bass flutes
  • Larry Gold – cello
  • Bobbye Hall – congas
  • Johnny Mathis – vocals
  • Don Renaldo – violin
  • Lee Ritenour – guitar
  • Andrew Smith – drums
  • Charles Veale & His String Section – strings
  • Bob Zimmitti – vibraphone
  • Bob Babbitt - Bass
  • Mixed by Kaye-Smith Studios, Seattle, Washington
  • Mastered at A&M Records, Hollywood, California

Real Gone Music reissue[7]

  • Gordon Anderson – producer
  • Joe Marchese - liner notes; compiler, producer
  • Jeff James - Sony producer; compiling assistant
  • Johnny Mathis - compiling assistant
  • Tom D. Kline - design
  • Michael Ochs Archives – photo
  • Getty Images - photo
  • Remastered by Sean Brennan at Battery Studios, New York City

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (1977) Mathis Is... by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records PC 34441.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ (1975) Pick of the Litter by The Spinners [album jacket]. New York: Atlantic Records SD 18141.
  4. ↑ Whitburn 2010, p. 504.
  5. ↑ Whitburn 2007, p. 179.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ (2015) Life Is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music Entertainment RGM 0342.

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