I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits

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I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits
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Greatest hits album by
Johnny Mathis
Released1964
Recorded1959–1963
Genre Vocal [1]
Length35:05
Label Columbia
Producer Ernie Altschuler [2]
Al Ham [3]
Mitch Miller [3]
Irving Townsend [3]
Johnny Mathis chronology
Tender Is the Night
(1963)		I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits
(1964)		 The Wonderful World of Make Believe
(1964)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard positive [4]
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I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records in April 1964 [4] and gathered up five A-sides that reached the Billboard Hot 100, a corresponding B-side, and six songs that had previously been unreleased.

Contents

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LPs chart the following month, in the issue dated May 9, and got as high as number 35 during its 16 weeks there. [6]

Reception

Billboard wrote, "A most attractive blend of voice and strings on the Mathis-Columbia package. The album contains fine singing on a number of telling but off-beat tunes for which the singer is noted." [4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Starbright" (Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:51
  2. "Every Step of the Way" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:23
  3. "Wherever You Are It's Spring" (Arthur Hamilton) – 2:33
    • rec. 2/8/61; previously unreleased [9]
  4. "The Joy of Loving You" (Bart Howard) – 3:05
    • rec. 3/29/62; previously unreleased [10]
  5. "Each Time We Kiss" (Clyde Otis, Colin Towns) – 2:39
    • rec. 3/4/61; previously unreleased [10]
  6. "A Clock Without Hands" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:58
    • rec. 3/29/62; previously unreleased [10]

Side two

  1. "I'll Search My Heart" (Allyn Ferguson, Ernie Richman, Neil Weston) – 3:05
    • rec. 8/9/62, rel. 11/5/63; [3] Billboard Hot 100: #90 [7]
  2. "Sooner or Later" (Thomas Garlock, Alan Jefferys) – 3:19
    • rec. 8/9/62, rel. 7/30/63 [3] Billboard Hot 100: #84 [7]
  3. "My Favorite Dream" (Pockriss, Vance) – 2:55
    • rec. 10/9/61; previously unreleased [10]
  4. "The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything (Sammy Cahn, Alfred Newman) – 2:45
    • rec. 9/8/59, rel. 9/28/59 [3] Billboard Hot 100: #62 [7]
  5. "What to Do About Love" (Leon Carr, Vance) – 2:28
    • rec. 5/31/60; previously unreleased [10]
  6. "All the Sad Young Men" (Livingston, Webster) – 3:04
    • rec. 3/29/62, rel. 11/5/63; B-side of "I'll Search My Heart" [3]

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 (1964) I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 8943.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (2015) The Singles by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records 88875120552.
  4. 1 2 3 "Albums Reviews". Billboard . 1964-04-18. p. 68.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 922. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 11 March 2025.
  6. ↑ Whitburn 2010 , p. 504.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Whitburn 2009 , p. 628.
  8. ↑ Whitburn 2007 , p. 178.
  9. ↑ (1996) I'll Buy You a Star by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records CK 64892.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 (2017) The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music Entertainment 88985 36892 2.

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