You Are Everything to Me

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"You Are Everything to Me"
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US 7-inch single
Single by Johnny Mathis
from the album More Johnny's Greatest Hits
A-side "Small World"
ReleasedMay 25, 1959
RecordedNovember 10, 1958
Genre Pop
Length2:58
Label Columbia
Songwriters
Producer Al Ham
Johnny Mathis singles chronology
"Someone" / "Very Much in Love"
(1959)
"Small World" / "You Are Everything to Me"
(1959)
"Misty" / "The Story of Our Love"
(1959)
Music video
"You Are Everything to Me" on YouTube

"You Are Everything to Me" is a popular song written by Percy Faith and Carl Sigman that was recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1958. It charted in 1959.

Contents

Recording and release

Johnny Mathis recorded "You Are Everything to Me" on November 10, 1958, with an orchestra conducted by Ray Ellis. It was produced by Al Ham and released as a single on May 25, 1959, with the A-side "Small World" from the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy . [1]

Commercial performance

"You Are Everything to Me" "bubbled under" Billboard magazine's Hot 100 for 2 weeks in June 1959; it got as high as number 109. [2]

Critical reception

In their review column, the editors of Cash Box magazine featured the single as their Pick of the Week, which was their equivalent to a letter grade of A for both songs. They wrote that the songs were "first-rate" and that "the distinctive Mathis touch gets to the heart of each". [3] The editors of Billboard categorized the single as a "Spotlight Winner", one of the best of the week's new releases, and wrote that both songs were handled "with warmth over pretty ork backing." [4]

Charts

Weekly chart performance for "You Are Everything to Me"
Chart (1959)Peak
position
US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 ( Billboard ) [2] 109

References

  1. Columbia Records (2015). The Singles (Liner notes). Johnny Mathis. Columbia Records. 88875120552.
  2. 1 2 Whitburn 2009 , p. 628
  3. "The Cash Box Record Reviews > The Cash Box Pick of the Week > "You Are Everything to Me"/"Small World"" (PDF). Cash Box . New York: Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. May 30, 1959. p. 32. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
  4. "The Billboard Reviews This Week's Singles > The Billboard Spotlight Winners of the Week > Pop Records > Johnny Mathis – "You Are Everything to Me"/"Small World"" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 71, no. 21. May 25, 1959. p. 62. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved August 11, 2025.

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