16 Most Requested Songs

Performer: Johnny Mathis
Engineer: Tim Geelan
Producer: Tim Geelan; Mike Bernilan
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Johnny Mathis (vocals). Audio Remasterers: Tim Geelan; Michael Berniker. Liner Note Author: Howard Garwood. 16 Most Requested Songs, a midline-priced collection, spotlights some of Johnny Mathis' best-known and most popular performances for Columbia Records. Although other sets may have a few more tracks, this is a very entertaining sampler, featuring such songs as "Chances Are," "It's Not for Me to Say," "Wonderful! Wonderful!," "When Sunny Gets Blue," "(Where Do I Begin (Love Story)," and "Misty." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Although Johnny Mathis got his start as a jazz singer, his velvety 1956 hit "Wonderful, Wonderful" set the course for the rest of his career as a smooth pop crooner and key supplier of make-out music. He maintained a steady career course over the following decades, and in the late '70s enjoyed a renewed popularity, scoring a few high-charting duets with Deniece Williams. One of the most popular recording artists of all time, Mathis has reputedly sold over 350 million records, and his 1958 greatest-hits collection--the first compilation of its kind--stayed on the U.S. charts for almost 10 years. Past his 50th year in show business, Mathis was still recording and performing, his special brand of silky pop balladeering never quite falling out of favor.

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