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by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on August 15, 1977, by Columbia Records and found him firmly planted in the cover album genre once again in that no original songs were included. Allmusic's Joe Viglione did feel, however, that "they seem to be trying to cover all the bases here," meaning that it had a variety of selections, including a standard from 1939 (" All the Things You Are"), a hit that charted in both the 1950s and '60s ("

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"), and recent offerings from stage (" One", " Tomorrow") and screen (" Evergreen (Love Theme from ''A Star Is Born'')", "I Always Knew I Had It in Me"). Although the album did not reach '' Billboard'' magazine's Top LPs & Tapes chart, it did spend a week in the issue dated September 17, 1977, at number 201 on the

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chart, which, according to Joel Whitburn, "listed albums that were on the rise in sales that did not quite achieve the sales necessary to make ''Billboards main 200-position pop albums chart." For its release in the UK, the album was entitled ''Sweet Surrender'', which was also the name of the song that was added on to the original track listing but had first appeared on his 1973 album '' Me and Mrs. Jones''. ''Sweet Surrender'' spent its one week on the UK album chart at number 55 but received Silver certification for sales of 60,000 units in the UK from the

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on January 4, 1978. In 1995 the title track from the album was used in the film ''

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Reception

Viglione, writing retrospectively, also described the album as "a fine mixture of classic Mathis" and "a pleasant album from a performer who delivers the goods with ease."

Track listing

Side one

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" ( Harry Noble) – 2:56 # "

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) – 3:26

Side two

# "The Most Beautiful Girl" ( Rory Michael Bourke,

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, Norris Wilson) – 2:30 # "Tomorrow" from ''

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) – 2:29 # " Evergreen (Love Theme from ''A Star Is Born'')" from '' A Star Is Born'' (

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, Paul Williams) – 3:15 # "I Always Knew I Had It in Me" from '' The Greatest'' ( Gerry Goffin,

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) – 3:02 # " Don't Give Up on Us" (

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) – 3:57 For the ''Sweet Surrender'' album in the UK, the succeeding title track was inserted at the end of side one, but the order of the original 10 songs was unchanged.

2017 CD bonus tracks

This album's CD release as part of the 2017 box set '' The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection'' included two bonus tracks: *"Experience" (unknown) – 4:17 *"If It's Magic" ( Stevie Wonder) – 3:36 Before this, "Experience" had not been issued, and "If It's Magic" had only been available on the 1981 UK compilation ''

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Recording dates

From the liner notes for '' The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection'': *April 20, 1977 – "Don't Give Up on Us", "I Always Knew I Had It in Me", "Tomorrow" *May 31, 1977 – "Evergreen (Love Theme from ''A Star Is Born'')", "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me", "When I Need You" *June 9, 1977 – "The Most Beautiful Girl", "One" *June 13, 1977 – "All the Things You Are", "We're All Alone" *June 14, 1977 – "If It's Magic" *September 30, 1977 – "Experience"

Personnel

From the liner notes for the original album: *Johnny Mathis – vocals *Jack Gold – producer *

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– arranger, conductor *Dick Bogert – engineer, mixer *Sam Emerson – photography

References

Bibliography

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