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''Portrait of Johnny'' is a
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Johnny Mathis John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum s ...
that was released by Columbia Records on July 17, 1961, and described on the cover as "The Third in the Johnny Mathis Greatest Hits Series". Seven B-sides of chart hits are included along with four of the corresponding
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that made it onto the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 or "bubbled under" it and one song ("Should I Wait (Or Should I Run to Her)") from a single that had neither side chart in ''
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'' magazine.. In the "Spotlight Albums of the Week" column in the issue of ''Billboard'' dated July 31 of that year, a description of the release states, "A deluxe merchandising effort is represented here, with the fine color cover painting of Mathis, reproduced in a gold titled frame, which is attached to the liner. The album entered the magazine's
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chart a month later, in the issue dated August 28, and spent 63 weeks there, seven of which were in the number two position..


Reception

Allmusic's Joe Viglione wrote, "The liner notes read like a good biography from a PR firm, better fare than '60s albums usually offered for the album jackets, but there's no clarification on where this material was culled from." He concludes, "The disc sounds like a pastiche, but as always, with the sublime voice of Johnny Mathis as the common denominator, it is as entertaining as ever and perhaps more interesting than usual with all the musical changes on each track."


Track listing

Recording and release dates are taken from the liner notes of ''
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New York: Columbia Records 88875120552.


Side one

# "Starbright" ( Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:48 #*rec. 4/29/59, rel. 2/15/60; ''Billboard'' Hot 100: 25 # "While You're Young" (
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, Tony Romano) – 2:54 #*rec. 5/1/59, rel. 11/7/60; B-side of "How to Handle a Woman" # "Should I Wait (Or Should I Run to Her)" (
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, Paul Vance) – 2:48 #*rec. 2/8/61, rel. 4/24/61; non-charting single # "All Is Well" (
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) – 2:31 #*rec. 5/1/59, rel. 2/15/60; B-side of "Starbright" # "You Set My Heart to Music" from the 1960 Broadway musical ''13 Daughters '' (Eaton Magoon Jr.) – 2:46 #*rec. 3/4/61, rel. 3/20/61; Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart: 107 # "My Love for You" (
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) – 3:07 #*rec. 5/31/60, rel. 7/25/60; ''Billboard'' Hot 100: 47


Side two

# "Oh That Feeling" (
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, Paul Vance) – 2:36 #*rec. 5/31/60, rel. 7/25/60; B-side of "My Love for You" # "How to Handle a Woman" from the 1960 Broadway musical '' Camelot'' (
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) – 3:02 #*rec. 10/27/60, rel. 11/7/60; ''Billboard'' Hot 100: 64 # "Cherie" (Michael Coldin, T. Prescott) – 2:49 #* rec. 5/1/59, rel. 9/28/59; B-side of 1959 single "The Best of Everything" # "Hey Love" ( Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:28 #*rec. 5/1/59, rel. 5/9/60; B-side of 1960 single " Maria" # "Jenny" (
Jack Segal Jack Segal (October 19, 1918 – February 10, 2005) was a pianist and composer of popular American songs, known for writing the lyrics to '' Scarlet Ribbons''. His composition '' May I Come In?'' was the title track for a Blossom Dearie album. ...
, Paul Vance) – 2:58 #* rec. 2/8/61, rel. 3/20/61; B-side of "You Set My Heart to Music"; "Bubbling Under the Hot 100" chart: 118 # "The Story of Our Love" (Michael Colicchio, Anthony Piano) – 2:24 #*rec. 4/29/59, rel. 9/14/59; B-side of 1959 single " Misty"


Personnel

*Johnny Mathis – vocals *Al Ham – producer (except as noted) *Mitch Miller – producer ("How to Handle a Woman", "My Love for You", "Oh That Feeling", "While You're Young") *Irving Townsend – producer ("Jenny", "Should I Wait (Or Should I Run to Her)") *Frank DeVol – producer ("You Set My Heart to Music") *Ralph Cowan – cover painting


References


Bibliography

* * {{Authority control 1961 greatest hits albums Johnny Mathis compilation albums Albums produced by Irving Townsend Albums produced by Mitch Miller Columbia Records compilation albums