''The Johnny Mathis Collection'' is a compilation album by American pop singer

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 in the UK in 1976 by Hallmark and Pickwick Records in arrangement with the CBS Records division of

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.(1976) ''The Johnny Mathis Collection'' by Johnny Mathis lbum jacket London: Hallmark Records PDA 015. This is a two- LP set, with the first two sides being what is actually a reissue of the singer's 1961 compilation '' Portrait of Johnny'' and the second two being 10 tracks from three other albums: 1959's '' Faithfully'', 1967's '' Up, Up and Away'' and 1968's ''

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''. On June 30, 1977, the

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awarded the collection with Gold certification for sales of 100,000 units in the UK, and Platinum certification for 300,000 units was awarded on January 17, 1978, making this album the only vinyl Mathis release to sell that many copies in the region.

Track listing

Side one

# "Starbright" ( Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:48 # "While You're Young" (

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, Tony Romano) – 2:54 # "Should I Wait (Or Should I Run to Her)" (

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, Vance) – 2:48 # "All Is Well" ( Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:31 # "You Set My Heart to Music" from the 1960 Broadway musical ''13 Daughters '' (Eaton Magoon, Jr.) – 2:46 # "My Love for You" (

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, Sid Wayne) – 3:07

Side two

# "Oh That Feeling" ( Jack Segal, Vance) – 2:36 # "How to Handle a Woman" from ''

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) – 3:02 # "Cherie" (Michael Coldin, T. Prescott) – 2:49 # "Hey Love" (Pockriss, Vance) – 2:28 # "Jenny" (Segal, Vance) – 2:58 # "The Story of Our Love" (Michael Colicchio, Anthony Piano) – 2:24

Side three

# " Up, Up and Away" (

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) – 2:55 # " Tonight" from ''

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, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:16 # " Turn Around, Look at Me" ( Jerry Capehart) – 2:51 # " The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" ( Paul Simon) – 2:10 # " This Guy's in Love with You" (

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) – 4:38

Side four

# "

" ( Boris Fomin, Gene Raskin) – 3:59 # " Maria" from ''West Side Story'' (Bernstein, Sondheim) – 3:45 #"

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) – 3:49 # " The More I See You" (

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) – 4:03 # " Little Green Apples" ( Bobby Russell) – 3:39

Personnel

*Johnny Mathis – vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

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