Released May 4, 1993 Length 46:56 | Genre Vocal Label Columbia | |
Recorded 1993 at
Andora Studios,
Hollywood, California,
Capitol Studios,
Hollywood, California,
Right Track Studios,
New York, New York,
Signet Sound Studios,
Los Angeles, California,
20th Century Fox Film Corporation,
Los Angeles, California Producer Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Jay Landers
Michel Legrand | ||
How Do You Keep the Music Playing? is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in May 1993 by Columbia Records and included the subtitle The Songs of Michel Legrand and Alan & Marilyn Bergman on its cover. The album featured new, individual recordings of two songs that Mathis covered as a medley for his 1973 album Me and Mrs. Jones -- "I Was Born in Love with You" and "Summer Me, Winter Me". He also performed new arrangements of "The Windmills of Your Mind", "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", and "The Summer Knows", which he had recorded for other albums many years earlier.
Contents
Reception
Nick Catalano mentioned the album in his review of a Mathis concert in New York City. "The present album and Carnegie concerts celebrate the music of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, with arrangements by Michel Legrand. On the album, the attempt to balance the elements succeeds mightily."
Track listing
All of the songs on the album feature music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
- "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from Best Friends (Introduction) – 1:26
- "The Summer Knows" from Summer of '42 – 4:19
- "Something New in My Life" from Micki & Maude – 4:10
- "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending – 5:58
- "The Way She Makes Me Feel" from Yentl – 4:01
- "I Was Born in Love with You" from Wuthering Heights (1970) – 4:45
- "On My Way to You" – 5:01
- "After the Rain" – 4:08
- "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair – 4:30
- "Summer Me, Winter Me" – 3:38
- "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from Best Friends – 4:42