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I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits

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Released
  
1964

Length
  
35:05

Release date
  
1964

Genre
  
Pop music

Recorded
  
1959–1963

Artist
  
Johnny Mathis

Label
  
Legacy Recordings

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I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits (1964)
  
The Wonderful World of Make Believe (1964)

Producers
  
Al Ham, Mitch Miller, Irving Townsend

Similar
  
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on, All About Love, How Do You Keep the Music, Portrait of Johnny, The Heart of a Woman

I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records in April 1964 and gathered up five A-sides that reached the Billboard Hot 100, a corresponding B-side, and six songs that had previously been unreleased.

Contents

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart the following month, in the issue dated May 9, and got as high as number 35 during its 16 weeks there.

Reception

Billboard wrote, "A most attractive blend of voice and strings on the Mathis-Columbia package. The album contains fine singing on a number of telling but off-beat tunes for which the singer is noted."

Side one

  1. "Starbright" (Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:51
  2. rec. 4/29/59, rel. 2/15/60; Billboard Hot 100: #25
  3. "Every Step of the Way" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:23
  4. rec. 5/31/60, rel. 5/7/63; Billboard Hot 100: #30 Easy Listening: #10
  5. "Wherever You Are It's Spring" (Arthur Hamilton) – 2:33
  6. "The Joy of Loving You" (Bart Howard) – 3:05
  7. "Each Time We Kiss" (Clyde Otis, Colin Towns) – 2:39
  8. "A Clock Without Hands" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:58

Side two

  1. "I'll Search My Heart" (Allyn Ferguson, Ernie Richman, Neil Weston) – 3:05
  2. rec. 8/9/62, rel. 11/5/63; Billboard Hot 100: #90
  3. "Sooner or Later" (Thomas Garlock, Alan Jefferys) – 3:19
  4. rec. 8/9/62, rel. 7/30/63 Billboard Hot 100: #84
  5. "My Favorite Dream" (Pockriss, Vance) – 2:55
  6. "The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything (Sammy Cahn, Alfred Newman) – 2:45
  7. rec. 9/8/59, rel. 9/28/59 Billboard Hot 100: #62
  8. "What to Do About Love" (Leon Carr, Vance) – 2:28
  9. "All the Sad Young Men" (Livingston, Webster) – 3:04
  10. rec. 3/29/62, rel. 11/5/63; B-side of "I'll Search My Heart"

Personnel

  • Johnny Mathis – vocals
  • Ernie Altschuler – producer (except as noted)
  • Al Ham – producer ("The Best of Everything", "Starbright")
  • Mitch Miller – producer ("Every Step of the Way")
  • Irving Townsend – producer ("All the Sad Young Men")
  • M. Harkavy – cover photographic process

    • Songs

    1Starbright2:50
    2Every Step of the Way3:23
    3Wherever You Are It's Spring2:34

    References

    I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits Wikipedia
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