Released November 25, 1974 Artist Johnny Mathis Label Columbia Records | Length 35:00 Release date 25 November 1974 Genre Pop rock | |
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Recorded 1974 at
Larrabee Sound,
Los Angeles, California,
Devonshire Sound,
Los Angeles, California The Heart of a Woman
(1974) When Will I See You Again
(1975) Producers Johnny Bristol, Jerry Fuller Similar Raindrops Keep Fallin' on, In the Still of the Night, Up - Up and Away, How Do You Keep the Music, All About Love | ||
The Heart of a Woman is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on November 25, 1974, by Columbia Records and had mostly new material in that only three of the 10 songs had already been recorded by other artists.
Contents
The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated December 28, 1974, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 139. It also began a two-week run on the UK album chart on April 5, 1975, during which time it made it to number 39.
The only song from the album that ever charted as a single by Mathis was "Sail on White Moon", which entered Billboard's list of the 50 most popular Easy Listening songs in the US in the issue of the magazine dated February 15, 1975, and peaked at number 35 during its five weeks there; however, the title track from the album was used in a commercial for Helena Rubinstein's Courant perfume.
Reception
Billboard asserted, "With Johnny Bristol handling the production, we may have the most contemporary commercial LP Mathis has come up with in several years."
Side one
- "Woman, Woman" (Bristol) – 3:16
- "Sail On White Moon" (Bristol) – 3:12
- "It's Gone" (Eliot Tucker) – 3:13
- "House for Sale" (Lawrence Howard Brown, Oleg Lopatin) – 3:18
- "Feel Like Makin' Love" (Eugene McDaniels) – 3:40
Side two
- "Memories Don't Leave like People Do" (Bristol, Jerry Butler, James Anthony Dean, John Henry Glover) – 4:23
- "Strangers in Dark Corners" (Bristol) – 3:50
- "Wendy" from Three the Hard Way (Lowrell Simon, Richard Tufo) – 3:36
- "The Heart of a Woman" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) – 2:57
- "The Way We Planned It" (George S. Clinton) – 3:35
Song information
Of the three covers on this album, only "Feel Like Makin' Love" had been released as a single by the original artist. Roberta Flack's recording of the song spent five weeks at number one on Billboard magazine's list of the 100 most popular Soul songs in the US, two weeks at number one on its Easy Listening chart, and a week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in addition to receiving Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. "Sail On White Moon" was first recorded by Boz Scaggs for his 1974 album Slow Dancer, and "Wendy" was originally performed by The Impressions on the soundtrack of the 1974 film Three the Hard Way.
Personnel
Songs
1Woman - Woman3:16
2Sail on White Moon3:12
3It's Gone3:13