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Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert

Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert
Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert (Johnny Mathis album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by Johnny Mathis
Released 1970
Recorded Sides one and two:
1969 at
Studio Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Sides three and four:
1959–1960
1968–1970
Genre
Length 64:30
Label Columbia
Producer Jack Gold
Al Ham
Robert Mersey
Mitch Miller
Johnny Mathis chronology
Close to You
(1970)Close to You1970
Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert
(1970)
Love Story
(1971)Love Story1971
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Billboard positive

Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the fall of 1970 by Columbia Records. While one half of the two-record set was a compilation of tracks from his previous albums that were composed by Burt Bacharach, the other consisted of new recordings of songs composed by Bert Kaempfert, including a new version of "Strangers in the Night", which Mathis had already recorded in 1966 for his LP Johnny Mathis Sings. Although the Kaempfert tribute was similar to recent Mathis albums in that he was mainly covering songs made popular by other singers, it was absent of hits from the 12 months previous to its release that had become the pattern of his output at this point. The latest US chartings of any of the Kaempfert compositions as of this album's debut came from 1967 recordings of "Lady" by Jack Jones and "The Lady Smiles" by Matt Monro.

The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated January 23, 1971, and reached number 169 during its seven weeks there.

In the UK only the Kaempfert half of the album was released, and it was simply titled Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bert Kaempfert.

For the single LP release in the UK, side two had a sixth track, "It Makes No Difference", written by Gabler, Kaempfert, and Rehbein.


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