The Best Days of My Life
| The Best Days of My Life | ||||
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| Studio album by Johnny Mathis | ||||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 at A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood, California |
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| Genre | Vocal | |||
| Length | 37:45 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Jack Gold | |||
| Johnny Mathis chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Billboard | positive |
| People | positive |
The Best Days of My Life is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in January 1979 by Columbia Records and scaled back considerably on his more than decade-long practice of recording recent hit songs by other artists. He did, however, cover two standards: "As Time Goes By" and "Begin the Beguine", the latter of which is given a disco arrangement.
The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated February 24, 1979, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 122. It also made it to number 38 during a five-week run on the UK album chart.
The first song from the album to reach any of the charts in Billboard was a duet with Jane Olivor titled "The Last Time I Felt Like This" that was written for the 1978 film Same Time, Next Year and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday. The duet entered the magazine's list of the 50 most popular Easy Listening records in the US in the issue dated February 24, 1979, and peaked at number 15 over the course of 12 weeks. Another track from the album, "Begin the Beguine", entered that same chart five months later, in the July 21 issue, and got as high as number 37 during its five weeks there. The only song from the album to reach the UK singles chart was "Gone, Gone, Gone", which made its debut there the following month, on August 11, and reached number 15 during a 10-week run.
The album was first released on compact disc in 1989, and on January 27, 2015, Funkytowngrooves released an expanded edition of the album on compact disc that included five bonus tracks, two of which were disco mixes that came out in 1979 on a separate 12-inch single.
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