The First 25 Years – The Silver Anniversary Album
| The First 25 Years – The Silver Anniversary Album | ||||
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| Compilation album by Johnny Mathis | ||||
| Released | June 19, 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1956–1959 1969–1980 |
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| Genre | Vocal Stage & Screen R&B Pop/Rock |
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| Length | 1:06:38 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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The First 25 Years – The Silver Anniversary Album is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in 1981 by Columbia Records. The back cover of the album notes that there are four new tracks ("It Doesn't Have to Hurt Every Time", "Nothing Between Us but Love", "There! I've Said It Again", and "The Way You Look Tonight"). A cover of the Commodores hit "Three Times a Lady" had been released on the UK version of his 1980 album Different Kinda Different, which was retitled All for You, but the Mathis rendition of the song makes its US debut here.
This compilation made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated July 25, 1981, and remained there for four weeks, peaking at number 173.
This release has a gatefold cover that opens to a gallery of photos of Mathis, many of which include other celebrities such as Jack Benny, Mike Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Henry Mancini, Jane Olivor, Prince Charles, Karen Valentine, Dionne Warwick, and Flip Wilson.
The album was encoded with the CX noise reduction system.
Two of the four new tracks on the album had previously been recorded by other artists. "The Way You Look Tonight" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song after it was performed in the 1936 film Swing Time by Fred Astaire, whose recording of the song spent six weeks at number one that same year. The second of the two, "There! I've Said It Again", had two number-one outings, the first of which, by Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra, enjoyed six weeks atop the Most Played by Jockeys chart in Billboard magazine in 1945 and sold one million copies;Bobby Vinton's rendition of the song stayed in the top spot for four weeks on the magazine's Hot 100 and for five weeks on its Easy Listening chart in addition to reaching number 34 on the UK singles chart in 1964.
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