The Hollywood Musicals
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Studio album by Johnny Mathis and Henry Mancini |
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| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1986 at Conway Studios, Hollywood, California, Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood, California |
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| Genre | Vocal | |||
| Length | 42:10 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Denny Diante | |||
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The Hollywood Musicals is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis and American composer/conductor Henry Mancini that was released in October 1986 by Columbia Records. This project heralded Mathis's return to the genre of traditional pop, which he would revisit occasionally over the next few decades.
The album peaked at number 46 during an eight-week run on the UK album chart that began on December 13 of that year and received Silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry for sales of 60,000 units in the UK. It also spent two weeks on Billboard magazine's Top Pop Albums chart in January 1987 and made it to number 157.
In 1983 a renewed interest in pop songs dating back to the era before rock and roll became apparent when the album What's New by Linda Ronstadt received Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America just three months after its release. The recording focused exclusively on standards from the Great American Songbook and was arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.The Broadway Album, a 1985 release of show tunes by Barbra Streisand, provided more evidence that there was an audience for what would be eventually referred to as traditional pop albums when it attained double Platinum certification only two months after its release and spent three weeks as the number one album in the US.
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