Johnny mathis

June 5, 1958: The first-ever greatest hits compilation, Johnny Mathis' Greatest Hits, hit Number 1 in America. The collection includes "Chances Are," "It's Not for Me to Say," "Wonderful! Wonderful!," and "The Twelfth of Never." It seldom gets more romantic than this.

September 30, 1935: Johnny Mathis is born John Royce Mathis in Gilmer, Texas. He is raised in San Francisco. A star athlete, he turns down the chance to try out for the US Olympic Team as a high jumper in 1954 to pursue a career in music. Swooning hits like "Chances Are," "The Twelfth Of Never," "Misty," and "Wonderful! Wonderful!" earn him the title of the king of makeout music in the '50s and '60s, and a string of popular Christmas albums make him a radio favorite each holiday season.

Johnny Mathis was only 19 years old when a Columbia Records executive heard him singing in a San Francisco nightclub and decided to sign the teenage singer on the spot. After his first album, recorded in a jazz style, failed to register with the public, producer Mitch Miller guided Mathis to a more straightforward romantic sound, leading to hits like "Wonderful! Wonderful!" and "It's Not for Me to Say." A series of appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show made Mathis a national star, and at age…

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Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis photographed by Richard C. Miller (c. 1958)