Johnny Mathis

multiple ^ | 08/27/2022 | multiple

[sodpoodle]

Johnny Mathis is 86 yrs. old and still touring. Listen to "Chances Are" = great lyrics, melody and voice.

[Gay State Conservative]

Thanks largely to my town's library system (an outstanding one) and CD burners I have a CD collection of about 5,000 songs...95% of them being from the 60s.Most of the rest are from the 50s.

The Stones' stuff up until Sticky Fingers was truly classic.The Who's early stuff...the Byrds...the Beatles,etc,etc were as well. But seeing any of them perform today? No thanks!

There's a BBC comedy show from about 20 years ago called "Harry & Paul". It's bloody hilarious. One of their running gags is the Beatles in their 70's...still touring and making albums. Hysterical!

[Gay State Conservative]

The Beatles 2010

[dfwgator]

Good friend of the Reagans IIRC.

[gymbeau]

Wonderful, wonderful!

[Buttons12]

My folks still get “misty” when they hear his Twelfth of Never.

[SeekAndFind]

WHEW! For a moment I thought something actually happened to him!
The title of this thread didn’t give any hint!

[SeekAndFind]

I’ve always wondered, why did he never get married?

[thesearethetimes...]

Thank you 😌

My folks enjoyed a very wide variety of music, and had all of his albums. Sitting atop the stand where they kept the LPs - was a small bust of Beethoven.
I could not decide who I thought was more handsome, laughs, but definitely was drawn by Ludwig’s intensity.

Something fairly recent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jzQJmcV94

Tatt

[married21]

Yes. We bought that when it was on special next to the checkout stand in the early 70s. Iirc he did a beautiful Oh Holy Night.

[Vaduz]

Elton John winks

[dfwgator]

Yes he is, but he never made a big deal out of it.

[NautiNurse]

Every song on that Christmas album is exceptional. If I had to pick a fav: Greensleeves.

[lee martell]

Johnny came out as gay in the late 1990s. He got such an ugly reaction from a few fans, that he has never brought the topic up since then.

[Old Yeller]

I’ve always wondered, why did he never get married?

Chances are, though he wears a wedding ring,,,,

[GOPJ]

My favorite too...

You ask how much I need you, must I explain?
I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain.

You ask how long I’ll love you; I’ll tell you true:
Until the twelfth of never, I’ll still be loving you.

Hold me close, never let me go.
Hold me close, melt my heart like April snow.

I’ll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom;
I’ll love you till the clover has lost its perfume.
I’ll love you till the poets run out of rhyme,
Until the twelfth of never and that’s a long, long time.

[nutmeg]

It's not Christmas without Johnny Mathis in this household.

JM just did a big concert at Foxwoods Casino, not far from us. There were billboards all over the place announcing his upcoming date there. If we weren't so darn busy downsizing / moving these days, we might've gone to see him.