As a kid, it wasn’t Christmas without Johnny Mathis on the Victrola.
If you are a JM fan, you must pick up his ‘Heavenly’ CD. Originally came out as an L/P in 1960. Great for setting a mood with your honey.
Johnny is very fortunate to still have the pipes that allow him to keep singing at age 86. He has the lungs that help him to project, to hold a note or change octaves, making it all look smooth and easy. Johnny has been a multi millionaire since the Eisenhower Administration. He doesn’t do this singing for money. He simply loves to perform.
Still touring? Yikes! I find it breathtakingly sad to see great stars of the past doing that. One of these days we’ll see Mick Jagger’s colostomy bag come undone during a concert.
Chances are
If I wear a silly grin
The Doc called my prescription in...
My mom went to high school with him. She said he would sing at school assemblies and the girls would swoon.
My aunt (Mom’s older sister) is friends with Lee Meriwether, also since high school.
Little known fact about JM is that he was a world class high jumper and out jumped San Francisco teammate Bill Russell.
Chose music instead to our benefit.
Olympic win and singing the Star Spangled Banner would have been cool though.
Good friend of the Reagans IIRC.
My folks still get “misty” when they hear his Twelfth of Never.
WHEW! For a moment I thought something actually happened to him!
The title of this thread didn’t give any hint!
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