Columbia Records on this date in 1958 released “Johnny’s Greatest Hits,” a compilation of hits by Gilmer native Johnny Mathis. The album made the best-selling albums chart on April 14, and remarkably ...

Johnny Mathis was just two years into his career as a recording artist when in 1958 he released his hit album “Merry Christmas,” a perennial Christmas classic to this day. Since then, Mathis has ...

With his velvety vibrato, a youthful Johnny Mathis melted midcentury America with “Chances Are,” a feathery love ballad that rose to the top of Billboard’s pop charts in 1957. The singer from San ...

Includes fresh insights from Johnny Mathis as well as his producers and arrangers and traces Mathis’s musical journey from the past to the present. Few singers have been able to change with the times ...

Johnny Mathis earned the honorific "the Voice of Romance" for a reason. For more than 60 years, he’s applied his classic croon — warm, rich and velvety — to a succession of love songs and slow jams.

The Bay Area boasts a long and storied history of outstanding vocalists, one that touches upon pretty much every musical genre under the sun. These 20 essential vocal albums showcase the breadth and ...

The River Spirit Casino Resort announced Johnny Mathis will perform Thursday, Dec. 9 at The Cove. Tickets go on sale Oct. 8. Mathis is in the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Guinness Book of World Records ...

At 86, singer Johnny Mathis would be within his rights to put down the microphone and call it quits. The much-loved vocalist first bewitched listeners in the 1950s with his chart-topping, ...