Legacy
Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is set to release
The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection, the definitive
Johnny Mathis career-spanning box set on December 8th. The 68-disc set comes as
a part of the continued celebration of the enduring musical achievements of
Johnny Mathis (who first signed with Columbia Records in 1955.) Legacy has
worked closely with Mathis on the curation of his Columbia catalog, pouring
through the label’s deep archive of studio and live material, restoring and
remastering tracks for digital release. Within this vast career-spanning
boxset, Legacy Recordings has included 62 Columbia albums that have been
remastered (25 of which are available on CD for the very first time), two
previously unreleased albums, a 2-disc collection featuring 40 previously
unreleased songs as well as Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American
Songbook.
Signed to
Columbia Records in the mid-1950’s, Johnny Mathis was one of the very first
musical artists to embrace the album concept and record fully-realized
thematically and sonically coherent collections of songs. His 1958 release,
Johnny’s Greatest Hits inaugurated the ongoing “greatest hits” anthology
phenomenon becoming one of the most popular albums of all time after spending
an unprecedented 490 continuous weeks (almost ten years) on the Billboard Top
Albums Chart. To date, Johnny Mathis has had 3 songs inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame, achieved 50 hits on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart, and
ranks as the #6 all-time album artist in the history of Billboard’s pop album
charts. He has received 5 Grammy Nominations, and in 2003 he was given the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Recording Arts and Science.
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