Once in a While is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on May 23, 1988, by Columbia Records and found it back to the practice of covering contemporary hits. but also mix in the lesser known songs that have been recorded by other artists along with some new ones ("Daydreamin '", "From Whisper to Scream", "Two Hearts Strong").
Although the album did not make it into the Pop Top Pop Album album, the album "I'm on the Outside Looking In" reached number 27 for 12 weeks on the magazine list of 40 Hot Adult Adult Songs this week in the US starting on July 2nd issue of the year that.
Video Once in a While (Johnny Mathis album)
Reception
The album received positive reviews from Allmusic, in which Bil Carpenter praised the "incredible street corner tracks" in the song title and "I'm Outside Looking In" and also has good words for "From Bisik to Scream" and "Two Strong Hearts".
Maps Once in a While (Johnny Mathis album)
Track list
- "I'm Outside Looking" (Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein) - 3:24
- "It Will not Make a Difference" (Todd Rundgren) - 4:01
- "Two Strong Hearts" performed with Dionne Warwick (Andy Hill, Bruce Woolley) - 4:00
- "Once in a While" (Michael Edwards, Bud Green) - 3:28
- "Fallen" (Lauren Wood) - 3:33
- "Daydreamin '" (Noel Closson, Preston Glass, Larry Graham) - 4:30
- "From Whisper to Scream" (Steven Birch, Glass) - 4:25
- "No Women (Like I Have)" (Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter) - 4:08
- "Just Like You" (Jeff Pescetto) - 3:50
- "Love Takes Us Here Tonight" (Stephen Geyer, Allan Rich, Smokey Robinson) - 4:04
Record date
From liner notes to The Voice of Romance: Columbia Original Album Collection :
- December 6, 1987 - "No Women (Like I Have)", "Daydreamin" "From Whisper to Scream", "Two Strong Hearts"
- December 1987-March 1988 - "Falling", "I'm Looking", "There Will Not Be Difference", "Same As You", "Love Takes Us Here Tonight", "Once in a While"
Song information
Tommy Dorsey & amp; The orchestra spent seven weeks at number one in Billboard magazine in 1937 with "Once in a While", which is the oldest song that Mathis cover this time. "I'm on the Outside Looking In" by Little Anthony and Imperials reached number 15 on Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Hot R & amp; B in the magazine in 1964. And the recording "No Women (Like I Belong)" by The Four Tops gained Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America and peaked at number two R & amp; B, number four pop, and number 14 on the magazine list of the 40 most popular easy listening songs of the week in the US in 1973.
Todd Rundgren "It Would Not Made Made Any Difference" first appeared on his 1972 album Something/Anything? , and "Just Like You" recorded by Dennis Edwards for his 1984 LP Do not Look Anymore. Smokey Robinson included "Love Brought Us Here Tonight" on his 1987 single One Heartbeat album, and Lauren Wood's original recording of "Fallen" appeared in his 1981 Cat Trick release. > but received the widest exposure as one of the songs heard in the 1990 movie Pretty Woman and on his soundtrack album, which was released two years after the album and sold 3 million copies. The duet on this album, "Two Strong Hearts", was also released as a solo outing in 1988 by John Farnham on the Age of Reason album; his version gets as high as number 38 on the Billboard magazine Adult Contemporary chart and number five in Australia.
Personnel
From the liner notes to the original album:
- Johnny Mathis - vocals
- Jay Landers - executive producer
- Bobby Yosten, Toluca Lake - wardrobe
- Lore Patterson - styling
- Nancy Donald - design
- Tony Lane - design
- David Vance - photographer
- Mastering in Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California
- Mixed in Conway Studios, Hollywood, California, using GML Automation System
Trek 1-5
- Peter Bunetta - producer; drums
- Rick Chudacoff - producer; bass
- Bill Elliott - keyboard
- Paulinho da Costa - percussion
- Dann Huff - guitar (except "Once in a While")
- Leslie Smith - background vocals
- David Woodford - soprano sax ("Fall")
- Michael Thompson - guitar ("It Will not Make a Difference", "Once In Time")
- Fred Tackett - acoustic guitar ("It Makes No Difference", "Once In Time")
- Melvin Franklin - vocal background ("Once in a While")
- Kipper Jones - background vocals ("Once in a While")
- Roderick White - background vocals ("Once in a While")
- Fred White - background vocals ("Once in a While")
- Ricky Nelson - vocal background ("Once in a While")
- Lynne Fiddmont - background vocals ("Two Strong Hearts")
- Syreeta - vocal background ("Two Strong Hearts")
- Recorded and mixed in Conway Studios, Hollywood, California
- Daren Klein - recording engineer
- Additional recording at Lion Share Studios, Los Angeles, California
- Frank Wolf - additional recording engineer
- Gary Wagner - additional recording engineer
- Tom Vicari - additional recording engineer
- Mick Guzauski - mixing engineer
- Marnie Riley - an assistant engineer
- Bryant Arnett - an assistant engineer
- Karen Siegel - an assistant engineer
- Ray Pyle - an assistant engineer
Tracks 6-8
- Preston Glass - producer; regulator; keyboard; drumming and percussion programming
- Frankie Blue - backing vocals
- Joe Ericksen - background vocals
- DeVere Duckett - background vocals
- Craig Thomas - sax solo ("Not a Woman Not (Like I Have)"); background vocals
- Jorge Bermudez - live percussion, Triangle Bermudez ("From Whisper to Scream")
- Jim Studer - acoustic piano solo ("Daydreamin '")
- Recorded in Studio Ultimo, West Hollywood, California
- Blended in One on One Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
- Maureen Droney - recording engineer, mixing engineer
- Mitch Zelezny - an assistant engineer
- Bernard Frings - an assistant engineer
Tracks 9-10
- Robert Kraft - the producer; piano; synthesizer; additional percussion ("Love Brought Us Here Tonight"))
- Tom Walsh - drum
- Neil Stubenhaus - bass
- Nick Brown - guitar
- Jorge Bermudez - percussion
- Michael Paulo - saxophone
- Darryl Phinnessee - backing vocals
- Dorian Holley - background vocals
- Sheryl Crow - background vocals
- Lynn David - background vocals
- Greg Bartheld - additional synth programming
- David Benson - project coordination/technical director
- Recorded in Los Angeles at Ocean Way Studios, The Five Spot, Ignited Studios, Kren Studios
- Ed Thacker - engineer; mixing engineer ("Just Like You")
- "Just Like You" mixes in The Gray Room, Hollywood, California
- Daren Klein - mixing engineer ("Love Brought Us Here Tonight")
- "Love Brought Us Here Tonight" mixes in Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood, California
References
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