“Wonderful, Wonderful” (1956) by Johnny Mathis- anyone else a fan of this Wonderful Wonderful song?

Oh his voice was beautiful and one of a kind. I can’t think of anyone else who sounds like him.

Chances Are is his most famous song and his huge #1 hit and I love that song but my favorite is It’s Not For Me To Say.

He had so many amazing songs on that first album.

I love it. I remember being at one of his concerts at Chautauqua with my boyfriend. As he started singing ' wonderful, Wonderful," the woman in front of me turned around, smiled, and sighed as if she had been transported back to her teens. At intermission, I remarked that she seemed to be really enjoying the concert. She told me she used to have his posters on the walls of her bedroom and that that song was playing when she had her first kiss from her hs boyfriend. Ah, the innocence that has been lost.

R2 where did you copy and paste that from?

Comforting voice.

I'm a huge Johnny Mathis fan. I think he's the most handsome male that ever lived.

“Wonderful, Wonderful” sounded like nothing else in 1956.

I will always associate it with the X-Files episode "Home".

Fun Fact: strangely enough, "Misty" was the theme song of "The Today Show" in the 1960's. The instrumental version.

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[quote] Fun Fact: strangely enough, "Misty" was the theme song of "The Today Show" in the 1960's. The instrumental version.

That was also the opening theme to our late movie presentation where I grew up in the 1960s. The visual was a woman's hand lighting a candelabra.

This had always been one of my favorite songs. That butterflies in the stomach young love song. Ahhhh…..

I had a boyfriend who would drive about 4 1/2 hours to see me. He would drive in the evenings and I would send him music to keep him awake and keep him occupied while he drove. I would always send him “99 miles from LA.“ It’s my favorite Johnny Mathis song. He died of Covid during the pandemic and I miss him still.

R12 why do you have some exaggerated sob story to tell on every thread like this?

[quote]I had a boyfriend who would drive about 4 1/2 hours to see me.

And then he died.

For real!

Him performing Chances Are and Wonderful Wonderful in Indiana, 1982

I didn't realize Mathis was still alive.

His voice reminds me of Christmas.

Still performing too. This is him in January of this year. He will be 90 this year.

R16 probably because his Christmas album was a massive success.

r18 I guess I haven't listened to him in any other context

R19 I think that’s the case for many. This is why you associate his voice with Christmas.

His version of Sleigh Ride is still played today during Christmas season.

Play "Misty" For Me!

His Christmas album and Greatest Hits album (which is considered the first Greatest Hits album ever) were both released in 1958 and are both his best selling albums.

His Greatest Hits album spent 490 weeks on Billboards album charts.

Johnny Mathis was the favorite singer of none other than Miss Annette Funicello!

He released four albums in 1958. Two albums, One Christmas album and One Greatest Hits album.

His Greatest Hits album was released two years into his career lol

Performing “Sleigh Ride” on Ed Sullivan in 1967, 9 years after it’s original release.

Beautiful production, I love that echoey intro. And that basically perfect voice.

I can never think of this song without thinking of the incestuously-spawned caveman brothers from that episode of "The X-Files" beating to death that sheriff and his wife in their bedroom as that song plays.

Ah such gorgeous songs! Such memories. I can smell the aroma of Old Spice right now.

I can never think of "Misty" without thinking of the SCTV commercial for "Wake Up and Love Me: Ethel Merman Sings the World's Great Love Songs" with Andrea Martin as Ethel.

Wonderful Wonderful was also used in the finale of Desperate Housewives. It plays as we see what all the women are doing as Karen is dying.

Performing the song about 40 years ago in Italy

Does anyone else hear a faintly East Asian element in the orchestration of Wonderful, Wonderful?

Fag.