I'll Search My Heart and Other Great Hits is the twenty second album released by legendary singer Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...

. It was the fifth compilation of hit singles released by the singer from his first Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 period, 1956-1963.

Track listing

1. "Starbright"
2. "Every Step Of The Way"
3. "Wherever You Are It's Spring"
4. "The Joy Of Loving You"
5. "Each Time We Kiss"
6. "A Clock Without Hands"
7. "I'll Search My Heart"
8. "Sooner Or Later"
9. "My Favourite Dream"
10. "The Best Of Everything"
11. "What To Do About Love"
12. "All the Sad Young Men"

Billboard Album Chart

This album was the twenty-first consecutive album by Mathis to chart on the Billboard album chart. In its original release it peaked at #35, a disappointing result considering that his previous four hit singles compilations for Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 had all reached the top ten on the chart.

Hit singles

The album features 5 charting singles. They are:

Song title	Billboard peak position
The Best of Everything	62
Starbright	25
Every Step Of The Way	30
Sooner Or Later	84
I'll Search My Heart	90

Highlights

Of the songs of the album, two are particularly notable. The song "All The Sad Young Men" has become a popular standard having been recorded numerous times by everyone from Anita O'Day

Anita O'Day

Anita O'Day was an American jazz singer.Born Anita Belle Colton, O'Day was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer"...

 to Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...

. Mathis sang the theme song to the 1959 film "The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything (1959 film)

The Best of Everything is a 20th Century-Fox film starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Robert Evans, and Joan Crawford...

". The film told the story of young hopefuls in the publishing world and starred Hope Lange

Hope Lange

Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American stage, film, and television actress.- Early life :Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut...

, Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd was an Irish actor, from Glengormley, Northern Ireland, who appeared in around 60 films, most notably in the role of Messala in Ben-Hur.-Biography:...

, Suzy Parker

Suzy Parker

Suzy Parker was an American model and actress active from 1947 into the early 1960s. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the 1950s when she appeared on the cover of dozens of magazines, advertisements, and in movie and television roles.She appeared in several Revlon advertisements, but...

, Diane Baker

Diane Baker

Diane Carol Baker is an American actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.-Early life:...

, Louis Jourdan and Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....

.

External links

• [ All Music Review]