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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the country music singer, see "Country" Johnny Mathis. For the New York-based
singer, see Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon.
Johnny Mathis
Mathis in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, in 2006
Mathis in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, in 2006
Background information
Birth name John Royce Mathis
Born September 30, 1935 (age 87)
Gilmer, Texas, U.S.
Origin San Francisco, California, U.S
Genres
Popjazz[1]
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 1956–present
Labels
ColumbiaFontanaMercury
Website www.johnnymathis.com
John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.
Starting his career with singles of standard music, Mathis became highly popular as
an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status
and 73 making the Billboard charts. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three
recordings.
Mathis is the third best-selling artist of the 20th century, selling 360 million
records worldwide.[2][3] Although frequently described as a romantic singer, his
discography includes traditional pop, Latin American, soul, rhythm and blues, show
tunes, Tin Pan Alley, soft rock, blues, country music, and even a few disco songs
for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of
Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, he cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing
Crosby among his musical influences.[4]
Early life and education
Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935,[5] the fourth of seven
children of Clem Mathis and Mildred Boyd, both domestic cooks.[6][7] Mathis is
African-American[8] and has stated that he has Native American ancestry on his
mother's side.[9] The family moved to San Francisco when Mathis was five years old,
[10] settling on 32nd Avenue in the Richmond District, where Mathis would grow up.
Mathis' father had worked in vaudeville as a singer and pianist, and upon realizing
his son's talent, bought an old upright piano for $25 (US$416 in 2022 dollars[11])
and encouraged his music. Mathis began learning songs and routines from his father;
his parents also ran his fan club. Mathis' first song was "My Blue Heaven".[12] He
started singing and dancing for visitors at home, at school, and at church
functions.[13]
When Mathis was 13, voice teacher Connie Cox accepted him as her student in
exchange for work around her house.[14] Mathis studied with Cox for six years,
learning vocal scales and exercises, voice production, classical and operatic
singing. The first band Mathis sang with was formed by his high school friend Merl
Saunders. Mathis eulogized Saunders at his funeral in 2008, thanking him for giving
Mathis his first chance as a singer.
Mathis was a star athlete at George Washington High School in San Francisco. He was
a high jumper and hurdler, and he also played on the basketball team. In 1954,
Mathis enrolled at San Francisco State College on an athletic scholarship,
competing in both basketball and track and intending to become a physical education
teacher.[14][15] While there, he set a high-jump record of 1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in).
This is still one of the college's top jump heights and was only 7 cm (3 in) short
of the 1952 Olympic record of 2.04 m (6 ft 8+1⁄2 in). Mathis and future NBA star
Bill Russell were featured in a 1954 sports section article of the San Francisco
Chronicle demonstrating their high-jumping skills (Russell was #1 and Mathis was #2
in the city of San Francisco at that time).[citation needed]
Career
Early years
While singing at a Sunday afternoon jam session with a friend's jazz sextet at the
Black Hawk Club in San Francisco, Mathis attracted the attention of the club's co-
founder, Helen Noga. She became his music manager and found Mathis a job singing
weekends at Ann Dee's 440 Club. In September 1955, she learned that George Avakian,
head of Popular Music A&R at Columbia Records, was on vacation near San Francisco.
After repeated calls, Noga finally persuaded Avakian to come hear Mathis at the 440
Club. After hearing Mathis sing, Avakian sent his record company a telegram
stating: "Have found phenomenal 19-year-old boy who could go all the way. Send
blank contracts."[13]
At San Francisco State, Mathis had become noteworthy as a high jumper, and in 1956,
he was asked to try out for the U.S. Olympic Team that would travel to Melbourne
that November.[5] On his father's advice, Mathis opted to embark on a professional
singing career.
Mathis' first record album, Johnny Mathis: A New Sound In Popular Song, was a slow-
selling jazz album, but Mathis stayed in New York City to sing in nightclubs. His
second album was produced by Columbia Records vice-president and record producer
Mitch Miller, who helped to define the Mathis sound. Miller preferred that Mathis
sing soft, romantic ballads, pairing him with conductor and music arranger Ray
Conniff, and later, Ray Ellis, Glenn Osser, and Robert Mersey. In late 1956, Mathis
recorded two of his most popular songs: "Wonderful! Wonderful!" and "It's Not for
Me to Say".[4] Also that year, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed him up to sing the latter
song in the movie Lizzie (1957).
Showbiz millionaire
Mathis' appearance on the popular TV program The Ed Sullivan Show in June 1957
helped increase his popularity. Later that year, Mathis released "Chances Are",
which became his second single to sell one million copies.[16] In November 1957,
Mathis released "Wild Is the Wind", which featured in the film of the same name and
was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He performed the song
at the ceremony in March 1958.
Mathis in 1960
The week before his appearance at the Academy Awards, Johnny's Greatest Hits was
released. The album spent an unprecedented 490 consecutive weeks (nearly nine-and-
a-half years) on the Billboard top 200 album charts,[17] including three weeks at
number one. It held the record for the most weeks on the top Billboard 200 albums
in the US for 15 years, until Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (March 1973)
reached 491 weeks in October 1983.[18]
Later in 1958, Mathis made his second film appearance for 20th Century Fox, singing
the song "A Certain Smile" in the film of that title. The song was also nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. By the end of the year, he was set to
earn $1 million a year.[16] Critics called him "the velvet voice".[12] In 1962,
Ebony magazine listed Mathis as one of 30-35 millionaires on their list of
"America's 100 Richest Negroes".[19][20] Mathis had two of his biggest hits in 1962
and 1963, with "Gina" (number 6) and "What Will Mary Say" (number 9).
Split from Noga
In October 1964, Mathis sued Noga to void their management arrangement, which Noga
fought with a counterclaim in December 1964. After splitting from Noga, Mathis
established Jon Mat Records, incorporated in California on May 11, 1967, to produce
his recordings, and Rojon Productions, incorporated in California on September 30,
1964, to handle all of his concert, theater, showroom, and television appearances,
and all promotional and charitable activities. (Previously, he founded Global
Records to produce his Mercury albums.) His new manager and business partner was
Ray Haughn, who, until his death in September 1984, helped guide Mathis' career.
Popularity plateau
While Mathis continued to make music, the ascent of the Beatles and early 1970s
album rock kept his adult contemporary recordings out of the pop singles charts,
until he experienced a career renaissance in the late 1970s. Mathis had the 1976
Christmas number one single in the UK with the song "When a Child Is Born" and
later, in 1978, recorded "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" with singer Deniece
Williams. The lyrics and music were arranged by Nat Kipner and John McIntyre
Vallins. Released as a single in 1978, it reached number one on the U.S. Billboard
Hot 100 pop chart, number nine on the Canadian Singles Chart and number three on
the UK Singles Chart. It also topped the US R&B and adult contemporary charts. "Too
Much, Too Little, Too Late" was certified gold and silver in the US and in the UK
by the RIAA and the British Phonographic Industry, respectively. It was his first
number one hit since his 1957 chart-topper "Chances Are".
The duo released a follow-up duet, their version of "You're All I Need to Get By",
peaking at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1983, they were credited with
performing "Without Us", the theme song for the American television sitcom Family
Ties, from its second season onwards. The success of the duets with Williams
prompted Mathis to record duets with a variety of partners, including Dionne
Warwick, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, Jane Olivor, Stephanie Lawrence, and Nana
Mouskouri. A compilation album, also called Too Much, Too Little, Too Late,
released by Sony Music in 1995, featured the title track among other songs by
Mathis and Williams.
Recent years
During 1980–81, Mathis recorded an album with Chic's Bernard Edwards and Nile
Rodgers, I Love My Lady, which remained unreleased in its entirety until its 2017
appearance in the 68-disc collection The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original
Album Collection. Three tracks had appeared on a Chic box set in 2010 and a fourth,
the title track, on Mathis' Ultimate Collection in 2011 and the Chic Organization's
Up All Night in 2013.
Mathis returned to the British Top 30 album chart in 2007 with the Sony BMG release
The Very Best of Johnny Mathis; in 2008 with the CD "A Night to Remember"; and
again in 2011 with "The Ultimate Collection"[21]
Mathis continues to perform live, but from 2000 forward, he limited his concert
performances to about 50 to 60 per year. Mathis is one of the last pop singers who
travel with his own full orchestra (as opposed to a band).
On January 14, 2016, Mathis performed to a sold-out audience in The Villages as
part of his "60th Anniversary Concert Tour."[22]
Career achievements
Mathis, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Billy Joel, and Bruce
Springsteen carry the distinction of having the longest tenure of any recording
artists on the Columbia label. With the exception of a four-year break to record
for Mercury Records in the mid-1960s, Mathis has been with Columbia Records
throughout his career, from 1956 to 1963 and from 1968 to the present. (Dylan spent
a couple of years at Asylum Records then re-signed with Columbia; Bennett recorded
for Verve and his own Improv label from 1972 to 1986 when he returned to Columbia;
Joel has been with the label since his 1973 album "Piano Man;" Streisand and
Springsteen have never left.)
Mathis has had five of his albums on the Billboard charts simultaneously, an
achievement equaled by only three other singers: Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, and
(posthumously) Prince. Mathis has released 200 singles and had 71 songs charted
around the world.
Other appearances
Mathis has taped 12 of his own television specials and made over 300 television
guest appearances, with 54 (Rojon Productions Archives) of them being on The
Tonight Show. Longtime Tonight Show host Johnny Carson said, "Johnny Mathis is the
best ballad singer in the world." Mathis has appeared on the show with Carson's
successor, Jay Leno,[23] on March 29, 2007, to sing "The Shadow of Your Smile" with
the saxophonist Dave Koz. Through the years, Mathis' songs (or parts of them) have
been heard in more than 100 television shows and films around the globe. His
appearance on the Live by Request broadcast in May 1998 on the A&E Network had the
largest television viewing audience of the series. In 1989, Mathis sang the theme
for the ABC daytime soap opera Loving.
Mathis served as narrator for '51 Dons, a 2014 documentary film about the
integrated and undefeated 1951 San Francisco Dons football team.[24] The team was
denied a chance to play in a bowl game because it refused to agree to not play its
two African-American players, Ollie Matson and Burl Toler, who were childhood
friends of Mathis.[25]
Mathis appeared in the Season 14 finale of Criminal Minds, "Truth or Dare", in
which he played himself as an old friend of David Rossi and served as best man at
Rossi's wedding.
Personal life
Despite missing the Olympic high-jump trials, Mathis retains enthusiasm for sports.
He is an avid golfer, with nine holes in one to his credit. Mathis has hosted
several Johnny Mathis Golf Tournaments in the United Kingdom and the US. Since
1985, he has been hosting a charity golf tournament in Belfast sponsored by Shell
corporation,[26] and the annual Johnny Mathis Invitational Track & Field Meet has
continued at San Francisco State University since it started in 1982. Mathis also
enjoys cooking, and published a cookbook called Cooking for You Alone in 1982.[27]
Mathis has undergone rehabilitation for both alcohol and prescription drug
addictions[14] and he has supported many organizations through the years, including
the American Cancer Society, the March of Dimes, the YWCA and YMCA, the Muscular
Dystrophy Association and the NAACP.
Mathis is a convert to Catholicism.[28][29]
Mathis was quoted[30] in a 1982 Us magazine article, stating: "Homosexuality is a
way of life that I've grown accustomed to."[31] Mathis later said that that comment
was supposed to have been off the record[32] and did not publicly discuss his
sexual orientation for many years after that. In 2006, Mathis said that his silence
had been because of death threats he received as a result of that 1982 article.[33]
[34] On April 13, 2006, Mathis granted a podcast interview with The Strip in which
he talked about the subject once again, and how some of his reluctance to speak on
the subject was partially generational.[35] During an interview with CBS News
Sunday Morning on May 14, 2017, Mathis discussed the Us magazine article and
confirmed that he is gay by saying, "I come from San Francisco. It's not unusual to
be gay in San Francisco. I've had some girlfriends, some boyfriends, just like most
[sic] people. But I never got married, for instance. I knew that I was gay." Mathis
spoke to many news sources, including CBS, about his sexuality and his story about
coming out.[36][32]
In November 2015, Mathis returned home from a concert in Ohio to find his Hollywood
house destroyed by a fire. He had owned it for 56 years.[37] On January 17, 2023, a
series of powerful storms drenched the hillside in front of the rebuilt Mathis home
in Hollywood Hills, resulting in the collapse of the hillside, crushing a silver
Jaguar with debris and mud. The hillside landslide cut off utilities to Mathis'
hillside mansion, exposing water pipes and other infrastructure to the elements.
The ground had given way in the 1400 block of Sunset Plaza during the storm, taking
out landscaping and terrain next to the home. It remained unclear at the time of
news reports exactly when Mathis, aged 87 and still performing concerts, would be
able to return and reoccupy his home, as the stability or instability of the home
was not known in light of the surrounding terrain damage.[38]
While the character Shy Baldwin from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a composite
character based on several different singers, Rachel Brosnahan said that she most
strongly associated Mathis with the character.[39]
Honors and awards
Grammys
In 2003, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded Mathis the Lifetime
Achievement Award. This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the Recording
Academy's National Trustees to performers who, during their lifetimes, have made
creative contributions of outstanding artist significance to the field of
recording.[40]
Grammy Hall of Fame
Mathis has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings
— in 1998 for "Chances Are", in 2002 for "Misty", and in 2008 for "It's Not for Me
to Say".[41][42]
Grammy Hall of Fame Awards
Year Recorded Title Genre Label Year Inducted
1957 "It's Not for Me to Say" Traditional Pop (Single) Columbia 2008
1959 "Misty" Traditional Pop (Single) Columbia 2002
1957 "Chances Are" Traditional Pop (Single) Columbia 1998
Great American Songbook Hall of Fame
On June 21, 2014, Mathis was inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame
along with Linda Ronstadt, Shirley Jones, and Nat King Cole (whose daughter Natalie
Cole accepted the award on his behalf). The awards were presented by the Center for
the Performing Arts artistic director Michael Feinstein. Defined on their website,
"Conceived as an enduring testament to the Great American Songbook, the Hall of
Fame honors performers and composers responsible for creating America's
soundtrack."[43]
Other
On June 1, 1972, Mathis was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his
contributions to music. Six years later, Mathis' hit duet "The Last Time I Felt
Like This" from the film Same Time, Next Year was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Original Song. Mathis and Jane Olivor sang the song at the Academy Awards
ceremony, in his second performance at the Oscars. Mathis' first occurred 20 years
earlier in 1958, when he sang "Wild Is the Wind" by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned
Washington from the movie of the same name. Mathis was also awarded the Society of
Singers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.[44] In 2007, he was inducted into the
Hit Parade Hall of Fame. In 1988, Mathis appeared as a guest vocalist, accompanied
by Henry Mancini, on Late Night with David Letterman to sing Henry's theme to the
"Viewer Mail" segment. In 2011, Mathis received the Golden Plate Award of the
American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member General Colin
Powell.[45][46]
In 2017, San Francisco State University awarded Mathis an honorary Doctor of Fine
Arts degree. He had attended San Francisco State for three semesters before
withdrawing in 1956 to pursue his music career.[47]
Discography
Main article: Johnny Mathis discography
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