Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert (Expanded Edition)
In a career spanning over 60 years, Johnny Mathis has always had an unerring ear for a song...witness his new, 2017 album featuring his recordings of future standards by Adele, Bruno Mars, and Pharrell Williams. At the dawn of the 1970s, Mathis was celebrating the great songwriters of that day, too, with a double album entitled Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach and Kaempfert. Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to inaugurate a series of Johnny's greatest albums of the 1970s and beyond on CD with the first-ever expanded reissue of The Music of Bacharach and Kaempfert. Bert Kaempfert may not have achieved the same name recognition in the U.S. as Burt Bacharach, but Kaempfert's contributions to the standards songbook are indelible, thanks to such songs as "Danke Schoen," "Spanish Eyes," "Strangers in the Night," and "L-O-V-E," all of which are sung in Johnny's inimitably intimate style on this collection. Johnny was joined by German arranger-conductor Herbert Rehbein, a close collaborator of Kaempfert's, for these very special sessions. Johnny's relationship with Burt Bacharach dated to the late 1950s with classics including "Heavenly" and "Faithfully." Soon, Bacharach's style would define the sound of the 1960s, and Johnny was bringing his individual stamp to "This Guy's in Love with You," "I Say a Little Prayer," and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." All of these songs and more are featured on Mathis' Bacharach salute. In true Real Gone/ Second Disc style, though, that's not all! We've added ve rare bonus tracks to this already jam-packed double album: Bert Kaempfert's "It Makes No Difference," originally issued only in the U.K., and four hits by Burt Bacharach and Hal David including their very fi+O234:O237rst song with Johnny, "Warm and Tender," and three more favorites from Johnny's Global Records period! Mathis + 1 Burt + 1 Bert = Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach and Kaempfert, or 26 tracks of musical bliss!
Johnny Mathis   Format: Audio CD
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