Johnny's Newest Hits is the eighteenth album released by 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 fourth compilation of hit singles released by the singer.

Track listing

1. "What Will My Mary Say"
2. "Gina"
3. "Unaccustomed as I Am"
4. "Sweet Thursday"
5. "There You Are"
6. "Wasn't the Summer Short?"
7. "That's the Way It Is"
8. "Marianna"
9. "I Love Her That's Why"
10. "I'll Never Be Lonely Again"
11. "One Look"
12. "Quiet Girl"

Billboard Album Chart

As with his three previous singles compilations, this album was a success for Mathis, peaking at #6 on the Billboard album chart in its original release, his seventeenth consecutive album to chart.

Hit singles

The album features 5 charting singles. They are:

Song title	Billboard peak position
Wasn't The Summer Short	89
Sweet Thursday	99
Marianna	86
Gina	6
What Will My Mary Say	9

Highlights

Unlike his previous hits collections, there are no Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 or movie songs on this collection. It does include a song arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...

, "Wasn't The Summer Short." Also included are Mathis' last two substantial hit singles 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 "Gina" and "What Will My Mary Say." Along with "Marianna" they are examples of songs featuring woman's names, a type of song that Mathis frequently recorded. Later on Mathis would record songs such as "Arianne" and "Evie" in the 1970s.

External links

• [ All Music Review]