JOHNNY MATHIS interview

Oh, I don't really...

I never think about the sales.

I guess the corporation does, but I just like to have a record out so that the people who... who supported me over there can hear my voice once in a while.

That's about the only thing that I'm thinking about.

Of all the hits you've had over here, the two biggest ones are When a Child is Born and Too Much Too Little.

But which do you think are the best of your hits?

Well, it's all subjective, isn't it? I thought when I left America for Great Britain for the first time, I guess I was about 20 years old, And I had had a couple of hits over here, and I went over there and sang them.

I think it was wonderful, wonderful, and chances are...

And they hadn't heard them.

So it's...

I don't know.

Whatever they like.

Sometimes the songs that they choose to release in Great Britain are ones that they've never released over here or... or that they don't intend to release over here.

So it's kind of a nice change for me to be able to sing certain songs here and then go over there and find that they want to hear a different song.

Which ones do you enjoy singing the most?

I think I'm very proud of my association with the song Misty, which is a pretty song written.

I think I was mostly impressed by the fact that it was written one of the written by one of the great jazz pianists of all time, Earl Garner.

I like to sing that one.

There are others that I enjoy singing, like Chances Are.

It's not for me to say Wonderful, Wonderful.

But I enjoy the duets that I did.

I particularly enjoyed the one with Denise Williams, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late.

And on stage, as a matter of fact, I used to do it.

I used to put a flower in the microphone stand, and I'd sing with my microphone.

Then when her voice would come in, we'd put the spotlight on the flower in the microphone.

Oh, I don't really...

I never think about the sales.

I guess the corporation does, but I just like to have a record out so that the people who... who supported me over there can hear my voice once in a while.

That's about the only thing that I'm thinking about.

Of all the hits you've had over here, the two biggest ones are When a Child is Born and Too Much Too Little.

But which do you think are the best of your hits?

Well, it's all subjective, isn't it? I thought when I left America for Great Britain for the first time, I guess I was about 20 years old, And I had had a couple of hits over here, and I went over there and sang them.

I think it was wonderful, wonderful, and chances are...

And they hadn't heard them.

So it's...

I don't know.

Whatever they like.

Sometimes the songs that they choose to release in Great Britain are ones that they've never released over here or... or that they don't intend to release over here.

So it's kind of a nice change for me to be able to sing certain songs here and then go over there and find that they want to hear a different song.

Which ones do you enjoy singing the most?

I think I'm very proud of my association with the song Misty, which is a pretty song written.

I think I was mostly impressed by the fact that it was written one of the written by one of the great jazz pianists of all time, Earl Garner.

I like to sing that one.

There are others that I enjoy singing, like Chances Are.

It's not for me to say Wonderful, Wonderful.

But I enjoy the duets that I did.

I particularly enjoyed the one with Denise Williams, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late.

And on stage, as a matter of fact, I used to do it.

I used to put a flower in the microphone stand, and I'd sing with my microphone.

Then when her voice would come in, we'd put the spotlight on the flower in the microphone.