The following is an excerpt from the chapter "Songs for the Season: The Christmas Albums" from Jakob Baekgaard's Misty: The Music of Johnny Mathis (Sonicbond Publishing, 2022). Songs for the Season: ...

Whether you’re looking for the ideal song for slow dancing with your special someone, or you want to wallow in a sad one because you’re dealing with heartbreak, there’s a Johnny Mathis track that will ...

A decade later, Mathis is releasing his seventh holiday album Christmas Time is Here, out October 13. Named after the Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson-composed song of the same name for the 1965 ...

Johnny Mathis earned the honorific "the Voice of Romance" for a reason. For more than 60 years, he’s applied his classic croon — warm, rich and velvety — to a succession of love songs and slow jams.

It’s a shame that Johnny Mathis isn’t discussed more by young gay people. Actually, by this point he’s not discussed at all anymore. He’s a relic of another time, celebrated by not even the parents of ...