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: ...

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 ...

During an interview, The Monkees‘ Micky Dolenz said he drew influence from Johnny Mathis’ “Misty.” He said the song changed his life and inspired his work. Listeners in the United States and the ...

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.