This article is about the Johnny Mathis album. For the title track's original use, see The Great Race.
1965 studio album by Johnny Mathis
The Sweetheart Tree
Studio album by
Johnny Mathis
Released
September 30, 1965[1]
Recorded
May 6–8, 1965 June 15, 1965[2]
Genre
Vocal
pop/rock[3]
Length
40:58 (US Version) 50:36 (UK Version)
Label
Mercury
Producer
Norman Newell[1]
Johnny Mathis chronology
Love Is Everything (1965)
The Sweetheart Tree (1965)
The Shadow of Your Smile (1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Billboard
positive[4]
The Sweetheart Tree is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on September 30, 1965,[1] and included songs associated with Italy ("Arrivederci Roma"), France ("Clopin Clopant"), Ireland ("Danny Boy"), and Scotland ("The Skye Boat Song") as well as several selections, such as "I'll Close My Eyes" and "The Very Thought of You", from English composers.
The title song from the album had its first chart appearance on Billboard magazine's list of the 40 most popular Easy Listening songs in the US in the issue dated July 24 of that year and got as high as number 21 over the course of 10 weeks.[5] It also bubbled under Billboard's Hot 100 for six weeks beginning in the August 7 issue, during which time it peaked at number 108.[6] The album debuted on the magazine's Top LP's chart shortly after its release, in the issue dated October 16, 1965, and reached number 71 during its 26 weeks there.[7]
The album The Sweetheart Tree was released for the first time on compact disc on November 6, 2012, as one of two albums on one CD, the second of the two being his 1966 follow-up, The Shadow of Your Smile.[8] Both were also included in Sony's Mathis box set The Complete Global Albums Collection, which was released on November 17, 2014.[9]
^ abc(2014) The Complete Global Albums Collection by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music Entertainment 88843091432.
^(2012) The Sweetheart Tree/The Shadow of Your Smile by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Sony Music Entertainment RGM-0096.
^"The Sweetheart Tree - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
^"Album Reviews". Billboard. 1965-09-25. p. 76.
^Whitburn 2007, p. 178.
^Whitburn 2009, p. 628.
^Whitburn 2010, p. 503.
^"The Sweetheart Tree/The Shadow of Your Smile - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
^"The Complete Global Albums Collection - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
and 21 Related for: The Sweetheart Tree information
TheSweetheartTree is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on September 30, 1965, and included songs associated...
the chorus girls in Boracho saloon, with different lyrics and a middle section, for a 1900s atmosphere "TheSweetheartTree" (chorus) – Mancini "The Royal...
set as the one taking on those duties for TheSweetheartTree, and for The Shadow of Your Smile the credit goes to Don Rieber. Mathis produced the two final...
Fringe on Top Swanee River Sway Swedish Pastry Sweet and Lovely TheSweetheartTreeThe Sweetest Sounds (Richard Rodgers, 1962) Sweet Dulcinea Brown (Kenny...
The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California...
Music. 2004: On April 13, the United States Postal Service honored Mancini with a thirty-seven cent commemorative stamp. The stamp was painted by artist...
"Dear Heart" at the 1965 Academy Awards and "TheSweetheartTree" (also written with Mercer) at the 1966 Awards. On August 5, 1966, the 14-story, 700-room...
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion...
1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The award is presented to the songwriters of a song written specifically for a motion picture. The performers...
works include the theme and soundtrack for the Peter Gunn television series as well as the music for The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme")...
with red flesh, and dark bright red skin. WSU Tree Fruit: Sweetheart Washington State University The ASHS Outstanding Fruit Cultivar Award: A 25-year...
[according to whom?] A major staple to the department is the famous Sweethearttree that has stood outside the Chemistry Building since it was built in...
songs" and ragtime. The family's summer home, "Vernon View", was on the tidal waters and Mercer's long summers there among mossy trees, saltwater marshes...
several species, such as the sweet Prunus avium and the sour Prunus cerasus. The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree and its wood, and is sometimes...
The Miss North Dakota competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss America pageant. The first...
January 21 The Animals' show at New York's Apollo Theater is canceled after the U.S. Immigration Department forces the group to leave the theater. The Rolling...
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" is a song recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn. It was written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and produced...
Miss America 1994, the 67th Miss America pageant, was held on Saturday, September 18, 1993. Dick Cavett Suzanne de Passe Pierre Cossette Phyllis George...
album TheSweetheartTree (1965)[citation needed] Julie Andrews - for the album Broadway's Fair Julie (1961). Joyce Grenfell - included in the album The Words...