This Is Love (Johnny Mathis album)


This Is Love is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on September 18, 1964, and included three covers of Nat King Cole recordings as well as two more songs from "Fly Me to the Moon" composer Bart Howard.
This Is Love had its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated October 17, 1964, and reached number 40 over the course of 20 weeks.
In 1974, eight songs from this album were reissued on Mathis's Columbia Records release What'll I Do, which coincided with the inclusion of the title song by Irving Berlin that year in the film The Great Gatsby. The Mathis recording of "What'll I Do" originally appeared on 1957's Warm and was the only track on the 1974 release that was not from this Mathis LP.
This Is Love was reissued for the first time on compact disc on November 16, 2012, as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being the autumn of 1964 follow-up Olé. Both LPs were also included in Sony's Mathis box set The Complete Global Albums Collection, which was released on November 17, 2014.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Put On a Happy Face" from Bye Bye Birdie – 3:15
  2. "Poinciana " – 4:07
  3. "The Touch of Your Lips" – 3:28
  4. "Just Move Along, Meadow Lark" – 2:43
  5. "Under a Blanket of Blue" – 3:45
  6. "Over the Weekend" – 3:52

    Side two

  7. "More" from Mondo Cane – 2:56
  8. "You Love Me" from Tovarich – 3:47
  9. "Limehouse Blues" – 4:23
  10. "What Do You Feel in Your Heart" – 3:12
  11. "The End of a Love Affair" – 3:32
  12. "Fantastic" – 3:57

    Recording dates

From the liner notes of the 2012 CD release: