Love Theme from "Romeo And Juliet" (A Time for Us)

Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (A Time for Us)
Studio album by Johnny Mathis
Released July 30, 1969[1]
Genre Vocal
Pop/Rock[2]
Length 33:40
Label Columbia
Producer Jack Gold
Robert Mersey[3]
Johnny Mathis chronology
The Impossible Dream
(1969)
Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (A Time for Us)
(1969)
Give Me Your Love for Christmas
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboardpositive[4]

Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (A Time for Us) is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on July 30, 1969, by Columbia Records.[1] Of its 11 tracks, eight had been hits for other performers earlier that year, and one of the remaining three, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", would become a huge success for Dionne Warwick several months later.

The Mathis recording of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's list of the 40 most popular Easy Listening songs in the US in the issue dated May 17, 1969, and peaked at number 35 during its three weeks there.[5] The title track from the album debuted on that same chart two months later, in the July 5 issue, and got as high as number eight over the course of 13 weeks.[5] It also had a three week run on the Billboard Hot 100 that began in the July 26 issue and took it to number 96.[6] The first of the album's 24 consecutive weekly appearances on the magazine's Top LP's chart came two months later, in the September 20 issue, and led to a number 52 showing.[7]

Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (A Time for Us) was released for the first time on compact disc on June 9, 2009, as one of two albums on one CD, the other LP being the previous studio effort by Mathis, Those Were the Days.[8]

Reception

Billboard wrote, "Mathis is in top form in this latest LP outing as he offers his own special interpretations of some of today's biggest hits."[4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (A Time for Us)" from Romeo and Juliet (Larry Kusik, Nino Rota, Eddie Snyder) – 2:58
  2. "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from Hair (Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni) – 3:04
  3. "Without Her" (Harry Nilsson) – 3:01
  4. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" from Promises, Promises (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:02
  5. "Live for Life" from Live for Life (Norman Gimbel, Francis Lai) – 2:59
  6. "We" from Me, Natalie (Henry Mancini, Rod McKuen) – 3:03

Side two

  1. "Didn't We" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:49
  2. "Love Me Tonight" (Barry Manson, Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Lorenzo Pilat) – 2:58
  3. "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:33
  4. "The World I Threw Away" (Harry Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) – 3:18
  5. "Yesterday When I Was Young" (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) – 2:55

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 (1993) The Music of Johnny Mathis: A Personal Collection by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Columbia Records C4K-48932.
  2. "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 (1969) Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (A Time for Us) by Johnny Mathis [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9909.
  4. 1 2 "Album Reviews". Billboard. 1969-09-06. p. 20.
  5. 1 2 Whitburn 2007, p. 178.
  6. Whitburn 2009, p. 628.
  7. Whitburn 2010, p. 503.
  8. "Those Were the Days/Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Johnny Mathis". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 15 August 2016.

Bibliography

  • Whitburn, Joel (2007), Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0898201691 
  • Whitburn, Joel (2009), Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 1955-2008, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0898201802 
  • Whitburn, Joel (2010), Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-183-7 
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