Rudy Vallee was the first artist to make the charts in Billboard magazine with ' As Time Goes By' when he took the song to number 15 in 1931, but after the song was featured in the film Casablanca his recording was reissued and spent four weeks at number one in 1943. Septem– 'Begin the Beguine', 'Gone, Gone, Gone', 'The Last Time I Felt Like This'.Septem– 'The Bottom Line', 'There You Are', 'We're in Love'.Septem– 'As Time Goes By', 'Would You Like to Spend the Night with Me'.Aug– 'How Can I Make It on My Own', 'I Never Said I Love You'.This album's CD release as part of the 2017 box set The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection also included 'I Never Said I Love You'.įrom the liner notes for The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection: 'I Never Said I Love You' ( Hal David, Archie Jordan) – 3:38.' Begin the Beguine' (Instrumental) (Porter) – 3:56.' Begin the Beguine' (Disco Mix) (Porter) – 8:28.' Begin the Beguine' (Single Mix) (Porter) – 3:56.Russell Brown, Lisa Hayward) – 6:30įunkytowngrooves CD bonus tracks įrom the liner notes for the 2014 CD release: 'Gone, Gone, Gone' (Special Disco Version) ( L.' Begin the Beguine' (Special Disco Version) ( Cole Porter) – 8:28.'How Can I Make It on My Own' (Terry Bradford, Nat Kipner) – 4:00Ī separate 12-inch single that featured extended dance mixes of two songs from the album was also released in 1979.' Begin the Beguine' ( Cole Porter) – 4:16.'The Last Time I Felt Like This' performed with Jane Olivor ( Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch) – 2:57.'The Bottom Line' ( Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter) – 3:56.'The Best Days of My Life' (Cheryl Christiansen, Arnold Goland, Jack Gold) – 3:30.

' As Time Goes By' ( Herman Hupfeld) – 4:35.'Would You Like to Spend the Night with Me' ( L.The reviewer also references characters in the 1942 film Casablanca in praising the Mathis rendition of ' As Time Goes By': 'If Sam had sung it so well, Bogey would actually have uttered that famous nonline, 'Play it again.'' Track listing Side one People magazine said in its review that 'Mathis here returns to the venue that best suits his soft and breathy style' (meaning ballads). The album was first released on compact disc in 1989, and on January 27, 2015, Funkytowngrooves released an expanded edition of the album on compact disc that included five bonus tracks, two of which were disco mixes that came out in 1979 on a separate 12-inch single. The only song from the album to reach the UK singles chart was 'Gone, Gone, Gone', which made its debut there the following month, on August 11, and reached number 15 during a 10-week run. Īnother track from the album, ' Begin the Beguine', entered that same chart five months later, in the July 21 issue, and got as high as number 37 during its five weeks there. The duet entered the magazine's list of the 50 most popular Easy Listening records in the US in the issue dated February 24, 1979, and peaked at number 15 over the course of 12 weeks. The first song from the album to reach any of the charts in Billboard was a duet with Jane Olivor titled 'The Last Time I Felt Like This' that was written for the 1978 film Same Time, Next Year and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to ' Last Dance' from Thank God It's Friday.

It also made it to number 38 during a five-week run on the UK album chart. The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated February 24, 1979, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 122. He did, however, cover two standards: ' As Time Goes By' and ' Begin the Beguine', the latter of which is given a disco arrangement. The Best Days of My Life is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on January 29, 1979, by Columbia Records and scaled back considerably on his more than decade-long practice of recording recent hit songs by other artists.

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