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Gene Autry - 100% match to Johnny Mathis

Orvin Gene Autry, 29 September 1907, near Tioga, Texas, USA, d. 2 October 1998, Studio City, California, USA. The eldest of four children of Delbert Autry, a poor tenant farmer, who moved his family many times over the years, before eventually arriving at Ravia, Oklahoma. His grandfather, a Baptist minister, taught him to sing when he was a child so that he could perform in Read more

Perry Como - 86% match to Johnny Mathis

Pierino Como, 18 May 1912, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 12 May 2001, Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony, Florida, USA. Como was an accomplished popular singer with a warm baritone voice, whose repertoire included ballads, novelty numbers and singalongs. Born into a large Italian-American family in Canonsburg, he left his home town barber shop in 1933 and toured with the local b Read more

Burl Ives - 82% match to Johnny Mathis

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 14 June 1909, Hunt Township, Jasper County, Illinois, USA, d. 14 April 1995, Anacortes, Washington, USA. One of the world’s most celebrated singers of folk ballads, with a gentle, intimate style, Ives was also an actor on the stage and screen, and an anthologist and editor of folk music. The son of tenant farmers in the ‘Bible Belt’ of Read more

Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - 73% match to Johnny Mathis

Percy Faith - 56% match to Johnny Mathis

7 April 1908, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, d. 9 February 1976, Ericino, California, USA. During the 30s Faith worked extensively on radio in Canada, and moved to the USA in 1940 to take up a post with NBC. During the 50s he was musical director for Columbia Records, for whom he made a number of popular albums, mostly of mood music. He worked with Tony Bennett, with whom he had Read more

Bing Crosby - 50% match to Johnny Mathis

Harry Lillis Crosby, 3 May 1903, Tacoma, Washington, USA, d. 14 October 1977, La Moraleja, Madrid, Spain. One of the most popular vocalists of all time, Crosby picked up his nickname through a childhood love of a strip-cartoon character in a local newspaper. After first singing with a jazz band at high school, he sang at university with a friend, Al Rinker. The duo decided t Read more

Ray Conniff - 46% match to Johnny Mathis

6 November 1916, Attelboro, Massachusetts, USA, d. 12 October 2002, Escondido, California, USA. Taught to play the trombone by his father, Conniff studied arranging with the aid of a mail-order course while still at college. In 1934, after graduation, he worked with small bands in Boston before joining Bunny Berigan as trombonist/arranger in 1937. After a spell with Bob Cros Read more

Vaughn Monroe - 44% match to Johnny Mathis

7 October 1911, Akron, Ohio, USA, d. 21 May 1973, Stuart, Florida, USA. Monroe was a Wisconsin State Trumpet Champion in 1926 with an ambition to become an opera singer. This eventually led him to join Austin Wylie And His Golden Pheasant Orchestra and Larry Funk And His Band Of A Thousand Melodies. He studied voice at the New England Conservatory Of Music, and in 1939 sang Read more

Andy Williams - 33% match to Johnny Mathis

Howard Andrew Williams, 3 December 1928, Wall Lake, Iowa, USA. Williams began his singing career in the local church choir with his three brothers. The quartet became popular on their own radio shows from Cincinnati, Des Moines and Chicago. They backed Bing Crosby on his Oscar-winning ‘Swinging On A Star’, from the 1944 movie Going My Way, and in the same year appe Read more

Canadian Brass - 33% match to Johnny Mathis

Percy Faith & His Orchestra - 25% match to Johnny Mathis

Dick Haymes - 22% match to Johnny Mathis

Richard Benjamin Haymes, 13 September 1916, Buenos Aires, Argentina, d. 28 March 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA. One of the outstanding ballad singers to emerge from the swing era of the late 30s/early 40s, with a deep, warm baritone voice and a straightforward style similar to Bob Manning, another singer who was popular in the 50s. Son of a Scottish father, and an Irish Read more

Eddie Higgins Trio - 22% match to Johnny Mathis

Edward Haydn Higgins, 21 February 1932, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. After studying privately, with his mother, and at university, Higgins played piano in Chicago nightspots. Sometimes he led his own trio but he also played with a wide range of artists including Georg Brunis, Al Grey, Coleman Hawkins, Freddie Hubbard and Ira Sullivan. Higgins held a residency at Chicago
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Amy Grant - 21% match to Johnny Mathis

25 November 1960, Augusta, Georgia, USA. A huge influence on the development of modern gospel music, Grant’s perennially youthful but always convincing vocal has imbued her many recordings with a purity of spirit and performance that can be awe-inspiring. Songs such as ‘Angels’, ‘Raining On The Inside’ and ‘Find A Way’, scattered through a Read more

Robert Goulet - 21% match to Johnny Mathis

26 November 1933, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, d. 30 October 2007, Los Angeles, California, USA. Born to Canadian parents, actor and singer, Goulet made his first professional appearance in 1951 with the Edmonton Summer Pops. He also played in Thunder Rock and Visit To A Small Planet. After appearing in Canadian productions of South Pacific, Finian’s Rainbow, and Gent Read more