NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Columbia Records has announced the upcoming release of Barbra Streisand’s The Music…The Mem’ries…the Magic! album to debut on December 8^th. Fans can pre-order the new album today HERE. On November 22, Netflix will premiere Barbra: The Music…The Mem’ries…the Magic!  The special was filmed on the last stop of the iconic superstar’s 13-city 2016 tour, showcasing a career-crowning array of legendary songs also featured on the eagerly anticipated album.

The album is available in two versions (track listings below): A single disc, 19-song album of memorable concert highlights, and a Deluxe 2 disc set featuring the entire concert performance. Streisand takes us behind-the- scenes while recording her recent #1 album: ENCORE Movie Partners Sing Broadway.  (Barbra is the only recording artist in history to achieve a # 1 Album in six consecutive decades.) The internationally renowned lineup of artists on ENCORE, released prior to the last leg of the 2016 tour includes Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Jamie Foxx, Melissa McCarthy, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and others.

The 13 city tour received rave reviews and played to record-breaking sold-out audiences. The Netflix concert TV special, Barbra: The Music…The Mem’ries…the Magic! was directed by Jim Gable and Barbra Streisand and written by Barbra with Jay Landers and Richard Jay-Alexander.  The special begins streaming on Netflix at 12:01 AM on November 22. 

Barbra Streisand has recorded 52 gold, 31 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums in her career. She is the only woman to make the All-Time Top 10 Best Selling Artists list. Streisand has had 34 albums make the Top 10 on the US charts, the only female artist to have achieved this milestone, tying her with Frank Sinatra. She is also the female artist with the most number one albums in Billboard’s history. Widely recognized as an icon in multiple entertainment fields, she has attained unprecedented achievements as a recording artist, actor, concert performer, producer, director, author and songwriter; awarded two Oscars, five Emmys, ten Golden Globes and eight Grammys plus two special Grammys, among other numerous awards, Barbra Streisand belongs to a select multi-hyphenated “EGOT” club for artists who have received the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.

TRACK LISTING
STANDARD CD PACKAGE

1. People Overture (Entrance)
2. The Way We Were
3. Everything
4. Being At War With Each Other
5. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
6. Evergreen 
7. You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
8. Being Alive
9. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
10. Pure Imagination
11. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) with Anthony Newley
12. Losing My Mind
13. Isn’t This Better
14. How Lucky Can You Get
15. Don’t Rain On My Parade
16. People
17. Climb Ev’ry Mountain with Jamie Foxx
18. Happy Days Are Here Again
19. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was

TRACK LISTING
DELUXE CD PACKAGE

DISC 1:
ACT I

1. People Overture (Entrance)
2. The Way We Were
3. Introductory Remarks 
4. Everything
5. Being At War With Each Other
6. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
7. Evergreen 
8. You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
9. Being Alive
10. Directing Movies 
11. Papa, Can You Hear Me?

DISC 2:
ACT II

1. Pure Imagination
2. Making Encore (with Seth MacFarlane, Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Jamie Foxx,    Antonio Banderas, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Wilson, Melissa McCarthy, Daisy Ridley)
3. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) with Anthony Newley
4. Losing My Mind
5. Isn’t This Better
6. How Lucky Can You Get
7. Don’t Rain On My Parade
8. People
9. Climb Ev’ry Mountain with Jamie Foxx
10. Happy Days Are Here Again
11. Jingle Bells?
12. With One More Look At You
13. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was

BONUS TRACKS

   14.   By The Way
   15.   Children Will Listen
   16.   Everything Must Change

SOURCE Columbia Records

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Columbia Records has announced the upcoming release of Barbra Streisand’s The Music…The Mem’ries…the Magic! album to debut on December 8^th. Fans can pre-order the new album today HERE. On November 22, Netflix will premiere Barbra: The Music…The Mem’ries…the Magic!  The special was filmed on the last stop of the iconic superstar’s 13-city 2016 tour, showcasing a career-crowning array of legendary songs also featured on the eagerly anticipated album.

The album is available in two versions (track listings below): A single disc, 19-song album of memorable concert highlights, and a Deluxe 2 disc set featuring the entire concert performance. Streisand takes us behind-the- scenes while recording her recent #1 album: ENCORE Movie Partners Sing Broadway.  (Barbra is the only recording artist in history to achieve a # 1 Album in six consecutive decades.) The internationally renowned lineup of artists on ENCORE, released prior to the last leg of the 2016 tour includes Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Jamie Foxx, Melissa McCarthy, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and others.

The 13 city tour received rave reviews and played to record-breaking sold-out audiences. The Netflix concert TV special, Barbra: The Music…The Mem’ries…the Magic! was directed by Jim Gable and Barbra Streisand and written by Barbra with Jay Landers and Richard Jay-Alexander.  The special begins streaming on Netflix at 12:01 AM on November 22. 

Barbra Streisand has recorded 52 gold, 31 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums in her career. She is the only woman to make the All-Time Top 10 Best Selling Artists list. Streisand has had 34 albums make the Top 10 on the US charts, the only female artist to have achieved this milestone, tying her with Frank Sinatra. She is also the female artist with the most number one albums in Billboard’s history. Widely recognized as an icon in multiple entertainment fields, she has attained unprecedented achievements as a recording artist, actor, concert performer, producer, director, author and songwriter; awarded two Oscars, five Emmys, ten Golden Globes and eight Grammys plus two special Grammys, among other numerous awards, Barbra Streisand belongs to a select multi-hyphenated “EGOT” club for artists who have received the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.

TRACK LISTING
STANDARD CD PACKAGE

1. People Overture (Entrance)
2. The Way We Were
3. Everything
4. Being At War With Each Other
5. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
6. Evergreen 
7. You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
8. Being Alive
9. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
10. Pure Imagination
11. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) with Anthony Newley
12. Losing My Mind
13. Isn’t This Better
14. How Lucky Can You Get
15. Don’t Rain On My Parade
16. People
17. Climb Ev’ry Mountain with Jamie Foxx
18. Happy Days Are Here Again
19. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was

TRACK LISTING
DELUXE CD PACKAGE

DISC 1:
ACT I

1. People Overture (Entrance)
2. The Way We Were
3. Introductory Remarks 
4. Everything
5. Being At War With Each Other
6. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
7. Evergreen 
8. You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
9. Being Alive
10. Directing Movies 
11. Papa, Can You Hear Me?

DISC 2:
ACT II

1. Pure Imagination
2. Making Encore (with Seth MacFarlane, Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Jamie Foxx,    Antonio Banderas, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Wilson, Melissa McCarthy, Daisy Ridley)
3. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) with Anthony Newley
4. Losing My Mind
5. Isn’t This Better
6. How Lucky Can You Get
7. Don’t Rain On My Parade
8. People
9. Climb Ev’ry Mountain with Jamie Foxx
10. Happy Days Are Here Again
11. Jingle Bells?
12. With One More Look At You
13. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was

BONUS TRACKS

   14.   By The Way
   15.   Children Will Listen
   16.   Everything Must Change

SOURCE Columbia Records

NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Legendary vocalist Johnny Mathis releases his new album, Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook today September 29. The album features 11 inspired Mathis interpretations of prevailing current songs that comprise the modern great American songbook, all imbued with the iconic vocalist’s indelible touch. The new album is available here: http://smarturl.it/MathisSongbook.

Produced by Grammy winning music greats Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds and Clive Davis, Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook features a matchless array of modern day ‘standards’ christened by Mathis’ intuitive delivery, (full track listing below). Among the songs included are “Hello,” originally recorded by Adele, “Happy,” originally recorded by Pharrell, the aforementioned “Hallelujah,” originally recorded by Leonard Cohen, “You Raise Me Up,” originally recorded by Josh Groban, “I Believe I Can Fly,” originally recorded by R. Kelly, “Just The Way You Are,” originally recorded by Bruno Mars, and “Run To You,” (featuring Kenny G) originally recorded by Whitney Houston.

Check out an exclusive look at the album here: http://smarturl.it/MathisEPK.

One of the seminal voices of popular music, Johnny Mathis has attained unparalleled achievement as a recording artist and live performer in an incredible career that has spanned more than six decades. Universally recognized for his inimitable artistry and signature renderings of the American song catalogue, his vast stylistic range has encompassed romantic interpretations of jazz and pop standards, music composed for stage and film, contemporary pop hits, and holiday music both sacred and secular, enduring as one of the most acclaimed traditional pop vocalists in music history.

Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook Tracklisting:

1. Hallelujah
2. Once Before I Go
3. Blue Ain’t Your Color
4. You Raise Me Up
5. Say Something
6. Just The Way You Are
7. I Believe I Can Fly
8. Remember When
9. Happy
10. Hello
11. Run To You (feat. Kenny G)

LEGACY RECORDINGS TO RELEASE
The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is set to release The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection, the definitive Johnny Mathis career-spanning box set at the end of the year. The 68-disc set comes as a part of the continued celebration of the enduring musical achievements of Johnny Mathis (who first signed with Columbia Records in 1955.) Legacy has worked closely with Mathis on the curation of his Columbia catalog, pouring through the label’s deep archive of studio and live material, restoring and remastering tracks for digital release. Within this vast career-spanning boxset, Legacy Recordings has included 62 Columbia albums that have been remastered (25 of which are available on CD for the very first time), two previously unreleased albums, a 2-disc collection featuring 40 previously unreleased songs as well as Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook.

Signed to Columbia Records in the mid-1950’s, Johnny Mathis was one of the very first musical artists to embrace the album concept and record fully-realized thematically and sonically coherent collections of songs. His 1958 release, Johnny’s Greatest Hits inaugurated the ongoing “greatest hits” anthology phenomenon becoming one of the most popular albums of all time after spending an unprecedented 490 continuous weeks (almost ten years) on the Billboard Top Albums Chart. To date, Johnny Mathis has had 3 songs inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, achieved 50 hits on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart, and ranks as the #6 all-time album artist in the history of Billboard’s pop album charts. He has received 5 Grammy Nominations, and in 2003 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Recording Arts and Science.

Johnny Mathis
Website | Facebook | Twitter

Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook
Apple Music | iTunes | Spotify | Amazon

SOURCE Columbia Records

NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Columbia Records has announced legendary vocalist Johnny Mathis will release his new album, Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook on September 29. The eagerly awaited album features 11 inspired Mathis interpretations of prevailing current songs that comprise the modern great American songbook, all imbued with the iconic vocalist’s indelible touch. The new album is available for pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/MathisSongbook. Fans who pre-order the album will receive the instant grat track “Hallelujah,” originally recorded by Leonard Cohen.

Produced by Grammy winning music greats Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds and Clive Davis, Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook features a matchless array of modern day ‘standards’ christened by Mathis’ intuitive delivery, (full track listing below). Among the songs included are “Hello,” originally recorded by Adele, “Happy,” originally recorded by Pharrell, the aforementioned “Hallelujah,” originally recorded by Leonard Cohen, “You Raise Me Up,” originally recorded by Josh Groban, “I Believe I Can Fly,” originally recorded by R. Kelly, “Just The Way You Are,” originally recorded by Bruno Mars, and “Run To You,” (featuring Kenny G) originally recorded by Whitney Houston.

One of the seminal voices of popular music, Johnny Mathis has attained unparalleled achievement as a recording artist and live performer in an incredible career that has spanned more than six decades. Universally recognized for his inimitable artistry and signature renderings of the American song catalogue, his vast stylistic range has encompassed romantic interpretations of jazz and pop standards, music composed for stage and film, contemporary pop hits, and holiday music both sacred and secular, enduring as one of the most acclaimed traditional pop vocalists in music history.

Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook Tracklisting:

1. Hallelujah
2. Once Before I Go
3. Blue Ain’t Your Color
4. You Raise Me Up
5. Say Something
6. Just The Way You Are
7. I Believe I Can Fly
8. Remember When
9. Happy
10. Hello
11. Run To You (feat. Kenny G)

LEGACY RECORDINGS TO RELEASE
The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection
December 8, 2017

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is set to release The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection, the definitive Johnny Mathis career-spanning box set, on December 8. The 68-disc set comes as a part of the continued celebration of the enduring musical achievements of Johnny Mathis (who first signed with Columbia Records in 1955.) Legacy has worked closely with Mathis on the curation of his Columbia catalog, pouring through the label’s deep archive of studio and live material, restoring and remastering tracks for digital release. Within this vast career-spanning boxset, Legacy Recordings has included 62 Columbia albums that have been remastered (25 of which are available on CD for the very first time), two previously unreleased albums, a 2-disc collection featuring 40 previously unreleased songs as well as Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook.

Signed to Columbia Records in the mid-1950’s, Johnny Mathis was one of the very first musical artists to embrace the album concept and record fully-realized thematically and sonically coherent collections of songs. His 1958 release, Johnny’s Greatest Hits inaugurated the ongoing “greatest hits” anthology phenomenon becoming one of the most popular albums of all time after spending an unprecedented 490 continuous weeks (almost ten years) on the Billboard Top Albums Chart. To date, Johnny Mathis has had 3 songs inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, achieved 50 hits on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart, and ranks as the #6 all-time album artist in the history of Billboard’s pop album charts. He has received 5 Grammy Nominations, and in 2003 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Recording Arts and Science.

Johnny Mathis
Website | Facebook | Twitter

Johnny Mathis Sings The Great New American Songbook
Apple Music | iTunes | Spotify | Amazon

SOURCE Columbia Records