Johnny Mathis
March, 1958
Clearing the high-jump bar of singing success is a young, loose-limbed ex-athlete of San Francisco whose record for the honest-to-Pete high jump has been matched only four times in the history of the Olympic games. Johnny Mathis is the name of the boy on whom Columbia Records is banking to bring bales of the lovely long green into the cash register. He is a cunning stylist possessed of a voice which can soar high into the exosphere of the male range and which, at its best, shimmers with the deli...
