3 Johnny Mathis Songs That Would Sound Even Better if Remade Today

The article picks three Johnny Mathis songs that it argues could sound even better if remade today: “Chances Are”, “Gina” and “I’m Coming Home”. It places them within a career that began with his 1956 debut single and highlights how each song reflects a different moment in his long recording history.

“Chances Are” was released in 1957, written by Robert Allen and Al Stillman, and was named Mathis’s best song by Billboard in 2016. “Gina”, written by Leon Carr and Paul Vance, appeared in 1962, after a version called “Gina, Gina” featured on a 1960 CBS television programme. Thom Bell and Linda Creed wrote “I’m Coming Home”, the 1973 title track that became Mathis’s first No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart.