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Lucky for San Francisco Bay Area Johnny Mathis fans who were there to see the ‘ voice of romance’ in his  second from Final concert of his long, illustrious career Saturday night May 10 at the Luther Burbank theater in Santa Rosa California. Unlike most concerts today, there was no recording of Photography allowed this night but we were lucky to find you above video on youtube, hopefully produced by the Mathis people and not a illegal bootleg

Johnny Mathis’ last local concert and second to last of all was in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mathis was in his usual stellar voice.  He did get confused a bit but the crowd  was behind him , regardless of any minor lapses , declaring ‘we love you Johnny.’  He may have thanked his long time touring  orchestra several more times than was necessary but no big deal. But even if he was not in good voice and there’s no guarantees for a man nearly 90, the audience would have probably given him multiple Ovations anyway , rewarding him for not just this night but for nearly 70 years of bringing great j o y f u l music to their lives.

Johnny Mathis total releases part 1- he had so many we have to separated into two parts. His first three releases stayed on the billboard charts over 28 weeks each and his first album was on the billboard album charts for over a year

He sang from his musical portfolio encompassing all genres… and he even did his doo-wop cover of Little Anthony( I’m on the outside looking in ) to country-pop originally dome by Everly Bros (LET IT BE ME) to soul ‘ Bet you by Golly Wow’ . Interestingly   Mathis appeared to employ a vocal track on a few of the songs like the aforementioned As there were no visible background singers.

I liked his updated version of ‘Gina’ with a kind of a Rumba rhythm.

Mathis releases part 2. Mathis had two number ones and 18 top 40 hits spanning three decades

The comedian before intermission I started to like -there’s not the usual  Gary mule Deer this night-  but instead a 69-year-old guy from Seattle and he acted like it . He didn’t talk politics but he came pretty close and talking about getting old and 69 isn’t really that old but it was funny at first but i got tiring and kind of gross, to be honest, in our opinion. Johnny could have done a little bit better with his choice of intermission comics. Gary mule Deer may be a little crazy but he’s funny with good old school, clean humor . Surpringly intermission followed in this nice oldish retro -looking theater.

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