Johnny Mathis brings his catalog of hits to Las Vegas

Reporting from Las Vegas —  Crooner Johnny Mathis, whose music career spans nearly six decades, brings his catalog of chart-topping hits to the Smith Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, July 31.

Mathis was discovered singing in a San Francisco bar when he was 18. Columbia Records signed him on and refined his take on soft, romantic ballads. By 1956, he had his first two hits: “Wonderful! Wonderful!” and “It’s Not for Me to Say.”

By 1958, his album “Johnny’s Greatest Hits” came out and spent 491 consecutive weeks, through 1967, on the Billboard top 100 album charts, earning him a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.

He’s the third biggest-selling artist of the 20th century with 73 albums charting on Billboard. Some of his other hits include “Chances Are” and “Misty” on his 80-plus albums and six Christmas albums.

Three of his songs were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and in 2003 Mathis was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Mathis, a Las Vegas perennial, plans to perform some of his greatest hits and personal favorites.
Ticket prices start at $29.

Tickets: Smith Center box office, (702) 749-2000