Good Night, Dear Lord

About Good Night, Dear Lord

Good Night, Dear Lord is the fourth album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records on March 3, 1958, and is the first of many projects undertaken over the course of his career that have a specific focus, which here happens to be religion. Several musical styles are covered, including spirituals ("Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "Deep River"), classical works (the Bach/Gounod and Schubert compositions of "Ave Maria"), songs from the Jewish tradition ("Eli Eli", "Kol Nidre"), and 20th-century offerings ("May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You", "One God"). The album debuted on Billboard magazine's list of the 25 Best-Selling Pop LPs in the US in the issue dated April 7, 1958, and peaked at number 10 during its 12 weeks there. The release of the album in the UK on the Fontana label was re-titled Heavenly (not to be confused with Mathis's album of the same name that came out the following year). While the original US release of Good Night, Dear Lord was in the monaural format, the stereo version was available later that year, on July 14. On May 7, 1996, it was issued for the first time on compact disc more »