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Johnny Mathis is appearing on Tonight Show He will be on tonight's Leno show. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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He's singing a Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/The Christmas Song medley. Looks like he got a haircut. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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You can watch the video here. Johnny's performance starts around 36:00. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Oh, man. Sorry I missed this. I had terrible insomnia. I'm sure some exhilarating Johnny Mathis / Jay Leno repartee would have been just what the doctor ordered. [Edited 12/22/11 11:36am] | |
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Nice performance. "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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[Edited 12/23/11 14:30pm] I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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I remember when when I was little my mom had like 10 of his Christmas albums and would play them ALL to death in the car. Wherever we went after Thanksgiving, here comes those damn Johnny Mathis Christmas tapes coming out. But now that I'm older, I've come to appreciate it. The man is Wonderful! Wonderful! 
Johnny was the first act to popularize both the Christmas album and the Greatest Hits album. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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My Mom had both. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I used to play his albums a lot when I was a little kid. For some reason they were interspersed with Simon and Garfunkel... 