When I was seven years old, my mother took me and my sister Judy to see the up-and-coming crooner, Johnny Mathis, on Route 10 in Plainville, Connecticut. The event was a combination luncheon and mini-concert. I was too young to know it at the time, but Johnny Mathis’s golden tones were about to launch a decades long career that would see him on the adult contemporary charts and pop charts from the early 60’s clear through 2000.

Johnny Mathis, still around today, seemed to offer a sense of Breathing Space to his listeners!