JOHNNY MATHIS - PIECES OF DREAM

Pieces of dreams

JOHNNY MATHIS

SONGWRITEER: ALAN BERGMAN, MARILYN BERGMAN & MICHEL LEGRAND

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: close to you

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: popular music

YEAR: 1970

Pieces Of Dreams (1970) is a drama film, produced in the United States. It was directed by Daniel Haller and is based on a novel entitled The Wine And The Music by William Edmund Barrett. The story follows the internal struggle of Father Gregory Lind, Catholic priest who falls in love and starts to question his relationship with the Church.

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis (born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts and Guinness World Record music chart historian Paul Gambaccini, confirms "Johnny Mathis has sold well over 350 million records worldwide".

Close To You is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on August 19, 1970, by Columbia Records and mostly included his recordings of hits that other artists had that year. The exceptions were the new movie theme "Pieces of Dreams" and the 1967 songs "Wave" by Antônio Carlos Jobim and "Yellow Days", which was an Easy Listening hit for former Mathis collaborator Percy Faith. In the UK the album was retitled after a different song Mathis covered on it, "The Long and Winding Road".

The release of the first single from the album, "Pieces of Dreams", coincided with the release of the film of the same name, in which it is sung by Peggy Lee. The Mathis recording made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Easy Listening chart in the issue dated September 12 of that year and got as high as number nine during its eight weeks there. The album's debut on the magazine's Top LP's chart came the following month, in the issue from October 10, and marked the start of a nine-week run that took it to number 61. A second single, "Evil Ways", had its Easy Listening debut in the November 14 issue and reached number 30 during its four weeks there.

Little boy lost in search of little boy found

You go a wondering, wandering

Stumbling, tumbling, round! round!

When will you find

What's on the tip of your mind?

Why are you blind

To all you ever were

Never were, really are, nearly are?

Little boy false in search of little boy true

Will you ever be done traveling

Always unraveling you, you?

Running away could lead you further astray

And as for fishing in streams for pieces of dreams

Those pieces will never fit

What is the sense of it?

Little boy blue, don't let your little sheep roam

It's time ,come blow your horn, meet the morn

Look and see, can you be far from home?