JOHNNY MATHIS - WILD IS THE WIND

WILD IS THE WIND

JOHNNY MATHIS

SONGWRITERS: DIMITRI TIOMKIN & NED WASHINGTON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WILD IS THE WIND

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

YEAR: 1957

 

               John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter 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 to date. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings.

             Although frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes traditional pop, Brazilian and Spanish music, soul, rhythm and blues, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, soft rock, blues, country music, and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, Mathis cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences.

             "Wild Is the Wind" is a song written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1957 film Wild Is the Wind. Johnny Mathis recorded the song for the film and released it as a single in November 1957. Mathis' version reached No. 22 on the Billboard chart. It was nominated for na Academy Award for Best Song in 1958, but lost to "All the Way" by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn from The Joker's Wild.

The song has been recorded many times, by many performers. The best known versions are one by Nina Simone in 1966, and one by David Bowie released in 1976/1981 as a tribute to Simone. 

Love me, love me; say you do.

Let me fly away with you.

For my love is like the wind

And wild is the wind.

Give me more than one caress;

Satisfy this hungriness.

Let the wind blow through your heart,

For wild is the wind.

 

*You touch me;

I hear the sound of mandolins.

You kiss me,

And, with the kiss, the world begins.

You're spring to me, all things to me;

You're life itself!

Like a leaf clings to a tree,

Oh my darling, cling to me,

For we're creatures of the wind,

And wild is the wind, the wind.

Wild is my love for you.

(Instrumental interlude and pick up at *.)