You don't like the way your living to bad You can't change your life because it's out of your hand so sad So you sit on your pants and holler 'Cause the world ain't been treating you right Don't you know you contain the power to control destiny with your mind.

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4 more albums featuring this track. The fourth of seven children, John Royce Mathis was born on September 30, 1935 in Gilmer, TX to Clem and Mildred Mathis. As a small boy, the family moved to Post Street in San Francisco. View full artist profile.

1973 studio album by Johnny Mathis. Betcha by Golly, Wow" – 2:49. recorded in 1972 for his album The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face). Break Up to Make Up" (T. Bell, Creed, Kenneth Gamble) – 3:50. rec. in 1973 for his album Killing Me Softly with Her Song. You're As Right As Rain" – 3:02. in 1975 for his album When Will I See You Again. (2015) Life Is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions by Johnny Mathis. New York: Sony Music Entertainment RGM 0342.

I Just Wanted to Be Me. 11. I’m Coming Home (Stereo Single Version). 12. I’m Stone in Love with You (Unreleased Instrumental Version). 13. And I Think That’s What I’ll Do (Unreleased Instrumental Version). Disc: 2. 1. As Long As We’re Together. Drawing from fresh interviews with Johnny Mathis, The Second Disc's Joe Marchese has penned the liner notes for this collection, which has been freshly remastered by Sean Brennan at Sony's Battery Studios Life Is a Song Worth Singing—The Complete Thom Bell Sessions sheds new light on an oft-overlooked collaboration between two of American popular song's towering talents.

During the first half of the 2010s, an assortment of Johnny Mathis reissues reached the market, including a thorough documentation of the singer's 1963-1967 Mercury stint - Legacy's The Complete Global Albums Collection - and Funky Town Grooves' recirculation of three late-'70s albums. Two singles were minor hits: the typically light but heartfelt title song, and the original recording of "Life Is a Song Worth Singing" (covered five years later by Teddy Pendergrass), replete with an extended intro as dramatic as that of Billy Paul's "East. There's also a thoroughly finessed version of "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart).

Life is a song worth singing Why don't you? Sing It! (repeat) You hold the key in the palm of your hand. They said I was king, they couldn't see, it's not for me Of all the things to be, simple things they favored me and I just wanted to be me, I just wanted to be me I just wanted to be me, I just wanted to be me I just wanted to be me. I've cried through many endless nights While holding my pillow tight Then you came into my lonely days With your tender and your sweet ways Now I don't know where you come from, baby Don't know where you've been, my baby Heaven must have sent you, honey Into my arms Now in the mornin' when I awake There's.

The album itself did well on the charts as well, reaching number 11 on the US Pop chart and reaching number one on the R&B chart. The title track is a cover of the Johnny Mathis hit single "Life is a Song Worth Singing", which was released in 1973. The album was arranged by Jack Faith, Dexter Wansel, John L. Usry Jnr. and Thom Bell. Life Is a Song Worth Singing. Studio album by Teddy Pendergrass.

Johnny Mathis was one of the last great crooners, and despite being one of the most successful recording artists of the Twentieth Century, was somewhat of a ma. High-drama album closer I Just Wanted to Be Me, the only song not penned by Bell and Creed, but by Spinners songwriters Bruce Hawes and Joe Jefferson, would be a strong contender for the best song on the album. Yet it’s trumped by the album’s centerpiece and second single, Life is a Song Worth Singing, a six-minute masterpiece of swirling, cinematic production that transforms the mellow, melancholic balladeer into a tell-it-like-it-is dropper of truth bombs. You’re a fool if you think you’re helpless, you control what you do with your life.