Open Fire Two Guitars

Open Fire, Two Guitars is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis, released on January 5, 1959, by Columbia Records. He opted for guitar and bass accompaniment instead of performing alongside an orchestra. Two new songs are mixed in with covers of popular standards. The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's list of the 25 Best-Selling Pop LPs in the US in the issue dated February 9, 1959, and got as high as number four during its 96 weeks there. It debuted on the Cash Box albums chart in the issue dated January 31, 1959, and remained on the chart for in a total of 44 weeks, spending a week at number three. It received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the US on December 4, 1962. The album was released for the first time on compact disc on June 28, 1994, as part of the Master Sound series in which Sony Music used the Super Bit Mapping process to remaster certain titles and burn them onto discs with 24-karat gold plating. It was also issued on a standard compact disc on December 23, 1999. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Fi...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)