Recorded as a duet with Deniece Williams, the single prompted Mathis to begin trying duets with a variety of partners (including Dionne Warwick, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, and Nana Mouskouri), though none of the singles enjoyed the success of the original. Mathis continued to release and ...
By then his most commercially successful days were behind him, although he scored a surprise number-one hit with “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” (1978), a duet with rhythm-and-blues singer Deniece Williams. Additional duets with Williams followed, as well as with other performers, ...