Ella & Nat at NBC studios in New York, 1959.
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Teen Magazine, May 1958 - tells all about Johnny Mathis and his agent Helen Noga, petite, dynamic, blonde, a former San Francisco café owner who discovered him, got him a recording contract with Columbia Records, then bought him two new suits and a round-trip ticket to New York where he subsequently cut his first hit, 'Wonderful, wonderful'.
Johnny has always had everything that would spell success, but there was one hitch: husky-throated 23-year-old has always been incredibly shy - and still is. That's why he needed Helen Noga.