Good Night, Dear Lord is the fourth album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records on March 3, 1958,[1] and is the first of many projects undertaken over the course of his career that have a specific focus, which here happens to be religion.

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's list of the 25 Best-Selling Pop LPs in the US in the issue dated April 7, 1958, and peaked at number 10 during its 12 weeks there.

While the original US release of Good Night, Dear Lord was in the monaural format, the stereo version was available later that year, on July 14.

"[2] In the liner notes of her 1997 album Higher Ground, Barbra Streisand wrote, "I first heard 'Deep River' at age 16 when I bought my first Johnny Mathis record at the supermarket for $1.98.

[7] In August 2010 Mathis was the recipient of the Idelsohn Society Honors, which was created to "pay tribute to key figures in American-Jewish music whose stories have not been told.