Christmas Is Johnny Farnham

Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham
Studio album by Johnny Farnham
Released December 1970
Recorded December 1970
Genre Pop
Label EMI, Columbia
Producer David Mackay
Johnny Farnham chronology
Looking Through A Tear
(1970)		 Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham
(1970)		 Johnny
(1971)
Singles from Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham
  1. "Christmas Happy"
    Released: December 1970
1995 Re-release
Memories of Christmas
1997 Re-release
Memories of Christmas with variant cover.

Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham (later re-released twice as Memories of Christmas by Johnny Farnham, with different cover art, at the time of the album's release, he was now recording under John Farnham) is a studio album of Christmas songs recorded by Australian pop singer John Farnham (then billed as Johnny Farnham) and released on EMI Records in December 1970.[1][2][3] The single, "Christmas Happy", was also released in December.

Re-releases

The album was re-released under the new title of Memories of Christmas,[4] on 13 November 1995 and again on 6 December 1997 with different covers and an altered track list each time.

Background

Johnny Farnham's first #1 single on the Go-Set National Singles Charts was the novelty song "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" released in 1967.[5] Selling 180 000 copies in Australia, "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" was the highest selling single by an Australian artist of the decade.[2][3] His first Christmas song was a non-album single, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", in November 1968.[6] A cover of B. J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" was released in November 1969 and peaked at #1 for seven weeks in January–March 1970.[7][8] After his third album, Looking Through A Tear was released in July 1970, a non-album single, "Comic Conversation" was released in October and peaked at #10 on the Go-Set National Top 60 Singles Chart.[9] Farnham recorded his fourth album as Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham, it was released in December and contained Christmas songs but did not chart on the Go-Set National Top 20 Albums Chart. One of the songs, "Good Time Christmas", was written by Farnham.[10] The single, "Christmas Happy", was also released in December.

Track listing

  1. "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (J.F. Coots, H. Gillespie) - 3:14
  2. "Christmas Is" (P. Faith, S. Maxwell) - 2:58
  3. "The Ringing Reindeer" (G. Skoglund) - 3:10
  4. "Little Drummer Boy" (K.K. Davis, H.V. Onorati, H. Simeone) - 3:42
  5. "Jingle Bells" (J.L. Pierpont) - 2:49
  6. "Good Time Christmas" (J. Farnham) - 2:28
  7. "Everything Is Beautiful" (R. Stevens) - 3:50
  8. "White Christmas" (I. Berlin) - 3:55
  9. "The First Noel" (traditional, arranged by D. Gilbert) - 3:08
  10. "Silent Night" (J. Mohr, F. Gruber, translated by J.F. Young) - 2:50
  11. "There's No Place Like Home" (H. Bishop, J.H. Payne) - 3:11
  12. "Little Boy Dear" (F. Vaz) - 3:38
  13. "It Must Be Getting Close To Christmas" (S. Cahn, J. van Heusen) - 3:21
  14. "Christmas Happy" (T. Leonetti, A. Kitson) - 2:28

References

  1. ↑ McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'John Farnham'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 29 August 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  2. 1 2 Jenkins, Jeff; Ian Meldrum (2007). Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia. Melbourne, Vic: Wilkinson Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921332-11-1. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  3. 1 2 Creswell, Toby; Samantha Trenoweth (2006). 1001 Australians You Should Know. North Melbourne, Vic: Pluto Press. p. 84–85. ISBN 978-1-86403-361-8. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  4. ↑ Holmgren, Magnus; Reboulet, Scott; Albury, Lyn; Birtles, Beeb; Warnqvist, Stefan; Medlin, Peter. "John Farnham". Passagen.se. Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Go-Set search engine results for "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)"". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  6. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  7. ↑ "Go-Set search engine results for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  8. ↑ "Go-Set Magazine's Number One Singles in Australia 1966–1974". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  9. ↑ "Go-Set Australian charts - 6 March 1971". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 6 September 2009. NOTE: Farnham's single is listed as "Cosmic Conversations" [sic] at #52, over its 18-week run it had a peak position of #10.
  10. ↑ ""Good Time Christmas" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 6 September 2009.
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