Looking Through a Tear

Looking Through A Tear
Studio album by Johnny Farnham
Released July 1970
Recorded 1969–1970
Genre Pop
Label EMI, Columbia
Producer

Howard Gable

Arrangements: Johnny Hawker
Johnny Farnham chronology
Everybody Oughta Sing A Song
(1968)		 Looking Through A Tear
(1970)		 Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham
(1970)
Singles from Looking Through A Tear
  1. "One"
    Released: July 1969
  2. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
    Released: November 1969

Looking Through A Tear is the third studio album by Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham, it was released in Australia by EMI Records in July 1970.[1][2][3] Farnham's covers of Harry Nilsson's "One", and B. J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" were released as singles, and helped to propel the album to #11 on the Australian Kent Music Report Album Charts.[4] "One"/"Mr. Whippy" (non-album track) was released as a double A-side in July 1969 and peaked at #4 on the Go-Set National Singles Charts.[5] "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" was released in November and peaked at #1 for seven weeks in January–March 1970.[6][7] Farnham wrote two songs for the album.

Background

Johnny Farnham's first solo single was the novelty song entitled "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)", which was released in November 1967, it made #1 on the Go-Set National Singles Charts in January 1968 and remained there for five weeks.[8] Selling 180 000 copies in Australia, "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" was the highest selling single by an Australian artist of the decade.[2][3] Farnham's first album, Sadie, produced by David Mackay was released in April.[9] Almost immediately, Farnham was recording his second album, Everybody Oughta Sing A Song released in November.[1][9] This was followed by a non-album single, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", in November 1968.[4] In July 1969, Farnham released a cover of Harry Nilsson's "One" with another novelty song, "Mr. Whippy", as a double A-side single, Produced by Howard Gable which peaked at #4 on the Go-Set National Singles Charts.[5] Farnham then released a cover of B. J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" also produced by Howard Gable, in November, which peaked at #1 for seven weeks in January–March 1970.[6] Both of these singles were contained on his third album, Looking Through A Tear released in July 1970, which peaked at #11 on the Kent Music Report Albums Charts.[4]

Track listing

  1. "One" (Harry Nilsson) - 2:49
  2. "I've Been Rained On" (Dallas Frazier) - 2:22
  3. "Mirror of My Mind" (Flynn (Mick Fynn) Douglas (pseudonym, used by Buddy England) - 2:15
  4. "The World Goes Round and Round" (Michael Kunze, Ralph Siegel) - 3:55
  5. "All Night Girl" (Peter Lee Stirling, John Barry Mason, Sylvan Whittingham) - 2:06
  6. "You're Breaking Me Up" (Roy Wood) - 2:28
  7. "Two" (John Farnham) - 4:42
  8. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) - 2:29
  9. "Looking Through A Tear" (Bobby Scott, Arthur Resnick) - 3:40
  10. "Visions of Sugarplums" (Jerry Fuller, Glen Campbell) - 2:12
  11. "What Can I Do" (John Farnham) - 2:43
  12. "In a Moment of Madness" (Ralph Freed, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:48
  13. "Ain't Society Great" (Bobby Russell) - 2:34
  14. "1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero" (Bobby Russell) - 3:58

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1970 Kent Music Report Albums Chart[4] 11
Go-Set Albums Chart[10] 9

References

  1. 1 2 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 August 29, 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. pp. 84–85. ISBN 978-1-86403-361-8. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  4. 1 2 3 4 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.
  5. 1 2 "Go-Set search engine results for "One/Mr. Whippy"". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  6. 1 2 "Go-Set search engine results for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  7. ↑ "Go-Set Magazine's Number One Singles in Australia 1966–1974". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  8. ↑ "Go-Set search engine results for "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)"". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  9. 1 2 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.
  10. ↑ "Go-Set search engine results for Looking Through a Tear". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009. NOTE: Contemporary national Top 20 album charts were compiled by Ed Nimmervoll for Go-Set from May 1970 to August 1974.
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