Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham | ||||
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Released | December 1970 | |||
Recorded | December 1970 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Label | EMI, Columbia | |||
Producer | David Mackay | |||
Johnny Farnham chronology | ||||
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Singles from Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham | ||||
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1995 Re-release | ||||
1997 Re-release | ||||
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. It would be Farnham's only Christmas album until some 46 years later, when in 2016 he would release Friends for Christmas, a duet seasonal album with Olivia Newton-John.
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.
Johnny Farnham's first No. 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 No. 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 No. 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.
Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | December 1970 | |||
Recorded | December 1970 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Label | EMI, Columbia | |||
Producer | David Mackay | |||
Johnny Farnham chronology | ||||
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Singles from Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham | ||||
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1995 Re-release | ||||
1997 Re-release | ||||
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. It would be Farnham's only Christmas album until some 46 years later, when in 2016 he would release Friends for Christmas, a duet seasonal album with Olivia Newton-John.
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.
Johnny Farnham's first No. 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 No. 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 No. 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.