Christmas Is Johnny Farnham
Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham | ||||
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Studio album by Johnny Farnham | ||||
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 | ||||
Memories of Christmas
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1997 Re-release | ||||
Memories of Christmas with variant cover.
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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
- "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (J.F. Coots, H. Gillespie) - 3:14
- "Christmas Is" (P. Faith, S. Maxwell) - 2:58
- "The Ringing Reindeer" (G. Skoglund) - 3:10
- "Little Drummer Boy" (K.K. Davis, H.V. Onorati, H. Simeone) - 3:42
- "Jingle Bells" (J.L. Pierpont) - 2:49
- "Good Time Christmas" (J. Farnham) - 2:28
- "Everything Is Beautiful" (R. Stevens) - 3:50
- "White Christmas" (I. Berlin) - 3:55
- "The First Noel" (traditional, arranged by D. Gilbert) - 3:08
- "Silent Night" (J. Mohr, F. Gruber, translated by J.F. Young) - 2:50
- "There's No Place Like Home" (H. Bishop, J.H. Payne) - 3:11
- "Little Boy Dear" (F. Vaz) - 3:38
- "It Must Be Getting Close To Christmas" (S. Cahn, J. van Heusen) - 3:21
- "Christmas Happy" (T. Leonetti, A. Kitson) - 2:28
References
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