Released December 1970 Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham
(1970) Johnny
(1971) Release date December 1970 Genre Pop music | Recorded December 1970 Artist John Farnham Producer David Mackay | |
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Label Columbia Graphophone Company Similar John Farnham albums, Pop music albums | ||
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. 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.
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Re-releases
The album was re-released under the new title of Memories of Christmas, 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. Selling 180 000 copies in Australia, "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" was the highest selling single by an Australian artist of the decade. His first Christmas song was a non-album single, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", in November 1968. 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. 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. 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. 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
Songs
1Santa Claus Is Coming to Town3:16
2Christmas Is3:00
3The Ringing Reindeer3:12