Christmas Is Johnny Farnham


Christmas Is... Johnny Farnham is a studio album of Christmas songs recorded by Australian pop singer John 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 2016, when he would release Friends for Christmas, a duet seasonal album with Olivia Newton-John.

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 No. 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 " 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 No. 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 No. 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

; Side A
  1. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" – 3:14
  2. "Christmas Is" – 2:58
  3. "The Ringing Reindeer" – 3:10
  4. "Little Drummer Boy" – 3:42
  5. "Jingle Bells" – 2:49
  6. "Good Time Christmas" – 2:28
  7. "Everything Is Beautiful" – 3:50
; Side B
  1. "White Christmas" – 3:55
  2. "The First Noel" – 3:08
  3. "Silent Night" – 2:50
  4. "There's No Place Like Home" – 3:11
  5. "Little Boy Dear" – 3:38
  6. "It Must Be Getting Close to Christmas" – 3:21
  7. "Christmas Happy" – 2:28