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 2016,when 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.
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.[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.
↑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.
↑"Go-Set Australian charts – 6 March 1971". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2009. NOTE: Farnham's single is listed as "Cosmic Conversations" [sic] at #52, over its 18-week run it had a peak position of #10.
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