Together (John Farnham album)

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Together
LP Together.jpg
Studio album by Johnny Farnham, Allison Durbin
Released September 1971
Recorded 1971
Genre Pop
Label HMV/EMI
Johnny Farnham chronology
The Best of Johnny Farnham
(1971) The Best of Johnny Farnham1971		Together
(1971)		 Johnny Farnham Sings the Shows
(1972) Johnny Farnham Sings the Shows1972

Together is a studio album of duets by Australian pop singers John Farnham (known then as Johnny Farnham) and Allison Durbin, which was released on HMV for EMI Records in September 1971. [1] [2] [3] It peaked at No. 20 on the Australian Go-Set's Albums Chart. [4]

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many diverse styles. "Pop" and "rock" were roughly synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they became increasingly differentiated from each other.

John Farnham English-Australian pop singer

John Peter Farnham AO is an English-born Australian rock/soft rock singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed then as Johnny Farnham, but has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985.

Allison Ann Durbin, who now goes by the married name Alison Ann Giles is a former New Zealand Australian pop singer, known for her success in the late 1960s and 1970s as the "Queen of Pop". Durbin's visual 'trademark' at her height was her lustrous waist-length auburn hair. She is a relative of Canadian actress and lyric soprano Deanna Durbin.

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Farnham had earlier No. 1 singles with "Sadie" in 1968 and his cover of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" in 1970; [5] [6] [7] he was the reigning 'King of Pop' on Go-Set's popularity polls during 1969–1971. [2] New Zealand-born, Durbin had a hit with "I Have Loved Me a Man" in 1968 and was 'Best Female Artist' for the same Go-Set polls. [8] [9] A Farnham and Durbin duet single, "Baby, Without You", was released in November and reached No. 16 on the Go-Set Singles Chart. [10]

Sadie (The Cleaning Lady) single by The Cleaning Lady

"Sadie " was Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham's first solo single. The novelty song was released in November 1967 and was No. 1 on the Go-Set National Singles Charts for five weeks in early 1968. It was the largest selling single in Australia by an Australian artist in the 1960s. The single, "Sadie" sold approximately 180,000 copies in Australia, and was also released in New Zealand, Denmark and Germany. The B-side, "In My Room" was written by Farnham. The A-side's label includes the acknowledgement "Vacuum cleaner solo: Mr. Jolly".

Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. The song was recorded by B. J. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound hoarser than in the 7-inch release. The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts.

Background

As Johnny Farnham he had his first No. 1 single on the Go-Set National Singles Charts with the novelty song "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)". [5] Selling 180,000 copies in Australia, "Sadie" was the highest selling single by an Australian artist of the decade. [2] [3] His second No. 1 was a cover of B. J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", which peaked at No. 1 for seven weeks in January–March 1970. [6] [7] A non-album single, "Comic Conversation" was released in October 1970 and peaked at No. 10 on the Go-Set National Top 60 Singles Chart and was still charting in March 1971. [11] His fifth album, Johnny was released in August, which peaked at No. 24 on the Kent Music Report Albums Charts. [12] Another non-album single, "Acapulco Sun" had been released in May and peaked at No. 21 on the Go-Set Top 60, but there were no charting singles from Johnny. [12] Aside from Johnny, Farnham also released a compilation, The Best of Johnny Farnham , and a duet album with Allison Durbin, Together, all in 1971. [1] [13]

Novelty song comical or nonsensical song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs. The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music; the other two divisions were ballads and dance music. Novelty songs achieved great popularity during the 1920s and 1930s. They had a resurgence of interest in the 1950s and 1960s.

B. J. Thomas American popular singer

Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas is an American popular singer. He is particularly known for his hit songs of the 1960s and 1970s, which appeared on the pop, country, and Christian music charts. His best-known recordings are the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and the original version of the Mark James song "Hooked on a Feeling".

<i>Johnny</i> (John Farnham album) 1971 studio album by Johnny Farnham

Johnny is the fifth studio album by Australian pop singer John Farnham, which was released on HMV for EMI Records in August 1971. It peaked at #24 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Charts. Farnham had earlier #1 singles with "Sadie " in 1968 and his cover of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" in 1970; a non-album single, "Acapulco Sun" was released in May 1971 but there were no charting singles from Johnny. The album features compositions from artists as diverse as George Harrison, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Joe South and George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin

Together released in September peaked at No. 20 on the Go-Set Albums Chart. [4] A Farnham and Durbin duet single, "Baby, Without You", was released in November and reached No. 16 on Go-Set Singles Chart. [10]

Track listing

  1. "Baby Without You" - 2:27
  2. "The Green Green Grass Is Dying" - 2:44
  3. "You're Alright with Me" - 2:26
  4. "Stay Awhile" - 3:29
  5. "I Don't Mind the Rain" - 2;28
  6. "Singing Our Song" - 2:54
  7. "That's Old Fashioned" - 3:13
  8. "Come on Round to My Place" - 2:16
  9. "Aint Nothing Like the Real Thing" - 2:17
  10. "Nobody Knows" - 2:26
  11. "Better Put Your Love Away" - 2:32
  12. "Get Together" - 3:22

Chart positions

YearChartPositionCatalogue #
1971 Go-Set Albums Chart [4] 20Axis 6000
Kent Music Report Albums Chart [12] 22

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