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Sadie (album)
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1968
RecordedSeptember 1967–January 1968
GenrePop
Label EMI, Columbia
Producer David Mackay
Johnny Farnham chronology
Sadie (album)
(1968)
Everybody Oughta Sing a Song
(1968)
Singles from Sadie
  1. " Sadie"
    Released: November 1967
  2. "Friday Kind Of Monday"
    Released: March 1968

Sadie is the debut studio album by Australian pop singer John Farnham (billed then as Johnny Farnham) it was released by EMI Records in April 1968. [1] The lead single, " Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" had been released in November 1967, it was No. 1 on the Go-Set National Singles Charts for five weeks, [2] [3] and was the largest selling single in Australia by an Australian artist in the 1960s. [1] [4] The single, "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" sold approximately 180,000 copies in Australia, [5] [6] and was also released in New Zealand, Denmark and Germany. [7] The second follow up album single was Jeff Barry/ Ellie Greenwichs "Friday Kind of Monday" included on the album and was released in March as a double-A side with a cover of Flanagan and Allens, " Underneath the Arches" (non-album track) as Farnham's second single, which peaked at No. 6. [8]

Track listing

  1. "Friday Kind of Monday" ( Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) – 2:44
  2. " Are You Havin' Any Fun?" ( Sammy Fain, Jack Yellen) – 2:10
  3. "Turn Around" (Farnham, David Mackay) – 2:25
  4. "Painting a Shadow" (Rodney Bainbridge, Brian Pritchard) – 2:10
  5. "Pay The Waiter" ( Hans Poulsen) – 2:31
  6. "There's Got To Be a Word" (Don Ciccone) – 2:06
  7. " Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" ( Ray Gilmore, John Medora, David White) – 3:17
  8. " Woman, Woman" ( Jim Glaser, Jimmy Payne) – 3:13 (a cover of Gary Puckett & the Union Gap)
  9. "The Old Bazaar in Cairo" (Clinton Ford, Charlie Chester, Ken Morris) – 1:53
  10. "Come On Back To Me" (Farnham) – 1:39
  11. "Miss Elaine E.S. Jones" (Paul Nicodemus) – 2:31
  12. "Otherwise It's Been a Perfect Day" (Farnham) – 2:30

References

  1. ^ a b McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'John Farnham'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN  1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 29 August 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  2. ^ "Go-Set search engine results for "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)"". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  3. ^ "Go-Set Magazine's Number One Singles in Australia 1966–1974". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  4. ^ Nimmervoll, Ed. "John Farnham". HowlSpace – The Living History of Our Music (Ed Nimmervoll). Archived from the original on 26 July 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  5. ^ Jenkins, Jeff; Ian Meldrum (2007). Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia. Melbourne, Vic: Wilkinson Publishing. ISBN  978-1-921332-11-1. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
  6. ^ Creswell, Toby; Samantha Trenoweth (2006). 1001 Australians You Should Know. North Melbourne, Vic: Pluto Press. pp. 84–85. ISBN  978-1-86403-361-8. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  7. ^ "Sadie The Cleaning Lady - JOHNNY FARNHAM (1967)". Pop Archives – Sources of Australian Pop Records from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. PopArchives.com.au. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
  8. ^ "Go-Set search engine results for "Friday Kind Of Monday"". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 5 September 2009.