Everybody Oughta Sing a Song

Everybody Oughta Sing A Song is the second solo studio album by Australian pop singer John Farnham (billed then as Johnny Farnham) and was released on EMI Records in November 1968.[1][2][3] Its first single, released in July, was the double A-sided, "Jamie"/"I Don't Want To Love You", which peaked at No. 8 on the Go-Set National Singles Charts.[1][4] The second single, "Rose Coloured Glasses" was released in October and peaked at No. 16.[1][5] Writers on the album included Hans Poulson, Neil Diamond and Quincy Jones. The album was re-released in 1974 with a different cover, it shows Farnham performing live on stage, whereas the initial 1968 release had him leaning against a Holden Monaro (see infobox at right).

Everybody Oughta Sing A Song
Studio album by
Johnny Farnham
ReleasedNovember 1968
Recorded1968
GenrePop
LabelEMI, Columbia
ProducerDavid Mackay
Johnny Farnham chronology
Sadie
(1968)		 Everybody Oughta Sing A Song
(1968)		 Looking Through a Tear
(1970)
Singles from Everybody Oughta Sing A Song
  1. "Jamie"/"I Don't Want To Love You""
    Released: July 1968
  2. "Rose Coloured Glasses"
    Released: October 1968
1974 Re-release
Alternative cover for "Everybody Oughta Sing A Song."

Background

Johnny Farnham's first commercially successful solo recording was the novelty song entitled "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)", his manager, Darryl Sambell had disliked it as the lyrics were so persistent.[2] However, EMI's in house producer, David Mackay, insisted and so the single was released in November 1967. "Sadie" hit No. 1 on the Go-Set National Singles Charts in January 1968 and remained there for five weeks.[6] Selling 180 000 copies in Australia, "Sadie" was the highest selling single by an Australian artist of the decade.[2][3] Farnham's first album, Sadie, produced by Mackay was released in April.[7] Almost immediately, Farnham was recording his second album, Everybody Oughta Sing A Song with Mackay producing.[7] The first single from the album was released in July, the double A-sided, "Jamie" / "I Don't Want To Love You" which peaked at No. 8.[1][4] It was followed by the second single, "Rose Coloured Glasses" which peaked at No. 16.[1][5] while the album itself was released in November.[1]

Track listing
  1. "Everybody Oughta Sing a Song" (Dallas Frazier) – 2:18
  2. "Jamie" (Hans Poulsen) – 2:28
  3. "There Is No Season to My Love" (Quincy Jones, Dorothy Fields) – 2:24
  4. "Two-Bit Manchild" (Neil Diamond) – 3:01
  5. "The Last Thing on My Mind" (Tom Paxton) – 3:27
  6. "Strollin'" (Ralph Reader) – 1:59
  7. "Scratchin' Ma Head" (Guy Fletcher, Doug Flett) – 2:07
  8. "I Don't Want To Love You" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) – 2:48
  9. "Confidentially" (Reg Dixon) – 2:03
  10. "Rose Coloured Glasses" (Hans Poulsen) – 2:49
  11. "Grand Unspeakable Passion" (Peter Best) – 2:12
  12. "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" (Eugene Pistilli, Terry Cashman) – 2:58
  13. "You Can Write a Song" (Roger Cook, John Neel) – 2:38
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References
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  2. 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.
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