''Johnny Farnham Sings the Shows'' is a studio album by Australian pop singer

John Farnham John Peter Farnham Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 1 July 1949) is a British born Australian singer. Farnham was a Teen idol, teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed then as Johnny Farnham, but has since forged a career as an Adu ...

(known then as Johnny Farnham). The album was released in June 1972. The album featured cover songs, that where standards of musical theatre, including

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in which Farnham starred.

Track listing

Side A # "Charlie Girl" (

David Heneker David William Heneker (31 March 1906 – 30 January 2001) was a writer and composer of British popular music and musicals, best known for creating the music and lyrics for ''Half a Sixpence''. Life and career Heneker was born in Southsea, Engl ...

& John Taylor) # "

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Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre bot ...

Frederick Loewe Frederick Loewe (, originally German Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe ; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988) was an Austrian-United States, American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including ''Br ...

) # " Gonna Build a Mountain" ( Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley) # " I Whistle a Happy Tune" ( Rodgers and Hammerstein) # "

Who Can I Turn To? "Who Can I Turn To?" (alternatively titled "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)") is a song written by English lyricists Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and first published in 1964. Background The song was introduced in the musical ' ...

" (Bricusse & Newley) # "

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Galt MacDermot Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot (December 18, 1928 – December 17, 2018) was a Canadian-American composer, pianist and writer of musical theater. He won a Grammy Award for the song " African Waltz" in 1960. His most-successful musicals were ''Hai ...

) # " Day By Day" ( Stephen Schwartz) Side B # "My Favourite Occupation" (Heneker & Taylor) # " You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers & Hammerstein) # " Where Is Love?" ( Lionel Bart) # " On the Street Where You Live" (Lerner & Loewe) # " Consider Yourself" (Bart) # " Hello Dolly" ( Jerry Herman) # "Jubilation T. Cornpone" ( Mercer & De Paul)

References

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