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by Australian pop singer John Farnham (billed then as Johnny Farnham) it was released by EMI Records in April 1968. The lead single, "

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" had been released in November 1967, it was No. 1 on the ''Go-Set'' National Singles Charts for five weeks, and was the largest selling single in Australia by an Australian artist in the 1960s. The single, "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" sold approximately 180,000 copies in Australia, and was also released in New Zealand, Denmark and Germany. The second follow up album single was

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s "Friday Kind of Monday" included on the album and was released in March as a double-A side with a cover of

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s, " Underneath the Arches" (non-album track) as Farnham's second single, which peaked at No. 6.

Track listing

# "Friday Kind of Monday" (

) – 2:44 # " Are You Havin' Any Fun?" ( Sammy Fain,

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) – 2:10 # "Turn Around" (Farnham, David Mackay) – 2:25 # "Painting a Shadow" (Rodney Bainbridge, Brian Pritchard) – 2:10 # "Pay The Waiter" (

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) – 2:31 # "There's Got To Be a Word" (Don Ciccone) – 2:06 # "

" ( Ray Gilmore,

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, David White) – 3:17 # " Woman, Woman" (

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, Jimmy Payne) – 3:13 (a cover of

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) # "The Old Bazaar in Cairo" (Clinton Ford,

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, Ken Morris) – 1:53 # "Come On Back To Me" (Farnham) – 1:39 # "Miss Elaine E.S. Jones" (Paul Nicodemus) – 2:31 # "Otherwise It's Been a Perfect Day" (Farnham) – 2:30

References

{{Authority control 1968 debut albums John Farnham albums EMI Columbia Records albums