Whispering Jack is the twelfth studio album by Australian
adult contemporary pop singer
John Farnham. It was produced by Ross Fraser, and released on 20 October 1986, which peaked at #1 on the Australian
Kent Music Report Album Charts.
Whispering Jack has become
the highest selling album in Australia; as of 2006, it was 24x platinum indicating sales of over 1.68 million copies sold. It spent 25 weeks at the
No. 1 spot on the Album Charts during 1986–1987, it was awarded the
1987 ARIA Award for "
Album of the Year", and was the best charting album in Australia for the decade of the 1980s in Australia. It was the first Australian-made album to be released on
Compact Disc within Australia. One of Farnham's biggest hits, "
You're the Voice" was issued as the lead single from this album and peaked at No. 1 on the Kent Music Report Singles Charts.