Clearly Love

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Clearly Love
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Studio album by
Released30 September 1975
RecordedMay–June 1975
Studio EMI Studios, London [1]
Genre
Length31:13
Label EMI
Producer John Farrar
Olivia Newton-John chronology
Have You Never Been Mellow
(1975)
Clearly Love
(1975)
Come On Over
(1976)
Singles from Clearly Love
  1. "Something Better to Do"
    Released: September 1975
  2. "Let It Shine"
    Released: December 1975

Clearly Love is the sixth studio album by Olivia Newton-John, released in September 1975. [2]

Contents

Commercial performance

The album was certified gold in the US. [3] and both of the album's singles were country chart hits, with "Something Better to Do" reaching number 19 and "Let It Shine" (written by Nashville songwriter Linda Hargrove) reaching 5. Clearly Love also did well in Japan, reaching number 3 on the Oricon Albums Chart and selling 110,450 copies there. [4]

Singles

The 1940s retro sounding "Something Better to Do" and the country "Let it Shine" (backed with her version of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother") were the two single releases. This song became popular on country music stations, hitting the top 10 on the Country chart. Both singles were number 1 Adult Contemporary chart hits in the United States, but performed comparatively poorly on the Billboard Hot 100 at numbers 13 and 30 respectively, the beginning of a decline at Newton-John's popularity at Top 40 radio in the US that would not be reversed until her starring role in the movie musical Grease in 1978.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Something Better to Do" John Farrar 3:16
2."Lovers" Mickey Newbury 2:40
3."Slow Down Jackson"
  • Michele Brourman
  • Karen Gottlieb
3:05
4."He's My Rock"Sharon K. Dobbins2:17
5."Sail into Tomorrow"John Farrar3:40
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying" Labi Siffre 3:00
7."Clearly Love"
  • Diane Berglund
  • Jim Phillips
2:19
8."Let It Shine" Linda Hargrove 2:26
9."Summertime Blues"2:11
10."Just a Lot of Folk (The Marshmallow Song)"
  • Diane Berglund
  • Jim Phillips
2:47
11."He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"3:54
Japan 2010 SHM-CD bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Something Better to Do" (live in Osaka, Japan, December 1976)2:55
13."Fairy Tale Hero" (previously unreleased)3:07

Personnel

Production

Studios

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [14] Platinum100,000^
Japan (Oricon Charts)110,450 [7]
United States (RIAA) [15] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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