Dame Olivia Newton-John was a British and Australian singer and actress. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included 15 top-ten singles,including 5 number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200:If You Love Me,Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Country pop is a fusion genre of country music and pop music that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire to reach a larger,mainstream audience. Country pop music blends genres like rock,pop,and country,continuing similar efforts that began in the late 1950s,known originally as the Nashville sound and later on as Countrypolitan. By the mid-1970s,many country artists were transitioning to the pop-country sound,which led to some records charting high on the mainstream top 40 and the Billboard country chart. In turn,many pop and easy listening artists crossed over to country charts during this time. After declining in popularity during the neotraditional movement of the 1980s,country pop had a comeback in the 1990s with a sound that drew more heavily on pop rock and adult contemporary.
If You Love Me,Let Me Know is a United States and Canada-only album by singer Olivia Newton-John,released on 28 May 1974. Other than the title track,all the material was from her previous three albums,Olivia (1972),Music Makes My Day (1973) and Long Live Love (1974). It is her first album to top the Billboard 200 pop albums chart.
Physical is the eleventh studio album by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John,released through MCA Records on 13 October 1981. The album was produced and partly written by her long-time record producer John Farrar. Recorded and mixed at Ocean Way and David J. Holman's studio in Los Angeles,Physical became one of Newton-John's most controversial and sexual records,and her most successful studio album. Musically,the album features considerable use of synthesizers,and it explores lyrical themes such as love and relationships,sex,kinesthetics and environmental protection. Upon its release,the album received positive reviews from music critics,many of them considering it to be Newton-John's best effort. The album charted high in several countries,including the United States,Japan and Newton-John's native Australia,becoming one of the most successful albums of the early 1980s. It also ranks among the best-selling albums by Australian solo artists,selling more than ten million copies worldwide.
"Let Me Be There" is a popular song written by John Rostill. It was first recorded by Olivia Newton-John and released in September 1973 as the second single from her studio album of the same name. The country-influenced song was Newton-John's first Top 10 single in the US,peaking at No. 6,and also won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocalist. Mike Sammes sings a bass vocal harmony on the song.
"You Light Up My Life" is a ballad written by Joseph Brooks,and originally recorded by Kasey Cisyk for the soundtrack album to the 1977 film of the same title. The song was lip synced in the film by its lead actress,Didi Conn. The best-known cover version of the song is a cover by Debby Boone,the daughter of singer Pat Boone. It held the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten consecutive weeks in 1977 and topped Record World magazine's Top 100 Singles Chart for a record 13 weeks.
"Have You Never Been Mellow" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for her 1975 fifth studio album of the same name. Written and produced by John Farrar,the song was released as the lead single from the album in January 1975.
"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum,who describes it as being about "unconditional undeserved love". It was a number-one single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray,for which she won a Grammy Award. In 1999,Irish pop band Boyzone recorded a hit cover of the song that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.
"Magic" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for the soundtrack to the 1980 musical fantasy film Xanadu. Written and produced by John Farrar,the song was released as the lead single from the album in May 1980 and topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks beginning on August 2. On August 30,it was displaced from the top by Christopher Cross's "Sailing".
What a Man My Man Is is a studio album by country singer Lynn Anderson,released in late 1974.
If Not for You is the debut studio album by British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John,released in November 1971 by Festival Records. The album was released on the Pye International label in the UK as Olivia Newton-John,with a slightly different cover. As a covers album,If Not for You features mostly songs previously recorded from contemporary artists of the 1960s and early 1970s. She made several performances to promote If Not for You and her follow-up album,Olivia,including an international tour with British singer Cliff Richard. It was her first album released by Festival Records,which would release all her albums in Australia until its dissolution in 2005. It also has Newton-John's first works with her long-time musical partner,John Farrar.
"Please Mr. Please" is a song written by Bruce Welch and John Rostill,both members of British pop singer Cliff Richard's backing band,The Shadows. Welch had originally recorded the song himself in 1974 with no commercial success.
"Make a Move on Me" is a song recorded by singer Olivia Newton-John for her eleventh studio album. Physical (1981). It was written by John Farrar and Tom Snow,and produced by the former. The follow-up single to the number-one hit "Physical",it was released in January 1982 and peaked at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 that April. It also became her twelfth and final single to be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
"A Little More Love" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for her tenth studio album,Totally Hot (1978). Written and produced by Newton-John's long-time record producer John Farrar,the song was released as the lead single from Totally Hot in October 1978 and became a worldwide hit single.
"If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" is a song written by John Rostill that was a 1974 hit single for Olivia Newton-John. It was her second release to hit the top 10 in the United States,reaching number 5 on the pop chart and number 2 on the Easy Listening chart. It also reached number 2 on the Billboard country chart. As with her single "Let Me Be There",Mike Sammes sings a bass harmony. It was nominated for the 1974 Country Music Association Award for Single of the Year.
"Suddenly" is a duet performed by Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard from the soundtrack Xanadu,and is the love theme from the 1980 film of the same name. It was written and produced by John Farrar.
"Something Better to Do" is a song written by John Farrar and recorded by Olivia Newton-John. The song was released in September 1975 as the lead single from Newton-John's sixth studio album,Clearly Love. The narrator of the song muses that she's having a hard time adjusting to life without her departed lover;even the birds are wasting their songs singing to her,and until her beloved returns,"the birds will have to find something better to do."
"Don't Stop Believin'" is the title track from the 1976 album by Olivia Newton-John. Written and composed specifically for Newton-John by John Farrar. It was released in August 1976 as the album's lead single. It peaked at number thirty-three on the Billboard Hot 100. It was her seventh number one on the Easy Listening chart,spending one week at the top of the chart in September 1976. The single also went to number fourteen on the country chart.
The singles discography of British-Australian recording artist Olivia Newton-John consists of 69 singles,three as a featured artist and 25 promotional recordings. She was a four-time Grammy award winner who amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles,seven Top Ten Billboard Hot Country singles,and two number-one Billboard 200 solo albums. Ten of her singles topped Billboard's adult contemporary music singles chart. Eleven of her singles have been certified gold by the RIAA. She sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide,making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield. It was released on April 13,2018,by American Laundromat Records. It's a tribute album to Australian singer Olivia Newton-John,in which Hatfield covers thirteen songs sung by Newton-John,most of them originally released as singles. From every sale of the album,one dollar will be donated to the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness &Research Centre,Newton-John's own cancer treatment organization. The following year,Hatfield released Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police and Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO followed in 2023.
