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The Definitive Collection (Olivia Newton-John Album)
''The Definitive Collection'' is a compilation of the greatest hits album, greatest hits by Olivia Newton-John, an internationally recognised singer and actress. The album was released in 2001 by Sony BMG, BMG Records and featured 22 tracks. Track listing #"You're the One That I Want" #"Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra song), Xanadu" #"Magic (Olivia Newton-John song), Magic" #"Sam (Olivia Newton-John song), Sam" #"I Honestly Love You" #"Hopelessly Devoted to You" #"Suddenly (Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard song), Suddenly" #"Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971–1992, I Need Love" #"A Little More Love (Olivia Newton-John song), A Little More Love" #"Summer Nights (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song), Summer Nights" #"Physical (Olivia Newton-John song), Physical" #"What Is Life#Olivia Newton-John, What Is Life" #"Heart Attack (Olivia Newton-John song), Heart Attack" #"Landslide (Olivia Newton-John song), Landslide" #"Make a Move on Me" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Newton-John
Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British-Australian singer, actress and activist. 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 (including two Platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two Platinum and four 2× Platinum) have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In 1978, Newton-John starred in the musical film '' Grease'', which was the highest-grossing musical film at the time and whose soundtrack remains one of the world's best-selling albums. It features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: "You're the One That I Want"—which is one of the best-selling singles of all time—and " Summer Nights". Her signature solo recordings includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Is Life
"What Is Life" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. In many countries, it was issued as the second single from the album, in February 1971, becoming a top-ten hit in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, and topping singles charts in Australia and Switzerland. In the United Kingdom, "What Is Life" appeared as the B-side to "My Sweet Lord", which was the best-selling single there of 1971. Harrison's backing musicians on the song include Eric Clapton and the entire Delaney & Bonnie and Friends band, with whom he had toured during the final months of the Beatles. Harrison co-produced the recording with Phil Spector, whose Wall of Sound production also employed a prominent string arrangement by John Barham and multiple acoustic rhythm guitars, played by Harrison's fellow Apple Records signings Badfinger. An uptempo soul tune, "What Is Life" is one of several Harrison love songs that appear to be directed at b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a private company limited by shares jointly owned by BPI and ERA. The Chart Information Network (CIN) took over as compilers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Albums Chart
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banks Of The Ohio
"Banks of the Ohio", also known as "Down on the Banks of the Ohio" and "I'll Never Be Yours", is a 19th-century murder ballad, written by unknown authors. The lyrics tell of "Willie" who invites his young lover for a walk during which she rejects his marriage proposal, and once they are alone on the river bank, he murders the young woman. The song was first recorded by country musicians in 1927, and has been performed by many country and folk singers since. Olivia Newton-John released a version in 1971 and her recording reached No. 1 in Australia and No. 6 in the UK. Background The song is similar to other murder ballads in the idiom of songs such as "The Lexington Murder" and " The Knoxville Girl". These ballads may be traced back to the British broadside tradition of songs dated to at least the end of 18th century, such as "The Oxford Girl" and "The Berkshire Tragedy" (Roud 263; Laws P35), songs that may have been based on real events. In these songs, the murderer posing as the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolene (song)
"Jolene" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was produced by Bob Ferguson and recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee on May 22, 1973. It was released on October 15, 1973, by RCA Victor, as the first single and title track from her album of the same name. The song was ranked No. 217 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004 and No. 63 on their revised list in 2021. According to Parton, it is her most-covered song. Background According to Parton, the song was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband, Carl Dean, at his local bank branch around the time they were newly married. In an interview, she also revealed that Jolene's name and appearance are based on that of a young fan who came on stage for her autograph. The thumb-picked guitar on the recording is by Chip Young. During an interview on ''The Bobby Bones Show'' in 2018, Dolly Parton revealed that she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Not For You
"If Not for You" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his October 1970 album '' New Morning''. It was also issued as the A-side of a single in Europe in early 1971. The song is a love song to Dylan's first wife, Sara Dylan. He recorded it several times in 1970; the session for the released version took place in New York in August. He also recorded the song with George Harrison on May 1, soon after the break-up of the Beatles, a session that attracted much speculation in the music press. The May recording remained unreleased until its inclusion on '' The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased)'' in 1991. In November 1970, Harrison released a version of "If Not for You" on his triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. Another well-known cover was recorded by Olivia Newton-John in 1971, using Harrison's arrangement of the song. Newton-John's version became her first hit single, peaking at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the title track to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Live Love (Olivia Newton-John Song)
"Long Live Love" is a song by Australian singer, songwriter and actress Olivia Newton-John, released in 1974. It was the entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 in Brighton, United Kingdom. Background The song's composers, Valerie Avon and Harold Spiro, had worked together as staff writers for Belwin Mills Publishing since 1970 and had placed songs with several artists: Newton-John had recorded the Avon/Spiro composition "Don't Move Away" as a duet with Cliff Richard, the track serving as B-side to Richard's 1971 hit " Sunny Honey Girl". ''A Song For Europe'' "Long Live Love" was the third time Avon and Spiro had submitted a co-composition of theirs for consideration as the UK Eurovision entrant, having finished 4th in a field of six at with "Can I Believe" while at the Avon/Spiro composition "In My World of Beautiful Things" had finished 6th in a field of six. Newton-John introduced one of each of the six nominated songs on a broadcast of Jimmy Savile's '' Clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take Me Home, Country Roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver about West Virginia. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on ''Billboard''s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971. The song was a success on its initial release and was certified Gold by the RIAA on August 18, 1971, and Platinum on April 10, 2017. The song became one of John Denver's most popular songs. It has continued to sell, with over 1.6 million digital copies sold in the United States. The song is considered a symbol of West Virginia. In March 2014, it became one of the four official state anthems of West Virginia. Composition Inspiration for the title line had come while Nivert and Danoff, who were married, were driving along Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland to a Nivert family gathering in Gaithersburg, with Nivert behind the wheel while Danoff played his g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Not For You (album)
''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. Background and development In 1966, Newton-John released her debut single, a cover of Jackie DeShannon's "Till You Say You'll Be Mine" (with "For Ever" as B-side), by Decca Records. Later, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deeper Than The Night
"Deeper Than the Night" is a song by Olivia Newton-John. It was released as the second single from Newton-John's tenth studio album, '' Totally Hot''. The song reached No. 11 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 18 in Canada. On the adult contemporary charts it was a bigger hit, reaching No. 4 and No. 7 in those countries, respectively. It was also a minor hit in both the UK and Australia. Track listing and formats All tracks produced by John Farrar. *Australian 7-inch vinyl single (Interfusion Records) :A. "Deeper Than the Night" (Snow, Vastano) – 3:35 :B. "Please Don't Keep Me Waiting" (Joe Falsia, Stephen Sinclair) – 5:48 *UK 7-inch vinyl single ( EMI Records) :A. "Deeper Than the Night" (Snow, Vastano) – 3:35 :B. "Please Don't Keep Me Waiting" (Falsia, Sinclair) – 5:48 *US/Canadian 7-inch vinyl single (MCA Records MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later became part of Universal Music Group. Pre-history MCA Inc., a pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Have You Never Been Mellow (song)
"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. In the United States, the single became Newton-John's second consecutive number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, topping the chart in March 1975. It also topped the Adult Contemporary chart, and continued her success as a crossover artist when it peaked at number three on the Hot Country Songs chart. It also became her fourth consecutive single to received a Gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The single also reached number one in Canada, and peaked at number ten in Newton-John's native Australia. "Have You Never Been Mellow" was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards, but lost to Janis Ian's " At Seventeen". Track listing # "Have You Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
