Olivia Newton-John - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Only Olivia, BBC TV Theatre, London, Britain, 6-8-1977

Here's another BBC album by Olivia Newton-John. It's the third and last one I could find. This one makes up a single short concert, taken from a 1977 BBC TV special called "Only Olivia."

At the time of the concert, Newton-John wasn't nearly as popular in Britain as one might have suspected. She'd had some hits there in the early 1970s. But from 1974 to 1977, she only had two Top 40 hits in Britain, while she'd had 10 in the U.S. Some songs that were big in the U.S, such as "Have You Never Been Mellow," which reached Number Three, didn't chart in Britain at all. The one recent hit she'd had in Britain at the time of this special was "Sam," which made the Top Ten there in early 1977. So it's understandable why she would have wanted to do this BBC special to increase her profile there.

It seems not to have made much of a difference though, because the single she was promoting at the time, "Making a Good Thing Better," was another one that completely failed to even make the charts in Britain. But ultimately it didn't matter, because in 1978 she became a superstar worldwide with the release of the movie "Grease." Her next three singles in Britain, all from that movie, would be two Number Ones and one Number Two!

In the 1970s, there were lots of musical specials of TV, typically variety shows or one with a main star and lots of guest stars. But as the title says, this one was "only Olivia." Generally speaking, she sung her biggest hits until that time. However, one song, "Love Is Alive," is a cover of the 1976 hit single by Gary Wright, and she didn't put it on any of her studio albums. "Slow Dancing" was a song that she put on the album she was just releasing at the time ("Making a Good Thing Better"), but a version by Johnny Rivers also was becoming a big hit in the U.S. around the same time.

By the way, although I'm done posting BBC material by Newton-John, I found two more interesting unreleased albums from her in the course of finding these. I plan on posting them soon. 

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Let Me Be There - If You Love Me [Let Me Know] (Olivia Newton-John)
02 talk (Olivia Newton-John)
03 Have You Never Been Mellow (Olivia Newton-John)
04 Take Me Home, Country Roads (Olivia Newton-John)
05 Pony Ride (Olivia Newton-John)
06 Let It Shine (Olivia Newton-John)
07 Slow Dancing (Olivia Newton-John)
08 Love Is Alive (Olivia Newton-John)
09 Please Mr. Please (Olivia Newton-John)
10 Nevertheless - As Time Goes By (Olivia Newton-John)
11 Sam (Olivia Newton-John)
12 Making a Good Thing Better (Olivia Newton-John)
13 talk (Olivia Newton-John)
14 I Honestly Love You (Olivia Newton-John) 

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The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. The font also was the one used for title of the TV show.