- OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - VIDEO GOLD I (DVD MOVIE)
Pop icon, OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, celebrates legendary women singers. Take a moment to reflect with OLIVIA as she honors and recalls how her life was inspired by the songs and artists of Portraits. This CD was born out of love and respect for these singers and their songs - it pays tribute to some of the women who inspired, delighted and influenced me in the formative years of my career, or touched my life in some way. I have wanted to record this CD for many years. In five magical days, at Indigo Recording Studios, in the remote hills of Malibu, I recorded this CD with Phil Ramone at the helm. It fell into place quickly - like it was meant to be. Each song has a distinct place and wonderful memory attached to it and I am forever grateful to the artists, the writers, the musicians and the producers for the wonderful feast of music that! helped form my musical tastes and touched my heart.The companion CD to the double DVD collection features 20 of Olivia's greatest hits at mid-price, with Live In Concert versions of 'Hopelessly Devoted', 'You're The One That I Want', 'Suddenly' and more. Olivia Newton-John skillfully made the transition from popular country-pop singer to popular mainstream soft rock singer, becoming one of the most successful vocalists of the '70s in the process. As a country singer, her first five charting singles all went Top Ten in the U.S.; as a pop singer, she had no less than 15 Top Ten hits, including five number one singles, highlighted by ‘Physical’, which spent ten weeks at number one in 1981-1982. Newton-John's sweet voice suited both country-pop and soft rock perfectly, which is what kept her at the top of the charts until the mid-'80s. Olivia just released her new album titled Indigo Women Of Song and is currently on tour through the end of the year in the states. Festiva! l. 2005.1. Deeper Than The Night
2. A Little More Love â€"! (Versio n I)
3. Totally Hot
4. Landslide
5. Magic
6. Physical
7. Carried Away
8. A Little More Love â€" (Version II)
9. Recovery
10. The Promise (The Dolphin Song)
11. Love Make Me Strong
12. Stranger’s Touch
13. Make A Move On Me
14. Falling
15. Silvery Rain
16. Hopelessly Devoted To You
17. Let Me Be There (Live)
18. Please Mr. Please (Live)
19. If You Love Me, Let Me Know (Live)Olivia Newton-John: Video Gold 1 kicks off its anthology of 19 music videos with three shorts spun from Newton-John's 1979 Totally Hot album. "Deeper Than the Night," "A Little More Love," and "Totally Hot," all directed by Alan Metter, are buoyant mini-productions. The first two are anchored by scenes of Newton-John singing in the studio and posing for publicity shots, the last video more playful as the smashing blonde turns heads on the street and dances with a hunky fellow cast as a shutterbug. The next 13 short! s, amazingly, were originally included on the video collection Physical; 10 of those are tied to tracks on Newton-John's 1981 album of the same name. (Among the other three is a post-Grease take on Newton-John's hit from that movie, "Hopelessly Devoted to You." Unfortunately, it doesn't work as a sincere performance by a mature woman, as presented here. It's hard not to hear the song, instead, as intended: A schoolgirl's sigh from a nostalgic comedy.)
Of the Physical-based (the album, that is) material, the famous video of the same name still looks clever, with Newton-John playing a sleek, aerobics devotee inspiring a lot of chubby men to exercise by jumping on them, talking into their ears, etc. A surreal streak runs through a few shorts, especially "Recovery," in which the singer rides a horse through a desert, encounters a cage full of men in tuxedoes (what a warm shoot that must have been), and wanders through a painting. The final three perfor! mances, all live and all from the Olivia in Concert vid! eo, feat ure some of Newton-John's best material, including the country-flavored hits "Let Me Be There" and "If You Love Me, Let Me Know." --Tom Keogh
