Product Description
Title: Olivia Newton-John – The 1976 New Year’s Eve Concert Format: CD Label: Gonzo Cat Num: Barcode: 5056083210572
Release date: March 17th 2023
Two years before becoming the world’s favourite high-school sweetheart, Olivia Newton-John was celebrating the release of her seventh and eighth studio albums (Come On Over and Don’t Stop Believin’, both 1976) as a British-Australian entertainer with a line in claiming US country-pop standards as her own.
Her global appeal was in evidence in December 1976, when she performed live at the Budokan, in Tokyo, Japan, delivering vibrant performances of John Denver’s ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ and ‘Jolene’ alongside a plaintive rendition of her Billboard chart-topper ‘I Honestly Love You’.
Her star-making turn as Sandra Dee, in Grease, would catapult her to even greater heights, but New Year’s Eve Concert, 1976 captures a lesser-known Olivia Newton-John on the verge of worldwide fame and more than ready to embrace it.
Track Listings
1 | Intro / Radio Commentator |
2 | Jolene |
3 | Radio Break / commercials |
4 | Take Me Home, Country Roads |
5 | Let It Shine |
6 | Dont Stop Believing |
7 | Radio Break / Commercials |
8 | Let Me Be There |
9 | Pony Ride |
10 | Never the Less |
11 | As Time Goes By |
12 | Radio Break / Commercials |
13 | My Love Is Alive |
14 | New Born Babe |
15 | Have You Ever Been Mellow? |
16 | Radio Break / Street Interviews |
17 | Uptown, Uptempo Woman |
18 | Radio Break |
19 | If You Love Me Let Me Know |
20 | I Honestly Love You |