Clearly Love

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Clearly Love
Studio album by Olivia Newton-John
Released	1975
Recorded	1975
Genre	Adult contemporary
Label	MCA
Producer(s)	John Farrar
Olivia Newton-John chronology
Have You Never Been Mellow (1975)	Clearly Love (1975)	Come On Over (1976)

Clearly Love was an album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1975.

"Something Better To Do" and "Let It Shine" were released as singles from this album, with the latter single (in the U.S.) featuring Newton-John's version of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" as its B-side, which also received some airplay. Both singles were #1 Adult Contemporary chart hits in the United States, but performed comparatively poorly on the Billboard Hot 100 at #13 and #30 respectively, the beginning of a decline at Newton-John's popularity at Top 40 radio in the U.S. that would not be reversed until her starring role in the movie musical Grease in 1978.

The album's peak of #12 in the U.S. was also something of a disappointment, considering that Newton-John's previous two albums, If You Love Me, Let Me Know and Have You Never Been Mellow, had both reached #1. Nevertheless, the album did earn a gold record, and both of the album's singles were Top 20 country chart hits, with "Something Better To Do" at #19 and "Let It Shine" (written by Nashville songwriter Linda Hargrove) at #5. In the United Kingdom it was a different story, as neither the album nor its singles charted at all there. The market in which the album was most successful in terms of chart position was probably Japan, where Clearly Love reached #3 on the Oricon album chart.

[edit] Track listing

Side One

1. Something Better To Do (by John Farrar)
2. Lovers (by Mickey Newbury)
3. Slow Down Jackson (by Michael Brourmann and Karen Gottlieb)
4. He's My Rock (by S.K. Dobbins)
5. Salin Into Tomorrow (by John Farrar)

Side Two

1. Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying (by Labi Siffre)
2. Clearly Love (by Diane Berglund and Jim Phillips)
3. Let It Shine (by Linda Hargrove)
4. Summertime Blues (by Eddie Cochran)
5. Just A Lot Of Folk (The Marshmallow Song) (by Diane Berglund and Jim Phillips)
6. He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother (by Bobby Scott and Bob Russell)