If You Love Me, Let Me Know

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If You Love Me, Let Me Know

Studio album by Olivia Newton-John

Released

May 1974

Recorded

1973, 1974

Genre

Country/Adult contemporary

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link

Olivia Newton-John chronology

Long Live Love
(1974)

If You Love Me, Let Me Know
(1974)

Have You Never Been Mellow
(1975)

If You Love Me, Let Me Know was a United States and Canada-only album by singer Olivia Newton-John, released in 1974. Half of the tracks on the album are from her European and Australian release, Long Live Love, and half are new additions. The result of picking Newton-John's stronger tracks plus newer singles in the same vein led to the album earning widespread critical acclaim and strong album sales in North America.

It was the first of two Newton-John albums to top the Billboard 200 pop albums chart, the second being Have You Never Been Mellow the following year. Two hit singles were culled from the LP in the U.S.: the title song and "I Honestly Love You", the latter of which became Newton-John's first #1 single in the U.S. Both songs reached the top 10 of the U.S. Pop, Adult Contemporary and Country charts, affirming Newton-John's status as the top female country-crossover star of the day and continuing the chart hot streak begun with the Grammy-winning "Let Me Be There" the previous year.

The title track ranks as Olivia's highest charting single on the country charts, reaching #2, although she would have many more top 10 hits to come.

[edit] Track listing

Side One

"If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" (by John Rostill)
"Mary Skeffington" (by Gerry Rafferty)
"Country Girl"* (by Hawkshaw - Gosling)
"I Honestly Love You"* (by Peter Allen and Jeff Barry)
"Free the People"* (by Barbara Keith)

Side Two

"River's Too Wide"* (by Bob Morrison)
"Home Ain't Home Anymore"* (by John Farrar and Peter Robinson)
"God Only Knows"* (by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher)
"Changes" (by Olivia Newton-John)
"You Ain't Got the Right" (by Locorriere, Sawyer, Haffkine, David)

(* denotes a previous release outside the U.S. on Long Live Love)

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Billboard 200	1

[edit] External links

Preceded by Endless Summer by The Beach Boys	Billboard 200 number-one album October 12 - October 18, 1974	Succeeded by Not Fragile by Bachman-Turner Overdrive