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| Studio album by Olivia Newton-John | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Genre | Pop music, Country music | |||
| Label | Festival Records | |||
| Producer | Bruce Welch and John Farrar | |||
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Olivia is the second album from the singer Olivia Newton-John. Two of its songs were released as singles ("What Is Life" and "My Old Man's Got a Gun"). In its initial release, it was not issued in the United States, though it was sold there as an import. A digitally remastered version was released in 1995.
Olivia was a commercial failure when released in the UK on Pye International in 1972, as the follow-up to 1971's If Not for You. An American release of the LP never materialized, nor did a single. Therefore, the record label did not want to risk a release of the album in the United States on Uni Records, her U.S. label at the time. Newton-John's subseqyent release, Let Me Be There, would reach a sales position (U.K Chart: 37) that would earn it the certification "Gold".
The cover art, done in blue tint, was later used (in a blueish-green tint) as the cover of the U.S. release of Let Me Be There on MCA Records in 1973 following the success of the hit single penned by John Rostill.
A digitally-remastered reissue of the 1972 album came out in the 1990s on the Festival label, complete with the original cover art. Not released in the United States, Olivia contains 14 tracks, including covers of Bread's Everything I Own, George Harrison's "What Is Life" and "Behind That Locked Door" and Merrilee Rush's Angel of the Morning.
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