Definitive Collection

Definitive Collection Artist: Olivia Newton-John
Label: Universal
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731458427926
EAN: 0731458427926
ASIN: B000066S0S


Release Date: 2002-05-02

Definitive Collection


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Tracks:

  1. You're The One That I Want
  2. Xanadu
  3. Magic
  4. Sam
  5. I Honestly Love You
  6. Hopelessly Devoted To You
  7. Suddenly
  8. I Need Love
  9. Little More Love
  10. Summer Nights
  11. Physical
  12. What Is Life
  13. Heart Attack
  14. Landslide
  15. Make A Move On Me
  16. Have You Ever Been Mellow
  17. Deeper Than The Night
  18. Banks Of The Ohio
  19. Take Me Home Country Roads
  20. Long Live Love
  21. If Not For You
  22. Grease Megamix (You're The One That I Want/Summer Nig

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  1. Olivia: The Singles

Album Description

2002 compilation featuring 22 tracks including the bonus track, 'The Grease Megamix' (You're The One That I Want/Summer Nights/Grease Lightning).

Album Details

22 Track Definitve Collection Including Th 'grease' Megamix as a Bonus Track.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Definitive British hits collection.......2004-10-18

Like most major artists, Olivia has had some truly international hits but has had other hits that have charted in just one or two countries. This British compilation contains all except two of her UK hits, both of them minor and neither of them essential. Note that fifteen of the twenty-one tracks that can be found on the American compilation (Magic - Very best of) from a few years back. So if you've got that, you probably don't need this.

Olivia established her position in the UK pop charts a few years before breaking through in America. This compilation contains all those early hits (If not for you, Banks of the Ohio, What is life. Take me home country roads, Long live love). None of those charted for Olivia in America and are therefore omitted from the American compilation. Olivia's next two UK hits (I honestly love you, Sam) both charted in America too and can be found on both compilations. However, during that time Olivia had a lot of American hits that didn't chart in Britain (Let me be there, If you love me let me know, Have you never been mellow, Please Mr Please, Come on over, Don't stop believing) so those are omitted from this compilation.

Olivia's most commercially successful period music began in 1978 with the release of Grease, featuring two major international hit duets with John Travolta (You're the one that I want, Summer nights), which both topped the UK charts, plus a solo ballad, Hopelessly devoted to you, which made number two. The follow-up album yielded two further hits (A little more love, Deeper than the night).

Next came Xanadu, Olivia's third and last UK number one hit, this time featuring ELO. It is odd that Olivia had three UK chart-toppers but none of them were solo recordings. She was far more successful in America where she had several solo number one hits. Following Xanadu came the outstanding ballad, Magic, which was only a minor UK hit but it was one of her biggest American hits. It was followed by Suddenly, a duet with Cliff Richard that made the UK top ten.

Then came Physical, a monster American hit although it didn't make the UK top ten. The follow-up, Landslide, did make the UK top ten and is included here although omitted from the American compilation. Make a move on me and Heart attack were both minor UK hits. Another minor UK hit, Twist of fate, is one of only UK hits omitted from this collection although it is included on that American compilation.

A revival of interest in Olivia's greatest triumph took The Grease megamix into the UK top three but the follow-up, The dream mix, was only a minor UK hit and is not included either here or on the American compilation, which also omits Olivia's final UK hit, I need love.

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  1. Living Together ~ Vermont
  2. Rose Clouds of Holocaust
  3. Dead Ends and Girlfriends ~ Allister
  4. Quietly Rusting ~ Brian Cadd
  5. Road Movies ~ Minibar
  6. Bucks Fizz ~ Bucks Fizz
  7. California Rock ~ Various Artists
  8. Silk Degrees ~ Boz Scaggs
  9. Killer: The Mercury Years, Vol. 2 (1969-1972) ~ Jerry Lee Lewis
  10. The Scavenger Bride ~ Black Tape for a Blue Girl

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Four Corners Suite ~ Scott Moulton

Puente in Percussion ~ Tito Puente

Evolution ~ Jeff Niess

Port of Call ~ Silje Nergaard

Soul Song ~ Archie Shepp

Novo Millennium: Infantil ~ Various Artists

MTV: O Melhor Dos Acusticos ~ Various Artists

Rio ~ Uri Caine

Baby Aperitivo: Pure Essence ~ Various Artists

Quadros Modernos ~ Toninho Horta, Chiquito Braga, Juarez Mor