Search - Olivia Newton-John :: Come on Over

ONJ-"Come on Over"

G. Rose | Southwest Kansas | 09/24/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"..I owned this album on "vinyl" as a teen-ager, so the CD was just a replacemnt of that old album...."

Olivia - The Easy Listening Era

"Tee" | LA | 11/21/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Consider how phenomenally popular Olivia Newton-John was in America from 1973 to 1985, it's surprising how few of her vintage albums from this period are available on CD in the States. It's perhaps even more surprising one of the few that is available in 1976's COME ON OVER, one of her least selling albums from the period and one featuring only one single release, the title track.



The album boasts of course a beautiful cover as well as one of Olivia's best performances on the sensational title track, which raised a few eyebrows back in 1976 being Olivia's first attempt to moving away from her sugary G-rated image with it's invitation to "lay your body down". Other than her early attempt at a dance track, "It'll Be Me" and three covers of country hits (Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", Dolly Parton's "Jolene", Lynn Anderson's "Smile for Me") this album is as MOR/Easy Listening as anything Olivia has ever recorded and so soft and low-key it's almost a Ray Coniff album. Highlights include the romantic "Wrap Me in Your Arms", the regret-tinged "Small Talk and Pride", and "Who Are You Now" and a surprisingly choice for a 1970's pop album, the 18th century ballad "Greensleeves". Perhaps too relaxed for it's own good, COME ON OVER was Olivia's last album recorded in England, thereafter she recorded in the United States and after a couple of more modest successes solidified her popularity with her 1978-81 releases."