Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John.

[Jesse Joe]

Photo: Time Life...



Photo: MSNBC...


This was found on the great Val's Site.

www.gordonlightfoot.com


Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John Record Cotton Jenny for Anne's Duets CD
May 29, 2007 -

Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John have recorded Cotton Jenny for Anne's upcoming Duets CD.

The track was recorded at the Capitol Recording studio in Los Angeles, and was produced by Phil Ramone.

Both Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John recorded a Lightfoot song early in their careers; Anne recorded Cotton Jenny and Olivia recorded If You Could Read My Mind, both released in 1971.

The Duets CD is scheduled for a Fall release.

[johnfowles]

I would suspect that not everybody knows that Olivia'a most successful career began in an "artificial" way
as it says on:-
http://www.onlyolivia.com/visual/toomorrow/about.html
"In 1970 Olivia made her second movie entitled Toomorrow. Don Kirshner, who had created the Monkees in 1965, wanted to repeat this success and manufacture another pop group. He teamed up with Harry Saltzman maker of the popular James Bond movies. The group Toomorrow was to be launched via the cinema and via an album and single"

(For some obscure reasion for me the above picture was exceedingly slow to download, it is not actually a very large file either(only 75994 bytes for a jpeg of only 74 by 432 pixels so dial-uppers be patient!)
"The film opened amidst much publicity Bruce Welch, who was Olivia's boyfriend at the time, had this to say about the film and music: "The film was a disgrace. It was reminiscent of so many of the low-budget pop pictures that were made during the early sixties, and the biggest let down of all was the music. It was all so lightweight""
Bruce was himself of course a member of (Sir) Cliff Richards's group The Shadows and Olivia went on to be one of the few girlfriends attributed to the never married Cliffie-boy.
She had a way of making sweet sounding covers of major folk hits.I especially like her cover of John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads"

[johnfowles]

And do try this duet one of my favourite Johhny Mathis songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRKxKP7IWl0

Royal Variety Show, UK 2005 Olivia Newton-John Cliff Richard perform live Twelfth Of Never
especially for Talbot10 there you go Billyboy!!
Bonus
also try:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=318pqg2_IgY

Cliff and Olivia Suddenly
and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDCBie4fEo

John Denver & Olivia Newton John on the Andy Williams Show
Dang I am on a dial up and my PCs sound system is on strike so I do not know whether on this paricular performance John and Olivia duetted on Country Roads , but from the comments it just might have been "Fly Away"
Anyroads Enjoy!!

[brink-]

Great John, thanks....I just spent hours on youtube again, you know one song leads to another and one singer makes you think of someone else, now I am going to clean the house!

[B45-12]

Originally posted by Jesse-Joe D18:


Photo: Time Life...



Photo: MSNBC...


This was found on the great Val's Site.

www.gordonlightfoot.com


Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John Record Cotton Jenny for Anne's Duets CD
May 29, 2007 -

Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John have recorded Cotton Jenny for Anne's upcoming Duets CD.

The track was recorded at the Capitol Recording studio in Los Angeles, and was produced by Phil Ramone.

Both Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John recorded a Lightfoot song early in their careers; Anne recorded Cotton Jenny and Olivia recorded If You Could Read My Mind, both released in 1971.

The Duets CD is scheduled for a Fall release.

That should be a good cover of Jenny.

Here is a photo from 2000....Anne being present the Juno Award by Glen Campbell and another distinguished gentleman in a suit.




FOOTNOTE: Anne Murray recorded a few songs written by a very good friend and former performing partner of mine (Tony Marty, Nashville).
Here's the Gord tie: Tony's song was called Harmony, and it became the single and the title of Anne's 1987 LP.
The album did not do so well, but the single was all over the radio for a few months. In order to get the placement on Anne's album - Tony had to sign a co-authors agreement with the person able to pitch the song.
It happened all the time back then. What a crock!

Very few singer/songwriters had the rank, power, clout - whatever, that Lightfoot and a few others had in those days.

SOUR NOTE: Tony had years of painful attempts to receive writers royalties on this project - and a few others that we all heard on the radio. This is no reflection on Anne...she most likely had no idea. PUBLISHERS!

[Borderstone]

Now I have to see that film with ONJ! :D I hope it comes out on $1 DVD.

It has to be better than her version of "IYCRMM".