48 Original Tracks [Original recording remastered] [Import]

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1994 release on EMI, a double disc set with 48 of her best, 1971-1975, all digitally remastered. Housed in a double jewel case with an eight page booklet of text and black & white photos, it features five of early top 40 hits, including the #1 smashes 'I Honestly Love You' & 'Have You Never Been Mellow', plus 'Please Mr. Please', 'Let Me Be There' & 'If Not For You', as well as covers of hits by Bread, George Harrison, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Kris Kristofferson, etc.

48 Original Tracks,Olivia Newton-John,EMI Int'l,Adult Contemporary,Country-Pop,Pop,Pop Vocals,Popular Music,Rock/Pop,Soft Rock

48 Original Tracks [Original recording remastered] [Import]

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"Best" collections always leave something out....
The entire OOP "Let me be there" CD is on here!!!
A Good Collection
An EXCELLENT portrait of Olivia's abounds of songs...
Excellent British compilation of early Olivia music

48 Original Tracks
Olivia Newton-John
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005RQN
Release Date: 1999-01-12

Tracks:

Love Song
Banks Of The Ohio
Me And Bobby McGee
If Not For You
Help Me Make It Through The Night
If You Could Read My Mind
In A Station
Where Are You Going To My Love
Lullaby
No Regrets
If I Gotta Leave
Would You Follow Me
If
It's So Hard To Say Goodbye
Winterwood
What Is Life
Changes
Everything I Own
I'm A Small And Lonely Light
Just A Little Too Much
Living In Harmony
Why Don't You Write Me
Angel Of The Morning
Mary Skeffington
If We Only Have Love

Tracks:

My Old Man's Got A Gun
Maybe Then I'll Think Of You
Amoureuse
Take Me Home Country Roads
I Love You, I Honestly Love You
Music Makes My Day
Heartbreaker
Leaving
You Ain't Got The Right
Feeling Best
Rosewater
Being On The Losing End
If We Try
Let Me Be There
Country Girl
Loving You Ain't Easy
Have Love Will Travel
Hands Across The Sea
Please Mr Please
The Air That I Breathe
Loving Arms
If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
Have You Never Been Mellow

Album Description

1994 release on EMI, a double disc set with 48 of her best, 1971-1975, all digitally remastered. Housed in a double jewel case with an eight page booklet of text and black & white photos, it features five of early top 40 hits, including the #1 smashes 'I Honestly Love You' & 'Have You Never Been Mellow', plus 'Please Mr. Please', 'Let Me Be There' & 'If Not For You', as well as covers of hits by Bread, George Harrison, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Kris Kristofferson, etc.

Album Details

Double digitally remastered collection of 48 tracks from the affable British born, Aussie raised songstress. Covers her career from the years 1971 to 1975 & features a mix of originals, reinterpretations & songs written expressly for her: Kris Kristofferson's 'Me & Bobby McGee', Gordon Lightfoot's 'If You Could Read My Mind', 'What is Life' (George Harrison), 'If Not for You' (Bob Dylan), 'Changes', 'Have You Never Been Mellow', & much more. Includes a biographical essay by Nigel Hunter.

Customer Reviews:

"Best" collections always leave something out...........2007-07-13

Great collection here; but there's always dissappointment that certain tunes are missing.
From her "IF YOU LOVE ME, LET ME KNOW" album I would have like to have seen included: "Free The People" and "The Rivers Too Wide".

Does ANYONE know WHY Oliva's "If You Love Me, Let Me Know" album is OOP?
Except for one on Amazon going for around $250!!!
No way Jose!

The entire OOP "Let me be there" CD is on here!!!.......2005-11-14

A Good Collection.......2004-12-30

One thing you learn about music, is unless you are a completist, the best way to go is a box set (Even if it is pricy, because you will always find some hidden gems in there (And this set is no different)). I am NOT a huge Olivia fan, I do not equate her with Patsy Cline, George Jones, George Strait, Led Zeppelin,or Elvis like some people here do (Not even close, in fact). I think her later material is very inferior "Jolene" comes to mind, and show tunes are not my style either. Besides the hits, you have some good material like "Banks Of The Ohio" and "Angel In The Morning", which are BOTH great songs as well as a couple of others. If you like country music (Like I do) it is marginally recommended. If not you should NOT get this set.

An EXCELLENT portrait of Olivia's abounds of songs..........2004-01-14

This album portrays the talent that the sexy, gorgeous country/pop superstar had in her early years--the early 1970's. There are many songs out there that Olivia had hits with before her pre-Grease and Xanadu days (Although, I feel "Xanadu" is an overlooked gem, despite the fact that movie was FLOP and the soundtrack shot up the charts)!
As I am only 19 years old, I am a fan of Olivia Newton-John. I feel proud to say I am. Many of my friends wonder why I listen to this kind of music (IT is good!) and much to their chagrin, I am not going to change. I grew up listening to her old records--which i had acquired from my mom and other relatives--especially her 1975 realease "Have You Never Been Mellow," "Greatest Hits" "Grease" and "Greatest Hits, VOL. 2"
I first got 48 Original Tracks as a Birthday gift back in 1999. This, at the time, before I had acess to the internet was my only source for finding her early songs such as the following: "Let Me Be There," "Loving Arms," "The Air That I Breathe" and many others as I only had them on vinyl! Although there are many songs on this album that I didnt know, after listening to them, one can not help but to grow fond of them or not like them at all--if you are a die hard Olivia fan like I am, one will enjoy the plethora of music contained on the two discs of this collection.
To hear Olivia sing Kris Kristofferson's "Me And Bobby McGee" and "Help Me Make It Through The Night" is awesome because, I believe and feel, that it adds Olivia to that long list of singers who have coverd Kristofferson's songs which is a plus for her. Despite the fact that Roger Miller, Lynn Anderson, Sammi Smith, and many others, Olivia ranks on the top of my list with her versions of "Help Me..." and "Me And...".
From 1974's "If You Love Me" LP, another old favorite of mine is here "You Ain't Got The Right." Although Dr. Hook--yes, Dr. Hook--wrote and performed the song, Olivia breaks another barrier by covering songs from another great 70's/80's band that had a totally different image than what she had.
Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind," Bread's "If" and "Everything I Own," George Harrison's "What Is Life," Juice Newton's (The origianl artist's name escapes me at the moment, I know it is Mary_____) "Angel Of the Morning," John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads," Dr. Hooks "You Aint Got The Right," The Hollies' "The Air That I Breathe," "Loving Arms," and Gerry Rafferty's "Mary Skeffington" have added to my collections of home made Greatest Hits of Olivia. These songs add Olivia's own interpretations and her country, yet soft pop sound to these songs. IT is a pleasure to put these tracks from the cd into my cd player and just listen for hours! Recently, I was asked by a aunt to put together a Olivia Newton-John greatest hits collection, so many of the songs that I have listed above, in addition to all those that appeared on her US release, "Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits" all appear on what I call my "pre-Grease Olivia!"
If you are still reading this, thank you! Excuse my grammar/convention errors as I am just spilling how I feel about one of the greatest female singers to have hit the charts!

Excellent British compilation of early Olivia music.......2003-05-18

This collection includes three rarities - Would you follow me, Maybe then I'll think of you and It's so hard to say goodbye, which didn't appear on any album. The remaining tracks are from her first five original Australian albums - every song from her debut, If not for you, nearly every song from her next two, Olivia and Let me be there, and some tracks from Long live love and Have you never been mellow. All those albums were released in Britain, but America discovered her later so releases there were different.

Among the best known songs here are If not for you (a Bob Dylan composition that gave Olivia her first hit), Banks of the Ohio, What is life, Take me home country roads (a hit for John Denver in America but it was Olivia who had the UK hit), I honestly love you, Let me be there, Please Mr please, If you love me let me know and Have you never been mellow. All those songs were hits either in Britain or America.

Olivia could also write songs and is represented here by two songs, Changes and Rosewater, but there are also many other great original songs.

You also get Olivia's excellent covers of Me and Bobby McGee, Help me make it through the night (both Kris Kristofferson), If you could read my mind (Gordon Lightfoot), No regrets (which later became a British hit for the Walker brothers), If (Bread), Winterwood (Don McLean), Everything I own (Bread), Angel of the morning (which has been a hit for several singers), Mary Skeffington (Gerry Rafferty), Amoreuse (Kiki Dee), If we try (Don McLean), Air that I breathe (Hollies) and Loving arms (Elvis Presley).

Committed fans may wish to consider that all the original albums have been re-mastered in Australia with even better sound quality, but there's nothing wrong with the sound quality here, and there are those three tracks that aren't available elsewhere.