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Olivia Newton-John – Physical
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Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick wrote “Physical” with a male vocalist in mind, originally envisioning someone like Rod Stewart (who hit #1 a couple years earlier with “Da Ya Think
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Olivia Newton-John – Magic
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After ONJ became an international star in 1978 with the success of the film Grease (and its soundtrack), her next film Xanadu, a roller-skating, disco fantasy flick, was considered
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Olivia Newton-John – Greensleeves
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Alas, my love, you do me wrong / To cast me off discourteously / And I have loved you oh so long / Delighting in your company / Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my
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Olivia Newton-John – Boats Against the Current
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I know it's over / You know it's over / We're just goin' through the motions / But we're sailing separate oceans, worlds apart / And you know it's breakin' my heart / I was a
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Religious Music / Hymns – Amazing Grace
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“Amazing Grace” is a Christian hymn, published in 1779 by English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725-1807). Newton had no faith in God for much of his life, and was a navy seaman
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Olivia Newton-John – Silvery Rain
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[VERSE 1] / Butterflies danced on invisible strings / Showing wings they borrowed from a rainbow / And a blackbird on high sang a praise to the sky / While a light aeroplane
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Olivia Newton-John – Come On Over
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[Verse 1] / If my life gets like a jigsaw / With the pieces out of place / Come on over / Put a smile back on my face / [Verse 2] / And if all my bad days came at once / You would
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Olivia Newton-John – Gaia
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I am your mother - born of the sun / I gave you shelter - what have you done? / Your heart's in turmoil - my world's in pain / I need to turn you back home again / I am a woman - I
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Olivia Newton-John – Totally Hot
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I want you / But takin' it easy ain't an easy thing to do / And I want you, want you / You must know / Cause baby I can't begin to keep it in / Our love is so hot, totally hot
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Olivia Newton-John – Who Are You Now?
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Somebody said "Tomorrow never brings nothing new" / Wasn't that someone you? / Who are you now? / Don't I remember someone standing outside the door / Wasn't that you before? / Who
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Olivia Newton-John – Compassionate Man
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Love you were kind and much older / Foolish but wiser than me / Am I becoming an anchor / Holding you back from the sea / Restlessly you stand there, crying silently / It must be
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John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – Take A Chance (Remastered 2001)
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[Verse 1: Olivia Newton-John] / Could it be we're the perfect pair? / Have it all if we'd only dare / I have dreamed of a night like this / Maybe you will end my loneliness / [
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Olivia Newton-John – Tied Up
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“Tied Up” was a single released from ONJ’s greatest hits compilation album Olivia’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2.. It peaked at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #54 in Australia in 1983.
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Olivia Newton-John (Ft. Electric Light Orchestra) – Xanadu
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The word Xanadu showed up in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Xanadu is the fictional name of the land where Khubla Khan ordered the dome to be built
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Olivia Newton-John – Have You Never Been Mellow
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Have You Never Been Mellow topped the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary chart in March of 1975. It even peaked at #3 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart.
It also
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Olivia Newton-John – Electric
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From the beginning / I was on to you / But like a magnet / I was drawn to you / Don't leave me waiting here in the dark / Switch off the static of a broken heart / We're holding a
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Olivia Newton-John – Back with a Heart
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Every day the pain dies a little / I'm not at the end but I'm way past the middle / I know when I'm all healed up / I'll be back with a heart and ready to love / Good as new or
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Olivia Newton-John – (Livin' In) Desperate Times
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Never thought it would be so rough / And I wonder if I have enough / To keep from breaking down / No mercy in this town / Every day is just another test / Seems I'm always second
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Olivia Newton-John – If
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[Verse 1] / If a picture paints a thousand words / Then why can't I paint you / The words will never show / The you I've come to know / [Verse 2] / If a face could launch a
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The Bled – John Wayne Newton
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Shine on spotlight cadaver / What have you become? / Come get your glamour fix / Pushed into vein / Shine on sweet medicated kisses / I won't watch you die / Your surrogate funeral
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Olivia Newton-John – Attention
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Here in my heart, there's the truth / But no one could love me like you / But lately you seem so far away / Pretending that you hear what I say / It's all I can do to get some
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Olivia Newton-John – Clearly Love
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Where am I when you're not here / I see you but we're not clear / You wouldn't know / How could I show you / Where to look when I'm not here / You can hold and have me near / But
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Olivia Newton-John – Toughen Up
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He's the kind that takes the line of least resistance / In this situation cupid needs assistance / I can tell you this in confidence / You should learn a little self-defense
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Olivia Newton-John – Dancin' 'Round and 'Round
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I'm gonna go out tonight / Gonna feel alright / If it tears me right in two / 'Cause I just can't stay feeling this way / With a heart that's full of you / I'm gonna go right down
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Olivia Newton-John – Have Love Will Travel
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Yesterday it was all over / Thought I'd lost the love of my life / He took a one-way ticket on an east-bound train / Told me he was never coming back again / But I just got a
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Olivia Newton-John – Heart Attack
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“Heart Attack” was a single released from Olivia Newton-John’s compliation album Olivia’s Greatest Hits Vol 2. .
The song peaked at #2 in Canada and #3 in the US in late 1982. It
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Olivia Newton-John – Small Talk and Pride
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We never really had the chance to let each other know / We never really had the time to let our feelings show / Small talk kept us going / When the only words to say / Were how I
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Olivia Newton-John – Let Go Let God
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When you can't find your direction / And your heart won't guide you home / Let Go / Let God / When your dreams are broken in the dust / And you've lost the will to trust / Let Go
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Olivia Newton-John – The Long and Winding Road
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The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear / I've seen that road before / It always leads me here / Leads me to your door / The wild and windy night
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Olivia Newton-John – A Thousand Conversations
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A thousand conversations on a neverending theme / Seem to linger in my mind like the fragments of a dream / That was once a part of you and remains a part of me / It's the unreal
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Olivia Newton-John – Twist Of Fate (Remastered 2021)
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[Verse 1] / Do we deserve a second chance? / How did we fall into this circumstance? / We weren't so straight and narrow / This is much more than we deserve / A higher voice has
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Olivia Newton-John – And in the Morning
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[Intro] / Ah-ah-ahh, ah-ah-ahh / Ah-ah-ahh / Ahh-ahh / Ah-ah-ahh, ah-ah-ahh / Ah-ah-ahh / Ahh-ahh / [Verse 1] / In the early morning when I'm lying by your side / Doubts go through
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Olivia Newton-John – Warm and Tender
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Warm and tender is my prayer for your world / That I surrender to my girl / All my life I've waited for the angel you are / You're the dream that I knew you'd be / And I love you
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Olivia Newton-John – Overnight Observation
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Looks like I'm the only one here / Even the nurse is gone / But I guess I should wait cause when she left, she said / The doctor won't be long / So make yourself at home / His
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Olivia Newton-John – Serenity
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And when the shadow descend again / Give me the eyes / To see / And when the silence / Stills my lips / Give me the words / To speak / Accept the things I can't change / And change
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Olivia Newton-John – Falling
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[VERSE 1] / You won't regret falling / The bruises you get falling / Will all fade away / Don't analyze falling / Don't try being wise falling / Forget all your plans / They're out
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Olivia Newton-John – Deeper Than the Night
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I can't imagine why you say the things you do / Maybe in time I'll understand / What is the reason for the emptiness you feel / When I'm trying everything I can / My love is
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Olivia Newton-John – Country Girl
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I was born in the country, I was raised with the sun / The flowers were my pillow when the day's work was done / Down in the valley shone the bright neon signs / The call of the
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Olivia Newton-John – I Need Love
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It's nothing personal / In other circumstances / Another place, another time / I would take my chances / Oh, I know I could take you home tonight / But I don't want to wake up with
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Olivia Newton-John – Silent Ruin
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Wash the blood from my hands / Take the pain from my heart / I just can't understand / What it is that we do / What's the thread running through / The heritage of man / How can I
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Olivia Newton-John – I Want to Be Wanted
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Alone / So alone that I could cry / I want to be wanted / Alone / Watching lovers passing by / I want to be wanted / When I am kissed I want his lips to really kiss me / When we're
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Olivia Newton-John – I'm a Small and Lonely Light
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The stairs are dark and silent / The morning cold and gray / A last look at the things I knew / And slowly turn away / And as I watch the scenery unwind / My childhood slips a
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Olivia Newton-John – Love Is a Gift
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Here we are at last, suddenly the pieces fit / All at once, I make sense of this crazy world / Loved you for so long, now your hand is holdin' mine / It's like we're standing still
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Olivia Newton-John – Carried Away
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[VERSE 1] / There you are / Shiny as a morning star / It's a figure of speech / But you're still out of reach / You never told me loving you could be so wrong and right / And it's
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