Est ce que le mois de septembre nous apportera quelques réjouissances ? C'est toujours le silence absolu et pesant concernant d'éventuels projets musicaux ..
Devrons nous attendre la Wellness Walk à la fin du mois pour que les choses se déclenchent .. histoire de ne pas provoquer d'interférences !
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Il nous reste le passé pour se réjouir de ce qu'ONJ a réalisé !
Septembre, c'est les anniversaires de :
TIS THE SEASON ( 01/09/2000)
STRONGER THAN BEFORE (01/09/2005)
GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2 ( 3/09/1982)
WARM AND TENDER ( 9/09/1989)
ONE WOMAN'S LIVE JOURNEY (19/09/2000)
L'anniversaire d'Olivia ( le 26 ) et la Wellness Walk !
Song History: Recorded by Olivia Newton-John. The follow-up single to her huge U.S. #1 Hit Physical, it peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
TOM SNOW: When I was in music school I entertained the romantic notion of one day finding a mentor or musical advisor who would provide encouragement, constructive criticism, philosophical wisdom, and anything else I needed to expand my learning and broaden my horizon. Never happened. Had to learn, as I imagine 99% of my colleagues did, the hard way. Trial and error, on my own.
I did find, however, a great example in John Farrar of what it takes to excel at the art of songwriting. Until I worked with John I didn’t fully understand the lengths one needed to go to in order to craft a hit song. He taught by example and knowing John I’m sure he never realized it. He just did what he did and I was smart enough to pay close attention to the way a master craftsman works.
I consider my collaboration with John to be the single most important learning experience of my career. It was the moment I became a Professional. (Hopefully I have passed the knowledge on to someone else.)
“Make A Move On Me” was a fun song to write. We started with a blank page and over a period of two or three weeks pulled the tune out of thin air. When we recorded the track in David Holman’s Laurel Canyon garage John had me playing the underlying synthesizer riff over and over until it was perfectly “quantized”.
Ah, the days before powerful sequencing programs and one touch buttons to make everything sound swell.”Make A Move On Me” is a personal favorite of mine as it has a sophisticated harmonic foundation, traveling from the key of A minor to E flat major and back again while managing to sound uncomplicated.
We came up with a pretty cute lyric, too. It was the follow up to Steve Kipner’s smash, “Let’s Get Physical”, which had the effect of making it the quietest million selling single of the year. It was a privilege and a whole lot of fun working with John. I was blessed to have done so.
FROM POPMATTERS : John Farrar and Tom Snow led each other to new heights with “Make a Move On Me”, arguably the duo’s crowning achievement as collaborators. “Tom and I both loved chord structures,” says Farrar. “Sometimes he would play the chord sequence and I would play a melody on the top or vice versa. With ‘Make a Move on Me’, I remember I couldn’t come up with anything in the verse. Tom came up with that synth part that was great.” The high-pitched melody that Snow conceived for the intro primed listeners for three minutes of pop bliss.
“‘Make a Move on Me’ has three distinct tonal centers,” says Snow. “It starts off in F and then goes to A-minor and then John figured a way to get it to E-flat in the chorus. He came up with that brilliant [sings] ‘Won’t you spare me all the charms and take me in your arms / I can’t wait’. It was amazing. There are very few pop songs that have that kind of harmonic structure to it. I thought we did a hell of a good job on that one.
“John had Carlos Vega come in to do the drum loop and I believe he came back a second time to fill out the track. I came up with the bass line. John loved it and had me play it. He said, ‘Let’s make a loop!’ I’d be sitting there in David’s studio, sweating, trying to get it absolutely perfect, doing manually what Pro Tools does with a button now. We didn’t have sequencers at that point. John would say, ‘Do it again Tom. It’s almost there.’ That went on for a couple of hours until it was absolutely spot-on, in the pocket. I think we made a four-bar loop. David cut the loop and then edited it into other parts of the tune.”
Sonically, “Make a Move on Me” is a shining paragon of synthesized sounds. The Prophet-5 synthesizer, in particular, polished the song with a warm, high-tech gloss. “When the Prophet-5 came out, it had this milky, sweet sound,” Holman notes. “It was one of the best-sounding things. The Oberheim was kind of cool but the Prophet fit so well into the recordings and it was just a fabulous instrument. It looked really sexy.”
Newton-John only amplified the sexiness of “Make a Move on Me” as her voice conveyed everything from simmering desire to unmitigated euphoria.
ONJ en mode présentatrice lors des DORIANS TV TOAST AWARDS 2021 .. à la minute 55:05 ... et le reste si vous voulez voir les autres présentateurs et prix reçus ...
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ou la version "short" posté par Karel !
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OFFICIAL CHARTS
Le 30 aout 1980, DAVID BOWIE est toujours N°1 du classement anglais des meilleures ventes de 45t !
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Olivia Newton-John, elle, se hisse dans le même classement à la 32ème place avec MAGIC fraichement rentré dans le TOP ... à l'inverse XANADU chute à la 47ème !
La soundtrack de XANADU grimpe de 2 places dans le TOP75 des meilleures ventes de 33t !
Singer Olivia Newton John performs onstage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, August 29, 1982.
TAPIS ROUGE
Singer Olivia Newton-John and husband Matt Lattanzi attend the "Out There Tonight" Opening Night Performance on August 29, 1990 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Le 29 aout 1992, le deuxième extrait de la compilation BACK TO BASICS, DEEPER THAN A RIVER grimpe à la 35ème place du classement BILLBOARD HOT ADULT CONTEMPORARY !
KAY : Rolling Stone Magazine Germany have a short feature on Physical's 40th ANN. in their September edition!!!!!
THE DAILY EXPRESS
The Saturday briefing
Daily Express
By KAY HARRISON
What year did Olivia Newton-John sing for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest ?
Where was it held and how did she do?
Paul Caffrey, Temple Bar, Dublin
A Years before she played Sandy in Grease, Newton-John enjoyed a fair amount of fame in the UK as a pop singer, scoring top 10 hits with covers of Bob Dylan and George Harrison tracks in 1971 and 1972.
Newton-John, who was born in Cambridge but moved to Australia when she was five, was chosen to represent the UK at Eurovision in 1974.
Out of six possible entries, the British public chose Long Live Love, although she preferred the runner-up,Angel Eyes.
Long Live Love should not be confused with Long Live Love by former Eurovision winner Sandie Shaw, a different song which gave Shaw her second number one in 1965.
The 1974 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Brighton on April 6. Newton-John performed second that night and came in fourth place.You may have heard of the winners that night.
They were a Swedish band called Abba, performing Waterloo.
Long Live Love became the title track of Newton-John’s next album, which featured her Song for Europe material.
Over the next few years she became a huge star in the US, before dominating the charts with Grease co-star John Travolta.
Le 28 aout 1971, IF NOT FOR YOU version Olivia Newton-John concède sa première place dans le classement BILLBOARD TOP50 EASY LISTENING au groupe CHICAGO !! Joli score pour une australo-anglaise même pas installée aux USA !
Dans le classement HOT100, IF NOT FOR YOU se hisse à la 26ème place et ce sans promotion particulière !
Que saura t-on de cet enregistrement ? Au final .. ONJ n'aimait pas cette chanson .. mais ses producteurs pensaient que le coté folk lui sied à merveille ... un de ses chiens a heurté le micro pendant l'enregistrement ce qui fait sourire ONJ lorsqu'elle la re écoute .... c'est aussi la chanson favorite de son second mari et .. à l'époque des réseaux sociaux .. elle n'a fait cas des 50 ans de ce morceaux merveilleusement interprété !
ON THIS DAY
PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - AUGUST 28: Singer Olivia Newton-John attend the East-West Polo Challenge to Benefit the Institute for Cancer and Blood Research on August 28, 1983 at Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Palisades, California.
