A Tribute To Olivia Newton-John

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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Of all the Oliving John songs. She could play you
play Santa Down, She's Michael. I'm sorry you're not like her.
John died yesterday. She's been battling cancer for for a long, long,
long time and very public about it. And if you
followed Alivian Newton John at all, you knew that, um

(00:36):
it was in remission for like twenty five years. Yeah.
So here's a couple of interesting things about Olivia Newton
John that I found culturally interesting more than just her specifically,
because she's making a big deal about singers who have passed.
It is not, you know, a huge thing around here.
I'm sure she was a very nice person, but yeah,

(00:57):
they say she was. Yeah. Um, so she was born
in forty eight. Greece was in seventy eight, so she
was thirty years old playing the high school student Sandy
in Greece, which is thirty I mean, so that's not
even close to being a seventeen year old. But she
did bring a certain girlish innocence to Oh, no doubt,

(01:17):
I know, no doubt, And that is as it. As
I read a couple of places. That's one of the
most popular movies of all time, not only was it
a big deal at the time, but you know since
then nostalgia wise, Oh yeah, the ratio of production cost
to revenue was one of the Alzheimer's. So what I
thought was interesting is, um, looking at some of this
stuff just culturally, how everything was so uh like now,

(01:42):
if you if you sell a million copies of an album,
now it's huge, just absolutely huge for a variety of
reasons we all know. But the Grease soundtrack sold twenty
eight million copies. Wow, I mean that is that is
something monster with You're the one that I want, Olivia

(02:03):
and John Travolta's duet being the number one song out
of that that was the number one song for like
ten weeks or something like that in America. And she
had a number of hits over the years. But um,
she was one of the world's biggest stars just in
the entire the entire planet for several huge country music stars.
Absolutely her song Physical, which was kind of like about

(02:27):
aerobics or something, and the video was weeah, yeah, the
video was the video is she always regretted as being
too sexual because she wasn't that sort of a person.
But twenty eight million copies for the soundtrack degrease. I
just thought that is so culturally different than we are now,
where there's just you know, there's just three channels and

(02:48):
everybody was watching the same TV show and there's the
one album that is everybody's listening to, and just everything
is so splintered now you can't you can't come close
to anything that that is, that is that ubiquitous now,
for better or worse than just times changement. Yeah, yeah,
that's interesting. Years old, well, and there were there were

(03:11):
several of the women in the cast that were older
than hard all right, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah. I've always
enjoyed your breakdown of the plot of the movie, which
is that if you're a nice girl, you won't get
the man. You've got to completely slut out. Yeah. When
she put on the leather pants, high heels and started
smoking cigarettes, that's when she became the hero of the movie.

(03:32):
That she was desirable, which you know, maybe there's something
wrong with me. I I thought that was the very hot,
but the pre here was crazy hot. The the you know,
the saddle shoes, scolgore dress, you know that thing very hot.
Of course, she's thirty years old. Say that because she
is thirty she wasn't actually a high school kid. She

(03:54):
was freaking thirty years old.