Olivia Newton-John - Warm & Tender
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Artist: Olivia Newton-JohnEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-03-19
Music Label: Geffen Goldline
Soundtracks:
- Jenny Rebbeca
- Rocking
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Lullaby Lullaby My Lovely One
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- Sleep My Princess
- The Flower That Shattered The Stone
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Warm And Tender
- Rock A Bye Baby
- Over The Rainbow
- The Twelfth Of Never
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- Reach Out For Me
Music reviews of Warm & Tender
Music Review: Totally not.
Rating: 2 Stars
In December of 1989 when this was released, I had been an Olivia fan for 14 years and had always kept up to press with her records and TV shows (it was much harder pre-internet!) as best I could. Olivia was never given extensive coverage in the UK but this was the first time I knew nothing about her latest LP until it hit the streets.
My local record store phoned me and said they had 'Olivia's new album'. I was a little suspicious but still thrilled nonetheless. I shot off to get it and was immediately cheered by John Farrar returning to production duties. I couldn't wait to play it...
Apparently, Olivia promoted the album quite well in America. There was a TV special and interviews aplenty. She said the reason she'd decided to make a album of lullabies and standards was because her daughter Chloe, then 3, didn't sleep well and she thought this might soothe her. She also claimed that the first time she heard it, Chloe wept. I know how she felt!
The thing with vanity projects like this is that the timing has to be right. For Olivia, with 2 under-achieving albums before this one, it definitely wasn't... I can sort of see why she did it and it may have worked had she been at the peak of her career, but sadly 'Warm And Tender' became her first album not to reach the top 100.
Back to my initial reaction. It was yet another WTF moment in O's career, they were becoming more frequent, as I realised that I'd struggle to listen to it ever again. The heavy orchestral production drained the album of any life and the songs were geared to the quavery top end of Olivia's voice, which can be nice in small doses, but not 15 tracks worth!
Horrid simpering versions of 'You'll Never Walk Alone', 'The Twelfth Of Never' and 'Over The Rainbow', the latter one of the worst renditions of the song I've ever heard, sap your will to live while nursery rhymes like 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' (yes, honestly!) and 'Rock A Bye Baby', no less annoying, are at least mercifully brief.
Olivia co-wrote the title track with John Farrar. It's an ode to her daughter and is clearly from the heart. I shouldn't be mean, but it's quite dreadful, what had gotten into her?
There was a US single, Lord knows why. Olivia's take on 'Reach Out For Me', it's one of the best tracks, but there was no way it would ever be a hit. Ditto the eventual UK single, 'When You Wish Upon A Star', noted for a bizarre whistling kettle impression towards the end. O had lost it, big time.
20 years on, I've braved it again, and I'm still not charmed. I have to say her voice is beautifully pure (though still too much whimpering) here and free of the vocal troubles she was to endure a few years down the line, but it's just not something I enjoy listening to.
'Warm And Tender' continued Olivia's fall from grace, chartwise. She finished the 80's exactly the opposite of how she started them. The album has many good reviews here. Some people dearly love it, but for me it was a peculiar choice of album at this stage of her career and remains, for me, her worst album after (2).
Description of Warm & Tender
Digitally remastered reissue of Olivia's 1989 album for DGC.15 tracks, including 'Jenny Rebecca' and 'Rocking'. 1998 Festival Records release.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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