Walkinat9
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
Has any of you heard (of) Olivia Newton-John's Thanksgiving Day radio special from November 1977?
Apparently Olivia felt she had to get back to the public ear after only having done one 5-week tour in the Spring of '77. Concerts had been scheduled for the Summer that year, but all (?) were canceled because of the filming of "Grease". There was also no customary second studio album that same year (as in previous years). The second album released that year was the "Greatest Hits" LP and Olivia did a promotional tour for it in the Fall.
Besides the tour she also did two radio specials, one for Thanksgiving Day (with Karen as one of the guests) and one for Christmas as is mentioned in these newspaper articles:
Clipping from The Pittsburgh Press - Newspapers.com (mentioned in the middle of the second column)
Clipping from Chicago Tribune - Newspapers.com
Clipping from The Tribune - Newspapers.com (I have no idea what RKO stations are though)
Clipping from The Minneapolis Star - Newspapers.com (Olivia fans may recognize the head of this article plus photo - in the thumbnail - from the intro of the Live 1982 video )
I really hope that someone out there taped this special back in 1977. Would be great to hear what Karen & Olivia were talking about on this show (at least that's what I got out of the last article, Olivia talking to some of her favorite singers)
Greg
Has any of you heard (of) Olivia Newton-John's Thanksgiving Day radio special from November 1977?
Apparently Olivia felt she had to get back to the public ear after only having done one 5-week tour in the Spring of '77. Concerts had been scheduled for the Summer that year, but all (?) were canceled because of the filming of "Grease". There was also no customary second studio album that same year (as in previous years). The second album released that year was the "Greatest Hits" LP and Olivia did a promotional tour for it in the Fall.
Besides the tour she also did two radio specials, one for Thanksgiving Day (with Karen as one of the guests) and one for Christmas as is mentioned in these newspaper articles:
Clipping from The Pittsburgh Press - Newspapers.com (mentioned in the middle of the second column)
Clipping from Chicago Tribune - Newspapers.com
Clipping from The Tribune - Newspapers.com (I have no idea what RKO stations are though)
Clipping from The Minneapolis Star - Newspapers.com (Olivia fans may recognize the head of this article plus photo - in the thumbnail - from the intro of the Live 1982 video )
I really hope that someone out there taped this special back in 1977. Would be great to hear what Karen & Olivia were talking about on this show (at least that's what I got out of the last article, Olivia talking to some of her favorite singers)
Greg