How Olivia Newton-John guided us from blissful AM radio to raunchy MTV

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How Olivia Newton-John guided us from blissful AM radio to raunchy MTV
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Country music was a big part of AM radio’s Top 40 fabric in the precious days of the ’70s. Olivia Newton-John found her niche in it with spectacular success

. Fifty-odd years after it was released, with that magic that only pop songs are possessed of, it’s a failsafe portal to the blissful brown corduroy sunshine of the early 1970s, the push-button AM radio soundtrack to Sunday drives and family picnics.

Country music was a big part of AM radio’s Top 40 fabric in those precious days. Olivia found her niche in it with spectacular success. Her other hit that year was, a song written by Bob Dylan and recorded by George Harrison, though neither of their versions felt as true as hers. As if the sky would ever fall on those guys.

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