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Olivia Newton-John: If You Love Me, Let Me Know (MCA-411)

Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 29 August 1974

FORMULA FOR success: Take a pleasantly colorless female singer, and give her a catchy ditty bland enough for the easy-listening stations, slightly countrified for C&W radio, with a nagging bass-voice hook for Top 40. Result: 'Let Me Be There' by Olivia Newton-John, Top Five Country, Top Ten Pop.

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