After having been a permanent guest on Cliff Richard's TV series in the early 70s, Olivia returned to the show in September of 1974 to promote I Honestly Love You.
She also duetted with Cliff on I'm Leaving It All Up To You and All I Have To Do Is Dream, before being part of the finale, Proud Mary.
Les Dawson invited Olivia again in 1974 in his new show where she performed I Honestly Love You.
She also played a part in a couple of skits, sang a medley/battle of songs (including The Loco-Motion) with Dawson and part of the finale.
Olivia's first appearance on the Mike Douglas Show happened over the summer of 1974 where she performed Let Me Be There.
She also gave a short interview where Douglas predicted she'd turn out to be a big star.
In July of 1973, Olivia stopped in UK comedian Les Dawson's TV show to perform two songs : a cover of Don McLean's And I Love You So (which isn't featured on any of Olivia's albums) and what turned out to be her first major US hit : Let Me Be There
Dawson introduces her as "Olivia, Newton and John", before she corrects him. He also tells the audience Olivia is a mind reader, asking her what he is thinking of at the moment. Olivia pauses before calling him "cheeky".
This is one of Olivia's first appearances on US television, if not the first at all. She performed a live version of If from her first album and she duetted with Dean Martin on a medley of Just A Little Lovin' and True Love.
This aired to coincide with the Australian release of Olivia's album Gaia. An in-depth interview with a fantastic rapport between Olivia and her interviewer Ray Martin. Olivia also performed three songs live in the studio : I Honestly Love You, Don't Cut Me Down and No Matter What You Do.
The interview covered most of Olivia's career with some great black and white footage from those early days in Australia. Olivia's 1970 movie Toomorrow came up and Ray sprung a 1969 newspaper interview from New York where Olivia was then filming. She was asked in this if she had any plans of returning to Australia and responded "not just now - this is too groovy!"
The infamous quote from the 70s "if white bread could sing it would sound like Olivia Newton-John" was mentioned. But Olivia just laughed and joked saying that Grease was her chance "To break out - to be brown bread"
Much of the interview was taken up with Olivia's fight against breast cancer and her album Gaia. She also had chance to promote her nature series Wild Life/Human Nature. Ray also mentioned John Farnham and Olivia said how much she admired him and would like to sing with him - a premonition that was to come true; they performed and toured together for the Main Event tour in 1998!
A wonderful interview - Olivia was at ease joking and laughing throughout.
Summary taken from Only Olivia.
Olivia's second appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. She performed Have You Never Been Mellow and Follow Me live. There's also a short interview where she discusses awards and her success in the US.
Olivia had her own TV special in Australia to promote her duet album (2).
The special featured live performances of her duets with Billy Thorpe, Tina Arena and via technical wizardry the late Peter Allen (using footage of Peter in concert from many years ago).
John Farnham also made an appearance bringing with him a Sandy 1 doll from Franklin Mint which Olivia swapped for a John Farnham doll.
This is Olivia's second appearance on this show, and this Hopelessly devoted to you performance is the last to be aired of those she taped in late November that year. She's wearing the same red outfit as on her previous appearance.
French comedian Raymond Devos was the main guest on this episode, and we can see him watching Olivia's pre-recorded performance as the song goes on, which can be a bit distracting.
Olivia took part in Australian singer Billy Thorpe's memorial in 2007, as he passed away that same year. They collaborated on numérous occasions, including a duet on Olivia's album (2) and he co-wrote the song Emotional Tangle for her 1985 Soul Kiss album.
Olivia performed Over the Rainbow as a tribute to him.
