{"id":270876,"date":"2025-10-02T03:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270876\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:34:12","slug":"on-this-day-in-1975-olivia-newton-johns-album-hit-no-1-with-a-title-track-later-covered-by-elvis-and-the-queen-of-rock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270876\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 1975, Olivia Newton-John\u2019s Album Hit No. 1 With a Title Track Later Covered by Elvis and the Queen of Rock and Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world lost a legend on Aug. 8, 2022, when singer-actress Olivia Newton-John died at age 73<\/a>. Starring alongside John Travolta in the generational hit Grease, she became the highest-selling female artist in Australia of all time with hits like \u201cPhysical\u201d and \u201cI Honestly Love You.\u201d On this day in 1975, the four-time Grammy Award winner was at No. 1 on the country albums charts with If You Love Me, Let Me Know. <\/p>\n

The title track\u2014Olivia Newton-John\u2019s highest-charting single\u2014was written by the late British musician John Rostill and was part of Newton-John\u2019s third North American album, which became her first Billboard 200 chart-topper. Although often overshadowed by its successor, \u201cI Honestly Love You,\u201d the song sees our narrator pleading for clarity in a romantic relationship. If you love me let me know, Newton-John sings in the chorus. If you don\u2019t then let me go \/ I can\u2019t take another minute \/ Of a day without you near. Who hasn\u2019t been there?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf You Love Me (Let Me Know)\u201d became the highest-charting country single of Newton-John\u2019s career, ascending all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard country chart. Showing the Australian-born star\u2019s versatility, it also peaked at No. 5 on the pop chart and No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: The Story Behind the One Song Olivia Newton-John Wrote With Keith Urban]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley Even Covered This Oliva Newton-John Hit<\/p>\n

Olivia Newton-John\u2019s 1975 hit reached even the King himself. Just two years before his untimely death at age 42, Elvis Presley took the stage<\/a> in July 1975 at Richfield Coliseum in Northeast Ohio. Arriving by private jet, the King of Rock and Roll performed a mixture of his own hits and cover songs, including Newton-John\u2019s \u201cIf You Love Me\u201d and \u201cLet Me Be There.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presley also released a recording<\/a> of \u201cIf You Love Me\u201d on his final studio album, Moody Blue, which dropped about four weeks before his death of cardiac arrest at his Graceland home.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Queen of Rock and Roll couldn\u2019t resist Olivia Newton-John\u2019s hit. Tina Turner covered \u201cIf You Love Me\u201d on her debut studio album Tina Turns the Country On!, which also features her renditions of Kris Kristofferson\u2019s \u201cHelp Me Make It Through the Night\u201d and Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201cThere\u2019ll Always Be Music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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