Track Listing

1. Something Better to Do
2. Lovers
3. Slow Down Jackson
4. He's My Rock
5. Sail into Tomorrow
6. Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
7. Clearly Love
8. Let It Shine
9. Summertime Blues
10. Just a Lot of Folk (The Marshmallow Song)
11. He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52790 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-05
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

A Forgotten Gem From 1975
The album Clearly Love was released in late 1975 and was the follow up to the hugely successful Have You Never Been Mellow an American No1.
Whilst this particular album did not sell as strongly and only has one significant hit in the form of Something Better To Do there are some great songs and lovely arrangements here. The album is produced by the wonderful John Farrar who in my opinion is an absolute star when it comes to writing and producing.
The standout songs here are Sail Into Tomorrow , Slow Down Jackson ( presumably a song about Olivia's then red setter Jackson) , Let It Shine and the spine tingling ballad Clearly Love. The album was recorded in London and John and Oivia have enlisted some of the best musicians around at the time to help out for example Brian Bennett on drums , Alan Tarney on bass and Terry Britten on guitars.
A lovely addition to any Olivia collection and an album that should have sold as many copies as Mellow - you wont be disappointed.

A brilliant album from 1975
Like other albums from Olivia around that time, Clearly love is full of top quality pop country music, although not everybody thought that back then. Perhaps to convince people that she really was a country girl, the pictures in the booklet show Olivia in a rural setting, usually in the company of a horse or a dog.

The set opens with the wistful Something better to do, which sets the standard for what follows. There are several other great ballads, including Lovers (a Mickey Newbury song) and Slow down Jackson. Let it shine, a bright, upbeat song, was the main single. There are also excellent covers of He ain't heavy he's my brother (Hollies), Summertime blues (Eddie Cochran) and He's my rock (I don't know the original artist, but it was later recorded by George Jones as She's my rock).

While this album does not contain any of Olivia's really big hits, it is a really lovely album that all fans of Olivia's early music will treasure.

A feel good album by the talented Olivia
This album is worth buying just for the track Clearly Love which is so beautiful that you almost want to cry when Olivia sings it.
Something better to do, Lovers which is a sad song about the end of a relationship, Slow down Jackson, The very catchy He's my rock, Sail into tomorrow which is another wonderful Olivia ballad, Crying, Lauging Loving, Lying and Let it shine are all on this album.
Summertime blues, Just a lot of folk (The marshmallow song) is another good track and the beautiful He ain't heavy he's my brother complete the track list.
A great Olivia album which contains some very rare tracks.