Let's talk about Grease. An adaptation of a stage musical of the same name, it starred Olvia Newton-John and John Travolta. The soundtrack was the second biggest selling album of 1978 - second only to the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever.
By the way, both movies were definitely in theaters at the same time, because I remember going to see Grease in 1979 with my mother and literal one-month old sister and seeing posters for both.
Written by longtime ONJ collaborator John Farrar, this song did not appear in the original stage musical (the movie, to be fair, took several liberties with the source material), but was accepted into the movie immediately. It ended up being one of Olivia's biggest hits, reaching #3 on the Billboard charts and earning Farrar an Academy Award nomination (he also earned a Golden Globe nom for a different original song for the movie, "You're The One That I Want").
Because it was an Academy Award nominated song, Olivia performed the song at the 1979 Oscar ceremony. The backing was by the Oscar ceremony orchestra - and, if it's possible, she sang it bigger on that stage.
Olivia performed this song at least through 2017, as it was one of her favorites (mine, too). Here is one of her last performances (she retired from live performance soon after, and passed in 2022).
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