First Impressions LP front cover First Impressions LP back cover the Don Bloom drawing at auction in 2020

larger scans of LP cover

Olivia moved from Pye to EMI in the UK in 1974, before she represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. This compilation was released by EMI in that year. A slightly different track selection but the same artwork by Don Bloom was released in Australia as Great Hits!, the Australians have been off-by-one with numbering Olivia's Greatest Hits albums ever since.

EMI were a bit more circumspect because Olivia didn't really have enough hits to justify the Greatest Hits label, so this was titled First Impressions. Nevertheless there were five hits on it - If Not For You, Banks of the Ohio, Take Me Home Country Roads, Let Me Be There and If You Love Me Let Me Know.

The cover was a drawing by the artist Don Bloom, and Olivia kept the portrait until late 2020, when it was sold for $7,680 at Julien's auctions online.

Songs:

  1. If Not For You
  2. Banks Of The Ohio
  3. Love Song
  4. Winterwood
  5. Everything I Own
  6. What Is Life
  7. Take Me Home country Roads
  8. Amoureuse
  9. Let Me Be There
  10. Changes
  11. Music Makes My Day
  12. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)

Original Release

  • Format: LP
  • Date: November 1974
  • Country: UK
  • Label: EMI
  • Catalog: EMC 3055

Other Releases

  • Format: LP
  • Date: unknown
  • Country: UK
  • Label: EMI
  • Catalog: MFP 41 5740 1
  • Format: LP
  • Date: 1974
  • Country: Germany
  • Label: EMI
  • Catalog: C062-95957
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