If Not For You review
If Not For You.
She won’t excite too many people possibly cause not too many people know about her. Possibly because no one knows who she is or where she came from. Neither do I, but her album cover a face beaming with a million dollar smile, would lead you to believe she’s Just another pretty face who made it into the record business.
Her voice is another story all together. It’s almost perfection in a very strange way. To quote Shakespeare: “…soft as the sinews of a new born-babe.”
An interesting sidelight to this almost unknown album is the talents of Bruce Welsh and John Farrar (from the album Martin, Welsh and Farrar). They were responsible for the production and arrangement of most of the music on this album. Who are they? Just another bunch of relative unknowns.
Like others in this column, Olivia Newton John is riding the wave that will be lapping up the against the seashores of your mind the next rock and roll machine comes to town. Figure she’ll be big around the beginning of the summer if all goes well.
They (new wave singers) haven’t been advertised or promoted in any way what so ever. The record manufacturers take all of this unknown talent and don’t even bother to let the public know what’s going on. Their attitude towards an artists first record is one of complete indifference. It usually takes 2 or 3 al-bums before a reasonable cross section of the audience has been made aware of the artist or their talents. Maybe it’ll be different and by some strange twist of fate this unknown will fall into favor with the hip hit power sounds on the AM dial. Wait and see a while longer.