Single:
You’re the One That I Want entered the Australian singles chart* on 29 May 1978 and peaked at #1. The song was #1 on the Top 100 of 1978.
Album:
The song is on Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture which entered the Australian albums chart* on 5 June 1978 and peaked at #1.
Songwriter:
John Farrar
Producer:
John Farrar
Record label of Australian release:
RSO
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
The song in the 1978 Paramount Pictures film version of the musical Grease:
Wikipedia:
You’re the One That I Want was one of the two singles, along with Hopelessly Devoted to You, that John Farrar wrote specifically for Olivia Newton-John’s appearance in the film that had not been in the original stage musical. Randal Kleiser, the film’s director, was not fond of this song because he felt that it did not mesh well with the rest of the Warren Casey-Jim Jacobs score and the fifties style musically or lyrically.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You’re_the_One_That_I_Want
Songfacts:
John Farrar wrote and produced this song. His choice gave Olivia Newton-John, who was very nervous about appearing in the film, a familiar collaborator who helped ease her fears. Farrar had written and produced many of her previous hits, including Have You Never Been Mellow.
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta were an interesting pairing for the film. Newton-John was a global singing star but had little acting experience and was nervous about playing a high-school girl at age 29. Travolta was a rising film star whose starring role in the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever made him a sensation.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/john-travolta-and-olivia-newton-john/youre-the-one-that-i-want
Lyrics:
I got chills, they’re multiplyin’, and I’m losin’ control
Cause the power you’re supplyin’, it’s electrifyin’
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