The last album of her mid-seventies style, Making a Good Thing Better has a really dreamy ethereal feel to many of the songs, which complements the softness of Olivia's singing style perfectly. The title track was released as a single, but didn't really go anywhere. Olivia was involved in a lawsuit with the record company about promoting her records enough, but the track was probably not strong enough.
This was a gatefold sleeve is some North American releases, the UK release was a standard cover with the lyrics on the inner sleeve.
Songs:
- Making A Good Thing Better
- Slow Dancing
- Ring Of Fire
- Coolin' Down
- Don't Cry For Me Argentina
- Sad Songs
- You Won't See Me Cry
- It's So Easy To Begin
- I Think I'll Say Goodbye
- Don't Ask A Friend
- If Love Is Real
Original Release
- Format: LP
- Date: 1977
- Country: UK
- Label: EMI
- Catalog: EMC 3192
Other Releases
- Format: LP
- Date: 1977
- Country: USA
- Label: MCA
- Catalog: MCA 2280
- Format: LP
- Date: 1982
- Country: UK
- Label: EMI
- Catalog: FA3006
- Format: LP
- Date: 1977
- Country: Taiwan
- Label: Union
- Catalog: TD-1959
- Format: LP
- Date: 1977
- Country: Japan
- Label: EMI
- Catalog: EMS-80800
- Format: LP
- Date: 1977
- Country: Germany
- Label: EMI
- Catalog: 1C064-99261
- Format: LP
- Date: 1977
- Country: Australia
- Label: Interfusion
- Catalog: L 36277
- Format: CD
- Date: 1990
- Country: USA
- Label: MCA
- Catalog: MCAD-1682
- Format: CD
- Date: 1998
- Country: Australia
- Label: Festival
- Catalog: D36277
- Format: CD
- Date: 2011
- Country: Japan
- Label: Universal International
- Catalog: UICY-10005
- Format: CD
- Date: 2002
- Country: Japan
- Label: MCA/Universal
- Catalog: UICY-3293