Like the previous early US issue Let Me Be There, If You Love Me Let Me Know takes more songs from the early UK albums and added a few more from Long Live Love.
MCA did a good job of taking the best cuts from the source albums to make a stronger album for the US audience, who were taking Olivia to their hearts. The album has two top ten singles. I Honestly Love You, written by Australian Peter Allen was to become a knockout hit for Olivia and her signature song, perhaps until the Grease and Physical era. The single was a #1 hit in the US, Australia, and Canada, and it earned Olivia two Grammys (Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance) in 1975. The title track I If You Love Me, Let Me Know reached no 2 in the US country charts, and she won Female Vocalist of the year in the 1974 Country Music Awards, which caused a ruckus as she came from outside the established country music community.
Produced by: John Farrar
A lovely picture disc was released in 2024.
With thanks to Kay.
Songs:
- If You Love Me
- Mary Skeffington
- Country Girl
- I Honestly Love You
- Free The People
- The River's Too Wide
- Home Ain't Home Anymore
- God Only Knows
- Changes
- You Ain't Got The Right
Original Release
- Format: LP
- Date: May 1974
- Country: US
- Label: MCA
- Catalog: MCA 411
Other Releases
- Format: CD
- Date: 1987
- Country: US
- Label: MCA
- Calatog: MCA MCAD-31018
- Format: Picture Disc Vinyl LP
- Date: November 2024
- Country: US
- Label: Primary Wave
- Catalog: 792766906866