Description: Top 20 in 1975 (number one adult contemporary), it becomes a nice cover version on this album. Jane Olivor's real strength, however, comes when she takes on her own composition, "The Right Garden," where she lets go with all her talent and vocal expression. One can understand her need to reach a wider audience, and her single version of the Chiffons' "He's So Fine" is wonderful, but she was competing with Kristy McNichol and her brother, Jimmy McNichol, and their version actually charted in Cashbox. Artistically, the more comfortable zone for Olivor is the title track, "Stay the Night" (not the Ben Orr hit from 1987), her own "Let's Make Some Memories," or producer Jason Darrow's "Honesty." "Stay the Night" is majestic, "Honesty" is dramatic, and the perfect instrument that is Olivor's voice was much too refined for the gritty Top 40 of the time. Sure, had she stumbled on a song like "MacArthur Park" she may have had an odd hit at the time, as Richard Harris did in the '60s, but the times were more suited to Donna Summer taking that particular tune to number one on the dancefloors. The production on Love Decides, released in 2000, is more suited to Olivor's passionate spirit, but there are great moments here. "Can't We Make It Right Again" would have charted had Gladys Knight given it the treatment, but that isn't fair because this is really the most commercial song on the album -- Olivor venturing into Melissa Manchester territory. Had Maria Callas gone pop, she may have been Jane Olivor's true competition, and it is that operatic style which makes this work classy, but alien to intense '70s radio play. Stay the Night is a very listenable, very beautiful, very accessible album from Jane Olivor, with acoustic guitars, strings, and elegance galore. Tracklist: 1.Stay the NightNorman Dolph 03:232.Honesty Jane Olivor03:433.He's So Fine Ronnie Mack03:294.SolitairePhil Cody / Neil Sedaka03:365.Can't Leave You 'Cause I Love You03:086.Let's Make Some Memories Jason Darrow / Jane Olivor02:487.Can't We Make It Right Again03:278.You're the One I Love03:269.Song for My Father Gerard Cohen04:0010.The Right GardenLee Holdridge / Molly-Ann Leikin / Jane Olivor02:59
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Artist: Jane Olivor
Composer: Neil Sedaka, Gerard Cohen
Record Label: Columbia
Release Title: Stay the Night
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Case Condition: Excellent (EX)
Type: Album
Format: CD
Release Year: 1984
Language: English
Era: 1970s
Style: 1970s, Cabaret
Genre: Folk, Pop, Cabaret, Pop Vocal
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
