Warm and Tender (Olivia Newton-John album)

AllMusic praised the album as "a major achievement for Olivia Newton-John, a majestic combination of lullabies and standards," further commenting "if Olivia Newton-John made Warm and Tender to prove to the world that she is an artist with depth and courage, she achieved her goal. It's a marvelous recording."{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/warm-and-tender-mw0000206072 | title=Warm and Tender - Olivia Newton-John | Album | AllMusic | website=AllMusic }}

In their review of the album, Billboard commented that "(Geffen) label debut finds the Aussie lass gratefully shedding her contrived sexpot image and donning the serene veneer of motherhood. Beautifully orchestrated set of lullabies could warm the heart of the toughest AC programmer...This is the perfect environment for Newton-John's smooth and silky voice, and may very well be the springboard for her return into the pop spotlight." {{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1989/BB-1989-11-11.pdf|magazine=Billboard Music Week|title=Album Reviews|issue=11 November 1989 |page=90 |access-date=July 31, 2024}}

Cashbox noted that "motherhood has really had quite an effect on everyone’s favorite Xanadu roller babe. No longer does she yodel about hopeless devotion or high school graduations. This is Olivia: the Mother, crooning every childhood ditty that you can recall and even a few that you can’t. ...The entire album is dreamy, ethereal sleepy-time music, so effective...I don’t see a lot of commercial possibilities here, but

it seems as if Olivia is after a more loving-expression kind of thing rather than her former hungry-for-pop success."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1989/CB-1989-11-11.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|title=Pure Pop For Now People|issue=11 November 1989 |page=22 |access-date=July 31, 2024}}

{{track listing

| headline = Warm and Tender track listing

| title1 = Jenny Rebecca

| writer1 = Carol Hall

| length1 = 3:46

| title2 = Rocking

| writer2 = Traditional, lyrics by Percy Dearmer

| length2 = 3:05

| title3 = Way You Look Tonight

| writer3 = Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields

| length3 = 2:59

| title4 = Lullaby, Lullaby, My Lovely One

| writer4 = German lullaby

| length4 = 1:16

| title5 = You'll Never Walk Alone

| writer5 = Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II

| length5 = 2:49

| title6 = Sleep My Princess

| writer6 = Mozart's Cradle Song

| length6 = 1:08

| title7 = The Flower That Shattered the Stone

| writer7 = Joe Henry, John Jarvis

| length7 = 3:22

| title8 = Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

| writer8 = Traditional

| length8 = 0:55

| title9 = Warm and Tender

| writer9 = Newton-John, Farrar

| length9 = 3:21

| title10 = Rock-a-bye Baby

| writer10 = Public domain

| length10 = 0:42

| title11 = Over the Rainbow

| writer11 = Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg

| length11 = 3:26

| title12 = Twelfth of Never

| writer12 = Paul Francis Webster, Jerry Livingston

| length12 = 4:23

| title13 = All the Pretty Little Horses

| writer13 = Traditional

| length13 = 1:10

| title14 = When You Wish upon a Star

| writer14 = Ned Washington, Leigh Harline

| length14 = 3:22

| title15 = Reach Out for Me

| note15 = with Brahms Lullaby intro and reprise

| writer15 = Burt Bacharach, Hal David

| length15 = 5:55

}}

{{track listing

| headline = 2002 reissue bonus track

| title16 = Part of Your World

| note16 = 2002 version

| writer16 = Alan Menken

| length16 = 3:13

}}

• Olivia Newton-John – vocals, arrangements (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15)

Conducted by and all Orchestral Arrangements by Graeme Lyall AM

• The Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra:
• Rudolf Osadnik – leader
• Ron Layton – contractor
• Joe Chindamo – acoustic piano, keyboards
• Adrian Scott – programming
• Ben Robertson – bass
• Don Stevenson – guitar
• Robert Clarke – percussion
• Alex Pertout – percussion
• Vernon Hill – flute
• Vicki Philipson – oboe
• Stephen Robinson – Cor anglais
• Julie Rains – harp

Other musicians

• "Warm and Tender" – all instruments by Brian Mann and John Farrar
• "Reach Out for Me" – all instruments by Brian Mann and John Farrar; Synclavier by Sean Callery
• "The Flower That Shattered the Stone" – synthesizers by Brian Mann; Synclavier by Sean Callery

• Producer – John Farrar
• Engineer – Allan Sides
• Additional engineering – Ian McKenzie
• Assistant engineer – Eric Rudd
• Recorded at the Melbourne Concert Hall and Metropolis Audio (Melbourne, Australia); Ocean Way Recording (Los Angeles, CA).
• Mixed by Allen Sides at Ocean Way Recording.
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
• Album art direction – Gabrielle Raumberger
• Album logo and design – Larry Vigon Studio
• Front cover photography – Alberto Tolot
• Dust sleeve photography – Nancy Manning

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