“I Honestly Love You” was a 1974 song from Olivia Newton-John. This soft rock song, which was certified gold, rose all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It won a Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance. It was also nominated for Song of the Year and made it onto Billboard’s Year-End Top 100 of 1974.
According to SongFacts, Jeff Barry, who wrote the song, said, “I thought it would be a really sexy song for a guy to sing – ‘I’m not trying to sleep with you. I honestly love you.’ No one had ever said that before. And I thought any girl who would hear that would have to say, ‘Well, can we just do it once?'”
In Newton-John’s memoir, Don’t Stop Believin‘, she spoke about the moment when she first heard the song. “My heart stopped when I heard the lyrics: ‘I love you… I honestly love you.’ It was so simple, with a meaning that was deeper than the ocean. Those words made me stop and think because they touched me. I could certainly relate, and I knew that everyone would be able to make those words fit their own personal story of love and perhaps even loss. Just putting the word ‘honestly’ into the mix made it even more poignant. No lies. No denying it. I honestly love you.”
She also spoke about her time recording it. “I remember in a little tiny rickety studio, it was so small,” she said. “The control room was upstairs, and John Farrar was up there with the engineer, and I was underneath, and they had to sit still because it would creak, and you’d hear it in the microphone.”
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Newton-John had many other hit songs throughout her career, including “Physical,” “Magic,” “You’re the One That I Want,” and “Hopelessly Devoted to You.” She was inducted into Australia’s ARIA Hall of Fame in 2002.
Newton-John died in 2022 at the age of 73.
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