Hopelessly Devoted To You

Album: Grease Soundtrack (1978)
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Songfacts®:

  • Olivia Newton-John's contract for Grease stipulated that she should have a solo spot. However, nobody had any ideas for a song for her character, Sandy, until Olivia's producer John Farrar came up with "Hopelessly Devoted To You" halfway through the shoot. Director Randal Kleiser wasn't wholly convinced by the song at first and had to come up with an entirely new scene to fit it in. It was eventually filmed and recorded after the movie had wrapped and it earned the film's only Oscar nomination, for Best Music - Original Song.
  • In the movie, Sandy sings this song while pining for her summer fling Danny, played by John Travolta. As the scene wraps up and he finishes the song, she sees his reflection in a kiddie pool.
  • John Farrar wrote two new songs for the movie version of Grease: this and "You're The One That I Want," while Barry Gibb wrote one original song, "Grease."
  • This was the only song from Grease to get an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. It lost to "Last Dance," performed by Donna Summer and used in the movie Thank God It's Friday.
  • John Travolta evoked this song when he introduced the In Memoriam segment at the Oscars in 2023, seven months after Olivia Newton-John died of cancer at 73. "In this industry we have the rare luxury of getting to do what we love for a living, and sometimes getting to do it with people we come to love," a tearful Travolta said. "They've touched our hearts, they've made us smile, and became dear friends that we will always remain hopelessly devoted to."

Comments: 6

  • Pedro from Makilala, Cotabato, PhilippinesTears dropping my eyes if I listened this song.
  • Anonymous from Sunbury,pa.I absolutely loved Olivia and all her songs!
  • Siahara Shyne Carter from United StatesThis is my type of 'classic' it's timeless and some young people like Dalton Rapattoni he sings this on
    American Idol
    and I like his version! I actually have his song with Olivia Newton John singing together some
    Dalton Rapattoni fans made it and it just cool I have it in my playlist I keep listening to it even in (2020)
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 2nd 1978, "Hopelessly Devoted To You" by Olivia Newton-John entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 at position #68; and on September 17th, 1978 it peaked at #3 (for 2 weeks) and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 8 of those 19 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    And on October 7th it reached #1 (for 1 week) on the Canadian Top 100 Singles chart...
    Her next charted released on the Top 100 also peaked at #3 (also for 2 weeks) and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks...
    Ms. Newton-John will celebrate her 66th birthday in two months on September 26th, 2014.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 13th 1978, the movie version of "Grease" had its world premier in New York City; and three days later on June 16th it opened in theaters across the U.S.A. and Canada...
    Five songs featured in the movie made Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; "Grease" by Frankie Valli (#1 for 3 weeks), "You're the One That I Want" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John (#1 for 1 week), "Hopelessly Devoted to You" by Newton-John (#3), "Summer Nights" by Travolta & Newton-John (#5), and "Greased Lightin'" by Travolta (#47)...
    And on July 23rd, 1978 the movie's soundtrack album reached #1 (for 12 non-consecutive weeks) on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart (the album also peaked at #1 in the United Kingdom and Australia).
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyThis song was nominated for Best Song at the 1978 Academy Awards {Lost to "Last Dance" from the movie "Thank God It's Friday"}!!!
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