Not Gonna Be The One

Album: Greatest Hits (1992)
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  • "Not Gonna Be The One" was written by Seth Swirsky, whose credits include Taylor Dayne's "Tell It To My Heart" and Celine Dion's "Did You Give Enough Love?" On his website he wrote: "I like writing Bee-Gees-type songs from time to time. I wrote this when I had first moved into my longtime girlfriend (now wife) Jody's apartment. I was playing it in the living room and she said 'I like that.' Sometimes, that's all the encouragement a songwriter needs to finish a song. Olivia Newton-John picked three new songs for her Greatest Hits album in 1992. Mine was one and of course, that was thrilling. John Farrar, her longtime producer, produced it. Farrar has told me that he thinks there was a magic thing in the demo that he didn't capture on the record."

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  • Valentin from Vienna, AustriaMaybe that 'magic thing in the demo' was the GIBB MAGIC?
    I for one could have sworn it was written by (one of) the Gibbs the first time I listened to it. A magic song IT IS. ^_^
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