Too bad she never got around to covering the entirety of “All Things Must Pass.”Įlton John and Bernie Taupin penned what was supposed to be a comeback single for Newton-John in the ’80s, after a fallow period that followed her “Grease” success and the subsequent “Physical” album. Lesser remembered is that she also covered Harrison’s “What Is Life,” de-Spectorized a little. Newton-John had her first international hit with “If Not for You,” a cover of George Harrison’s cover of a rootsy Bob Dylan number. At that point, you’re prime for the movie’s “electrifyin'” finale, but she’s been so winningly winsome up to that point, you may feel more wistful than she does in saying “goodbye to Sandra Dee.”
The song isn’t sad all the way through, though - it captures the moment in which Sandy has a eureka moment and decides her romantic future lies in slutting it up a little. The first reading of “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee” in “Grease” belongs to Stockard Channing and the rest of the female supporting cast, but the short reprise late in the film is all Newton-John’s, as she sadly embraces what she thinks her prim attitude has cost her. But Newton-John managed to find an extra layer and make “I Touch Myself” a triple-entendre tune - by recasting it as a breast-cancer PSA.Ģ4. That band’s hit ’90s original was a song of true double-entendres, designed to be read on both sexual and emotional levels. Even most of Newton-John’s fans might have missed the fact that she covered the Divinyls’ saucy alt-pop standard.
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