{"id":118468,"date":"2024-09-21T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/21\/listen-to-never-before-heard-olivia-newton-john-song-my-dream\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T00:02:25","slug":"listen-to-never-before-heard-olivia-newton-john-song-my-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/21\/listen-to-never-before-heard-olivia-newton-john-song-my-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to never-before-heard Olivia Newton-John song &#8216;My Dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-20\/Getty_OliviaNewtonJohn_092024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Christopher Polk\/WireImage via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Olivia Newton-John<\/strong>&#8216;s iconic voice can be heard once again thanks to a never-before-heard song released more than two years after her death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s-4B8YvmbLQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>My Dream<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,&#8221; a duet produced by <strong>Jim Brickman<\/strong> and featuring <strong>Il Volo<\/strong>, debuted online Friday. The song&#8217;s\u00a0proceeds\u00a0will benefit the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Co-written by Newton-John, Brickman and <strong>Victoria Shaw<\/strong>, the song came out of a writing session 15 years ago but wasn&#8217;t finished \u2014 until now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recalling that time, Brickman said Newton-John &#8220;was talking about her dreams \u2014 all the things she wanted to do&#8221; and that became the basis for the song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As for why he&#8217;s putting it out now, Brickman said, &#8220;I decided to finish the song to honor my dear friend, her beautiful spirit, and her foundation.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;These moments that we share\/ Cannot be compared with anything\/ They&#8217;re yours and mine alone\/ My soul has found a home\/ In the love you&#8217;ve given me,&#8221; Newton-John sings in the song. &#8220;You&#8217;re my dream\/ I don&#8217;t need to close my eyes\/ You&#8217;re here beside me\/ You mesmerize me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Grease<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> star continues, &#8220;I believe\/ We were meant to be\/ And now I know without a doubt\/ My heart has truly found\/ My dream.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Newton-John, who was diagnosed with cancer\u00a0in the &#8217;90s, died on Aug. 8, 2022, at the age of 73.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-4B8YvmbLQ\" title=\"Olivia Newton-John, Jim Brickman, Il Volo \u2013 My Dream (Lyric Video)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Polk\/WireImage via Getty Images Olivia Newton-John&#8216;s iconic voice can be heard once again thanks to a never-before-heard song released more than two years after her death. &#8220;My Dream,&#8221; a duet produced by Jim Brickman and featuring Il Volo, debuted online Friday. The song&#8217;s\u00a0proceeds\u00a0will benefit the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/21\/listen-to-never-before-heard-olivia-newton-john-song-my-dream\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}