Videos of Summer: You're The One That I Want (1978)

Now, most of us have seen the feature film adaptation of "Grease", either on television, video, or at the theatres, since it was released 41 years ago. How fitting, then, on the first day of summer, that we serve up one of the climatic musical numbers from the movie, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John's duet, "You're The One That I Want":



This, really, was the first phase of Olivia's image makeover. Three years later, she'd go all the way, shedding her good girl image on the charts with "Physical". Kelly Ward (Putzie) & Barry Pearl (Doody) later moved on to work in children's television. Ward became a writer-producer, and sometimes voice actor at Hanna-Barbera (i.e. Challenge of The Go-Bots), while Pearl became associated with PBS' hit series, Barney & Friends. Go figure. And, oh, yeah, Eddie Deezen (Eugene) would resurface in cartoons as well (i.e. Dexter's Laboratory, "The Polar Express").