John Travolta And Olivia Newton John - You're The One That I Want

What this video is

Released in 1978, 'You're the One That I Want' arrived at the apex of the Hollywood blockbuster-musical crossover, following the seismic commercial success of Saturday Night Fever (1977). The song reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on June 10, 1978—six days before the film even opened theatrically—demonstrating the power of the pre-release single as a marketing instrument. In the UK it held #1 for nine…

Why it matters

This video sits at the foundational intersection of the film-musical and the promotional music video, predating MTV's 1981 launch and representing the proto-music-video era. It helped establish the commercial template for soundtrack singles as blockbuster tentpoles, directly influencing the…

The director

Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946, Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is a USC Film School graduate who began his career directing television episodes of Marcus Welby, M.D. and Starsky & Hutch. Grease (1978) was his theatrical feature debut and made him internationally…