{"id":1,"date":"1974-10-01T13:16:21","date_gmt":"1974-10-01T17:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-04-28T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:05:38","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/1974\/10\/01\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postbox h5p-sidebar\">\n<div><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-1\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"1\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"I Know You Know: liner notes\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>I Know You Know\u00a0<\/em>liner notes, 1974, Olivia Records. Sophia Smith Collection, Women&#8217;s Music Archives records and collected music.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first full-length record Olivia produced was Meg Christian\u2019s album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I Know You Know. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Released in 1974, the album included both touching and humorous songs about lesbian life, including \u201cValentine Song\u201d and \u201cOde to a Gym Teacher.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I Know You Know <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was one of the earliest albums celebrating lesbian identity. <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1-1' id='fnref-1-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/making-i-know-you-know-olivia-women-jeb-papers.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-image-105 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/making-i-know-you-know-olivia-women-jeb-papers-1024x632.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/making-i-know-you-know-olivia-women-jeb-papers-1024x632.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/making-i-know-you-know-olivia-women-jeb-papers-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/making-i-know-you-know-olivia-women-jeb-papers-768x474.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/making-i-know-you-know-olivia-women-jeb-papers-1240x765.jpeg 1240w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/making-i-know-you-know-olivia-women-jeb-papers-508x314.jpeg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The women behind &#8220;I Know You Know,&#8221; 1974. Sophia Smith Collection, Joan E. Biren papers.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I Know You Know <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was a resounding success for Olivia, selling thousands of copies in its first year and proving that there was an audience and an appetite for this music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The photograph on the album cover above was shot by Joan E. Biren, or JEB, a feminist photographer whose work centrally documented queer life, and who was in the separatist Furies collective. <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1-2' id='fnref-1-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1)'>2<\/a><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the image drew criticism from different groups of women over Christian\u2019s position\u2013many thought she shouldn\u2019t be presented sitting atop a pedestal, or that her seated position wasn\u2019t assertive enough. The critiques around image and presentation speak to how important and novel Meg\u2019s music and the project of Olivia Records was. With so few representations of lesbianism in media, this first Olivia album meant everything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A promotional flyer from Olivia described the response to the album: <\/span><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The letters we have gotten from women around the world tell us that in this album women are finding carefully arranged and exquisitely performed music; and comfort, personal validation and political support; strength, help to change, laughs from deep inside, pride, and the power and happiness that comes from being a woman who is learning to take control of her life.&#8221; <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1-3' id='fnref-1-3' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1)'>3<\/a><\/sup><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_108\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/meg-christian-performing-photo-jeb-papers.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"size-large wp-image-108\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/meg-christian-performing-photo-jeb-papers-1024x670.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/meg-christian-performing-photo-jeb-papers-1024x670.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/meg-christian-performing-photo-jeb-papers-300x196.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/meg-christian-performing-photo-jeb-papers-768x503.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/meg-christian-performing-photo-jeb-papers-1240x811.jpeg 1240w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/803\/1974\/10\/meg-christian-performing-photo-jeb-papers-508x332.jpeg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg Christian performing, c. 1974. Sophia Smith Collection, Joan E. Biren papers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meg Christian -  Ode To A Gym Teacher\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ljchJv3PMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-1'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-1-1'> Bonnie J. Morris and D-M Withers, <em>The Feminist Revolution, <\/em>(London: Elephant Publishing Company Limited, 2018), 108. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-1-2'> Ginny Z. Berson, <em>Olivia on the Record <\/em>(Sam Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2020), 106. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1-2'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-1-3'> &#8220;Meg Christian: I Know You Know,&#8221; Olivia Records, c. 1977, Sophia Smith Collection, Ginny Berson papers. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1-3'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Know You Know\u00a0liner notes, 1974, Olivia Records. Sophia Smith Collection, Women&#8217;s Music Archives records and collected music. &nbsp; The first full-length record Olivia produced was Meg Christian\u2019s album, I Know You Know. Released in 1974, the album included both touching and humorous songs about lesbian life, including \u201cValentine Song\u201d and \u201cOde to a Gym [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4109,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/oliviarecords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}