A New Helen Reddy Thread

This Live version is SO incredible!!!!!!!!

Helen HATES singing "Ruby Red Dress (Leave Me Alone)" and refuses to sing it anymore. I guess I can see why becaue it's so fucking repetitive, but it was such a big hit back in the day.

It's a great song, though!!!

Back in the Seventies, although I LOVED hearing Helen's songs on the radio, my Mom would turn them off. She said they were always about insane women (Angie, Delta Dawn).

Jesus Christ NOT ANOTHER Helen Reddy thread! Do a fucking search!

That's why it says "NEW" R6!

Believe it or not, in 1994, Gap sold items almost identical to what Helen is wearing in her 1972 video for "I Am Woman"!

The striped sweater vest was definitely at Gap in Fall 1994!

OMG I could not stand her then and I cannot know. Talk about banal.

She's a [WHISPERS] leeeeeeesbian.

I loved her take on disco with “I Can’t Here You No More”

My ex-husband used to sing "You And Me Against The World" to me...

I love her.

I wish she would record some new material she still has the voice.

R3 your mom could have been my mom. Very same attitude toward Helen Reddy.

R2 it looks like in OP's video she hated performing it even when it was new.

Helen's maid....

Love this penis-centric video for Angie Baby.

"Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady"!!!!!!!

[quote]She's a [WHISPERS] leeeeeeesbian.

Really?

That dick and balls at the beginning of that "Angie Baby" video!!!!!!!

That AIRED on 'Carol Burnett' in 1974??????????

This is beautiful from her Christmas Album:

That nasal monotone voice. That horrible behavior with her husband Jeff "Mr. helen Reddy" Wald. A veritable bad acid flashback from the 70s.

I have looked everywhere for a live performance (not that cartoon) she did on Carol Burnett show. She was front center stage and behind her was a set of 4 rooms in a house. People acted out various scenes in the rooms to the lyrics. I often think it was the nascent birth of MTV in which a song was a accompanied by the singer and action going on in scene.

^ (of Angie Baby)

Only on a 70s variety show.

Why does Helen seem so happy when Leave Me Alone is such a sad song?

I saw her in concert in 1973.

If my memory serves me, Helen performed her Candle on The Water for the Oscars. She started singing, and it appears either she or the orchestra started wrong. She stopped, apologized, and they started the song over. I vaguely remember, and it could of been another award show. Candle in the Water is one of my personal faves. Her acting in Pete's Dragon, not so much.

When it comes to superfluous lyrics, it's hard to top "Sometimes sitting down."

Ruby Red Dress. Not a favorite, in fact I was not a fan of the crazy lady songs.

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"I am woman... hear me roar."

2017

That song brings me back.. to high school.

I just assumed, as a child of the 70s, that she belonged in the same club as Kristy McNichol and Jodie Foster.

This is GREAT!!!!!!!!

This May 1975 version of "Angie Baby" features some groovy facial expressions and movements by Helen.

Like Karen Carpenter, Helen has that easy, effortless voice.

I never get tired of this one - great arrangement that sounded amazing on my Dad's Marantz stereo. Takes me right back....

Helen Goes Disco in 1979!!!!!!!

I haven't heard these songs in ages.. thanks for posting! Really takes me back..

02/02/1973 "I AM WOMAN"!

The first episode of 'The Midnight Special'!

She seems like she is very intelligent.

I wonder what happened to her psycho husband Jeff Wald?

April 9, 1976 - Helen once again is hosting 'The Midnight Special.' Here she introduces Fleetwood Mac, with Stevie Nicks performing an electrifying version of her classic song, "Rhiannon"!

Listen to how Helen says "debuted"!

R35, Love that song.

R5, but did Reddy ever appear on a Gap In-Store playlist? Inquiring minds need to know

I never could stand her songs.

R42 Not from 1992 to 2006, she did not.

Gap started using music services in the Early 1970s, so I'm sure Helen was on one of those.

She also does a lovely news theme song..

yum-ooooooooooooo

Her voice was so beautiful

R24 "could of been" - really? How about could've been, or could have been.

Is Senior Entourage coming out?

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When I hear the dress song, I substitute the words “eat my asshole” for “leave me alone”.

What a horrible singer.

her husband was the biggest coke dealer in LA and I always wondered if that was the reason for her success because she was average looking and an average singer and her material was bland - I believe he was sent to prison. there's a recent clip of her in Vegas doing "Angie Baby" and she can't remember the lyrics so she calls the songwriter up on stage and they finish the song together. He's the late Alan O'Day

Sad.

Yes, the millions of people who bought Helen Reddy's albums and singles did so because of her cocaine-dealing husband.

You wondered correctly. No more wondering for you.

I like Angie Baby. I have some of her shit downloaded. Guilty pleasure.

Op, this one

Tanya Fucker did it too.

Helen sang "Delta Dawn" with emotion in her voice, unlike TT's faux hick vocals.

R35 What the FUCK is she singing? She'll wake the sun up giving him a wind cup?

What the fuck does that mean?

It sounds like Michfest poetry.

R60 And Helen took Delta Dawn to #1

I enjoy her vocalizations on “Brazzle Dazzle Day”

Strange tone to her voice. Odd

R53, I don't think he was buying the stuff to sell. He was a huge consumer of coke. He also was quite dangerous.

She doesn’t do “No Sad Song” any more?

R9 Ex huh? So I guess in the end it was not you and me against the world and just me against the world?

No, r67. You and me against the world was about her daughter and her. Helen came to the U.S. With her three year old daughter and something like $250 in her pocket.

r2

Yeah who would sing such a repetitive song?

r61 I love Helen's version of Peaceful, but she changed the lyrics and destroyed the whole meaning of the song

The original lyrics are

I had a son, while on the run, and his love brought a tear to my eye

And somehow I know, if he had lived to grow, he'd have been a really nice guy, oh my

She changed it to

And maybe someday he'll up and say "We had a pretty nice time"

The whole song is about a man who is in a cemetery and instead of being upset, he's fine and peaceful about his son's death. By changing that one line, she made it sound like the aftermath of an all night booze up.

Towards the radio he's bound

Never to be found...

Helen had a nice relaxing, not great, voice. She had 3 number 1 songs: I Am Woman, Delta Dawn, and Angie Baby. People forget that the song that put her on the map was I Don't Know How To Love Him. Her version and Yvonne Elliman's were on the charts at the same time.

I remember once she guest hosted the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was off. Although her singing was fine, she was the worst guest host ever. She did not get one laugh the entire 90 minutes. I'm not exaggerating...not one. It was painful to watch.

I still like that r72. It's lovely.

I'm sad she's gone.

Newsday’s Saturday crossword puzzle (a much tougher puzzle than the Saturday Times, btw, had this clue: “Anthem turning 50 next year”. I figured it out that it was “I Am Woman”.