2020 Claims Another One

Not so invincible.

Awww, she was fun

WRONG FORMAT! Try again and do it right -- "______ is dead to me!"

R3 we don't care

Awww, I love that Ruby Red Dress song

It was her time, she was Reddy to go.

Can we now light her candle on the water?

Karen Black is piloting the plane taking her to heaven.

One of my favourites from Helen. Lyrics describe how I feel about 18 hours a day....

Good night, Helen. Thanks for some lovely music.

RIP Helen 😢

I will miss her roar.

Kaitlyn's theme song

She was part of my youth 😥

Me too, r13. 😔

I always loved the lyric "....but its wisdom born of pain..."

Sure is!

She is corpse, hear her roar

Just when her bio-pic came out?! That sucks

She recorded this one for today.

God, she sang some awful songs. "Ruby Red Dress"..."Leave Me Alone"..."You and Me Against The World"....yech! I kind of liked "I Am Woman", though. And I liked "Peaceful", a good song written by an underrated songwriter named Kenny Rankin. And who could forget "Angie Baby?" She really wasn't that talented. And she always seemed like such a cunt. She just had that cunty vibe to her.

I bought all of Helen Reddy's hit singles back in the day. She certainly left her mark in music especially with her pro-female/inspirational theme song, "I Am Woman." She was a great gal and I wish her all peace and Godspeed in the Great Beyond!

She had three #1 hits on Billboard charts - I Am Woman, Delta Dawn, and Angie Baby. She didn't have an outstanding voice but her unusual songs made up for it.

I guess someone here had some decent info because I remember reading here that she wasn't doing well

R15 Yes, I remember that part of the lyric "....but its wisdom born of pain...". It sounds like a quote from The Bible.

I just wonder how much of this song was written but Reddy and how much by her American co-writer who I assume was an American Christian.

She played a singing nun in that dreadful "Airport 75" movie. She was plugging the movie on Johnny Carson and mentioned she played a nun in the film. The audience laughed. She looked really pissed off.

This is a profile on her and her career from three years ago at age 75. Her health, she says, was good.

Lesbian?

I'm not a Lesbian so I wonder if she was abnormally pretty.

I remember thinking she looked too fragile and feminine to sing that song which supposedly was such a gutsy, strong and revolutionary anthem.

Bitch had some weird-ass songs.

Helen Reddy then and in later years...….

Her famous I Am Woman album cover. Understated but effective.

I like the photo of her on the Ear Candy album.

"leave me alone, leave me alone" another fitting lyric of hers.

A friend of some of the people my college group of friends was a slutty woman named Helen who took up with loser-ish guys and then would fuck someone else in almost plain sight. We called her "Hellen Ready" because she was. Other than Reddy's nasal voice and rude antics with her husband Jeff Wald, I never thought there was very much to her. i was happy when the 70s ended, esp. the the lame music like hers........At least she didn't turn up in my abnormal psych class like another nymphomaniac we knew.

Yet the Trumps are all still breathing....

Back in the late Seventies/early Eighties, Stephen Stills was putting together a new band and announced - apparently, in all seriousness - that it was going to be called Hell 'N' Ready.

Am pretty sure he got a "cease and desist" letter.

Canadian singer Anne Murray was in the same timeframe as Helen Reddy but Murray had a better voice and her and her songs were more down to earth, although I liked both of them.

They were also both on Columbia Records.

^ And they both pinged

Helen was a big influence in my life and i am very sad to learn of her passing.

NOT HELEN REDDY!!!!

Accepting a Grammy she said in her acceptance speech "and I'd like to thank God, because SHE makes everything possible!" She was on some variety show where they were taking questions from the audience and a boy in the audience asked her "Why do you think God is a woman?" She said "I never said God was a woman" and the boy brought up her statement at the Grammys. She was left with egg on her face.

Capitol Records, R36?

She stole Delta Dawn from me!

Anne Murray wasn’t much of a *songwriter*, though. Helen Reddy was. “Summer of ‘71” is a gem. Look it up if you don’t know it—it’s about mescaline.

..what's that flower you have on?

..what's that flower you have on?

I'm afraid O think there will be more.2020 is just one of those awful years.

Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Some older Hollywood legends like Dick Van Dyke, Eva Marie Saint, Rhonda Fleming, Liza Minnelli as well as last of The Golden Girls Betty White, world figures like Desmond Tutu and Prince Philip and yes sadly Jimmy Carter are all at high risk this year sadly.

^^^ (ahem) ^^^

Her unfortunate passing made me think of the best performance of I Am Woman.

"She was left with egg on her face."

What's wrong with what she said?

She claims "I am strong, I am invincible" while wearing make-up, high heels and flattering dresses.

FAIL, R48.

THIS is the best performance of that song.

Jeff Wald was notorious for the massive amounts of drugs he did, but is still living lucid and well.

Thoughts and prayers to DL’s Pete’s Dragon troll.

R41 You are correct. My bad. Both Anne and Helen were on CAPITAL Records, as were The Beatles.

Capital Records had some heavy hitters back in the day.

I'm pretty sure that's an "o" on the CapitOl Records label you used to illustrate your post, R54.

In the pic at r54, Anne Murray looks like my 10th grade P.E. teacher

^^^ Maybe on account of the fact that she WAS a P. E. teacher before becoming a singer, eh?

She was wise to go when she did, so she didn’t have to witness the first Trump/Biden debate.

Anne Murray had a great voice and some great songs. My mom loved her back in the day.

R46 Rhonda Fleming is a right wing nut job who supported Pat Robertson & his 700 Club from the 1970s up to this very day.

She even endorsed Patty for President back in 1988.

He was the original Trump back then

so of course he had to endorse his evil spawn in 2016.

Ugh, Pat Robertson. I had forgotten all about that human turd.

RIP

😭😥😭

r62 Isn't Pat Robertson also in very poor health?

"What's wrong with what she said?"

She claimed never to have said God was a woman, but she did in her stupid Grammy speech, and the boy in the audience called her out on it. Good for him.