Helen Reddy has died at 78 years old in Los Angeles.
Helen Reddy has PASSED AWAY
by Anonymous | reply 231 | October 5, 2020 8:39 PM |
So young.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 30, 2020 2:22 AM |
You and me against the world..... RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 30, 2020 2:23 AM |
I am no longer woman. Hear no roar.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 30, 2020 2:25 AM |
I hope she completed a postal vote.... oh and thoughts and prayers.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 30, 2020 2:25 AM |
Last I saw she was living in some small condo in Australia. Wonder why she was in LA.
Loved her - she had many fine songs and I will always love those songs, even if she wasn't the best person.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 30, 2020 2:29 AM |
[quote] even if she wasn't the best person
I don't know anything about her as a person. Please explain.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 30, 2020 2:31 AM |
She was being cared for at the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Samuel Goldwyn Center for Behavioral Health in Woodland Hills. She had dementia.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 30, 2020 2:32 AM |
The other thread about her doesn't even have Helen Reddy's name in the thread title. She is too important to gay and lesbian culture to let that happen.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 30, 2020 2:33 AM |
Was she watching the debates?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 30, 2020 2:33 AM |
This debate is killing me, too.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 30, 2020 2:35 AM |
Wow, I was just watching a few of her videos on YouTube yesterday. RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 30, 2020 2:35 AM |
Is apoplexy still a thing?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 30, 2020 2:35 AM |
Angie is one of the scariest characters ever to hit the pop charts
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 30, 2020 2:36 AM |
Was she a lesbian?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 30, 2020 2:39 AM |
RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 30, 2020 2:42 AM |
Dyke music.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 30, 2020 2:44 AM |
She's one of those people who only could have been famous in the 70s.
I've heard of the I Am Woman song (which sucks) but that's all.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 30, 2020 2:45 AM |
1970's gayling me couldn't stand her music.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 30, 2020 2:46 AM |
I thought she'd have dropped dead when she saw this....
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 30, 2020 2:51 AM |
She was before my time, but I know she has a special place in the hearts of Eldergays and Elderdykes.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 30, 2020 2:52 AM |
I was but a wee tot when I saw her for the first time in Sesame street. I even recall a bit guest spot on the Jefferson's when G, WZ, and Flo went to gamble on A Cty. So glad for her today!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 30, 2020 2:55 AM |
Shortly before she died, Helen Reddy recorded a cover of "Wet Ass Pussy." It will be released posthumously.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 30, 2020 2:56 AM |
Her hit "Angie Baby" was my favorite though it wasn't until years later that I found out the song was about necrophilia.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 30, 2020 3:47 AM |
Was she ready for death?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 30, 2020 4:09 AM |
She’s fine, she sends her love.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 30, 2020 4:11 AM |
R17, you’re a know-nothing twat.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 30, 2020 4:12 AM |
I agree--go shit on some other thread, r17.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 30, 2020 4:13 AM |
r27 Not everybody was around fifty fucking years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 30, 2020 4:14 AM |
I'm sure the eldergays back in the 70s were pissily calling r27/r28 know-nothing twats because they weren't familiar with some silent movie personality from the 20s.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 30, 2020 4:15 AM |
The 1970s to the 2020s are as far away as the 1920s were to the 1970s. Think about that, motherfuckers.
Time moves on....
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 30, 2020 4:17 AM |
I was born in 1979. I was not around 50 years ago. But I’m culturally literate, and I like music, and the 70s was a great decade for it.
If you think the only stuff worth knowing about and experiencing is the shit that’s going on RIGHT NOW, you’re an idiot and a bore.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 30, 2020 4:20 AM |
What the fuck kind of argument is that, R32? Eat shit, retard.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 30, 2020 4:21 AM |
Helen's ready.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 30, 2020 4:21 AM |
RIP, Mac Davis.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 30, 2020 4:31 AM |
Nothing could be so pathetic as some troll who feels he has to shit all over a death thread.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 30, 2020 4:36 AM |
r33 I'm around your age and of course I know a lot of culture from the 70s but a borderline novelty singer whose few hits you never really hear like Helen Reddy wouldn't be someone many people are familiar with.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 30, 2020 4:41 AM |
Mac Davis deserves his own thread.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 30, 2020 4:48 AM |
I wish I did, R39.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 30, 2020 4:49 AM |
SHES DEAD!!!!!! DEEEAAADDD!!!!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 30, 2020 4:51 AM |
Dusty Springfield's "I Am Woman" was much better. That crazy drug fucked dyke could sing anything and make it sound fabulous.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 30, 2020 4:53 AM |
I'm sad.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 30, 2020 5:05 AM |
A 1970s gay icon dies and there are people hissing, pissing on and joking about her?
R43 is the real thing. Many of the others here, not so much.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 30, 2020 5:10 AM |
Jesus r44 it's not like Helen Reddy was that well-known after the 70s. She wasn't Stevie Nicks or Cher.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 30, 2020 5:14 AM |
Has she met Delta Dawn ?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 30, 2020 5:22 AM |
Reddy should have been a bigger star. She certainly had the pipes and stage presence for it. She wasn't very 'cool' though, like the aforementioned Nicks and Cher. She lacked that 'it' factor.
Someone once wrote about her 70's fellow travelers and countrymen, the Bee Gees, that as performers they came across like an anachronism, something lifted out of the music scene in the 50s. Very old-fashioned, more for the middle-aged dinner club circuit than arenas or stadiums (although they did fine in the latter). Reddy came across like that, at times more Broadway than LA scenester.
Didn't she have a really bad drug problem at one point? Cocaine, late 70s/early 80s. Seem to recall it factored into her bitter divorce, her husband was also her manager for many years. He got into trouble too - tax issues?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 30, 2020 5:27 AM |
She seemed like a genuinely nice woman. Not greedy for money or fame or attention.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 30, 2020 5:38 AM |
[quote]Jesus [R44] it's not like Helen Reddy was that well-known after the 70s. She wasn't Stevie Nicks or Cher.
The 70s are the DL default decade. For many here they never ended.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 30, 2020 5:40 AM |
It was before my time but it was the "camp" decade, hence its popularity here.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 30, 2020 5:42 AM |
[quote] The 70s are the DL default decade. For many here they never ended.
For me it's the 50s.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 30, 2020 5:42 AM |
r49 I've always found it very sad.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 30, 2020 5:43 AM |
[quote] I've always found it very sad.
Me too. Visually, environmentally, politically and economically it seems like a depressing time.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 30, 2020 5:50 AM |
It was an interesting time. An intelligent time. A creative time. a musical time. A sexy time. A liberating time. A very American time. The best era to be young-ish of the twentieth century....oops forgot Gay Lib.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 30, 2020 6:13 AM |
But you can't live in the past. I had a blast in the late 90s/early 2000s but my god I don't live there.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 30, 2020 6:24 AM |
I loved her as Nora in Pete's Dragon
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 30, 2020 6:25 AM |
I used to get her mixed up with Linda Ronstadt. To me there were just two dark-haired women with good voices.
I gravitated more towards Cher and Donna Summer . Go figure
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 30, 2020 6:33 AM |
Did MISS Michael Learned comment? Her son, Lucas, is married to Helen’s daughter, Traci.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 30, 2020 6:35 AM |
Who the hell is Michael Learned?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 30, 2020 6:37 AM |
Goodnight, Ma.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 30, 2020 6:42 AM |
[quote]Me too. Visually, environmentally, politically and economically it seems like a depressing time.
That's like saying New York in the 70s was all violence and decay. If you think that you're not getting it.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 30, 2020 6:43 AM |
[quote] Her son, Lucas, is married to Helen’s daughter, Traci.
OMG what happened to Traci?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 30, 2020 6:46 AM |
Someone check on Anne Murray, stat!
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 30, 2020 6:50 AM |
[quote] That's like saying New York in the 70s was all violence and decay. If you think that you're not getting it.
Your probably correct. I didn’t live through the 70s, so most of what I’ve seen is dreary.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 30, 2020 6:52 AM |
HR was suffering from dementia. Way too many people are suffering from dementia and Alzheimers, they are also getting these disorders at much younger ages.
Alzheimers must be environmental. My elderly relatives lived well into their 90s, they died from their hearts simply giving out. One grandparent smoked, he died from heart disease. No heavy drinkers in my family. When you hear a person in their 50s has Alzheimers, you have to figure there must be an environmental component.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 30, 2020 6:52 AM |
[quote] That's like saying New York in the 70s was all violence and decay. If you think that you're not getting it.
You’re probably correct. I didn’t live through the 70s, so most of what I’ve seen is dreary.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 30, 2020 6:53 AM |
[quote]Someone check on Anne Murray, stat!
Anne is fine. she's on a beaver hunt in Ottawa right now, if you know what I'm saying.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 30, 2020 7:14 AM |
I know what you’re saying.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 30, 2020 9:48 AM |
Helen Reddy was in my history books with the lyrics of I am Woman printed out and there was a lot about the women's movement in the US. I think most of many ages know who she is.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 30, 2020 10:15 AM |
I think I saw a clip of Helen singing I am Woman with Jane Fonda at a big rally at the Washington Monument
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 30, 2020 10:17 AM |
Now this is freaky. When I was a kid, my parents took me to my first concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. The two performers that night?
Helen Reddy and Mac Davis
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 30, 2020 10:32 AM |
OmG - freaky, R72.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 30, 2020 10:48 AM |
Miss HR already..." and when one of us is gone, and the other is left to carry on. Memories will have to do.."
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 30, 2020 11:07 AM |
Delta Dawn Down
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 30, 2020 11:12 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 30, 2020 11:19 AM |
I fear Olivia Newton John is next.
Us Aussies are worried!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 30, 2020 11:21 AM |
She was the Joan Fontaine to Anne Murray’s Livvy
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 30, 2020 11:28 AM |
78 is the new 27!
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 30, 2020 11:29 AM |
my infant daughter in a high chair would lover her Disney anthoogy / but when Candle on the Water from Petes Dragon would come on track 3/ she woud wail and scream bloody murder until we switched to the next track ...
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 30, 2020 12:26 PM |
Helen Reddy has NOT passed away. Helen Reddy is DEAD. She DIED. Take you passed away religion elsewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 30, 2020 12:36 PM |
Christ. R42, she was a goddamn legend, that was great.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 30, 2020 1:02 PM |
Dusty was in a class of her own. That woman was such a rare and unique talent.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 30, 2020 2:12 PM |
I agree that Helen Reddy has not passed AWAY. She has passed ON. There's a difference.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 30, 2020 3:32 PM |
What was on her...oh, forget it.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 30, 2020 3:34 PM |
Here's the truth. Helen Reddy with ONE song she wrote changed the trajectory for women around the world. Go ahead and shit on this but it's the fucking truth. Music can be powerful and she was a great example of it. Just think about it.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 30, 2020 4:52 PM |
.........
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 30, 2020 5:32 PM |
Angie Baby was my favorite by her.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 30, 2020 5:48 PM |
R86 = Helen Reddy's publicist
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 30, 2020 5:56 PM |
who?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 30, 2020 5:57 PM |
Helen Reddy is one of those "you really had to be there" type of entertainers.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 30, 2020 6:13 PM |
I was going to administer CPR, but Helen told me to leave her alone.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 30, 2020 6:14 PM |
Well at least I know what I’m going at Halloween 🎃 as: Hellen Deady!
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 30, 2020 6:19 PM |
^I hope I’ll pass^
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 30, 2020 6:21 PM |
She had been on steroids for decades due to addison's disease and she onlt had one kidney. I wonder if that factored into her health problems?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 30, 2020 6:37 PM |
r89 = bitter cunt
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 30, 2020 6:41 PM |
Growing up in the seventies there were so many weekly variety shows - Carol Burnett, Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Flip Wilson etc plus daytime - Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, Dinah Shore etc - Helen Reddy was featured prominently on these shows at least once a season as I recall - so we all grew familiar with her in our living room - not to mention she had heavy rotation on AM radio - her voice is a happy memory for me.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 30, 2020 7:20 PM |
Helen Reddy was my first concert. I’m in the process of getting ready (no pun intended) to sell my parents’ house and am removing so many record albums and singles that were left behind. I had discarded most, but kept some, including those of Helen Reddy. Tuesday morning, before learning of her passing, I decided to take everything out to the curb for garbage pick-up. The only thing that survived being tossed was an early Beatles album.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 30, 2020 7:45 PM |
Dont you have charity shops in the USA where you can take things like that to?
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 30, 2020 7:55 PM |
R95, that causes dementia? Don't think so. Her other medical conditions could have caused her death, but come on she was almost 80.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 30, 2020 9:10 PM |
R98, last year I unloaded hundreds of old record albums as a donation. Big Brothers Big Sisters picked them up. Goodwill stores take them too, though they're not picking up lately because of Covid.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 30, 2020 9:13 PM |
R95 yes...it was a part of her health issues. She had been on dialysis for the past several years.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 30, 2020 9:15 PM |
I wrote this years ago here on a thread about early days of MTV. On a Carol Burnett appearance circa 1971 or so I swear the first incarnation or notion of a “music video” was performed by Helen as a guest on Carol Burnett. I remember watching as a 5 year old. Helen sang the song but behind her was a cut out of a two story house w separate rooms. An actress acted out the song as Helen sung it. I have often thought that was the nascent concept of MTV.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 30, 2020 9:26 PM |
103 Posts and no mention of her in AIRPORT 75 as a nun singing to a young Linda Blair?
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 30, 2020 9:48 PM |
Helen Reddy was permanent co host of the Midnight Special for about a year at one point.
Who's the Dustybot on here all of a sudden? She had a good voice, but shit, she was hardly on the level of Callas or even Streisand.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 30, 2020 9:53 PM |
Streisand is repulsive. thank god she was not on that level.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 30, 2020 9:57 PM |
R103 I remember this so clearly! She was singing "Angie Baby" and the song was being acted out behind her! I've searched for that clip on YouTube, but have never been able to find it.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 30, 2020 10:01 PM |
You owe me a blow job R107. Unless you're a frau. Then I want money.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | October 1, 2020 12:34 AM |
R108. Love you. R103 here. Jesus. That stuck in my mind from five years of age.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 1, 2020 1:06 AM |
“She” flaked out of a pride concert because “she” was a TERF. I hope they burn “her” fat transphobic d¥ke corpse on a pyre of Harry Potter books. And it’s because of “her” that Disney almost went bankrupt. Every shitty movie they have made in the last 40 years was made as a reaction to “hers” being a flop. It would not have been had the studio cast a trans womxn of colour in the role of Nora. And don’t say they would never do that if they would let Wendy Carlos compose the score to TRON 5 years later.
“She“ was really a man like all transphobic d¥kes. All “her“ biggest hits were written by man except for the one “she“ hated yet never shut up about. And if “she” were any kind of feminist or progressive, you wouldn’t be making movies with Republicans.
Hell, I’m a man and I am more of a feminist then “she“ ever was. “She” ruined the 1970s. Now “she” is just another dead TERF, the only good kind. Go suck girl cock in hell until Linda Blair gets there, bitch!
by Anonymous | reply 110 | October 1, 2020 1:10 AM |
Yeah, me too, R5. I saw her in an Australian news feature clip on YouTube around that time showing her in her new condo and how she’d supposedly decided happily to divest herself of most of her pricey accumulated bling and possessions and was now gladly living a simpler, quieter existence there.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | October 1, 2020 1:30 AM |
Even the devil doesn’t want Madonna.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 1, 2020 1:32 AM |
r110 = J.k. Rowling. Don't you have something else to do?
by Anonymous | reply 113 | October 1, 2020 1:33 AM |
R110, Helen looked like a 1970s dyke, but she wasn't :(
by Anonymous | reply 114 | October 1, 2020 1:39 AM |
Reddy's home was in a senior assisted living campus for the entertainment community. It's huge! It's in Woodland Hills Ca in The Valley. Yes, that one.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | October 1, 2020 1:43 AM |
WHERE ARE THE TRIBUTES?
This woman pioneered feminism back in the 70's. I AM WOMAN was the face of the FUCKING MOVEMENT!
Gloria Steinem, where are you?
Jane Fonda, she had you sing on one of her specials. Stop lecturing everyone for five minutes and SAY THANKS.
Barbra? Hello, Miss Feminism., are you there? Always wanting to talk about women. Put away the jealousy for five seconds.
Where are the elder female politicians?
After all she did for feminism? You know had groundbreaking she was for the cause.
This is a fucking disgrace at a time when women's rights are on the chopping block. We need this anthem more than ever and we need to pay tribute to the woman who SANG IT AND SAY THANK YOU.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | October 1, 2020 1:43 AM |
"This woman pioneered feminism back in the 70's."
You believe the publicity, huh, R116?
by Anonymous | reply 117 | October 1, 2020 1:45 AM |
r117 = ignorant fucktard.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | October 1, 2020 1:46 AM |
agree, r116.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | October 1, 2020 1:47 AM |
R118 = born in 1999
by Anonymous | reply 120 | October 1, 2020 1:49 AM |
AGAIN, Helen Reddy with ONE song she wrote changed the trajectory for women around the world. Go ahead and shit on this but it's the fucking truth. Think about the women back in the 1970 who had zero path to success except to be Mommies. PLUS, Reddy was one of the first women to talk and write songs about divorce. The women LEAVING the a man. Unheard of back then in the mass market pop music entertainment. Music can be powerful and she was a great example of it. Just think about it.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | October 1, 2020 1:54 AM |
It shocks me that Helen Reddy's death has gotten more coverage than Donna Summer's. Donna's went mostly unnoticed by the world.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | October 1, 2020 1:56 AM |
"born in 1999"
Yes, Gen Z is known for its overwhelming love of Helen Reddy
by Anonymous | reply 123 | October 1, 2020 2:00 AM |
R121, you are treading water...very murky water.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | October 1, 2020 2:03 AM |
Re. celebrities paying tribute - I know Dana Delaney put out a nice tweet about her
by Anonymous | reply 125 | October 1, 2020 2:06 AM |
She was the only Hollywood feminist who actually practiced what she preached even when it came at the expense of her own career. That makes her easier to take seriously than someone like, say, Taylor Swift. Who will give a shit about her when she dies?
by Anonymous | reply 126 | October 1, 2020 2:08 AM |
Taylor Swift will be remembered. Are you one of those freaks who hate her because she's against Trump?
by Anonymous | reply 127 | October 1, 2020 2:16 AM |
I was a gayling back then, but Helen Reddy had no particular status as a gay icon. The lesbians liked her, though, maybe because she didn’t wear underwear. Didn’t Bette Midler have a joke about that?
by Anonymous | reply 128 | October 1, 2020 2:21 AM |
No, actually Bette Midler‘s joke about her was “she oughta be arrested for loitering on stage.“
by Anonymous | reply 129 | October 1, 2020 2:34 AM |
How so, r124? Explain, please.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | October 1, 2020 2:43 AM |
That Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady was this 70's Gayling's favorite Helen Reddy song.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | October 1, 2020 2:44 AM |
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
And did I hear you say he was a-meeting you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky
by Anonymous | reply 132 | October 1, 2020 2:47 AM |
r89 = r124 = still a bitter cunt
by Anonymous | reply 133 | October 1, 2020 2:47 AM |
[italic]Family Guy[/italic] outlives another guest star.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | October 1, 2020 3:16 AM |
FF OP for no link. Fat lazy whore.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | October 1, 2020 3:59 AM |
She had a unique tone to her voice that I always liked.
I came across this video today. I think someone was once looking for this performance of Angie Baby from the Carol Burnett show.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | October 1, 2020 4:00 AM |
[quote] WHERE ARE THE TRIBUTES?
MP Joanna Cherry tweeted a nice one today.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | October 1, 2020 4:17 AM |
R108 Yes, I owe you a blow job! Thank you for this!
And like you, R103, this segment has stuck with me all these years, too. In fact, every time I hear the song, I think of this.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | October 1, 2020 11:48 AM |
R107, you are too stupid to live. Type Helen Reddy Angie Baby in youtube and it was the 4th video in line.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | October 1, 2020 12:08 PM |
R22...Either you're attempting to inject race where it doesn't belong or you were living under a rock when Summer died. As one of the most influential women in rock & roll, she was mourned & recognized as such, very prolifically & very affectionately.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | October 1, 2020 12:09 PM |
Hey, R139, if you read the YouTube comments, you'll see that this video was just recently uploaded. So it's quite likely that the video wasn't there prior to Helen Reddy dying.
So I guess if R107 is too stupid to live, you're too stupid to read.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | October 1, 2020 12:14 PM |
The recent bio-pic I Am Woman made on her life is a pile of shit.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | October 1, 2020 12:20 PM |
Before somebody posts an "we know" post, I'll apologize for the repeat link. Anybody else here having problems seeing preview or watching videos on this site? I can't tell what a posted video is unless I open it in a separate window.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | October 1, 2020 12:39 PM |
November3rd 2019 is NOT fairly recently, R141. So suck it.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | October 1, 2020 12:45 PM |
R140 here...My bad. My comment is in reply to R122!
by Anonymous | reply 145 | October 1, 2020 12:50 PM |
R136 meet R108.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | October 1, 2020 12:53 PM |
Olivia Newton-John, Hugh Jackman, Seth MacFarlane, Jamie Lee Curtis, Viola Davis, Patricia Arquette, and Jane Lynch have all posted tributes.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | October 1, 2020 12:55 PM |
R144 seems quite agitated. Is she Angie Baby herself?
"You're a little touched, you know..."
by Anonymous | reply 148 | October 1, 2020 12:56 PM |
The only two Helen Reddy songs I like are I Am Woman & Leave Me Alone. Angie Baby and another are OK I guess.
Though I do think the line 'Spread my loving arms around the land' in I Am Woman would have been better if it had been 'Spread my loving legs around the land'.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | October 1, 2020 1:00 PM |
yeah, yeah, I know, R108. Sorry. As I said, I can't easily see videos here anymore to know what has been posted.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | October 1, 2020 1:08 PM |
[quote]Though I do think the line 'Spread my loving arms around the land' in I Am Woman would have been better if it had been 'Spread my loving legs around the land'.
If Joni Mitchell had sung the song, it would've been.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | October 1, 2020 2:32 PM |
"Olivia Newton-John, Hugh Jackman, Seth MacFarlane, Jamie Lee Curtis, Viola Davis, Patricia Arquette, and Jane Lynch have all posted tributes."
I bet baby Hugh was running around the house as a kid singing "Delta Dawn"
by Anonymous | reply 152 | October 1, 2020 5:54 PM |
I thought the Mac Davis reference was just a tongue-in-cheek reference to another semi-forgotten early-70's icon...but then I realized holy shit, he died too!
On the same day, no less!
Somebody please check on Tony Orlando!!!
by Anonymous | reply 153 | October 1, 2020 6:12 PM |
Oh god r153 now you've done it. The old queens on here will be buzzing that you called Helen Reddy "semi-forgotten."
She WAS, but don't tell the elders that!
by Anonymous | reply 154 | October 1, 2020 6:46 PM |
[quote]I thought the Mac Davis reference was just a tongue-in-cheek reference to another semi-forgotten early-70's icon...but then I realized holy shit, he died too! On the same day, no less!
Also, both were 78.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | October 1, 2020 6:58 PM |
She made her big-screen debut in the disaster movie “Airport 1975” (released in 1974) as a guitar-playing nun who comforts a sick little girl (Linda Blair) on an almost certainly doomed 747. Ms. Reddy always liked to point out that Gloria Swanson and Myrna Loy were also in the cast. She made her big-screen debut in the disaster movie “Airport 1975” (released in 1974) as a guitar-playing nun who comforts a sick little girl (Linda Blair) on an almost certainly doomed 747. Ms. Reddy always liked to point out that Gloria Swanson and Myrna Loy were also in the cast.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | October 1, 2020 7:09 PM |
Are you saying she made her big-screen debut in the disaster movie "Airport 1975"? R156?
by Anonymous | reply 157 | October 1, 2020 7:11 PM |
She was unique and had her own style of adult contemporary pop that was all her own. The tone of her voice was at times odd. Her look and style was very everyday 70s (mostly). She seemed like a singing mom, which she was of course. I like Angie Baby and You and me against the world very much.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | October 1, 2020 7:14 PM |
R10 so does Ann Murray
by Anonymous | reply 159 | October 1, 2020 7:17 PM |
R74 that line breaks my heart. I think about me and my mom.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | October 1, 2020 7:21 PM |
She never had an image.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | October 1, 2020 7:23 PM |
Anybody have any idea where she's going to be laid to rest?
Tanya Tucker and I have been dreaming of pissing on her grave for decades!
by Anonymous | reply 162 | October 1, 2020 7:39 PM |
[quote]Donna's went mostly unnoticed by the world.
Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Elton John, and many a more A lister celeb paid tribute to Donna Summer when she passed. Obama even made an official statement.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | October 1, 2020 8:58 PM |
Donna Summer's death didn't get a huge amount of media coverage.
I was surprised that Kenny Rogers' recent death also didn't get as much media coverage as it should have. He was an enormous star back in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | October 1, 2020 9:31 PM |
R163: Helen Reddy and Mac Davis are linked via Susan Clark. Outside of Helen's role in [italic]Airport 1975[/italic], Mac Davis was a guest star on [italic]Webster[/italic] in 1986.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | October 1, 2020 9:48 PM |
Shit Kenny Rogers death was on my tv forever it seemed. It was covered to the maximum amount. Especially by A&E, CMT, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | October 1, 2020 9:50 PM |
Not by the major mainstream outlets, r166. For a man who was such a major star, there wasn't a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | October 1, 2020 9:52 PM |
Donna Summer got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a year after she passed.
When the President makes a statement, that's pretty big.
Summer also hadn't been much of consistent recording artist for the twenty five years prior, so it wasn't like they had a whole lot to cover. VH1 and BET did show a marathon of videos though.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | October 1, 2020 9:54 PM |
R167 pfffffft
by Anonymous | reply 169 | October 1, 2020 10:01 PM |
R168 doesn’t know Donna Summer’s recording catalog. Stupid ass.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | October 1, 2020 10:02 PM |
It's true r167.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | October 1, 2020 10:11 PM |
r165 Reddy recorded Davis's hit "I Believe in Music" as an early B-side, he also guest starred on her short-lived tv series The Helen Reddy Show in the summer of '73.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | October 1, 2020 10:54 PM |
[quote]doesn’t know Donna Summer’s recording catalog. Stupid ass.
What is your fucking point? Other than derailing a thread on Helen Reddy to air some grievance you've had for the last eight years?
Start your own fucking thread on Donna Summer being ignored if you're that outraged. Dumbass.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | October 1, 2020 10:59 PM |
It’s just your fucking perception, r67!
by Anonymous | reply 174 | October 1, 2020 11:03 PM |
[quote]Helen Reddy and Mac Davis are linked via Susan Clark. Outside of Helen's role in Airport 1975, Mac Davis was a guest star on Webster in 1986.
Helen Reddy and Mac Davis were both on Broadway at about the same time, Helen in "Blood Brothers" and Mac in "The Will Rogers Follies." Maybe they shared a cab to the theater district.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | October 2, 2020 12:10 AM |
Both ugly
by Anonymous | reply 176 | October 2, 2020 12:15 AM |
R176 Mac Davis in his heyday was sexy as fuck.
He used to wear skin tight jeans and had a very nice bulge in 'em.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | October 2, 2020 12:43 AM |
[quote]She was the only Hollywood feminist who actually practiced what she preached even when it came at the expense of her own career. That makes her easier to take seriously than someone like, say, Taylor Swift. Who will give a shit about her when she dies?
Maybe the members of her bitch squad that ate her out?
by Anonymous | reply 179 | October 2, 2020 3:47 AM |
Who gives a fucking shit about Donna Fucking Summer and Mac Fucking Davis?
This thread is about Helen Fucking Reddy.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | October 2, 2020 4:13 AM |
Will Miss Warwick be sending a box of Famous Amos cookies in remembrance of the money they lost investing in them?
by Anonymous | reply 181 | October 2, 2020 7:11 AM |
She and Jeff Wald allegedly blew through their entire $40 million fortune. He had a million-dollar-a-year coke habit at one point, insane even by 70s standards. I had no idea they invested in cookies, but it makes sense given the rest of the story.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | October 2, 2020 7:25 AM |
Wrong R172 I believe in Music was the A side, the B side became the hit.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | October 2, 2020 8:40 AM |
I always liked her version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | October 2, 2020 10:26 AM |
I'm inane, I am an imbecile, I'm commerciaaaallll....
gets me every time
by Anonymous | reply 185 | October 2, 2020 11:59 AM |
She showed a sense of humor on this Letterman appearance!
by Anonymous | reply 186 | October 2, 2020 2:34 PM |
R186 This was great!
by Anonymous | reply 187 | October 2, 2020 2:43 PM |
I liked her 1983 new wave album
by Anonymous | reply 188 | October 2, 2020 3:53 PM |
[quote]I always liked her version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar.
That makes one of us.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | October 2, 2020 4:01 PM |
Helen admitted in her biography that she hated the song.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | October 2, 2020 6:09 PM |
[quote]Wrong [R172] I believe in Music was the A side, the B side became the hit.
There are conflicting stories. Reddy's main Wikipedia entry states it was the A-side, but DJ's chose the B-side song (I Don't Know How to Love Him) for her 1st hit. I feel this is probably correct.
The entry for the song itself states it was the B-side though.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | October 2, 2020 7:36 PM |
R191 stories be damned.
If you get the 45 (used record shops will have it)
Side one A: I believe in music
Side two B: I don't know how to love him
by Anonymous | reply 193 | October 3, 2020 7:48 AM |
R81 Helen Reddy hasn't died.
She moved to her higher life
She has fared us well.
She has met her maker.
She has gone far but no further
She has crossed the bourne.
She has gone beyond the stars.
She has passed to her reward
She has gone over to the great majority.
She has received her home-call.
The hand was placed on her shoulder
She has gone to the Elysian fields.
She went to her rest.
She was taken to the home eternal
She went to her glorious reunion
She has completed the circle.
The trumpets sounded on the other side.
She entered into peace.
She was gathered.
She found the infinite felicities
She has completed the encircled life on Earth bound by God’s blessings.
The Angel of Death softly closed its restful, soothing arms upon her body
by Anonymous | reply 194 | October 3, 2020 8:35 AM |
Leave Me Alone
by Anonymous | reply 196 | October 3, 2020 9:13 AM |
r184, two versions of that song were in the Billboard Top-40 at the same time (May-June 1971). Yvonne Elliman's original version peaked at #28. Helen Reddy's cover did better, peaking at #13.
The success of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" led to Reddy's being signed to a long term contract by Capitol Records.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | October 3, 2020 10:44 AM |
Helen Reddy songs I like:
Angie Baby Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady Make Love To Me Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) Bluebird Imagination
by Anonymous | reply 198 | October 3, 2020 1:08 PM |
Dionne Warwick was on Home & Family yesterday claiming that she was responsible for Helen Reddy's career. She's delusional.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | October 3, 2020 4:35 PM |
r197, thanks for reminding me of Yvonne Elliman, I liked her and had forgotten she ever existed.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | October 3, 2020 5:24 PM |
What did Dionne say?
When Michael Jackson passed, she was on TV saying she was like a surrogate parent to him.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | October 3, 2020 5:27 PM |
She so wanted more and more of Whitney’s fame.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | October 3, 2020 7:57 PM |
Well ok then its settled then r193. Sorry for the confusion.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | October 3, 2020 9:55 PM |
Not to keep bumping but this is interesting for some. I had no idea that Jeff Wald has such a crazed Hollywood style rise-crash-burn. What a story - I'd be happy to read his memoirs if he'd do them.
Reddy was apparently his anchor throughout much of his climb, their bitter split unhinged him. Apparently the cops were called to their estate repeatedly because he used to show up and beat the crap out of her bf/2nd husband. Lots of bad pr for both, and it hurt her career which shouldn't have nose-dived the way it did in the 80s.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | October 3, 2020 10:02 PM |
R204 Wald was the second husband, are you saying he beat the crap out of himself?
by Anonymous | reply 207 | October 4, 2020 8:29 AM |
They were separated, Helen started dating again, and Jeff tried to attack the boyfriend. People magazine covered it pretty thoroughly in an article at the time.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | October 4, 2020 2:24 PM |
R204 Good Morning America didn’t want to talk at all about Helen’s music for her 1983 scheduled interview. Only about her divorce and custody battle. GMA told her the public didn’t care about her music anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | October 4, 2020 8:34 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 210 | October 4, 2020 8:41 PM |
r208, she was briefly married in Australia and had her daughter Traci. Wald was number 2 and the drummer was number 3.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | October 4, 2020 9:33 PM |
Helen's sister was a mainstream singer without Helen's Country and Wester twang
by Anonymous | reply 212 | October 5, 2020 1:10 AM |
I love how she was parodied (sort of) in the film AIRPLANE!
That sound that IV makes when it's pops out of the girl's arm is too funny!
by Anonymous | reply 213 | October 5, 2020 3:22 AM |
[quote]That sound that IV makes when it's pops out of the girl's arm is too funny!
The girl was Vicki from "The Love Boat."
by Anonymous | reply 214 | October 5, 2020 3:55 AM |
[quote]Helen's sister was a mainstream singer without Helen's Country and Wester twang
Helen didn't sing with a C&W twang as much as she sang with a heavy Australian accent. You can hear it in the way she pronounced a lot of words and phrases in her songs and it contributed to her unique tone and sound.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | October 5, 2020 3:56 AM |
R215 I'm Australian and know the Australian voice. Helen adopted an American twang!
Listen to her Australian sister singing at R212 and below—.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | October 5, 2020 4:07 AM |
Toni Lamond played Madame Rose in [italic]Gypsy[/italic] in an Australian tour in the 1970s, around the time Angela Lansbury played it in London and on Broadway.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | October 5, 2020 4:09 AM |
[quote] I'm Australian and know the Australian voice. Helen adopted an American twang!
I'm American and I know an American twang, Helen did not have one.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | October 5, 2020 4:12 AM |
All I want to know is...is this really how Australians pronounce "debuted"?
by Anonymous | reply 219 | October 5, 2020 4:15 AM |
Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady!
by Anonymous | reply 220 | October 5, 2020 4:18 AM |
R217 Toni's son Tony (and Helen's nephew) played Bernadette in 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' right from the beginning.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | October 5, 2020 4:20 AM |
Photographer Francesco Scavullo and makeup artist Way Bandy really worked their magic on Helen Reddy — she looked fantastic on the album covers they did for her, especially “Ear Candy”.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | October 5, 2020 12:02 PM |
When I was a girl, we used to complain we were divided into two groups: We were either virgins or we were whores. And then along came Madonna--and now we're all whores."
Helen Reddy, 2010
by Anonymous | reply 223 | October 5, 2020 2:23 PM |
Helen didn’t much appreciate her paltry sendoff & is sending Delta Dawn up our gulf as hell to pay!
by Anonymous | reply 224 | October 5, 2020 2:46 PM |
The album cover for her 1975 Greatest Hits is one of the all-time worst designed album packages.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | October 5, 2020 3:45 PM |
They really did make her look beautiful on those album covers.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | October 5, 2020 4:10 PM |
Re her Greatest Hits, I think the record company at the time had the idea to put out a series of similar, cheap-looking Greatest Hits packages on a bunch of their artists. I remember the cover of Carly Simon's was virtually identical to Helen Reddy's, but I think they were the only two who got that treatment before the idea was shelved.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | October 5, 2020 4:36 PM |
No correlation between Helen’s ugly greatest hits package and Carly’s. Both ugly yes but two different companies. Helen on Capitol and Carly on Eleckra/Warner Bros.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | October 5, 2020 5:11 PM |
Plus, Carly has only put out about three albums when they rushed out a Greatest Hits.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | October 5, 2020 5:50 PM |
r216/r218: I maintain she kept a heavy Australian enunciation when singing, which contributed to her own sound. I agree it sounded "twangy", but it wasn't an American twang.
This wasn't unique to Helen, you could sometimes hear it in other Aussie pop singers. Andy Gibb (god help me for the reference) also had a distinctly Aussie singing twang, you can hear it in songs like "Don't Throw it All Away" and others.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | October 5, 2020 8:25 PM |
Thanks, R198! Now tell us all about your aunt in Des Moines.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | October 5, 2020 8:39 PM |