Helen Reddy at the 1977 AMA Awards

not a great song, chintzy set but she had great pipes

a better song:

r1, I love that song. I think she was a very intelligent woman and she had balls to come to the US with a 3 year old and $300 to her name.

She walked so Tina Turner could leap out of a limousine with 76 cents and a gasoline credit card.

OP here…love this too.

Anne Murray’s Muppet appearance was as if she had her feet glued to the floor.

Is this a new Helen Reddy appreciation thread? If so, I'm adding her Pete's Dragon performance of Candle On the Water, which was my first exposure to her when I was a kid.

That song has always been a favorite of mine.

I met Helen Reddy. She was the star attraction at a Delaware hospital benefit that I was organizing. She was gorgeous in a sleek yellow gown. Her contract required her to attend the after concert reception for an hour. She stayed for 15 minutes. SHE WAS NOT NICE.

I read Helen Reddy's memoir and really enjoyed it and have all her hit singles. I miss her too!

I’ve also enjoyed her voice. Just relating our meeting. She was not nice. As a hospital benefit was beneath her. Honey, if you’re career was going gangbusters you wouldn’t be doing Hospital benefits. I stand by opinion that she rude and condescending .

R9 I heard she was a handful. May I ask about what year this happened? She and that husband of hers were very litigious.

Oh God, it was the early 1990’s. Yes I’m old. As I said her performance was terrific. Her personal interaction not so much.

Since this is a gossip site, it was rumored that she was sleeping with her drummer at the time. He was a hunk.

Oh God, poor thing. Her dead eyes and that face at the very end…

He wouldn't be the only one breaking up that marriage:

Are those fallopian tubes an homage to her "I Am Woman" success?

It's pointing out the difference between who am and who ain't.

She was one of those entertainers who seemed to be everywhere for a number of years and then just vanished overnight.

The Bonnie Franklin of the Music Business.

Bonnie never could have pulled off [italic]Pete's Dragon[/italic], and even if they bought her as an Italian-American, they never would have bought her as a nun.

I just meant Bonnie in the sense that she was a huge celebrity for a number of years, and then just disappeared quickly.

Bonnie wasn't married to her manager.

I would have spent the entire movie confusing Bonnie with Sean Marshall, they could be sisters.

And she wouldn't have been able to say "Dammit Pete, Dammit Lampie," because Disney didn't allow four-letter words for another two years. Actually, I'm wrong about that. Another dragon said "Hell" in [italic]Sleeping Beauty[/italic]: Maleficent.

Awww, I miss Helen Reddy.

People complained about pop music in the 1970s, but look what has taken its place 50 years later.

Shut up, OP. Your beautiful music and stunningly beautiful film threads are nothing more than a segue to trolling. And they are fucking boring.

Then maybe his next one should be about Florence Henderson.

R25 good Lord….tight shoes make people say anything

And if you would loosen your sphincter you would score more cock, R27.

Speaking of trolls….shuffle off …

Disney would have never agreed to Bonnie Franklin's top demand: that the character of Nora in Pete's Dragon go braless.

[quote] Disney would have never agreed to Bonnie Franklin's top demand: that the character of Nora in Pete's Dragon go braless.

That would have also knocked her out of the running for [italic]Bedknobs and Broomsticks[/italic].

I miss Helen Reddy. I bought all her hit singles years ago when I was growing up. She has a very special place in my heart with fond memories. I bought her memoir and I really enjoyed it even though she was very cryptic about her husbands and a few other people. She didn't mention David Geffen by name but it was easy to figure out - she mentioned that he was gay years ago, not in a malicious manner, and he was furious with her. She eventually escaped his wrath.