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Old 10-22-2020, 02:33 AM   #1
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Helen Reddy dead. She was on all the variety shows that were on when I was a young lad. And the Midnight Special shined their ever-lovin' light on her. I remember Delta Dawn made me sad.

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Australian-born singer Helen Reddy, whose hit "I Am Woman" became a feminist anthem in the 1970's, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. She was 78 years old.

Her death was announced on Facebook by her children, Traci Donat and Jordan Sommers. Reddy had dementia for several years before her death.

"I Am Woman" was by far Reddy's most famous song. But in the wake of its success, she released several more hits, including "Delta Dawn," "Angie Baby," "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" and "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady."


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Reddy was born into a show business family in Melbourne, Australia in 1941, and began performing while she was still a child. When she was 24 and a single mother, she won a talent contest on Australian TV; the prize was a trip to New York and the chance to audition for a recording contract with Mercury Records. She didn't get it, but she stayed in the U.S. and set out to make a pop career.

In 1968, she met her future husband and manager, Jeff Wald, who was handling such acts as Tiny Tim, Deep Purple and The Turtles. They eventually persuaded Capitol Records to let her record one single. The intended A-side flopped, but the B-side — a cover of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar — made it to No. 13 on the Billboard charts in June 1971.

Her biggest success came a year later: the anthemic "I Am Woman," which resonated with audiences worldwide in the midst of the women's liberation movement in the U.S. It became a smash the same year that the Equal Rights Amendment passed the Senate and when Shirley Chisholm ran for president. The Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade just a month after "I Am Woman" reached No. 1.

You're Gonna Hear Them Roar: 'I Am Woman' Is An Anthem Beyond Its Era
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You're Gonna Hear Them Roar: 'I Am Woman' Is An Anthem Beyond Its Era
In a 2014 interview with Houston Public Media, Reddy explained that the phrase "I am woman" came to her and just wouldn't leave. "Over and over," she recalled, "'I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.' And I thought, well, this has to be a song."

She wrote the lyrics, songwriter Ray Burton penned the music, and Jeff Wald talked Capitol into letting her release it. In an NPR interview about "I Am Woman," Wald said that a label executive dismissed the whole enterprise.

"'That women's lib crap is gonna kill her,' " Wald recalled the label as saying. "'Why are you letting your wife do this stuff?'"

Still, they persevered. Wald himself took the song to a small radio station on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., knowing that the area was filled with women working pink-collar jobs. And "I Am Woman" struck a chord with those listeners. The station was soon inundated with requests to hear it again.

Slowly — with Wald promoting the song market by market — the song became a hit. By Dec. 1972, it was No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and Reddy took home a Grammy. At the awards ceremony, Reddy thanked God, saying: "Because She makes everything possible."
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Old 10-22-2020, 03:01 AM   #2
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no idea who or wat
not that old yet i guess
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Old 10-22-2020, 08:49 AM   #3
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My mom used to play Helen Reddy cassettes in the car while driving when we were kids. It was a poop brown 84 Nissan Datsun Sentra Wagon. It was manual. We used to say that car smelled like feet when we were kids. LOL
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Old 10-22-2020, 08:55 AM   #4
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Um, didn't she die almost a month ago

Edit: September 29 according to the wikis

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Old 10-22-2020, 08:57 AM   #5
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Maybe is was a slow death?
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Old 10-22-2020, 10:31 AM   #6
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There weren't threads. Some people care more than a few weeks you heartless pricks.

I only know because I was watching The Carol Burnett show and she was on, and it brought back nice memories, but not nice mammaries.
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Old 04-20-2021, 05:33 AM   #7
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My man loves me. He loved me at first sight at school.
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Old 04-20-2021, 07:14 AM   #8
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My man loves me. He loved me at first sight at school.
In the butt right? He loved you in the butt.
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Old 04-20-2021, 07:29 AM   #9
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Maybe is was a slow death?
Killing her softly with his words, perhaps?

(Roberta Flack...Hellen Reddy...same thing)
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Ban that ****ing weirdo and their other account.

https://forums.nasioc.com/forums/member.php?u=523803

What's even the point of this horse****?
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Old 04-20-2021, 08:19 AM   #11
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So you don't know how to know them?
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