Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 05 Oct 20 - 07:29 AM

She played my home town decades ago and a friend gave me a free ticket. I must admit I didn't know her music but she was terrific.

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 08:12 PM

Joe Offer said it perfectly about Helen Reddy's interpretation of song.

Helen seemed like such a down-to-earth person.
Your pain is gone now. Rest in peace, Helen Reddy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: GUEST,Lori B.
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 09:41 AM

The 'I Am Woman' album was the first one I ever owned. I loved it then and I still love it. What a wonderful voice!

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 10:02 AM



Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (1971)

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: GUEST,Roger
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 04:07 PM

RIP Helen. A superb person and singer.

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 03:10 PM

I recall Helen Reddy's cover version of
the Jesus Christ Superstar song,
"I Don't Know How to Love Him."

No small thing, going up against Yvonne Elliman, I thought at the time.

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 11:12 AM

RIP Miss Reddy

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy (1941-2020)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 10:51 AM

She had a marvelous voice, and a lot of intelligence in her interpretation of songs. She was a singer for thinking people. May she rest in peace.

Subject: RE: Obit: Helen Reddy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 10:38 AM

Awwww.

New York Times obit

Helen Reddy, the Australian-born singer whose 1972 hit song “I Am Woman” became the feminist anthem of the decade and propelled her to international pop-music stardom, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 78.

The death was confirmed by her children in a message posted on her official fan page on Facebook. Ms. Reddy suffered for decades from Addison’s disease (she had a kidney removed when she was 17) and, since at least 2015, from dementia.

“I Am Woman” reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts at the end of 1972 (a good six months after it was released — individual call-in requests helped build radio play) and earned her the Grammy Award for best female pop vocal performance. She was the first Australian-born artist to win a Grammy and the first to make the Billboard 100 record charts.

Some male observers called the song — beginning with the words “I am woman/ Hear me roar/ In numbers/ Too big to ignore,” sung by a 5-foot-3 soprano — angry, man-hating, dangerous or all three.

Well, I suppose they would. It was certainly a liberating song. A Feminist power ballad. :)

Dementia. That is a wretched way to go.

Subject: Obit: Helen Reddy
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 09:07 AM

What a voice, now silent.

What a mind, already going beforehand.

I fell for her because of Angie Baby.

Never liked I Am Woman, though.