The first song composed by Kerr and Jennings as a team, "Somewhere in the Night" appeared on four 1975 album releases: You Are a Song by Batdorf & Rodney, Rising Sun by Yvonne Elliman,[2] No Way to Treat a Lady by Helen Reddy released July 1975 and Kim Carnes' November 1975 eponymous album release. The Yvonne Elliman version was released as a single in August 1975 which month also saw the release of a "Somewhere in the Night" single recorded by the song's co-writer Richard Kerr: Kerr's version would have its UK release in January 1976 when it also served as the title cut of an album release by Kerr. However, "Somewhere in the Night" did not appear on any chart until the Batdorf & Rodney version was issued as a single in October 1975 and reached #69 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song has also been recorded by Anita Sarawak. Mike Love, a local singer from Abertillery, South Wales recorded a version of the song in his bedroom and in 2014 the recording was played at his own funeral; this recording later went on to become very popular on YouTube.


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During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles on the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the top 10 and three reached number one, including her signature hit "I Am Woman".[3][4] She placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart; 15 made the top 10 and eight reached number one, six consecutively. In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she won the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. On television, she was the first Australian to host a one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with specials that were seen in more than 40 countries.[5]

Reddy's song "I Am Woman" played a significant role in popular culture, becoming an anthem for second-wave feminism. She came to be known as a "feminist poster girl" or a "feminist icon".[6] In 2011, Billboard named her the number-28 adult contemporary artist of all time (the number-9 woman). In 2013, the Chicago Tribune dubbed her the "Queen of '70s Pop".[7]

Reddy's stardom was solidified when her single "I Am Woman" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1972. The song was co-written by Reddy with Ray Burton; Reddy attributed the impetus for writing "I Am Woman" and her early awareness of the women's movement to expatriate Australian rock critic and pioneer feminist Lillian Roxon. Reddy is quoted in Fred Bronson's The Billboard Book of Number One Hits as having said that she was looking for songs to record which reflected the positive self-image she had gained from joining the women's movement but could not find any, so "I realised that the song I was looking for didn't exist, and I was going to have to write it myself."[27]"I Am Woman" first appeared on her debut album I Don't Know How to Love Him, released in May 1971. A new recording of the song was released as a single in May 1972 but barely dented the charts. Female listeners soon adopted the song as an anthem and began requesting it from their local radio stations in droves, resulting in its September chart re-entry and eventual number-one peak. "I Am Woman" earned Reddy a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. At the awards ceremony, Reddy concluded her acceptance speech by famously thanking God "because She makes everything possible". The success of "I Am Woman" made Reddy the first Australian singer to top the US charts.[28]

Three decades after her Grammy, Reddy discussed the song's iconic status: "I think it came along at the right time. I'd gotten involved in the women's movement, and there were a lot of songs on the radio about being weak and being dainty and all those sort of things. All the women in my family, they were strong women. They worked. They lived through the Depression and a world war, and they were just strong women. I certainly didn't see myself as being dainty", she said.[7]

At the height of her fame in the mid 1970s, Reddy was a headliner, with a full chorus of backup singers and dancers to standing-room-only crowds on the Las Vegas Strip. Among her opening acts were Joan Rivers, David Letterman, Bill Cosby and Barry Manilow. In 1976, Reddy recorded the Beatles' song "The Fool on the Hill" for the musical documentary All This and World War II.[33]

In 1978, Reddy sang as a backup singer on Gene Simmons's solo album on the song "True Confessions".[36] That year also saw the release of Reddy's only live album, Live in London, recorded at the London Palladium.

At a ceremony in August 2006, Reddy was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame by actress singer, Toni Collette, who described her song, "I Am Woman", as "timeless". The song was performed by fellow Australian, Vanessa Amorosi.[44]

In April 2008, Reddy was reported to be living "simply and frugally off song royalties, pension funds, and social security ... [renting] a 13th-floor apartment with a 180 view of Sydney Harbour".[45] Her apartment had been recently appraised, causing Reddy concern over its future affordability; however, the New York-based landlord learned his tenant's identity and wrote her: "I had no idea it was the Helen Reddy who was living in my unit. Because of what you have done for millions of women all over the world, I will not sell or raise your rent. I hope you'll be very happy living there for years to come."[45]

Being more in control of her performances also appealed to Reddy, who said, "I have more leeway in the songs that I choose to sing. I'm not locked into what the record company wants."[7] She explained, "One of the reasons that I'm coming back to singing is because I'm not doing the greatest hits. I'm doing the songs that I always loved. So many are album cuts that never got any airplay, and they're gorgeous songs."[47] She also performed many of her best-known songs, including, "Angie Baby", "You and Me Against the World", a medley of "Delta Dawn"/"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady", and "I Am Woman", reasoning on the latter that the audience "comes to hear" it.[7]

In 2007, Reddy had a voice cameo as herself in the Family Guy television show's Star Wars parody, "Blue Harvest".[65] In 2011, she guest-starred on Family Guy again, singing the opening theme song for the show's fictional Channel 5 News telecast.[66]

This Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber song from Jesus Christ Superstar not only helped launch that rock opera in the US but, as one side of Reddy's first try-out single for Capitol Records, it displayed her deft commercial ability in the studio. It broke out of Canada and set the juggernaut rolling that would establish Reddy as "the Queen of '70s pop" with 15 American top 10 hits and 25 million album sales (80 million globally).

There was a race to exploit this slightly gothic song about a 41-year-old southern belle from Brownsville, Tennessee who remains obsessed by the memory of a suitor who jilted her. There were versions by Tanya Tucker, Bette Midler, Dianne Davidson, Tracy Nelson and the songwriter Alex Harvey. But Reddy, offered the song when Barbra Streisand turned it down, took it to No.1 and made it her own.

This top 10 song in America featured spoken bookends by Reddy's daughter Traci Donat, who had wandered the streets of New York as a three-year-old with her determined mother. Reddy saw it telling a tale about her rise. Songwriter Paul Williams graced the pop charts with Rainy Days & Mondays, Just An Old Fashioned Love Song, Someday Man, Evergreen and Rainbow Connection.

First recorded by its composer, Harriet Schock, Reddy's version of the song went top 10 on Billboard in 1975 and helped cultivate her status as a woman not to be messed with. A beguiling song that can be understood as an iron fist in a velvet glove, it always worked well in concert.

This Van Morrison song opened Reddy's first album and hinted at where she would take her career, with its delicate trilling and powerful command. Reddy had a deft touch with finding quality songs. They came from musicians including Kenny Rankin, Leon Russell, John Sebastian, Tim Hardin, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Billy Joel, Don McLean, Tom Jans, Carole King and the late Mac Davis.

During the '70s and into the early '80s, Helen Reddy was one of the world\\u2019s most successful artists. Album after album streaked to the top of the charts and Reddy's velvet tones could transform songs that had been overlooked into odes of their time. One cannot escape the significance of Reddy's I Am Woman, which will live after her. But there are many other songs that shine from the dozen or so albums Reddy unleashed upon us.

The first of her three American No.1 hits (and a Grammy winner) proved to be a global feminist anthem after it was released in 1971. Reddy was searching for something that embodied in song the positive self-image she had found from joining the women\\u2019s movement but, as she has said, \\u201CI realised the song I was looking for didn\\u2019t exist and I was going to have to write it myself.\\u201D

This Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber song from Jesus Christ Superstar not only helped launch that rock opera in the US but, as one side of Reddy's first try-out single for Capitol Records, it displayed her deft commercial ability in the studio. It broke out of Canada and set the juggernaut rolling that would establish Reddy as \\\"the Queen of '70s pop\\\" with 15 American top 10 hits and 25 million album sales (80 million globally).

This 1974 \\u201Ccreepy gothic\\u201D song that gave Reddy her third American pop chart No.1. It had a surrealistic tone that writer Alan O\\u2019Day says was inspired by the Beatles' Lady Madonna and deliberately blurred the lines between fantasy and reality, though Bobbie Gentry\\u2019s Ode to Billie Joe is a more likely inspiration. There were fascinating elements of a mental instability. The Brits took to it, sending it to top five on the UK charts \\u2013 Reddy's biggest hit there. e24fc04721

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