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RIP Helen Reddy
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:24 pm
by Pastor Fireball
Chart-topping singer of the 1970s whose many hits included "I Am Woman" and "Delta Dawn".
She was 78. Her death was just reported by the Sydney Morning Herald about an hour ago.
Re: RIP Helen Reddy
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:06 pm
by silverscreenselect
The curse of the Tangredi strikes again.
Re: RIP Helen Reddy
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:36 am
by Estonut
There is a movie about her life that is soon to be released. I just saw an interview with the actress who plays her.
RIP, Helen.
Re: RIP Helen Reddy
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:08 pm
by SportsFan68
She was a great artist. I would sing along with I Am Woman and Candle on the Water when they were so popular, but my favorite was always Brazzle Dazzle Day.
Re: RIP Helen Reddy
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:46 am
by Buffacuse
Looking for fact checking on this. Thought I heard at one point that as her career faded, she wound up playing cruise ships and other not premier venues.
Anyone know if this is true?
Re: RIP Helen Reddy
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:16 am
by silverscreenselect
Buffacuse wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:46 am
Looking for fact checking on this. Thought I heard at one point that as her career faded, she wound up playing cruise ships and other not premier venues.
Anyone know if this is true?
What you heard may be a reference to her having a guest appearance as a passenger on an episode of The Love Boat:
A scientist (Tom Smothers) thinks a woman (Helen Reddy) is an alien and convinces Gopher (Fred Grandy) of it and freaks him out.
Actually, some of the cruise lines have had special theme cruises where they book several "name" musical acts to perform for the passengers (who typically pay highly inflated prices for that particular cruise). Here's an article that lists some of the recent ones. These aren't all A-list performers, but they aren't lounge acts either.
https://www.islands.com/best-music-them ... r-2018-19/
Re: RIP Helen Reddy
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:22 am
by silverscreenselect
We saw the Helen Reddy biopic I am Woman on Netflix last night. It's an Australian film that was completed in 2019 and played several international film festivals. It received a very limited international release this summer before going to video in the U.S. Australian actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey plays Reddy, and Evan Peters plays her first husband and manager Jeff Wald. Cobham-Hervey is good, but this is a standard musical biopic. Clean up the dialogue and it could be a TV-network movie of the week. The film does show Reddy performing many of her best-known hits, but the vocals are by Australian singer Chelsea Cullen provides the vocals instead.
Ironically, at the end of the movie, where they show brief titles describing what happened to the main characters, it states that Reddy is still alive.