OT: Helen Reddy and Mac Davis die on the same day
Kev914
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I know I've seen posts like this for other celebrities, so I guess it is OK. And I'm not not sure if many people know since no one else posted. But both entertainers both died on September 29, 2020. I only happened to discover it because I just did a chance serach for Helen Reddy. I never saw anything on the news.
I liked Helen Reddy. I have most of her albums. I also had a few albums by Mac Davis. I liked him in the few movies that he did too. So sorry to see two more people that I liked gone.
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I had to Google them as I'd not heard of them. It's so weird that they both died on the same day ...and they were both 78 years old.
I was never a huge fan, although I appreciated them both. They were both really big mainstream artists in the 70s and then the times changed. Reddy's I Am Woman (Hear Me Roar) was a feminist anthem.
Oh my gosh! Both of those folks really had class, and Helen had such a gorgeous voice!
My mother used to play 'I Am Woman' at full blast every Saturday morning in my childhood.
I grew up listening to both Helen Reddy and Mac Davis.
Besides being a singer, Mac Davis was also a songwriter. He wrote songs like In the Ghetto, Memories, and A Little Less Conversation which were recorded by Elvis Presley and became big hits. Mac also wrote Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me and I Believe in Music which he recorded himself, going all the way to no. 1 on Billboard with Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me. Another big song written by Mac Davis included Something's Burning which was a big hit for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. It hit no. 11 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart long before Kenny Rogers was the Kenny Rogers, country legend.
Helen Reddy had some big hits in the 70s such as I Am Woman, Angie Baby, and Somewhere in the Night, Delta Dawn, and You and Me Against the World. As for Delta Dawn, Reddy recorded it the year after Tanya Tucker took it to the top of the country charts and managed to hit #1 with it on the pop charts with it. I Am Woman, which Reddy co-wrote (she wrote the lyrics), became an anthem of the women's liberation movement.
I'm feeling really old right now.
Oh, I remember both of them as they had musical hits when I was in elementary school. Mac Davis, was a good singer sang "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" (which is sort of narcissistic sounding but sounds good at least) and Helen Reddy sang "Delta Dawn", "Angie Baby", and "I am Women". I'll admit I was more partial to Helen Reddy than to Mac Davis but they were both very good actually. Of those I like "Angie Baby" the best. I know that song gets decent airplay still yet on pop radio world wide.
They were absolutely huge in the early 70s. Their singing voices portrayed unique qualities that get squashed by today's music producers via sound-a-like choices in who's singing and computerized autotuning.
I'm surprised not even a peep out of the news media about those two.
The song I most remember Mac Davis for is "Oh lord it's hard to be Humble"
My memory of Helen's, I am Woman hear me Roar is while in boot camp at Lackland Air Force Base. There was a tradition at graduation the flight (A flight is comprised of 21 women) had to sing a song in the mess hall on their last day. (Boot camp for us was 6 weeks long) In our discussion of what song we were going to sing hers was at the top of our list. We ended up with Windy by the Association but I sure would have liked to have done a rendition of I am Woman. We were called WAF back then. I was in one of the last fights that went to charm school. I never picked up a gun and we only did about 10 minutes of exercise. My best friend went through boot camp three months later and by then the woman's movement had had an impact on what a woman's role in the service should be. Her six weeks was full of calisthenics and visits to the firing range. For me it was how to pluck my eyebrows, walk in heels, and put on makeup. My how things do change.
Loved them both so much. R.I.P.
Two great talents, to be sure.
RIP
grew up listening to both of them.
Basic at Lackland a year before was a bit different. I was stationed in DC at Bolling by the time 'I am Woman' was released, and yeah, when the Black Russians came out, I sang. (And I was asked in school to mime the words because of my lack of voice.) I loved Helen Reddy and Mac Davis. Good memories, and wishes for their afterlives to be full of light.
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Laurie
Wow, I heard about Mac Davis' passing, but I missed Helen Reddy. While obviously most people will remember her for I Am Woman (Hear Me Roar), my favorite from her was actually 'Candle on the Water', the song she sang in the Disney movie 'Pete's Dragon (and was nominated for an Oscar for it, too). I shall go listen to in now in her memory.