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HELEN REDDY — Free And Easy (Capitol):: Although she’s had stiff competition recently from Olivia Newton-John, Helen Reddy remains the biggest selling lady on wax and she has finally come up with an album worthy of her talents. Producer Joe Wissert gets extra points for delivering seven out of ten entries in surefire top ten form.
ROCK.A.RAMA
HELEN REDDY — Free And Easy (Capitol):: Although she’s had stiff competition recently from Olivia Newton-John, Helen Reddy remains the biggest selling lady on wax and she has finally come up with an album worthy of her talents. Producer Joe Wissert gets extra points for delivering seven out of ten entries in surefire top ten form. Included is the genuinely eerie “Angie Baby,” that magically lets your imagination go full tilt; a slick and danceable (!) interp of “Raised On Rock”; the most commercial version of Veronique Sanson’s “Emotion” to date (eat your heart out, Kiki Dee); a delightful nostalgic distillation called “Showbiz” and six others from the pens of Jeff Barry, Tom Jans, Paul Williams and the like. If you never buy another Helen Reddy album, you MUST have this one.
