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Helen Reddy is the second studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy, released on November 8, 1971, by Capitol Records. Reddy's selections include tracks by singer-songwriters Carole King, John Lennon, Randy Newman, and Donovan. It debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated December 4, 1971, and had a seven-week chart run in which it got as high as number 167. On March 29, 2005, the album was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being I Don't Know How to Love Him, Reddy's debut LP that originally came out in the spring of 1971.




Single


Billboard's December 4, 1971, issue also marked the first appearance of the single from the album, "No Sad Song", on the magazine's Hot 100, where it spent eight weeks and peaked at number 62, and the December 25 issue, three weeks later, began the song's four weeks on the Easy Listening chart, where it reached number 32. It also reached number 51 on the pop chart in Canada's RPM magazine.




Reception


The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau chose to highlight "a scathing death-of-a-cocksman song that Carole King somehow left off Music, a John Lennon autotherapy that sounds inquisitive instead of foolish, and a frolicsome sisterhood ditty that [Reddy] wrote herself." Joe Viglione of AllMusic retrospectively describes the album as "a pleasant listening experience, though it was the only one of her early albums not to find representation on her Greatest Hits. Because there was no big hit on the record, it is not as well-known as her other recordings, but it definitely has charm and is an essential part of her collection of music."




Track listing


Side 1

"Time" (Paul Parrish) – 3:38
Leland Sklar – bass
Ron Tutt – drums
Paul Parrish – piano
"How?" (John Lennon) – 3:33
Nick DeCaro – string arrangement
Jerry Scheff – bass
Ron Tutt – drums
Craig Doerge – piano
Tom Hensley – piano
"Come on John" (David Blue) – 4:21
Jerry Scheff – bass
Ron Tutt – drums
Craig Doerge – piano
Tom Hensley – piano
David Cohen – guitar
"Summer of '71" (Jack Conrad, Helen Reddy) – 2:36
Jack Conrad – bass
John Guerin – drums
Dennis Budimir – guitar
David Cohen – guitar
"I Don't Remember My Childhood" (Leon Russell) – 3:32
Nick DeCaro – string arrangement
Larry Knechtel – piano
Side 2

"No Sad Song" (Carole King, Toni Stern) – 3:11
Nick DeCaro – accordion
Ron Tutt – drums
David Cohen – guitar
Larry Carlton – mandolin
"I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (Randy Newman) – 2:27
Bob Thompson – arranger
"Tulsa Turnaround" (Larry Collins, Alex Harvey) – 3:24
Joe Osborn – bass
Ron Tutt – drums
Larry Carlton – electric guitar
Tom Hensley – piano
Sneaky Pete Kleinow – steel guitar
"More Than You Could Take" (Helen Reddy) – 2:41
Jerry Scheff – bass
Ron Tutt – drums
Dean Parks – guitar
John Brennan – guitar
"New Year's Resovolution" (Donovan) – 3:40
Leland Sklar – bass
Russ Kunkel – drums
John Brennan – guitar
Larry Carlton –guitar
David Cohen – guitar
Milt Holland – percussion
French version of "No Sad Song"
In 2009 EMI Music Special Markets released Rarities from the Capitol Vaults, a 12-track CD of mostly what were previously unreleased Reddy recordings, which included "Plus De Chansons Tristes", the French version of "No Sad Song" that was only released in France.




Charts






Personnel


Helen Reddy – vocals
Larry Marks – producer
Hugh Davies – engineer
John Hoernle – art direction
Don Peterson – photography
DeBlasio & Wald, Inc. – management




Notes






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