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Helen Reddy - Love Song For Jeffrey (1974) & Free And Easy (1974) [2004, Remastered Reissue]

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Helen Reddy - Love Song For Jeffrey (1974) & Free And Easy (1974) [2004, Remastered Reissue]

Helen Reddy - Love Song For Jeffrey (1974) & Free And Easy (1974) [2004, Remastered Reissue]
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Vocal | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 01:11:43 | 524,12 Mb
Label: Raven Records (AU) | Cat.# RVCD-170 | Released: 2004-01-27 (1974)
Helen Reddy - Love Song For Jeffrey (1974) & Free And Easy (1974) [2004, Remastered Reissue]
Two of Helen Reddy's 1974 albums, "Love Song for Jeffrey" and "Free and Easy", are combined onto one CD on this release, with the addition of historical liner notes and a couple of tracks from her 1978 album Live in London. Reddy was near the peak of her popularity in 1974, but although each album has a couple of hit singles, they're erratic works in which the singer flits uncomfortably between rock-influenced styles and more middle-of-the-road vocals. Love Song for Jeffrey yielded hit singles in "Keep on Singing" and "You and Me Against the World," filled out with covers of songs by writers such as Billy Joel, Jim Croce, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, and tunes on which Albert Hammond and Carole Bayer Sager worked with collaborators. There's a dated '70s stridency to the more forceful cuts, like "That Old American Dream" and "Keep on Singing," while the ballads tread on soppiness, suggesting Reddy might have been more at home as a supper club singer. Free and Easy was powered in main by her number one American hit "Angie Baby," and is slightly tougher in overall tone, though the material is pretty average mid-'70s adult-oriented pop. Her fondness for ballads remained unabated with the inclusion of items like Don McLean's "You Have Lived," while "Emotion" gave her another US hit, albeit one that fell just outside the Top 20. Whatever their mediocrity, both records were pretty successful, Love Song for Jeffrey almost making the Top Ten and Free and Easy rising to number eight.
~Review by Richie Unterberger

Helen Reddy - Love Song For Jeffrey (1974) & Free And Easy (1974) [2004, Remastered Reissue]

Helen Reddy - Love Song For Jeffrey (1974) & Free And Easy (1974) [2004, Remastered Reissue]


Release of these albums: "Love Song For Jeffrey" - 1974, April [LP Capitol Records, Cat.# SO-11284, Australia; "Free And Easy" - 1974, October [LP Capitol Records, Cat.# ST-11348, New Zealand]
Release of this CD: 2004, January, 27 [CD Raven Records (AU), Cat.# RVCD-170 / UPC: 612657017029]
This compilation © 2004 Raven Records Pty Limited.
Made in Australia

Notes: bonus tracks 21, 22 recorded live at the London Palladium from the 1978 EMI/Capitol Records release "Live In London" SKBO-511873.

Credits:

Arranged By – Artie Butler (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 10), Michael Omartian (tracks: 2, 5), Nick DeCaro (tracks: 11 to 20)
Conductor – Artie Butler (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 10), Lenny Coltun (tracks: 21, 22), Michael Omartian (tracks: 2, 5), Nick DeCaro (tracks: 11 to 20)
Producer – Helen Reddy (tracks: 21, 22), Joe Wissert (tracks: 11 to 20), John Palladino (tracks: 21, 22), Tom Catalano (tracks: 1 to 10)
Reissue Producer [CD Reissue Conceived By], Compiled By – Glenn A. Baker, Ian McFarlane, Kevin Mueller, Peter Shillito


Tracklist:

Love Song For Jeffrey (1974)

01. That Old American Dream (02:30)
(Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood)
02. You're My Home (03:04)
(Billy Joel)
03. Songs (03:53)
(Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil)
04. I Got A Name (03:35)
(Charlie Fox, Norman Gimbel)
05. Keep On Singing (03:05)
(Bobby Hart, Danny Janssen)
06. You And Me Against The World (03:12)
(Kenny Ascher, Paul Williams)
07. Ah, My Sister (03:06)
(Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Allen)
08. Pretty, Pretty (03:26)
(Hal Hackady, Peter Allen)
09. Love Song For Jeffrey (02:44)
(Helen Reddy, Peter Allen)
10. Stella By Starlight (03:54)
(Ned Washington, Victor Young)

Free And Easy (1974)

11. Angie Baby (03:31)
(Alan O'Day)
12. Raised On Rock (03:06)
(Mark James)
13. I've Been Wanting You So Long (03:41)
(Peter Allen, Jeff Barry)
14. You Have Lived (03:51)
(Don McLean)
15. I'll Be Your Audience (03:21)
(Becky Hobbs, Lewis Anderson)
16. Emotion (Amoreuse) (04:14)
(Patti Dahlstrom, Véronique Marie Sanson)
17. Free And Easy (02:47)
(Tom Jans)
18. Loneliness (03:35)
(Kenny Ascher, Paul Williams)
19. Think I'll Write A Song (02:25)
(Helen Reddy, Peter Allen)
20. Showbiz (feat. Pointer Sisters) (03:06)
(Dennis Tracy)

Bonus Tracks:

21. Angie Baby (Live In London, 1978) (03:20)
(Alan O'Day)
22. The Entertainer (Live In London, 1978) (02:16)
(Billy Joel)

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Analyzed: Helen Reddy / Love Song For Jeffrey + Free And Easy (Raven 2 on 1 - RVCD-170)
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All-Time Greatest Hits (1991)

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