| "Angie Baby" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Side A of the Australian single | ||||
| Single by Helen Reddy | ||||
| from the album Free and Easy | ||||
| B-side | "I Think I'll Write a Song" | |||
| Released | October 7, 1974 | |||
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| Length | 3:29 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alan O'Day | |||
| Producer(s) | Joe Wissert | |||
| Helen Reddy singles chronology | ||||
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"Angie Baby" is a song that was written by American singer-songwriter Alan O'Day, and became a hit for Australian singer Helen Reddy. The song reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart December 28, 1974 and became one of Reddy's biggest-selling singles. The song also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart, Reddy's fifth #1 on this chart.[3]
The song's cryptic lyrics have inspired a number of listener theories as to what the song is really about. Reddy never said what her interpretation of the storyline was, partly because she said she enjoyed hearing listeners' interpretations. Reddy also said that "Angie Baby" was the one song she never had to push radio stations into playing.
- ^ Unterberger, Andrew (October 1, 2020). "Forever No. 1: Helen Reddy's 'Angie Baby'". Billboard. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (June 19, 2019). "The Number Ones: Helen Reddy's "Angie Baby"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
It sounds like standard mid-'70s popcraft...But "Angie Baby" takes those ideas further, into a truly wild psychedelic realm...'60s psychedelia must've made for a good time, but it has absolutely nothing on what it would become in '70s pop...
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)