HELEN REDDY ANGIE BABY TOP OF THE POPS LIVE (1981)

The song reached, 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart at the end of December 1974 and became one of Reddy s biggestselling singles. Not everyone understood the meaning of the lyrics at the time, and after the song was released, it inspired a great deal of speculation on its true meaning. The song was compared to Bobbie Gentry s Ode to Billie Joe (which had a mystery about something thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge). Some also thought of it as a Women s Lib song along the line of Reddy s other