I Am Woman (album)
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| Studio album by Helen Reddy | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 1972 | |||
| Genre | Vocal Pop/Rock |
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| Length | 31:44 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Tom Catalano | |||
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| Billboard | positive |
I Am Woman is an album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in the fall of 1972 by Capitol Records and included her second recording of the song that gave the album its name, which was also the version that spent a week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted on Billboard's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated December 9, 1972, and reached number 14 during its 62 weeks there, and in Canada's RPM magazine it peaked at number seven. On March 7, 1973, the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album with Gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States, and Platinum certification for sales of one million copies came on December 5, 1991. On July 22, 2003, it was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being her 1973 release Long Hard Climb.
The song "I Am Woman" was originally written for and included on Reddy's 1971 debut album, I Don't Know How to Love Him, but, because of its length and arrangement, she thought it "clearly was not hit-single material." When it was selected for use in the 1972 film Stand Up and Be Counted, her record company wanted a longer version to release as a 45 in conjunction with the opening of the film. The new recording of the song was made available on May 22, 1972, but Reddy has summarized the response to the song from most disc jockeys that she experienced as, "'"I can't stand this record! I hate this song! But you know, it's a funny thing, my wife loves it!"'" Her husband-manager Jeff Wald landed her 19 appearances on various television shows where she could perform it, and "women began calling radio stations and requesting the song, thereby forcing airplay."
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