Live in London (Helen Reddy album)
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| Live album by Helen Reddy | ||||
| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | May 11–13, 1978 at London Palladium London, England |
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| Genre | Vocal Pop/Rock |
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| Length | 1:08:01 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | John Palladino Helen Reddy |
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| Billboard | positive |
Live in London is a live album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in 1978 by Capitol Records and, as with her previous release, did not reach Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart. In addition to live recordings of several of her hits, the two-LP concert album includes her renditions of two songs that have never appeared on any of her other studio releases: the show's opener, "Rhythm Rhapsody", and Billy Joel's "The Entertainer". On June 25, 2002, the album was released for the first time on compact disc.
Reddy had announced in the summer of 1977 that Kim Fowley, producer of her recent album release Ear Candy, would produce an upcoming live album for the singer: it was anticipated that the album would be a recording of Reddy's 8 November 1977 concert at Radio City Music Hall. However Reddy herself - collaborating with John Palladino - would produce her live album which was recorded at her three night gig at the London Palladium in May 1978.
The live recordings of "Mama" and "The West Wind Circus" became the respective A-side and B-side of a single from the album but had no showings on Billboard's pop or Easy Listening charts. Reddy commented on both songs in the liner notes of her singles compilation The Woman I Am: The Definitive Collection. Of the former she wrote, "Another great composition from Harriet Schock and one I sang every Mother's Day," and of the latter, "Although I was never in a circus, I have known families who were... Around the time I first heard this emotional work by Adam Miller, there was news of an aerialist in a well-known circus family falling to his death. This was a song I simply had to sing."
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