67-447: " Amoureuse " is a French language composition by Véronique Sanson introduced on her 1972 album of the same name. Rendered in English the song became a hit single for Kiki Dee and – as "Emotion" – for Helen Reddy . The original song title "Amoureuse" – which does not feature in its lyrics – is the French equivalent of the English adjective amorous and is also a feminine noun meaning "woman in love", lover . Sanson's lyric describes
134-630: A cover version for the Quebec market by France Castel ( fr ) which reached #1 on the French-language chart for Canada in December 1972: the track was featured on Castel's 1973 album release Je le vois dans ma soupe . The earliest English rendering of the song was by lyricist Gary Osborne , who from the age of 15 had written English lyrics for a number of French-language songs beginning with " Adiós Amor " in 1967. While faithfully rendering Sanson's lyrics in
201-533: A cover version of Cole Porter 's " True Love ", which reached number 2 in the UK. During her career, she has released 40 singles, three EPs and 12 albums. Dee was born in Bradford , West Riding of Yorkshire , England. At the age of 10 she won a local talent contest, and at 16 she had her first paid job in show business. "I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention and, being
268-412: A Spanish version entitled "Enamorada". The German-language rendering of "Amoureuse" with lyrics by Michael Kunze was also recorded by Katja Ebstein , appearing on her 1977 album Liebe under the title "Für einen Tag mit dir". Daniela Davoli had a 1978 single release of an Italian rendering of "Amoureuse" entitled "Diverso amore mio" ("Other than my love"), written by lyricist Cristiano Magioglio, which
335-433: A distance. Burton ended up living on unemployment benefits. "It could have been the launching pad for a writing and singing career," he said. "They took advantage of the fact I wasn't there." He claimed he was forced to take legal action against the singer in 1998 to recover a portion of songwriter royalties that had been withheld from him since 1972. He said: "I got some money out of it, but nothing like it would have been in
402-405: A doctor, was going to medical school he played it every morning just to get him going." In 2002, however, she said, "I had no idea what the song was destined to become. If I'd known, I would have been far too intimidated to have written it." The song brought greater exposure to Reddy, paving the way for a succession of hit singles. It also generated tremendous wealth, which the couple flaunted with
469-439: A feminist who proudly announces, "I am woman!" to which Harvey Korman 's character replies, "I know. I heard your roar." During the 2000 Republican presidential campaign of Elizabeth Dole one GOP consultant complained that, "she has to have a message beyond 'I am woman, hear me roar.'" A biopic of Reddy's life, titled after the song , was announced in mid-2016 with Unjoo Moon as director, and finally saw release in 2020. At
536-536: A gaudy lifestyle of mansions, limousines, jewelry and speedboats. In her tell-all Hollywood book, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again , Julia Phillips claimed that by the time the couple completed their acrimonious divorce in 1982 they had blown most of the $ 40 million they had made. When Reddy's performance of the song at the 1981 Miss World contest infuriated feminists, she responded: "Let them step forward and pay my rent and I'll stay home. What I'm doing
603-470: A hit, they should release 'I Am Woman' as a single." In its initial form, the original version ran to little more than two minutes, so Reddy was asked to write an additional verse and chorus. The extra verse inserted the song's only reference to men ("Until I make my brother understand"). The recording session for this new version took place on 23 April 1972. Reddy told Sunday Magazine she remembered nothing about it and did not know which musicians played on
670-627: A new take on "Sugar on the Floor". The same year, Demon Records (UK) issued a remastered edition of Perfect Timing , with several bonus tracks, including an alternate mix of "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever". Dee had previously starred in Pump Boys and Dinettes in London's West End, at the Piccadilly Theatre , from 20 September 1984 to 8 June 1985. In 2019, Dee was portrayed by actress Rachel Muldoon in
737-402: A section on the rise of feminism in the 70s, I was mentioned along with the printed lyrics to 'I Am Woman'." It became her excuse for what, in 2002, she called her retirement: "I thought, 'Well, I'm part of history now. And how do I top that? I can't top that.' So, it was an easy [decision to stop singing]." But in a 2014 interview celebrating her return to the stage, Ernie Manouse asked about
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#1733094221090804-607: A single 31 August 1973, Dee's "Amoureuse" made a belated chart entry in November 1973 to rise to a UK chart peak of #13 that December, besting an attempted cover version by Polly Brown issued 21 September 1973. Almost a year after her UK success with "Amoureuse", the track would afford Dee a chart hit in Australia with a #12 peak in the autumn of 1974. In the US, "Amoureuse" served as the B-side for
871-563: A solo artist to Fontana Records . After singing with a local band in Bradford in the early 1960s, Dee began her recording career as a session singer. She sang backing vocals for Dusty Springfield , among others, but did not achieve solo success in the UK for many years. In 1963, Dee released her first single, "Early Night", the first of eleven singles on Fontana, none of which reached the charts. Her 1966 release "Why Don't I Run Away From You" (a cover of Tami Lynn 's "I'm Gonna Run Away From You")
938-460: A songwriter, but it came down to having to do it. Reddy's own long years on stage had also fuelled her contempt for men who belittled women, she said. "Women have always been objectified in showbiz. I'd be the opening act for a comic and as I was leaving the stage he'd say, 'Yeah, take your clothes off and wait for me in the dressing room, I'll be right there'. It was demeaning and humiliating for any woman to have that happen publicly." Reddy credits
1005-486: Is advertising a product I wouldn't use." Reddy had been quoted as saying, "To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for." But in her autobiography, The Woman I Am: A Memoir , she recalls a 2000 encounter with a friend's high-school-aged nephew who said that "in his assigned Modern American History textbook, in
1072-769: Is lyrically distinct from the Osborne translation. With its original French lyrics "Amoureuse" has also been recorded by many singers in France and Québec, including Hart-Rouge (album La fabrique / 1994), Lucid Beausonge ( fr ) (album Ils chantent Véronique Sanson / 1996), Réjane Perry ( fr ) (album Atlas, Les plus belles chansons françaises, 1972 / 1996), Les Enfoirés ( Jean-Louis Aubert , Hélène Ségara , Natasha St-Pier , Christophe Willem ) (album Les Enfoirés font leur cinéma / 2009), Lara Fabian (album Toutes les femmes en moi / 2009), and Caroline Néron (album Le destin /2010). Olivia Newton-John recorded "Amoureuse" with
1139-403: The 2020 ARIA Music Awards held in late November, the song was performed in tribute to the late Reddy by an ensemble of Australian female singers. They were introduced by former Prime Minister , Julia Gillard , and were backed by a virtual choir of more than twenty female singers. Expelled from the US in 1971 because of work-permit problems, Ray Burton watched the song's rise in the US from
1206-636: The BBC Two singalong series, One More Time . She also appeared in an early episode of The Benny Hill Show in January 1971, performing the Blood, Sweat and Tears hit, " You've Made Me So Very Happy ". Nevertheless, it was only after she signed with Elton John's label, The Rocket Record Company , that she became a household name in the UK. Her first major solo hits were " Amoureuse " (written by Véronique Sanson , with English lyrics by Gary Osborne ) (1973) and " I've Got
1273-553: The Chanter Sisters . This later became the theme music to the BBC1 programme Opportunity Knocks between 1987 and 1990. Dee joined forces again with John in 1981, recording a cover of the Four Tops ' song " Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever " which was written by Ivy Jo Hunter and Stevie Wonder . Both of these were included on her album Perfect Timing , which became a modest hit on
1340-683: The PRS for Music (formerly the Performing Right Society) for Music Members' Benevolent Fund. Dee's single "Sidesteppin' with a Soul Man", released in October 2013, was her 40th single release. Dee and Luggeri's album Long Ride Home was released in April 2022. Dee has appeared in musical theatre , including a leading role in Willy Russell 's West End musical Blood Brothers , in which she took on
1407-491: The Warner Music Group whose Elektra label handled Sanson's U.S. releases, sent a copy of Sanson's Amoureuse album to his friend Texas singer/songwriter Patti Dahlstrom suggesting Dahlstrom put English lyrics to the title cut. Dahlstrom would recall: "I was mesmerised by the music to 'Amoureuse', but I don’t speak French and had no idea what the lyrics meant. I carried the melody in my head for weeks and then one day
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#17330942210901474-409: The '70s when it was riding high." Reddy disputes Burton's claims. "There was a buyout 25 or 30 years ago," she told Sunday Magazine . "Neither of us had any idea the song would become what it became. About 10 years ago he got in touch with me because he was in financial difficulties. I felt sorry for him and reinstated his songwriter royalties. His passport problems ended any hope he had of a career in
1541-458: The 9 December issue. Upon the release of the single, Record World called it a "typically sensitive, professional performance from the fine Australian songstress." "I Am Woman" was the first number one single for Capitol Records since " Ode to Billie Joe " by Bobbie Gentry five years earlier, in 1967. It was the first number one hit on the Billboard chart by an Australian-born artist and
1608-521: The CD compilation I'm Kiki Dee . Songwriter Mitch Murray created her stage name , and penned her first single, "Early Night". In the United States she became the first white British artist to be signed by Motown , releasing her first Motown single in 1970. In the days before BBC Radio 1 , Dee was a regular performer of cover versions on BBC Radio , and she starred with a group of session singers in
1675-502: The Depression and world wars and drunken, abusive husbands. But there was nothing in music that reflected that. The only songs were " I Feel Pretty " or that dreadful song " Born a Woman ". (The 1966 hit by Sandy Posey had observed that if you're born a woman "you're born to be stepped on, lied to, cheated on and treated like dirt. I'm glad it happened that way".) These are not exactly empowering lyrics. I certainly never thought of myself as
1742-524: The Elton John biopic Rocketman . In her forties, Dee was diagnosed with uterine cancer . Kiki Dee has released 40 singles , three EPs and 22 albums. I Am Woman " I Am Woman " is a song written by Australian musicians Helen Reddy and Ray Burton . Performed by Reddy, the first recording of "I Am Woman" appeared on her debut album I Don't Know How to Love Him , released in May 1971, and
1809-646: The February 1975 Kiki Dee Band release "Step by Step", the non-charting follow-up single to " I've Got the Music in Me ". "Amoureuse" was re-issued in the UK as the B-side of the 1976 Kiki Dee single "Loving & Free": the single became a double-sided hit reaching #13 on the UK chart and #4 in Ireland. A 1984 reissue of Dee's "Amoureuse" reached #77 on the UK chart. Artie Wayne , an exec with
1876-869: The Gary Osborne-penned lyrics for her 1973 album Music Makes My Day and would remake the song as a duet with Elaine Paige for Paige's 2010 duets album Elaine Paige and Friends . In 1998 Barbara Dex reached #10 on the Ultratip chart with her version of Amoureuse with Osborne's lyrics: the track was also included on Dex's album Strong . "Amoureuse" with Osborne's lyrics has also been recorded by Linda Martin (album You Needed Me / 1998) and Deborah Sasson (album Romance / 1984), among others. Shirley Bassey recorded "Emotion" for her 1975 album Good, Bad but Beautiful . Véronique Sanson recorded "Amoureuse" with German lyrics by Michael Kunze (released b/w "Regen am Morgen (Besoin de Personne) "), and also recorded
1943-710: The Music in Me " (written by Tobias Stephen Boshell ), the latter credited to the Kiki Dee Band (1974). In addition to her burgeoning career as a lead vocalist, she could sometimes be heard singing backing vocals on various John recordings, such as " All the Girls Love Alice " from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and various tracks on Rock of the Westies . Her biggest hit came in 1976, a duet with John, " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " (pseudonymously written by John and lyricist Bernie Taupin ). The single reached number 1 in both
2010-534: The States and somehow that bitterness got transferred to me. I wish him well. I bear him no animosity." Today he performs again in venues on the Queensland Gold Coast , where he lives. Sometimes he includes it in his set, raising a laugh from audiences by saying, "Here's a song I wrote in the '70s, with a twist." He sings it as, "She is woman, hear her roar". Reddy's description of the "typical DJ reaction" to
2077-631: The UK Top 50. In the year that Gloria Steinem 's Ms. magazine was launched in the US and Cleo in Australia, the song quickly captured the imagination of the burgeoning woman's movement. National Organization for Woman founder Betty Friedan was later to write that in 1973, a gala entertainment night in Washington DC at the NOW annual convention closed with the playing of "I Am Woman". "Suddenly," she said, "women got out of their seats and started dancing around
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2144-456: The UK and US, remaining at the top for six weeks in the UK. At the end of the summer, she played as support act to Queen at their Hyde Park concert in front of a crowd of 150,000 people. Prior to the concert, in an interview for Record Mirror , she stated, "My confidence is at an all-time high." After a quiet period in the late 1970s, Dee launched a comeback in 1981, releasing one of her biggest hits, "Star", written by Doreen Chanter of
2211-765: The album Angel Eyes in 1987. She contributed backing vocals to Elton John's 1992 album The One , and a year later recorded " True Love " with John for his 1993 album Duets . Dee released the live album Almost Naked , a joint effort with Carmelo Luggeri in 1995, followed by the studio albums Where Rivers Meet (1998) and The Walk Of Faith (2005) with Luggeri. In September 2013, Dee and Luggeri released their third studio album, A Place Where I Can Go , on Spellbound Records. They have been touring together ever since and have played alongside Roger Taylor , Jack Bruce , Fish , Paul Young , Tom Robinson , Graham Gouldman and Madeline Bell . In October 2009 she performed, with Luggeri, at London's Royal Albert Hall , in aid of
2278-502: The album chart, and she supplied backing vocals for John's 1983 album Too Low for Zero . Dee also sang the song "What Can't Speak Can't Lie" (1983), composed and recorded by the Japanese jazz fusion group Casiopea , and with lyrics by Gary Osborne. She performed at Live Aid in 1985, reprising "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with John, and performing backing vocals on the other songs in his set. After signing to Columbia , Dee released
2345-603: The background vocals. As it turned out, "it was the original recording of 'I Am Woman' that was featured on the soundtrack" of the film, which "opened and closed the same week" in May 1972. The new recording of the song was released as a single on the 22nd of the month, and Wald – who had worked the phones for 18 hours a day urging radio stations to play "I Don't Know How to Love Him" – again put his promotional skills to use. He lined up gigs for Reddy – by now heavily pregnant with son Jordan – to sing on 19 TV talk and variety shows, and "women began calling radio stations and requesting
2412-429: The backing vocalists on Love Affair 's 1968 UK number one single Everlasting Love . She recorded her debut album, I'm Kiki Dee , in 1968 which included a series of Phil Spector -style tracks and covers. Her 1968 release "On a Magic Carpet Ride", which was originally a B-side, has remained popular on the northern soul circuit. Much of her early recorded work for Fontana Records, was released on 24 January 2011, on
2479-404: The band had already recorded the track as well as its intended B-side, "Don't Mess with a Woman". Wald and Reddy were furious in the control room. Senter was clearly not happy, either, and voices were raised, but he did not quit the project. Reddy put her voice on the track that Senter produced, and she and Wald left the studio. That release triggered a five-figure payment to Reddy, which at the time
2546-510: The chorus, Osborne in the verses introduced the concept of an initial sexual encounter into the song. The first evident recording of this version was by Sanson herself with UK and US single releases in respectively September 1972 and November 1972. The Sanson/Osborne version of "Amoureuse" was then recorded in April 1973 by Kiki Dee who credits Tony King, vice president of Rocket Records , with suggesting that she record "Amoureuse" for her album Loving and Free produced by Elton John : issued as
2613-487: The contradictory feelings of passion and fear of a woman involved in a new love affair. Sanson was inspired to write the song while driving "up the Champs-Élysées in my little Autobianchi A112 " at six AM: "It was a feeling of freedom... I was constantly monitored... and I wrote this song because I knew I was going to get yelled at by my parents [upon arriving home]." "Amoureuse" had its first major impact out of France via
2680-497: The first Australian-penned song to win a Grammy Award (in her acceptance speech for Best Female Performance, Reddy thanked "God, because She makes everything possible"). It also became the second Helen Reddy hit – after " I Don't Know How to Love Him " – to peak at number two in her native Australia. Overlooked in its original UK release, "I Am Woman" was given a 1975 reissue to serve as the follow-up to Reddy's number five UK hit " Angie Baby " but did not gain enough momentum to reach
2747-529: The first line – 'Lonely women are the desperate kind' – just fell out as my key turned in the lock, and the lyric to 'Emotion' wrote itself very quickly." Dahlstrom's English rendering of "Amoureuse" was introduced on the singer's own album The Way I Am which was recorded in August 1973: the track re-entitled Sanson's composition as "Emotion", that word being prominently featured in Dahlstrom's lyrics which expressed
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2814-600: The hit singles " Amoureuse " (1973), " I've Got the Music in Me " (1974) and " Don't Go Breaking My Heart ", her 1976 duet with Elton John , which reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 chart . Her 1981 single "Star" became the theme song for the talent show Opportunity Knocks when it was revived by the BBC in 1987. In 1993, she performed another duet with John for his Duets album,
2881-410: The hotel ballroom and joining hands in a circle that got larger and larger until maybe a thousand of us were dancing and singing, 'I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.' It was a spontaneous, beautiful expression of the exhilaration we all felt in those years, women really moving as women." Some feminists took exception to the lyrics, "I'm still an embryo , with a long, long way to go," identifying
2948-462: The lyrics to fit that melody. I did a demo on x Revox reel-to-reel tape. She really liked it and she recorded it on an album for Capitol Records. I never thought of it as being one of my better songs. It had commercial potential and I knew the women's lib thing was bubbling and coming to the boil in the U.S.A.. The life of a songwriter from Australia in Los Angeles was not very lucrative, so I figured it
3015-418: The mic from Letterman's hand and began singing "I Am Woman." The audience responded enthusiastically as the host cut to a commercial, but Reddy interrupted at several points throughout the show in different locations to break into her signature song : first in the window behind Letterman's desk and then during an interview with Nicolas Cage , a supposed commercial, and a performance by Blues Traveler . Whenever
3082-413: The music cut off and she was dismissed from the stage, she would always smile, wave and say, "Thank you." In 2006, Burger King released an ad campaign titled "Manthem" featuring "I Am Man", a parody of Helen Reddy's song, to promote its Texas Double Whopper hamburger. Shipments figures based on certification alone. "I Am Woman" was a minor C&W hit for Bobbie Roy who like Reddy
3149-486: The role originally played by Barbara Dickson for the 1988 production and recording. She received an Olivier Award nomination in 1989 in the Best Actress in a Musical category. In 1990, she contributed to the last recording studio collaboration between Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson , on the album Freudiana , performing "You're On Your Own" and part of "No One Can Love You Better Than Me". In 2008, Dee's first DVD
3216-455: The song as having supernatural inspiration. She said: "I remember lying in bed one night and the words, 'I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman', kept going over and over in my head. That part I consider to be divinely inspired. I had been chosen to get a message across." Pressed on who had chosen her, she replied: "The universe." The next day she wrote the lyric and handed it to Australian guitarist Ray Burton to put it to music. Burton, 26 at
3283-546: The song is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits : 'I can't stand this record! I hate this song! But you know, it's a funny thing, my wife loves it!' During the Audience Talent Show Night segment of the episode of Late Show with David Letterman dated 20 April 1995, Reddy was seated in the back of the audience and asked by Letterman what her talent was. She replied, "Hit it, Paul ," as she took
3350-542: The song peaked at number 2 on the Australian digital sales chart. After securing a recording contract in 1971 with Capitol Records that yielded the hit " I Don't Know How to Love Him ", Reddy – then living in Los Angeles – was asked for an album. She gave the label a set of 10 jazz-tinged pop songs. Nestled among the Leon Russell , Graham Nash and Van Morrison songs were two Reddy and Ray Burton originals. "I Am Woman"
3417-452: The song, "Ever regret it because it's so iconic? Does it overshadow everything else? Because people forget how many hit songs you had, and yet this song becomes so big. Is it ever too much to have on your back?" Reddy begins, "No, no," and after a pause says, "I'm proud of it." The song's opening line, "I am woman, hear me roar" has become widely referenced in media. In a 1975 episode of The Carol Burnett Show , guest Jean Stapleton played
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#17330942210903484-549: The song, thereby forcing airplay." Despite the chord it was striking with television viewers, the song's trek to the top of the charts was still a long, hard climb. It first entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 99 in the issue of the magazine dated 24 June 1972, peaked at number 97 two weeks later, fell off the Hot 100, re-entered at number 87 two months later in the 16 September issue, and reached number one three months later, in
3551-409: The song. In fact, she had some of the best LA session musicians backing her: Producer Jay Senter assembled the rhythm section at SunWest Studios for a 7:00 p.m. downbeat (start) but since he had planned on tracking without Reddy, she was not told to arrive until 9:00 p.m. Reddy and (then) husband Jeff Wald arrived thinking they were going to track (record) live with the band, but Senter and
3618-540: The time and playing in Los Angeles with Australian rock band the Executives (and later the founding member of Ayers Rock ), was a friend who had often worked with Reddy in live venues across Australia. He has a different recollection of the song's beginning. He told Sunday Magazine that he spoke to Reddy after she hosted a series of regular women's meetings at which he says they would "sit around and whine about their boyfriends". I said to Helen, 'If you're so serious about
3685-436: The viewpoint of a woman whose relationship with an inconsiderate lover is redeemed by the passion of their periodic trysts. "Emotion" was issued as a single off The Way I Am in October 1973 but did not chart. Patti Dahlstrom was also a friend of Paul Williams whose own compositions were regularly recorded by Helen Reddy , and Reddy recorded "Emotion" for inclusion on her 1974 Free and Easy album from which an abridged edit
3752-406: The whole thing, why don't you jot down some lyrics and I'll make it a song?' And that's pretty much what happened. She gave me lyrics scribbled down on a piece of paper and I went home that Sunday night and wrote the whole song in about three hours. Her lyrics were more in prose or poetic form, so I rewrote a few bits of it. I had a bit of a melody in my head anyway, so I reconstructed it, then moulded
3819-423: The women's liberation movement with a pregnancy. This was particularly true after the 1973 U.S. Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision was bookended by Paul Anka 's 1974 number-one hit, " Having My Baby ." To Reddy, the song's message reaches beyond feminism. "It's not just for women," she said. "It's a general empowerment song about feeling good about yourself, believing in yourself. When my former brother-in-law,
3886-578: The youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was", stated Dee in a 2013 interview. She added: "My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl and really that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties." Aged 16, Dee worked at Boots in Bradford during the day, while in the evenings she sang songs with a dance band in Leeds . A record scout liked her singing and invited her to London for an audition . There, in 1963, she signed as
3953-509: Was a big hit on Radio London and Radio Caroline , and she sang the B-side "Small Town" in her appearance in Dateline Diamonds the same year. Also in 1966, she achieved wider coverage by singing "Take a Look at Me" in the hit comedy, Doctor in Clover . She brought out an EP , Kiki In Clover – which included "Take a Look at Me" – at the same time as the film's release. She was one of
4020-501: Was a way to make a few dollars and up the quality of my life. I had a hunch that it was bound to be a hit. Then it went on the Capitol album and just sat there as a "sleeper" and I thought, 'Well, maybe I was wrong'. Reddy insists Burton did not change a word of the lyrics. Reddy had no expectations for the track. "It clearly was not hit-single material and got no airplay at all. I used it as an opening song whenever I performed live, and it
4087-400: Was always well received: I also noticed that the song was being singled out for mention in fan mail." But more than a year later, the song was picked to run behind the opening credits of Stand Up and Be Counted , a lightweight Hollywood women's lib comedy starring Jacqueline Bisset , Loretta Swit and Steve Lawrence . "The decision-makers at Capitol Records thought that, in case the film was
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#17330942210904154-505: Was heard during the closing credits for the 1972 film Stand Up and Be Counted . A new recording of the song was released as a single in May 1972 and became a number-one hit later that year, eventually selling over one million copies. The song came near the apex of the counterculture era and, by celebrating female empowerment, became an enduring feminist anthem for the women's liberation movement . Following Reddy's death in September 2020,
4221-546: Was issued as a single in January 1975 to peak at #22, Reddy's first Top Twenty shortfall since before " I Am Woman " in 1972. "Emotion" did reach #1 on the Easy Listening chart , the sixth of Reddy's eight Easy Listening #1's and her last consecutive. In 2009, Véronique Sanson stated in an interview to the French magazine Platine that Dahlstrom's version remains her favorite version of "Amoureuse", although Dahlstrom's "Emotion"
4288-486: Was one of them. The composition was the result of Reddy's search for a song that would express her growing passion for female empowerment. In a 2003 interview in Australia's Sunday Magazine (published with the Sunday Herald Sun and Sunday Telegraph ), she explained: I couldn't find any songs that said what I thought being woman was about. I thought about all these strong women in my family who had gotten through
4355-460: Was released. Under The Night Sky was a collaboration with guitarist Carmelo Luggeri, filmed live at the Bray Studios in London; the music was produced by Ted Carfrae. That same year, several albums from her earlier 1970s–1980s Rocket catalogue were re-released by EMI Records , including an expanded edition of Almost Naked with extra tracks, such as a cover of Neil Young 's " Heart of Gold " and
4422-458: Was sorely needed, according to Wald. Immediately after that, guitarist Deasy played the riff on his 12-string electric guitar that became the signature sound for the song. Senter then asked friend and sax man Jim Horn to write string and horn charts to be recorded the following week, while Senter went into the studio with Clydie King , Venetta Fields and Shirley Matthews (the Blossoms) and layered
4489-415: Was that same year recorded by Véronique Sanson (single "Povero maledetto" (Le maudit) / "Diverso amore mio" (Amoureuse) ). Kiki Dee Pauline Matthews (born 6 March 1947), better known by her stage name Kiki Dee , is an English pop singer. Known for her blue-eyed soul vocals, she was the first female singer from the UK to sign with Motown 's Tamla Records . Dee is best known for
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