Fwd: NP - Helen Ready AND Mac Davis?

[Charles Albert]

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From: Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: NP - Helen Ready AND Mac Davis?
To: Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com>


Thanks...

Reddy became frustrated as Wald found success managing such acts such as Deep
Purple <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple> and Tiny Tim
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_%28musician%29> without making
any evident effort to promote her; after 18 months of career inactivity,
Reddy gave Wald an ultimatum: "he [must] either revitalise her career or
get out... Jeff threw himself into his new career as Mr. Helen Reddy. Five
months of phone calls to Capitol Records executive Artie Mogull finally
paid off: Mogull agreed to let Helen cut one single if Jeff promised not to
call for a month. She did 'I Believe in Music
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Believe_in_Music_%28song%29>' penned by *Mac
Davis* <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Davis> backed with 'I Don't
Know How to Love Him
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don%27t_Know_How_to_Love_Him>' from Tim
Rice <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rice> and Andrew Lloyd Webber
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber>'s *Jesus Christ
Superstar <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar>*. The
A-side fell flat but then some Canadian DJ's flipped the record over and it
became a hit – No. 13 in June 1971 – and Helen Reddy was on her way."[19]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reddy#cite_note-LLC1976-20>


Love,

cfa

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 4:04 PM Keith McMullen via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> I hope she was reddy.
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