Free And Easy (studio album) by Helen Reddy

Free And Easy by Helen Reddy
Year: 1974
Overall rank: 47,303rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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68/100 (from 8 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1974 (441st)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (4,603rd)
Award Best albums of all time (47,303rd)
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HELEN REDDY Free and Easy Vinyl LP - 1974 Capitol Records ST-11348, SEALED
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HELEN REDDY Free and Easy Vinyl LP - 1974 Capitol Records ST-11348, EX Vinyl VG+
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Helen Reddy bestography

Free And Easy is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Helen Reddy on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Helen Reddy is Helen Reddy's Greatest Hits which is ranked number 33256 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 23.

Helen Reddy album bestography « Higher ranked (36,113th) This album (47,303rd) Lower ranked (48,826th) »
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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (6 out of 10 tracks have been rated).

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Lead track "Angie Baby" was the third of three #1 Pop hits for Reddy in the US. It's a pretty good tune. And it's the closest thing to "cool" she ever sounded. But all good will is immediately lost with the abomination that follows it. Helen Reddy is one of those very very very whitebread singers who should never, ever, under any circumstances, attempt to rock. Just don't do it, Helen. Nothing good could possibly result.

But attempt it she does. And her version of the then recent Elvis hit, "Raised on Rock" is so unintentionally hilarious, it brings to mind the horror that was Pat Boone's neutering of "Tutti Frutti". Just listen to the way she sings the word "rock". It is humanly impossible to rock any less than that. Helen, you were clearly raised on Broadway show tunes and TV commercial jingles, NOT rock. So don't even try to front.

After that debacle, the album never recovers. The title track, "Free and Easy", literally sounds like a TV jingle hawking paper towels or shampoo or something. "Emotion" rises slightly above the pack, so it's no surprise it was the album's second single (#22 US). But the rest just sounds like leftovers from whatever album Barbra Streisand had out at the time.
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