Angie Baby

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Saturday 9: Angie Baby (1974)

Unfamiliar with this week's featured song?      Hear it here.

 

1) This week's song is a spooky one about a young man who breaks into the bedroom of a troubled girl named Angie. Their encounter doesn't go well and he's never seen again. Though there's been gossip, no one knows for sure what happened to him. Does your town have any scary legends that have been passed down through the decades?

 Yes but more truth than legend.. about Al Capone building a famous hotel here and a busy bootlegging operation underground to the bay.

The old hotel is a nursing home now but haunted.

Then there is the Jersey Devil who lives here in the Pine Barrens.. and then there is people buried in the Pine Barrens by unsavory types from North  Jersey shall we say.

2) Songwriter Alan O'Day said he drew upon aspects of his own childhood to come up with "Angie Baby." He was an only child who often stayed home sick from school, with only Top 40 radio for company. What do you recall when you think about sick days as a kid?  

 They were very rare but I remember how boring with only I Love Lucy on  TV and I was not a fan.

3) Helen Reddy said she enjoyed hearing what her fans thought happened in "Angie Baby." Can you think of another song that is open to interpretation?

 Od to Billie Joe is one that jumps right into my mind.   We don't know what they threw into the Tallahatchie  River but it seems to me to have been the reason for Billie Joe jumping off the bridge so it must have been something to feel very guilty about.

4) When Helen and her husband/manager Jeff Wald heard "Angie Baby" the first time, they immediately agreed she should record it. She went into the studio that afternoon and in less than 10 days, disc jockeys were playing it and "Angie Baby" became an international hit. When were you glad you acted on impulse?

 Yes, I had a bad feeling about a situation and said I wanted no part of it.  It was the right thing to do.

Questions inspired by Halloween .... 

5) Though best known as a recording artist, Helen Reddy also acted on occasion and appeared as a singing nun in Airport 1975. A nun's habit is a popular Halloween costume. Will you/did you dress up this year?

No, I didn't dress up .  

6) In 2024, more Americans than ever dressed their dogs up for Halloween. Have you ever taken your pup with you trick-or-treating?

No never did.

7) According to the Guinness Book of Records, the award for highest number of jack-o-lanterns in one place went to Keene, NH, where in 2013 there were 30,581. Did you carve a pumpkin for Halloween this year?

No.

 

8) In years gone by, the Irish celebrated Halloween not with pumpkins but by carving turnips, potatoes and beets. Are any of those foods in your kitchen right now?

Yes, all of them!

 

9) Some Elvis fans insist his ghost hovers in the trees over Graceland. Have you ever seen a ghost?

No I have never seen a ghost.