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Despite her late 1970s decline on the music charts, Reddy still had sufficient star power in 1979 to host The Helen Reddy Special, broadcast that May on ABC-TV, of which Jeff Wald was the producer. In September 1981, Reddy announced she would be shooting the pilot for her own TV sitcom, in which she would play a single mother working as a ...
Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) [1] is an American retired singer-songwriter. She was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material.
Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) [2] is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13.During her career Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience; she had a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits. [3]
Bessie Regina Norris (December 21, 1953 – May 10, 2020), [1] [2] better known by her stage name Betty Wright, [3] was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late 1960s as a teenager, Wright rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as " Clean Up Woman " and "Tonight Is the ...
Around this time, Dean Martin called her "the best girl singer in the business". In total, Carr had 10 singles and 13 albums that made the US pop charts. Vikki Carr in 1968. In 1968, Carr taped six specials for London Weekend TV. She made frequent appearances on various television programs, such as ABC's The Bing Crosby Show in
Lynn is considered an influence on some of today's R&B female singers, including Mary J. Blige, who, alongside Will Smith, covered Lynn's song ("Got to Be Real"). Japanese pop singer Kumi Koda covered the song for her 2010 single album Gossip Candy. In April 2010, "Got to Be Real" charted for the first time in the UK, peaking at number 70. [10]
Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is an American singer best known as the lead singer of the rock band Heart.. Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band.
Kim Carnes (/ k ɑːr n z /; born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles.A veteran writer of many of her own hits, as well as those for numerous other artists, she began her career in 1966 as a member of folk group the New Christy Minstrels, before embarking on a solo career as a songwriter and performer in the early 1970s, playing in local clubs.