I Don't Know How to Love Him by Helen Reddy

I Don't Know How to Love Him, Helen Reddy's debut album, came out on Capitol on 10 May 1971, and the Melbourne-born singer finally had a shot after years of knocking on doors in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The title song had already given her a toehold, climbing to number eight in Canada as the B-side of "I Believe in Music", and a year later Capitol signed her.

Reddy's voice is warm, clear and steady, a singer who lets a lyric land without any fuss. Here too is the first, lesser-known recording of "I Am Woman", the song that would later become her signature and an anthem for the women's movement. The album sat on Billboard's LP chart for 37 weeks, went gold in 1974 and reached CD in 2005, paired with her self-titled second album.

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