Music, Music

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Music, Music | type = Album | artist = Helen Reddy | cover = Reddy-Music.jpg | alt = | released = July 8, 1976 | recorded = February – March 1976 | venue = | studio = | genre = Vocal Pop/Rock<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/music-music-mw0000843381|title= Music, Music - Helen Reddy |work=allmusic.com|publisher=All Media Network, LLC|accessdate=31 May 2015}}</ref> | length = 30:04 | label = Capitol | producer = Joe Wissert | prev_title = Helen Reddy's Greatest Hits | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = Ear Candy | next_year = 1977 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name = "allmusic"/> }} '''''Music, Music''''' is the eighth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in the summer of 1976 by Capitol Records and later described by J. Scott McClintock for AllMusic: "There are breezy, Bacharach-ian excursions ('Gladiola,' 'You Make It So Easy'), bluesy numbers ('Get Off Me Baby,' 'Ladychain'), light country ('Mama'), jazzy ballads (Paul Williams' torchy contribution, 'Nice to Be Around'), and even a little Philly soul ('I Can't Hear You No More').<ref name ="music">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/no-way-to-treat-a-lady-mw0000223846|title= No Way to Treat a Lady/Music, Music - Helen Reddy |work=allmusic.com|publisher=All Media Network, LLC|accessdate=31 May 2015}}</ref> On August 2 of that year the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album with Gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States.<ref name="RIAA">[https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Helen%20Reddy&go=Search&perPage=50 RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for titles by Helen Reddy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903213453/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Helen+Reddy&go=Search&perPage=50 |date=2015-09-03 }}</ref>

It debuted on ''Billboard'''s Top LP's & Tapes chart that same month, in the issue dated August 14, and got as high as number 16.<ref>{{Harvnb|Whitburn|2010|p=646}}.</ref> It stopped at #36 in Cash Box magazine and #30 in Record World but made it to #14 in Canada's RPM magazine.<ref>{{cite news|title=RPM 100 Albums |date=1976-09-25|work=RPM| page=39}}</ref> The third album recorded by Reddy with producer Joe Wissert, ''Music, Music'' was cited in 1977 by Reddy as a personal favorite from among her albums.<ref>''Orlando Sentinel'' 31 July 1977 "Helen Reddy Keeps Hectic Pace" by Sumner Rand p.93</ref> On August 23, 2005, ''Music, Music'' was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two Helen Reddy albums on one CD, the other album being her 1975 studio release, ''No Way to Treat a Lady''.<ref name =music/>

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==Singles== "I Can't Hear You No More" was released in the United States on July 26, 1976,<ref name = "collection">(2006) ''The Woman I Am: The Definitive Collection'' by Helen Reddy [CD booklet]. Los Angeles: Capitol Records 09463-57613-2-0.</ref> and debuted on ''Billboard'''s Hot 100 in the issue of the magazine dated August 7, eventually making it to number 29 over the course of nine weeks.<ref name = "hot">{{Harvnb|Whitburn|2009|p=805}}.</ref> In the following issue, dated August 14, it made its first appearance on the magazine's Easy Listening chart, where it spent 11 weeks, one of which was at number one.<ref name = "adult">{{Harvnb|Whitburn|2007|p=226}}.</ref> In RPM magazine the song got as high as number 36 pop.<ref>{{cite news|title=Top Singles |date=1976-09-18|work=RPM| page=37}}</ref>

In ''Billboard'''s August 28 issue the single's B-side, "Music Is My Life", started to be listed on the Hot 100 alongside "I Can't Hear You No More"<ref name = hot/> as a "tag along" to indicate that some radio stations were opting to play the flip side of the original hit that charted.<ref>{{Harvnb|Whitburn|2009|p=14}}.</ref> While "Music Is My Life" did not have any showings on the list of Easy Listening hits,<ref name = adult/> a third song from the album, "Gladiola", began a 12-week chart run there in the issue dated November 13 of that year that included a number 10 peak position<ref name = adult/> but saw no activity on the pop chart.<ref name = hot/>

==Track listing== Side 1 # "Music, Music" (Pamela Polland) – 3:14 #*Jeff Porcaro – drums #*David Hungate – bass guitar #*Fred Tackett – guitar #*David Paich – piano #*Bobbye Hall – congas # "Gladiola" (Alan Gordon) – 3:27 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Reini Press – bass guitar #*Dean Parks – guitar #*Mark Jordan – piano #*Victor Feldman – percussions #*Tom Scott – alto sax solo # "Mama" (Harriet Schock) – 4:03 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Scotty Edwards – bass guitar #*Ray Parker Jr. – guitar #*Clarence McDonald – piano # "Hold Me in Your Dreams Tonight" (Marie Cain) – 2:42 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Reini Press – bass guitar #*Dean Parks – guitar #*Mark Jordan – piano #*Victor Feldman – percussions # "Get Off Me Baby" (Jeff Langley, Holly Near) – 4:58 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Scotty Edwards – bass guitar #*Ray Parker Jr. – guitar #*Clarence McDonald – piano Side 2 # "I Can't Hear You No More" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:49 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Dean Parks – guitar #*Scotty Edwards – bass guitar #*Larry Muhoberac – piano # "Ladychain" (Marcia Waldorf) – 3:58 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Scotty Edwards – bass guitar #*Ray Parker Jr. – guitar #*Clarence McDonald – piano #*Tom Scott – alto sax solo # "Music Is My Life" (Alan Gordon) – 2:29 #*Jeff Porcaro – drums #*David Hungate – bass guitar #*Fred Tackett – guitar #*David Paich – piano #*Victor Feldman – percussions # "Nice to Be Around" (John Williams, Paul Williams) – 2:58 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Reini Press – bass guitar #*Dean Parks – guitar #*Mark Jordan – piano #*Tom Scott – alto flute solo # "You Make It So Easy" (Helen Reddy, Carole Bayer Sager) – 2:23 #*Harvey Mason – drums #*Dean Parks – guitar #*Scotty Edwards – bass guitar #*Larry Muhoberac – piano

==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1976) !Peak position |- |Canada Albums (''RPM'')<ref name = "CA">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=v2a76h62to0aart05gg0u3agj2&q1=Helen+Reddy&q2=&interval=20|title= Helen Reddy Album Discography|work=RPM|publisher=RPM Library Archives|accessdate= 18 July 2015}}</ref> |align="center"|14 |- {{album chart|Billboard200|16|artist=Helen Reddy|access-date=5 January 2022}} |}

==Personnel== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *Helen Reddy – vocals *Joe Wissert – producer *Nick DeCaro – arranger and conductor *Tom Perry – recording engineer *Mike Reese – mastering engineer *Jeff Wald – management *Francesco Scavullo – photography *Roy Kohara – art direction {{col-2}} ; Additional musicians *Gary Grant – trumpet *Chuck Findley – trumpet *Bob Findley – trumpet *Steve Madiao – trumpet *Jay Daversa – trumpet *Don Menza – saxophone *Tom Scott – saxophone *Bill Perkins – saxophone *Jay Migliori – saxophone *Jack Nimitz – saxophone *Dick "Slyde" Hyde – trombone *Lou McCreary – trombone *Earl Dumler – oboe *Harry Bluestone – string concertmaster *Carolyn Willis – background vocals *Jim Gilstrap – background vocals *Myrna Matthews – background vocals *Oren Waters – background vocals *Lisa Roberts – background vocals *Nick DeCaro – background vocals *Frank DeCaro – contractor {{col-end}}

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==References== {{refbegin}} *{{citation | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006 | year = 2007 | publisher = Record Research Inc. | isbn = 978-0-89820-169-7 }} *{{citation | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 1955-2008| year = 2009 | publisher = Record Research Inc. | isbn = 978-0-89820-180-2 }} *{{citation | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition | year = 2010 | publisher = Record Research Inc. | isbn = 978-0-89820-183-3 }} {{refend}} {{Helen Reddy}}

Category:1976 albums Category:Capitol Records albums Category:Helen Reddy albums Category:Albums produced by Joe Wissert