Helen Reddy's eerie tune Angie Baby reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart December 28, 1974. It also reached #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening and Billboard Cash Box Top 100.
Written by Alan O'Day, Angie Baby is about a young girl who is "touched", not mentally handicapped. She doesn't have any friends and does not attend school, so she finds solace in the songs on the radio. Then a young man "with evil on his mind" visits Angie, but things do not go as he planned. He disappears and becomes her "secret lover" although everyone thinks he died.
Reddy once said she has never disclosed the real meaning of the lyrics because she loves hearing all the theories listeners have come up with. She also said it was the only one of her songs she didn't have to push radio stations to play.
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