Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (Original Version) (1971)

From her album "I Don't Know How To Love Him" (1971)

[ruthtidwell]

Interesting, never heard this version before!

[QuentinQuatermass]

Love both versions but prefer this one because I listened to it on the album above a year before the hit 45 version came out.

[OKCRay]

It almost sounds like a 1970s TV variety show performance.

[sstavsky]

Seems much more quiet and subtle than the hit version.

[georgecrenshaw]

Great arrangement but the song sounds incomplete here. Good thing she re-recorded it.

[tedchittenden]

A very interesting version. No backing singers, and apparently the third verse hadn't been written yet. While I like this version, I can see why Capitol wanted Helen to rerecord it--without that third verse, the song doesn't really resolve itself.