Pete's Dragon    (film)

First Disney film recorded in Dolby Sound.

"Pete's Dragon (first released on November 3, 1977) is a live-action/animated musical feature film from Walt Disney Productions."

"It is a live-action film but its title character, a dragon named Elliott, is animated. It is about a young orphan named Pete (played by Sean Marshall) who enters a small fishing community in Maine in the early 20th century. His only friend is a dragon, Elliott...  who also acts as his sentinel. Elliott can make himself invisible and is generally visible only to Pete, which occasionally lands Pete in trouble with the locals."

"Also featured in the film are Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Jim Dale, Red Buttons, Jeff Conaway and Shelley Winters."

"The film was directed by Don Chaffey, and the songs are by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. The song "Candle on the Water" received an Academy Award nomination, and Helen Reddy's recording (with a different arrangement than the one her character sings in the film) was released as a single by Capitol Records, reaching #27 on the Adult Contemporary charts."

Genre: film

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Helen Reddy    (25 Oct 1941)

I am woman, watch me show my versatility, strength, my amazing vocal talent and so much more!

Helen Reddy is an Australian singer and actress who was born into a family of famous vaudeville performers and started performing with her parents at age 4. 

She had tremendous success in the 1970s with several #1 singles.  She has  sold more than 15 million albums and 10 million singles, and was the first Australian performer to win a Grammy award.

Her first major hit was was a cover of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" (1971). Then there was international success with the feminist anthem she wrote "I Am Woman" (her first U.S #1 hit) which earned her a Grammy Award for Female Pop Vocal Performance and was followed in the next three years by other hits (seven of them being #1 on the charts) including "Delta Dawn" 1973, "Angie Baby", "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" (#3), "Keep on Singing" (#15, 1974), "You And Me Against The World", "Emotion",  "Peaceful" (#15),  "Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady" (#8, 1975),  "Somewhere in the Night" (#19; later a bigger hit for Barry Manilow), "I Can't Hear You No More" (1976) and a remake of "You're My World". Her last record to make the charts was "I Can't Say Goodbye To You" (1981).

Helen Reddy has played at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall, hosted a primetime variety show, was the first female western singer to be invited to sing in China,  has the song she wrote "I Am Woman" included in U.S. history books, headlined to Las Vegas to standing room only crowds, and is currently a hypno-therapist  and motivational speaker in Australia. At the height of her career, life changed with the death of her parents and the discovery that she had a rare and incurable disease.

Genre: Pop,  Easy Listening

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