I used to sing this song in karaoke bars and cabarets. The way I smiled when I sang, "It's so nice to be insane. No one asks you to explain" completely creeped people out, because it seemed like I might be Angie.
@pauldrew43384 жыл бұрын
My favourite Helen Reddy song, always gave me chills as a kid. RIP Helen
@brookehanley3659 Жыл бұрын
Definitely one of her best songs. I loved it from the first time I heard it.
@AngelaFinley-vs7fu Жыл бұрын
Me too😮
@SteveCarras10 ай бұрын
Same. Sadly, she did have the same issues..famously..
@MichelleBab-gy2yx5 ай бұрын
Me too! As a kid I loved the song and was also scared/creeped out by it. Still love it to this day! 🧡🤍💚
@jeffmissinne386611 жыл бұрын
You're right! John Wilson, the animator who directed this video, passed on this past weekend at 93. He made "One Tin Soldier" and all the other animation sequences for the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, the titles for the movie "Grease," and many other productions. Born in England, he worked in Hollywood for Walt Disney, UPA (Mr. Magoo,) Hanna-Barbera, and his own company, Fine Arts Films.
@LazyIRanch4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the background story. I loved the Sonny and Cher Show when I was a kid, I remember those cool animations. I figured this animation is old, from the era the song was made. Cracks me up that Angie's rock & roll crush is Elton John, because he was my crush when I was 12, too! Several years before he came out. At twelve, I wouldn't have understood what homosexuality was anyway.
@starguard41223 жыл бұрын
I am so happy that you provided us with this information. I remember seeing on Sonny and Cher a cartoon from the Royal Guardsmen called "Snoopy and the Red Baron" where Snoopy was in a knock down drag out dogfight with the red baron and won. I have been searching for decades for this cartoon and have found it nowhere. Now you have given me a very good lead. Thank you Sir!
@barbarakirk30642 жыл бұрын
I knew I'd seen that drawing style previously - the Grease opening titles!
@jamesr85842 жыл бұрын
I actually remember seeing this cartoon on TV when it came out in the 1970's. And now this is the first time I have seen it again in nearly 50 years. For some reason this cartoon stuck in my mind. I was listening to some Helen Reddy songs and just on a whin I thought, I wonder if that old cartoon is on KZbin and sure enough here it is.
@TalkingWeirdStuff24 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this information! I just discovered the Bad Bad Leroy Brown animation by accident yesterday and loved it so much I typed 'Sonny and Cher animated segments' into KZbin to try and find more. Now I have the guy's name! Love his style! To me this is limited animation done well.
@angelinaorejel52513 жыл бұрын
My interpretation of this song is that Angie is suffering from mental health issues. My aunt bought this record for me when I was born in 1982, it’s been one of my favorite songs however as I got older and I listened to the words and got weirded out because my name is Angelina and I’ve been suffering from mental health issues since I was a child… I’ve always gotten lost in music, even to this day. It just really hits home .
@julietfischer50563 жыл бұрын
A reality warper.
@jonimichalski14032 жыл бұрын
I understand believe me
@KissMyBiscuits Жыл бұрын
Did you ever ask your aunt about why she got it for you? This song came out when I was 10 & even back then I took it to mean Angie was insane. That’s what the lyrics say. Maybe your aunt just didn’t listen to them beforehand & got it for you because it had your name in it. Best of luck to you, btw. I have suffered with Depression on and off throughout my life. Be sure to get help when you need it!
@markfox7764 Жыл бұрын
Well... maybe.
@holtridge7337 Жыл бұрын
I was also born in 1982. That was a good year.
@gemjourney52105 ай бұрын
Wow...how PHALLIC!😳
@richiehoyt8487Ай бұрын
One often hears talk of skyscrapers as 'phallic symbols' - I guess those people weren't full of it, after all?! (I presume you're talking about that skyscraper that they -- uhh, _'slipped in'_ - sorry, pun not intended - in the intro to the video?)
@MrRolyat9810 жыл бұрын
This is what I love about KZbin. Completely random memory pops into my head. Search. There it is. Sometimes I wondered if I was the only one who saw it way back when since no one else knew what I was talking about.
@shadeylady89937 жыл бұрын
exactly
@monacaravetta4 жыл бұрын
Sonny and Cher show. I loved it. And this song.
@farwayout4 жыл бұрын
@@monacaravetta Speaking of the Sonny and Cher Show circa 1974 I do recall this format of giving a hit song to animation on the show itself but I REMEMBER when another hit single was put to animation...The Parking Lot by Joni Mitchell was also featured on the Sonny and Cher Show!
@monacaravetta4 жыл бұрын
@@farwayout Yes! As well as Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller-skates. :)
@farwayout4 жыл бұрын
@@monacaravetta My bad!...I was mistaken!The correct name the name of the song was Big Yellow Taxi! My apologies!
@thomasfleig11846 жыл бұрын
The story in this song would have made a great Twilight Zone episode
@AandP4dummieslikeme5 жыл бұрын
OMGOSH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@jonimichalski18855 жыл бұрын
No night gallery instead
@LazyIRanch4 жыл бұрын
@Bella Bella Thanks to Night Gallery, to this day I can't sleep unless my ears are covered. Remember that story about the "earwig"? Wish I never saw it!
@angelina2020taylor4 жыл бұрын
I agree this could twilight zone
@timepoet774 жыл бұрын
Definitely more like Night Gallery.
@theresecallahan85484 жыл бұрын
Before tonight, I never knew this song had an animated video. RIP. Helen.
@martyklestadt67665 ай бұрын
Yeah, they used to show these videos on the Sonny & Cher show back in the '70s. Good stuff from my childhood.
@scottanderson24585 ай бұрын
@@martyklestadt6766 that's where I remember it from. I remember Joan Baez singing One Tin Soldier and an animation for it, which I think was on Sonny and Cher.
@scottanderson24585 ай бұрын
My mistake, that version was by Coven.
@jamesdelahanty3 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this song for the first time when I was 8-years old. My Parents thought I was old enough to be left alone. I made myself a Tostino's pizza and put on HBO. Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas was going to be on. I remember seeing this video and my mind was blown. I understood the context of the song and told My Mom about it when they got home. Because there was no way to pull it up for her to watch. No On-Demand in 1977. 4-years later, My Mom and me were excited to see Chu Chu and the Philly Flash on HBO. And this video came on again. My Mom was all. "Wow! This was the song?" I was happy that I wasn't crazy, and that it was what I had seen. My Mom goes, "Wow! What do you think this song is about?" And I shared my thoughts. I grew up in a completely different Era. Instead, most mothers would be. "WHY were you watching that?" My Mom instead, asked me how I felt when I saw it. And in the end, we both agreed that this song was amazing! I remember her and me talking about being, "touched" doesn't necessarily mean you are 'crazy'.
@JW753832 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing a lot of creepy animated and live action shorts on HBO in between movies as a kid back in the late 70’s/early 80’s including this video.
@kathrynrippley23952 жыл бұрын
Actually, Cado, that's exactly what it means,🤣🤣
@shawnmalone97114 жыл бұрын
RIP Helen Reddy , you made the 70s memorable.
@richardranke78787 жыл бұрын
He wanted to take advantage of Angie, but Angie took advantage of him!:-)
@HeartBDoctor5 жыл бұрын
Yes. Many people wonder what Angie did to the boy. Shrink him down to a tiny size and make him disappear? Even Helen Reddy herself can't say!
@yesgirl76595 жыл бұрын
@Bella Bella under her bedroom floorboards more like. gosh, this song makes me think of necrophilia 😳
@julietfischer50564 жыл бұрын
@Bella Bella - She's a reality warper. He's alive, but her prisoner.
@rogue77233 жыл бұрын
I thought maybe Angie hypnotized him with the music from her radio (which is magical) and he’s now her secret sex slave or something.
@bobdavis48483 жыл бұрын
@@HeartBDoctor She was never the one to ask; writer Alan O'Day was.
@tonytafoya62176 жыл бұрын
Yet another one that escaped me. This animation was made when I was a kid still in my single digits. And here I am, fifty yrs later watching it for the first time.
@lorierush656116 күн бұрын
Same here.
@starguard41223 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 70s and I gotta tell you that I truly miss things like this
@shawnmalone97116 жыл бұрын
If this song came out in 2018, Angie would be addicted to her iPhone, and the internet.
@bobdavis48483 жыл бұрын
The problem would be that the iPhone's inward sucking perverts app staff are underfunded.
@lookingoverhisshoulder Жыл бұрын
and crack.
@brendanjohns10318 ай бұрын
I absolutely adore this song. The lyrics and the way Helen Reddy sings it. It always ends with me wanting to know more about the story. Just brilliant.
@jettcarlburg3567 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this on The Midnight Special when I was 13 years old!!! :-D "It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.... Radio by your side... Angie Baby...."
@jettcarlburg3564 жыл бұрын
RIP Helen Reddy :-(
@martyklestadt67665 ай бұрын
@@Dantheferret The song, 1974. Not so sure about the video, but I think it was first featured in an episode of the Sonny & Cher show.
@robhigh59913 ай бұрын
Correct *same guy who also created "similar" type video for Dark Lady earlier
@MultiBudboy11 жыл бұрын
Sick cartoon, sick song. The wondrous ALAN O'DAY!!
@tonymoreno14164 жыл бұрын
Wow I haven't seen this in over 40 years. RIP Helen
@originaluddite26 күн бұрын
I like how Reddy sings more loudly for the climactic scene of dimensional imprisonment. Nicely groovy and creepy song.
@timmitchell38705 жыл бұрын
Interesting interpretation. I always imagined Angie as a sad, lonely, withdrawn girl who dressed in black - basically 'Carrie' dressed in goth. I think maybe the reason she was presented as cheerfully insane in this video is because it originally aired on The Carol Burnette Show, and probably the producers felt portraying her as sad and isolated would be too much of a downer for a variety show. As haunting as this song is, I often wonder why no one ever made a movie out of it.
@radiorob75432 жыл бұрын
This video was on Sonny & Cher a year before C B.
@ms.annthrope4152 жыл бұрын
Great plot for a good slasher movie. Sort of Terrifier 3.
@ОксанаЧеркас-ц6н Жыл бұрын
I imagine her like a lonely serious introvertic anime girl with long dark hair that is keen on music. And her imagination is her weapon that can protect and entertain her on her demand but also has other side - can damage the girl herself.
@lorierush656116 күн бұрын
Yes it would make a good horror movie.
@calvinbealer72649 ай бұрын
Classic Song from the Winter ❄️ 1974-75. RIP Ms Helen Reddy.
@depaola636 жыл бұрын
CLASSIC tune from my youth !! ( I was 11 in 74')
@hanahkush32634 жыл бұрын
Angie baby was crazy like a fox that boy didn't have a chance she knew he was peeping in that room. She ignored him she set him up, yes Angie baby is a special lady!!🎈💎
@dr.hookyeah28838 жыл бұрын
This video actually manages to make this song even more creepy.
@JP54668 жыл бұрын
The Cher Dark Lady cartoon is more disturbing/creepy. Great memories from the 70's though.
@karenmccloskey90588 жыл бұрын
Yep...but ya gotta admit, Needle-Nose got what was coming to him. (LOL)
@sophieo.45278 жыл бұрын
Karen Mccloskey More like Pinocchio.
@bryanrussell99064 жыл бұрын
The nose of the peeping tom creeps me out. I think his nose was a way to imply an erection after he had been watching her and his plan was to seduce and rape Angie. But he was the one that received the big surprise. She sucked his soul into radio to use whenever she pleased. Pulled a magic-radio-succubus trick on him.
@bobdavis48483 жыл бұрын
@@bryanrussell9906 Unfortunately, the third dancing building near the street also looks phallic to me. Good the peeping tom got stopped from his evil plan. Rest In Peace Helen.
@armandobuenpito109911 жыл бұрын
This is the 1st music video I've ever seen. Seen it in English Class in High School. I've made it a point from then on not to make fun of unusual girls.
@Godsbutterfly49236 ай бұрын
My mom use to sing this song alot. I miss my mom, but she introduced me to real art such as this. Rip mom❤ - Jesus loves all and wants to save all! Romans 10:9-10✌️
@charleshays54074 жыл бұрын
Alan O'Day wrote this song. He also wrote Rock and Roll Heaven for the Righteous Brothers, and wrote and recorded the song Undercover Angel.
@barbarakirk30642 жыл бұрын
And the band in Rock and Roll Heaven got much bigger since - Jim Steinman must be musical director by now.
@annsilliman61842 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the 411
@lookingoverhisshoulder Жыл бұрын
@@barbarakirk3064 I bet he's in charge of the meat loaf.
@libertyann4394 жыл бұрын
I think Angie has figured out how to have a good time.
@angiemcleod5068 жыл бұрын
My name is Angela... this became Angie for short.. mom sang it to me ...as a good night song... i said mom do u know what this song says.. she said i just liked the lyrics ...jesus!!!! i love it tho
@timothybuchanan66564 жыл бұрын
I would like to talk to you don't know you but still I would like to talk to you
@jrmetmoi10 күн бұрын
My teacher when I was four or five years old sang this song to me because my name’s Angie too
@carbtripper2 жыл бұрын
Well done! This is what KZbin is all about
@Danimal142228 жыл бұрын
Love this! I was 4 when this song came out, and I it wasn't creepy enough on its own, then I saw the video on some variety show. Never forgot the radio making him disappear.Thanks for bringing this back.
@melissagerber72317 жыл бұрын
Dan L Sonny and Cher. They featured this animation , Dark Lady and One Tin Soldier, by the same animator.
@hsmith11802 жыл бұрын
I've known of this song for years but honestly only really listened to the lyrics a few months ago when it came on when I was driving and I was genuinely stunned. I was driving along going "WHAT? WTF?" hahahaha Then I just found this.... how has all this escaped me till now? This is seriously creepy stuff and I love it.
@mralleycat63 Жыл бұрын
Same here! I've known this song since it was popular! I just never listened to the lyrics as closely!
@rockybudgeboa3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for allowing me to relive my childhood
@Elphienfiero17 жыл бұрын
I was hoping somebody besides me thought it lent itself to animation! Love it!
@Multi16287 жыл бұрын
~ #1 U.S., #5 in the U.K. still fresh from 1974 in 2018, and it wasn't until I saw this macabre cartoon that I kinda sorta "got" the storyline of this song ~ Thanks, Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
@major60010 жыл бұрын
This is the creepiest song EVER WRITTEN! I have seen people rush across the room to switch off the radio when it comes on.
@christiemyers87307 жыл бұрын
I like this song!! I'm not gonna turn it off!!
@TheGlssr606 жыл бұрын
Try listening to "Swamp Witch" by Jim Stafford.
@lisaknell60186 жыл бұрын
I liked this song as a child, but it frightened me to a certain extent especially after I saw this video on television. 😳😱
@HeartBDoctor5 жыл бұрын
Rock's most haunting song is "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas! No one will even remember Apple Inc in 100,000 AD
@notaniceguy345 жыл бұрын
@@TheGlssr60 swamp witch is the BOMB. The ending is so scary that it makes me tingle. I SWEAR every time. It's like a bizarre sexual thing.
@Elwrt4554 жыл бұрын
One of the creepiest songs and cartoons that I have ever view!
@imweasel99911 жыл бұрын
Saw this video in 1978 at a Helen Reddy concert in Cherry Hill, N.J. - haven't seen it since, until now.
@joelsmith66416 ай бұрын
When I first heard this song as a kid, I always thought Angie was just a lonely girl living in a fantasy world she created for herself...and when the neighbor boy came over and he disappeared into the radio, he became the secret lover they mentioned at the end of the song
@jonimichalski14032 жыл бұрын
RIP Helen Reddy ps ABC Old Thriller Movies in the 1970s would have been a good one
@ScrittiSparkle9 жыл бұрын
its so nice to be insane noone asks you to explain,great lyrics,great song,im always singing this after all this time haha
@jeffmissinne386611 жыл бұрын
This one originally aired on "The Midnight Special" when Helen Reddy was its regular host, and some of the other videos were rerun there too, with the original records (Three Dog Night, Stevie Wonder, Melanie, etc) as sound tracks. Mr. Wilson also made the animated titles for Tony Orlando and Dawn, Ken Berry's Wow Hour, and (I think) the Bobby Vinton Show. Some were released in 16mm for school use, and on a long-discontinued VHS tape.
@bkavanaugh86310 жыл бұрын
This was animated while she sang this on the Carol Burnett show in November 1974.
@MrStereo109 жыл бұрын
+Brooke Kavanaugh Thanks, Was wondering where it aired. Most of them turned up on Sonny & Cher. Only a few of them are still online. Missing are Sonny & Cher's "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done", "Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", Sonny & Cher "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and Tony Orlando & Dawn "Has anybody seen my Sweet Gypsy Rose".
@AandP4dummieslikeme5 жыл бұрын
I thought it was Sonny & Cher.
@OofusTwillip4 жыл бұрын
John Wilson did animations for several CBS shows: titles, bumpers, and animated music videos. I have a multi-cel setup of his "Demon Alcohol" video, plus a VHS tape of all of his music videos. Including "Both Sides Now", the world's first computer-animated music video.
@whtxombi495510 ай бұрын
OMG! This really does exist. After all these years, I thought I dreamt this.
@DDSilver20245 жыл бұрын
Greetings from 2019. I just popped a tape out of an old VCR that someone dropped off to be recycled. This video was on it. Pretty sure some chick is gonna crawl out of my TV or something now. Thanks.
@jrmetmoi3 ай бұрын
That’s ‘The Ring’ movie
@Belluser-we1uc5cb2l11 ай бұрын
Saw this on Sonny and Cher show as a kid.
@Janadu10 жыл бұрын
Love the phallic symbol at 0:22
@major60010 жыл бұрын
I saw it, too. I was just about to make the same comment. :-D
@MrRolyat9810 жыл бұрын
Not to mention the part towards the end where her nipple pops out of her shirt when she's dancing. :S
@byronsiren8 жыл бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed the big brown penis.
@dave1411636 жыл бұрын
Janadu CBS would have censored that part of the video, it's one of the earliest video clips before they became fashionable in the 1980's with the advent of MTV.
@lisadillon81376 жыл бұрын
Janadu it's a penis
@catboyzee4 жыл бұрын
This video creeped the hell outta me when I first saw it. Even on the eve of Halloween 2020 its still pretty dang creepy. Great song, great concept video for its time. Respect and RIP to Helen Reddy.
@RSTAR200911 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this years ago as a kid and remembering how creepy it was particularly the part of the girl swallowing that man!
@maryfreebed98863 жыл бұрын
Not as creepy as NOT swallowing him. He ended up where he needed to be.
@kevreads32696 жыл бұрын
I like her expression after she ate that guy. "Man, dude hit the spot."
@MrCraigblaze4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload... Maybe in this cartoon they "tried" to explain the song ?? XD
@can-man553111 жыл бұрын
Similar to "Jackie Blue" by the Ozark Mountain Dare-Devils.
@ArielArkenax2 жыл бұрын
This song just got played on the supermarket music sound system, had to look it up. I realised I knew every single word of it, I would have been 16 at the time and (like Angie) completely absorbed in music! (I still am…😊)
@solsticecelt112 жыл бұрын
I remember listening to this on radio Luxemburgh as a teenager in the 70s great memories indeed!
@nidomeister245 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite songs from way back when.
@rainyday88711 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing this! I remember first hearing this song on the radio with my mom. She remembered it from when she was younger. It's nice to see a video with the actual song :-)
@leeannedunn907210 ай бұрын
This song creeper me out when I was little but as I've grown older not so much. I relate to this song. Music has always been my outlet
@sue91513 ай бұрын
Wow that a different way to listen to these songs ❤
@hanoc1017 жыл бұрын
The Bermuda Triangle is in Angie's room. lol
@betteurbain79114 жыл бұрын
Great comment. The Bermuda Triangle was a thing in the 1970's.
@richardabela33294 жыл бұрын
RIP Helen ready I love this song and I loved your special appearance on the family guy movie blue harvest a life well lived!👍😭
@barbarakirk30642 жыл бұрын
She also sang the theme tune to Joyce Simmons' special show.
@ordinaryperson180810 ай бұрын
I’ve always loved this song but now I find it really creepy because I knew someone named Angie that became schizophrenic in high school and she had to stop going to school and instead spent her days just watching tv and listening to the radio, completely living in her own world. Listening to the lyrics really gives me shivers down my spine!
@stevenedwards93339 жыл бұрын
Love this tune, got it on Monster Halloween Hits, remember hearing it from years ago!
@nicholasmcbride27426 жыл бұрын
Good, but creepy as hell.
@TheEggplantThatAteChicago7 жыл бұрын
Shame on Elton John and Angie for eating that poor boy.
@WittleIndianGirl5 жыл бұрын
The Eggplant That Ate Chicago Elton John looked scary!!!
@mikem92527 жыл бұрын
so bizarre - helen reddy had an incredible voice - saw this on tv at age 9 - didnt realize then all the weirdness behind the song - did david lynch co-write this???
@wmpetroff23073 жыл бұрын
its the music arrangement that is captivating. The meaning is gross and abusive.
@bobdavis48483 жыл бұрын
No, Alan O'Day wrote it.
@barbarakirk30642 жыл бұрын
Alan O'Day wrote it.
@rogerbix222 жыл бұрын
I just made a video presentation of this song for the annual “talent” show night we had in my weekly zoom group. I showed a friend my video. He said it reminded me of this cartoon which I had never seen!
@tenadaniels48802 жыл бұрын
I💕 was 10 went heard this song.. 😮😐Scared the heck out of me..🙂by 12 I was singing, it while doing dishes😁still love it💕🙂
@AandP4dummieslikeme5 жыл бұрын
WHAT A GEM!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting this :-)
@matrox7 жыл бұрын
Kool Kartoon, great song.
@holtridge7337 Жыл бұрын
I can't believe she died. She will be greatly missed.
@lamarmagee56956 жыл бұрын
I love this song its so nice to be insane no one ask u to explain
@marlawhite14306 ай бұрын
Love it when Angie starts dancing at 3:00. This song is beautiful ! Love the sound of the backup singers. Silver Connection at 0:40 , Fly Robin Fly was also one of my favorite songs that came out around the same time as this one😁
@jenniferschillig376811 жыл бұрын
From what I've come to understand, he did lots of these animated music videos, many of which, after their first airing on Sonny and Cher, became between-movie filler on HBO in the days when they showed animated or live-action shorts in between movies. That's how I saw this and two others of his, Black and White and Demon Alcohol.
@jamesdelahanty3 жыл бұрын
YES! Thank you! Me as well! You know as a kid, you remember seeing something so odd and you chalk it up to that you were a kid, and don't remember it as you saw it? Being able to see this again after all these years, and your comment. I know, right?
@barbarakirk30642 жыл бұрын
So it was like their equivalent of those promo clips on The Old Grey Whistle Test when the star wasn't available - they'd dub a track over existing cartoon footage or older film footage.
@TheMisfit29110 жыл бұрын
To my sister crazy girls, I love you all.
@CJ-vd2jy Жыл бұрын
In late 1977 (or early 1978) the company I worked for held a convention at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Helen Reddy did a show at this event. One of my two biggest recollections from that night was this video and the extent to which it creeped me out. The other memory is of the elephant that was in the room --- Ms. Reddy did not include "I Am Woman" in her performance. Her audience was about 95% men and I have often wondered if she was asked to leave that song out of her act or if she just thought to herself, "Why bother?" RIP Ms. Reddy
@kmac76892 жыл бұрын
I heard that this song would’ve been used in the soundtrack for the original 1976 Carrie film. If you figure it, both Carrie White and Angie both had some sort of special power. Don’t know what Angie’s was but we all know that Carrie had telekinetic powers
@PoBoy653 ай бұрын
I dedicate this to all the Hipster Cell Phone Addicts of the 21st century.
@zorak17044 жыл бұрын
Rest In Peace Helen Reddy❤️😢
@radiorob75432 жыл бұрын
This cartoon has elements of the extended version of this song. Most obvious at the very beginning.
@marcap97572 жыл бұрын
It’s a shame I’ve never heard this song played in any of the local oldies FM stations over the years, other than Sirius XM just recently. Better late than never.
@808kiker13 жыл бұрын
AWESOME!! I remember this so well on PBS.. I wish I could find the Delta Dawn video they did on PBS.. Can't find a hint of it anywhere on google.
@Elmaestrodemusica3 ай бұрын
Wonderful! This can apply to 2024 with people addicted to their mobile devices, a little screen is now their reality ....
@annekis27353 жыл бұрын
Great video go a great song
@ScrittiSparkle5 жыл бұрын
its so much lovelyness,great song,i loved it for many years
@spy486310 жыл бұрын
I've always LOVED this tune! I'm a little like Angie. I have Asperger's Syndrome, and for as long as I can remember I've always had obsessions with inanimate objects, particularly appliances that are tied in with music and the media. In my case it was always phonographs and phonograph records. Nowadays it's audiocassettes, boom boxes, my computer, and most recently, my cell phone. I have a tendency to give them humanistic characteristics and personalities. Of course it's all imaginary (Like d-uh!), but I can understand how Angie sees the radio as a "friend" and "lover"! Strangely, I've never developed an obsession with radios! I seldom even listen to the radio. Just not that interested in popular music, I guess. If I do listen to the radio, it's usually because someone else in the room has turned it on. I would rather choose what I want to hear than have a DJ do it for me. That's why I prefer records and audiocassettes-I can choose which ones I want to listen to, and what songs I want to hear. Funny thing- not to sound like a complete jerk, but I always pictured Angie as a black girl! And I've always pictured her radio as being demonic, and a jealous lover! It "sucks in" anyone who even tries to get close to her! That's what happened to the kid-he crossed the line, and the jealous demonic radio sucked him in! That's how I like to see it! Thanks for posting this great classic video!
@paulchristman24565 жыл бұрын
spy4863 When I was a little boy, I had an imaginary friend named "Arse" who lived in the dryer in the basement. Occasionally, I would kneel in front of our General Electric dryer with my forearms and head in the ever-livin' machine (it was never running when I did this--I was silly but not stupid) and ask out loud, "Arse, what should I do?". It was a fantasy ritual that relaxed and comforted me. I should write a song about it. Move over, Justin Timberlake!
@julie.10815 жыл бұрын
@@paulchristman2456 A song? Paul, you should be writing a book! Then write a song. Or vice-versus. Then a movie will naturally follow. Get writing & good luck!
@julie.10815 жыл бұрын
@21st Century Renaissance Man I've always wondered why the media & the terrorist group would use Isis too. The males is ISIL would never associate themselves under the name of a powerful female deity of ancient Egypt! Plus, Cleopatra claimed to be Isis reincarnated. Are you a sole practitioner?
@danieltackett70993 жыл бұрын
I like that interpretation. I never could make sense of the idea that the boy dissappeared, but Angie had a lover who kept her satisfied. 🤔🤔🤔
@Vintage_Andrew998 ай бұрын
The animators of this video are the same who developed the cartoon intro for Grease Also the way that the main character walks, big feet marching in a strange way That was the golden age of the Keep on Truckin’
@805livin43 жыл бұрын
My mom’s name is Angie and this is her favorite song, my grandparents told me about her getting kicked out of school and I have no clue who my dad is… I think I’m calling the cops now, if you guys don’t hear from me then I was to late
@paulchristman24565 жыл бұрын
Certainly grotesque, but manages not to push the envelope TOO far.....it puts me in mind of a particularly weird ABC Saturday morning "School House Rock" animated vignette, if ya happen to remember those. I always imagined that Angie somehow managed to kill the boy, perhaps clubbing 'im to death with 'er radio, and kept his corpse under her bed. It would have made a great "Night Visions" episode!
@bigjonjohnson98614 жыл бұрын
Angie created the first (METH) lab When the boy walked in, He got dizzy from a meth high; LOL And she kept him as a pet
@steveedwards12056 жыл бұрын
This is a really cool song :)
@bkavanaugh86310 жыл бұрын
Loved this song. November1974.
@devans004 жыл бұрын
Definitely not the images I had in mind listening to the song. If Angie Baby thinks Elton John will be her lover she has another think coming. 😬
@markthorpe79495 жыл бұрын
Gosh hot summer 1975 when I was a teen. My girl friend was a weird Angie type. Kinda chubby barefoot blonde. Mountain girl west Virginia twang. Pear shaped body shorty.Living in a mobile home park Her mom working all day at the apple juice plant. Going back to her dark bed room listening to rock on the radio. Hot day dark room air conditioner blasting. French kissing getting to 2nd base. Drinking RC colas out of the same bottle, smoking her mom's stolen cigarettes, never inhaling. Banging on the front door my irate mom loosing it, I;m alone with that girl again. Dont want to catch me alone with Angie again.
@hanahkush32636 жыл бұрын
The best animation others have copied but Helen Reddy's is the best.
@jaelie83984 жыл бұрын
Rest in Power, Helen baby
@hanahkush32636 жыл бұрын
I have seem other animations for this song This is the best cartoon
@Elwrt4553 жыл бұрын
July 23, 2021 and this is STILL one of the CREEPIEST animations and songs ever (I still believe she's talk about the Devil). RIP Helen Reddy
@ramonhart71407 жыл бұрын
A CREEPY animation! It's a true story about a girl stuck in a wheelchair who just listens to the radio
@nbuehster4 жыл бұрын
This sounds like it would be a perfect plot for a horror movie about a strange girl and a bewitched radio. I think this would be the full plot. Even though it's a reference to the second verse, the first scene would probably be Angie in her room, listening to her radio, and dancing with someone. Then they would show her daddy outside her room tapping on her door, entering the room, and asking if she's alright, and telling her to go to bed. But he, and Angie would be the only people in the room. The person she was dancing with would be gone. (And you might hear a little scary music, which would make you a little suspicious that something weird was going on.) Lovers appear in your room each night And they whirl you across the floor But they always seem to fade away When your daddy taps on your door Angie girl, are you alright? Tell the radio goodnight All alone once more, Angie baby The next scene would be a reference to the first verse. (Angie's parents talking about how she can't go to school, and make friends.) You live your life in the songs you hear On the rock n' roll radio And when a young girl doesn't have any friends That's a really nice place to go Folks hoping you'd turn out cool But they had to take you out of school You're a little touched, you know, Angie baby The next scene (I don't know if anything else would happen before this.) would be a reference to the verses about the evil boy, intending to hurt Angie, and him becoming a victim of the radio. Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy With evil on his mind 'Cause he's been peeking in Angie's room At the night through her window blind I see your folks have gone away Would you dance with me today? I'll show you how to have a good time, Angie baby They would show a dark room, (Angie's room), and the evil boy entering it, intending to hurt her. And you'd hear some scary music. Then they would show the radio with a strange glow, and then the boy would suddenly become a victim of the it. (You would think he was the first victim. And that's when you would know it's a horror movie.) When he walks in her room he feels confused Like he walked into a play And the music's so loud it spins him around 'Til his soul has lost its way And as she turns the volume down He's getting smaller with the sound It seems to pull him off the ground Toward the radio he's bound Never to be found The next verse would be about people hearing about the boy's disappearance, and wondering what happened to him, not knowing about the radio, and what it did. The headlines read that a boy disappeared And everyone thinks he died After that, more and more people would enter Angie's room, and become victims of the radio. (And, like I said, somehow, everyone except for her family would become victims.) Then eventually her daddy would see someone enter Angie's room. Then he would enter the room, just in time to witness the person becoming a victim. (I could be wrong, but I think this would happen more than once, because he would eventually know the radio was what caused the people's disappearances, and he would warn people not to enter Angie's room. He would tell them that she's crazy. ("It's so nice to be insane") He would tell them, that she has a radio, and that she somehow gave it the power to cause people to disappear. I don't know what would happen after he warned everyone, but the movie would end with him somehow destroying the radio, and everything would be the way it was before Angie got the radio. (a happy ending of a horror movie) Also I think the radio should look like an evil face. It would have a speaker that looked like a mouth, two dials, or knobs, that looked like eyes, and possibly something that looks like a nose. (I got that idea from an air purifier I had several years ago.)