Lunch Break Video: Birthday girl Helen Reddy sings “You and Me Against the World” to Kermit the Frog!

The hit-making machine from the 70s who topped the charts with Delta Dawn, Ruby Red Dress (Leave Me Alone), Angie Baby, You and Me Against the World, Keep On Singing, Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady and, of course, I Am Woman, turns 68 years old today.

In the late 70s, the first concert I ever went to was Helen Reddy at the Anaheim Convention Center. I was with one of my brothers and some cousins. I don’t remember much about that concert but back in 1997 while I was vacationing in London, I caught Miss Reddy’s lovely performance in Blood Brothers on the West End. It was a matinee and we got second row seats. Magical. It was during a record heat wave and the audience was given free ice cream before the show (or maybe during intermission) because it was so warm inside the theater.

I met Miss Reddy a few years ago at a book signing in Santa Monica for her memoir The Woman I Am and she told me how much she enjoyed that run of Blood Brothers. I asked her why so many people still remember her songs all these years later. She kind of disappointed me with her answer which was essentially “People need to get a life.”

Hey honey, if we had a life, you wouldn’t have all those royalties!

Miss Reddy no longer performs and lives in Sidney, Australia.  Here she is, with Kermit the Frog, singing one of her sweetest hits: You and Me Against the World.