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.
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 .
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!
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.
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.
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!
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 RUclips and sure enough here it is.
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 RUclips to try and find more. Now I have the guy's name! Love his style! To me this is limited animation done well.
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'.
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.
This is what I love about RUclips. 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.
@@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!
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.
@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!
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...."
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!🎈💎
~ #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 ~
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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???
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…😊)
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😁
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 :-)
+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".
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.
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✌️
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
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.
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?
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.
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!
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
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
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.
Always thought that Angie Baby was maybe a killer....maybe she was kicked out of school for hurting someone? Maybe when that guy tried something her insane side dealt with it? Maybe she was schizophrenic ? Whatever the meaning, i remember watching this on PBS as a singke digit kid and justalways being haunted by it...even as an adult, the music and lyrics guve me pause
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’
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!
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!
Michele and I were together for fourteen years when I finally proposed to her. This was one of her favorites. She passed two weeks before our wedding. God I miss her. She was my soulmate. I will Never date again.
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
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.
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!
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!
@@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!
@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?
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.
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 .
A reality warper.
I understand believe me
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!
Well... maybe.
I was also born in 1982. That was a good year.
My favourite Helen Reddy song, always gave me chills as a kid.
RIP Helen
Definitely one of her best songs. I loved it from the first time I heard it.
Me too😮
Same. Sadly, she did have the same issues..famously..
Me too! As a kid I loved the song and was also scared/creeped out by it. Still love it to this day! 🧡🤍💚
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.
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.
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!
I knew I'd seen that drawing style previously - the Grease opening titles!
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 RUclips and sure enough here it is.
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 RUclips to try and find more. Now I have the guy's name! Love his style! To me this is limited animation done well.
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'.
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.
Actually, Cado, that's exactly what it means,🤣🤣
If this song came out in 2018, Angie would be addicted to her iPhone, and the internet.
The problem would be that the iPhone's inward sucking perverts app staff are underfunded.
and crack.
This is what I love about RUclips. 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.
exactly
Sonny and Cher show. I loved it. And this song.
@@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!
@@farwayout Yes! As well as Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller-skates. :)
@@monacaravetta My bad!...I was mistaken!The correct name the name of the song was Big Yellow Taxi! My apologies!
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.
He wanted to take advantage of Angie, but Angie took advantage of him!:-)
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!
@Bella Bella under her bedroom floorboards more like. gosh, this song makes me think of necrophilia 😳
@Bella Bella - She's a reality warper. He's alive, but her prisoner.
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.
@@HeartBDoctor She was never the one to ask; writer Alan O'Day was.
The story in this song would have made a great Twilight Zone episode
OMGOSH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No night gallery instead
@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!
I agree this could twilight zone
Definitely more like Night Gallery.
RIP Helen Reddy , you made the 70s memorable.
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...."
RIP Helen Reddy :-(
@@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.
Before tonight, I never knew this song had an animated video. RIP. Helen.
Yeah, they used to show these videos on the Sonny & Cher show back in the '70s. Good stuff from my childhood.
@@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.
My mistake, that version was by Coven.
Sick cartoon, sick song. The wondrous ALAN O'DAY!!
I grew up in the 70s and I gotta tell you that I truly miss things like this
Classic Song from the Winter ❄️ 1974-75. RIP Ms Helen Reddy.
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.
Wow I haven't seen this in over 40 years. RIP Helen
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.
And the band in Rock and Roll Heaven got much bigger since - Jim Steinman must be musical director by now.
Thanks for the 411
@@barbarakirk3064 I bet he's in charge of the meat loaf.
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.
Dan L Sonny and Cher. They featured this animation , Dark Lady and One Tin Soldier, by the same animator.
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.
Same here! I've known this song since it was popular! I just never listened to the lyrics as closely!
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.
This video was on Sonny & Cher a year before C B.
Great plot for a good slasher movie. Sort of Terrifier 3.
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.
I think Angie has figured out how to have a good time.
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!!🎈💎
~ #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 ~
CLASSIC tune from my youth !! ( I was 11 in 74')
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
I would like to talk to you don't know you but still I would like to talk to you
I was hoping somebody besides me thought it lent itself to animation! Love it!
This video actually manages to make this song even more creepy.
The Cher Dark Lady cartoon is more disturbing/creepy. Great memories from the 70's though.
Yep...but ya gotta admit, Needle-Nose got what was coming to him. (LOL)
Karen Mccloskey More like Pinocchio.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
its so nice to be insane noone asks you to explain,great lyrics,great song,im always singing this after all this time haha
I remember watching this years ago as a kid and remembering how creepy it was particularly the part of the girl swallowing that man!
Not as creepy as NOT swallowing him. He ended up where he needed to be.
I like her expression after she ate that guy. "Man, dude hit the spot."
Thank you for allowing me to relive my childhood
One of the creepiest songs and cartoons that I have ever view!
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.
Thanks for the upload... Maybe in this cartoon they "tried" to explain the song ?? XD
Saw this video in 1978 at a Helen Reddy concert in Cherry Hill, N.J. - haven't seen it since, until now.
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.
Love the phallic symbol at 0:22
I saw it, too. I was just about to make the same comment. :-D
Not to mention the part towards the end where her nipple pops out of her shirt when she's dancing. :S
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed the big brown penis.
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.
Janadu it's a penis
This is the creepiest song EVER WRITTEN! I have seen people rush across the room to switch off the radio when it comes on.
I like this song!! I'm not gonna turn it off!!
Try listening to "Swamp Witch" by Jim Stafford.
I liked this song as a child, but it frightened me to a certain extent especially after I saw this video on television. 😳😱
Rock's most haunting song is "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas! No one will even remember Apple Inc in 100,000 AD
@@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.
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???
its the music arrangement that is captivating. The meaning is gross and abusive.
No, Alan O'Day wrote it.
Alan O'Day wrote it.
OMG! This really does exist. After all these years, I thought I dreamt this.
Similar to "Jackie Blue" by the Ozark Mountain Dare-Devils.
The Bermuda Triangle is in Angie's room. lol
Great comment. The Bermuda Triangle was a thing in the 1970's.
Well done! This is what RUclips is all about
Shame on Elton John and Angie for eating that poor boy.
The Eggplant That Ate Chicago Elton John looked scary!!!
RIP Helen Reddy ps ABC Old Thriller Movies in the 1970s would have been a good one
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…😊)
One of my favorite songs from way back when.
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😁
I remember listening to this on radio Luxemburgh as a teenager in the 70s great memories indeed!
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 :-)
This was animated while she sang this on the Carol Burnett show in November 1974.
+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".
I thought it was Sonny & Cher.
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.
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. 😬
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
Elton John on guitar at 0.59!
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✌️
RIP Helen ready I love this song and I loved your special appearance on the family guy movie blue harvest a life well lived!👍😭
She also sang the theme tune to Joyce Simmons' special show.
Rest In Peace Helen Reddy❤️😢
Saw this on Sonny and Cher show as a kid.
Love this tune, got it on Monster Halloween Hits, remember hearing it from years ago!
Good, but creepy as hell.
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
I love this song its so nice to be insane no one ask u to explain
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.
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?
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.
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!
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
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
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.
WHAT A GEM!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting this :-)
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
To my sister crazy girls, I love you all.
I think this song is based on the Exorcist. The animation looks like the same used in the opening credits to Grease.
It's the same animator--John Wilson.
This cartoon has elements of the extended version of this song. Most obvious at the very beginning.
Rip Helen reddy
Always thought that Angie Baby was maybe a killer....maybe she was kicked out of school for hurting someone? Maybe when that guy tried something her insane side dealt with it? Maybe she was schizophrenic ? Whatever the meaning, i remember watching this on PBS as a singke digit kid and justalways being haunted by it...even as an adult, the music and lyrics guve me pause
Rest in Power, Helen baby
its so much lovelyness,great song,i loved it for many years
I get this song now. It's about her life , metaphorically
A CREEPY animation! It's a true story about a girl stuck in a wheelchair who just listens to the radio
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.
Rest in Peace Helen Reddy ♥
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’
Wow...how PHALLIC!😳
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!
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!
Loved this song. November1974.
The best animation others have copied but Helen Reddy's is the best.
Michele and I were together for fourteen years when I finally proposed to her.
This was one of her favorites.
She passed two weeks before our wedding.
God I miss her.
She was my soulmate.
I will Never date again.
Kool Kartoon, great song.
I have seem other animations for this song This is the best cartoon
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
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💕🙂
This is a really cool song :)
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
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.
Creepy..... But in a good way. R.I.P Helen Reddy.
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!
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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!
@@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!
@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?
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. 🤔🤔🤔
Haven't seen this since I was a kid back in the 70s. Definitely creepy.