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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda. There's a new movie

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Speaker 1: on stan that's about to start streaming about Helen Ready.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big Helen Ready fan. I used to sit

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Speaker 1: on my bed and min to I am woman, what

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Speaker 1: did you mid into into my hairbrush? And I was probably,

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Speaker 1: you know, thirteen fourteen thirteen, I think, you know, still

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Speaker 1: wearing a single it under my clothes. I had no

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Speaker 1: idea about the importance of that song and that it

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Speaker 1: actually went on to be a huge anthem for women's

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Speaker 1: liberation around the world. Helen Ready was was quite remarkable.

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Speaker 1: She was the first Australian singer to top the US charts.

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Speaker 1: She was the first Australian to win a Grammy Award,

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Speaker 1: first Australian to host a variety show in America, one

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Speaker 1: of the first Australian females to be Hollywood Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: When she would perform as a headline act, her support

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Speaker 1: acts were people like Joan Rivers, David Letterman, Bill Cosby,

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Speaker 1: Barry Manilow. They were her support acts. Wow. I interviewed

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Speaker 1: her a number of years ago when I was working

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Speaker 1: on a TV show called Extra Dimensions. It would have

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Speaker 1: been over thirty years ago, thirty five years ago, and

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Speaker 1: she was into hypnotherapy. She'd stepped away from the limelight

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Speaker 1: and become a hypnotherapist. But her songs, she just had these.

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Speaker 1: This was she like, did you make a connection? Well,

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Speaker 1: she was, she was. I was in awe. It was

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Speaker 1: hen ready and I had I wish I had a

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Speaker 1: tape of you know what I had giant. I can

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Speaker 1: remember what I wore. I had giant shoulder pads. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I had done this because I

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Speaker 1: had short hair, I had a fake long ponytail. Why

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Speaker 1: people were doing it? Oh so you weren't doing it

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Speaker 1: for a joke. No, so you're doing it for a look.

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Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed. I've just remembered. So you went in with

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Speaker 1: a big, fake long ponytail and big shoulder pads, and

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Speaker 1: you would have spoken how you used to speak. Hello. Hell.

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Speaker 1: I was just in awe of her, and she was

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Speaker 1: so nice, hippy. She was very nice. She's very nice.

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Speaker 1: But you know, let's go through a list of some

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Speaker 1: of the building songs. Obviously this one, yes you Mommy

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Speaker 1: in your hands handbrush, love it? She had Angie Baby Smash.

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Speaker 1: What about this one? I love it? Her first big

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Speaker 1: hit I think may have been this one. I Don't

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Speaker 1: know how to love him from Jesus Christ him Store.

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Speaker 1: What do you think this one's called? Is it leave

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Speaker 1: Me Alone? Yes? Correct Brandon, This was a biggie. Do

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Speaker 1: you know what? I used to sing this next one

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Speaker 1: to my snoopy Dog And I got all the winners

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Speaker 1: with Joins and Amanda