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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jones and Amanda Well. While I was

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Speaker 1: watching the American presidential debate yesterday, the news scroll came

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Speaker 1: along that Helen Ready had passed away. She was an

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Speaker 1: extraordinary icon to so many people. She was the first

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Speaker 1: Australian singer to top the US charts. She had fifteen

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Speaker 1: singles in the top forty on Billboard Charts, the first

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Speaker 1: Australian to win a Grammy, the first Australian to host

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Speaker 1: a variety show in America. She was one of the

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

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Speaker 1: Walk of Fame. She was absolutely extraordinary, amazing.

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Speaker 2: And a list of great songs like Ye, My World and.

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Speaker 1: Love You Love This.

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Speaker 2: Get your hair brush out for this one?

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Speaker 3: Ye? So good?

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Speaker 2: She is that hairbrushworthy baby? What about this one? Does

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Speaker 2: this leave me alone?

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Speaker 3: Yep?

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Speaker 2: I was at Ruby Red Dress.

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Speaker 1: Oh I remember she did this Jcon Superstar.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They cannot winners, can they? As she or this?

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Speaker 1: This was the big one, wasn't it. I Am woman

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Speaker 1: and for you.

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Speaker 2: I like to have. When we spoke to Jeff Wald,

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Speaker 2: her former manager and husband, about how much that song

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Speaker 2: meant to you as.

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Speaker 1: A kid, you know, and I said this on my

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Speaker 1: Instagram yesterday. I min do this song at twelve thirteen

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Speaker 1: years old in my hairbrush in front of the mirror,

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Speaker 1: and I wasn't even aware yet of the power of

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Speaker 1: that song, but it just sounded full of potential and

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Speaker 1: those lyrics. The women who were behind the women's movement

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Speaker 1: found that as an anthem and singing along in my teens.

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Speaker 1: I've had a life that's been afforded me a working mother,

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Speaker 1: I've had all those opportunities because of the hard work

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Speaker 1: all those women did who were inspired by that incredible song.

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Speaker 1: And when we spoke to Jeff Walld, her husband and

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Speaker 1: manager at the time of when that song was so successful,

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Speaker 1: the record company didn't even want to release it. Record

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Speaker 1: label representative didn't think it would be a go of

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Speaker 1: that it was too angry a song.

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Speaker 3: No, they just the exact quote from the record company

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Speaker 3: at the time. In nineteen seventy two, early nineteen seventy two,

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Speaker 3: she had written it for her first album and she

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Speaker 3: already had one pretty big hit with I Don't Know

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Speaker 3: How to Love Them from Jesus Rice Superstar, and so

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Speaker 3: she was going to follow her that up with I

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Speaker 3: Am Woman and on the second album, and the record

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Speaker 3: company's exact words were, why do you let your wife

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Speaker 3: do this women's lib shit? That was okay? Yeah, And

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Speaker 3: the truthative matter wasn't a question of letting her do anything.

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Speaker 3: You know, she could do what she wanted to do.

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Speaker 3: And she wrote that in bed one night. It took

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Speaker 3: her about twenty minutes. So when the record first came out,

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Speaker 3: it hit the charts at ninety nine, went to ninety eight,

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Speaker 3: skyrocketed to ninety seven, and went off the charts. And

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Speaker 3: they had it partially right because it was not the

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Speaker 3: male program directors or the male jay's call really aching

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Speaker 3: to do that. No, none of those days were singing

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Speaker 3: the song with their hambrush.

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Speaker 1: It was you, it was me. And the song went

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Speaker 1: on to be a number one hit all around the

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Speaker 1: world in an anthem for women. Still but you know

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Speaker 1: what I've learned this yesterday. Helen Ready wrote the theme

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Speaker 1: music for the Don Lane Show. It started with she

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Speaker 1: had an album track called you Make It So Easy,

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Speaker 1: You Make Your Time, and they jazzed it up and

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Speaker 1: it became Don Lane's theme. She even performed that at

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Speaker 1: a tribute to Don in Sydney after he died and

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Speaker 1: then someone else on her Twitter feed came in after

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Speaker 1: that and said, I wonder what she thought of Don

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Speaker 1: Lane's version of Iron Woman called I am Man that

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Speaker 1: he sang at the Cyclone Tracy Benefit concert. You've missed

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Speaker 1: the point, but Helen, ready, we salute you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we should play we should play I Woman. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you why don't we do that? We'll put that

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Speaker 2: on this, We'll break format and we'll put it on

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Speaker 2: next

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Speaker 3: With join Z and Amanda