HELEN REDDY - UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO

UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO

HELEN REDDY

SONGWRITER: BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: MANY A MILE

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1965

"Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. Sainte-Marie included a French language reworking of the song, "T'es pas un autre", on her 1967 album Fire & Fleet & Candlelight. French translation was made by Quebecer songwriter Claude Gauthier.

Helen Maxine Reddy(born 25 October 1941) is an Australian-American singer, actress and activist. Born in Melbourne, Victoria to a show-business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television, and won a talent contest on a television program, Bandstand, in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which turned out to be unsuccessful. She pursued her international singing career by moving to Chicago and, subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" reached No. 13 in Canadian pop chart RPM and she was signed to Capitol Records a year later.

During the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States where she placed 15 singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No. 1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman". She placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart; 15 made the Top 10 and eight reached No. 1, six consecutively. In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she became the first artist to win the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. In television, she was the first Australian to host her own one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with several specials that were seen in more than 40 countries.

Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single "I Can't Say Goodbye to You" became her last to chart in the U.S., she acted in musical theatres and recorded a few albums such as Center Stage before retiring from live performance in 2002. She returned to university in Australia and earned her degree, and practised as a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker. In 2011, after singing "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" with her half-sister, Toni Lamond, for Lamond's birthday, Reddy decided to return to live performing.

Her song "I Am Woman" played a large role in popular culture and became an anthem for second-wave feminism. She came to be known as a "feminist poster girl" or a "feminist icon". In 2011, Billboard named her the No. 28 adult contemporary artist of all time (No. 9 woman). In 2013 the Chicago Tribune dubbed her as the "Queen of '70s Pop".

You’re not a dream, you’re not an angel, you’re a woman

I’m not a king, I’m a man, take my hand

We’ll make a space in the lives that we planned

And here we’ll stay until it’s time for you to go

Yes we’re different, worlds apart, we’re not the same

We laughed and we played at the stars like in a game

You could have stayed outside my heart but in you came

And hear you’ll stay until it’s time to go

Don’t ask why

Don’t ask how

Don’t ask forever

Don’t ask now

This love of mine had no beginning, it has no end

I was an aok, now I’m a willow, now can I bend

And though i’ll never in my life see you again

Still I’ll stay until it’s time to go

Don’t ask why of me

Don’t ask how of me

Don’t ask forever of me

Love me now

You’re not a dream, you’re not an angel, you’re a woman

I’m not a king, I’m a man, take my hand

We’ll make a space in the lives that we planned

And here we’ll stay until it’s time for you to go.