Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)
Helen Reddy
1973
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About Helen Reddy
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Helen Reddy came from a Melbourne vaudeville family and moved toward an American recording career after winning an Australian television talent contest. She co-wrote I Am Woman with Ray Burton, and the song became closely associated with the women's liberation movement. Her later repertoire included Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) and Angie Baby. Television appearances and acting in Airport 1975 extended her work beyond the recording studio.
Artist background sources
Helen Reddy - National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Melbourne performing-family background, Australian contest/American career, I Am Woman co-writing and documented movement association, later repertoire and screen work. The contest age, commercial rankings and promotional judgments are omitted; original and later I Am Woman recordings are not conflated. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) by Helen Reddy is included for 1973 on the basis of the cited chart-associated source. This establishes the annual connection, not the circumstances in which the song was written. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Music VF: chart-associated songs of 1973
Secondary source reviewed for title, artist and annual chart association only. Supplemental selection, not an official annual rank.
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Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Music VF: chart-associated songs of 1973
Secondary source reviewed for title, artist and annual chart association only. Supplemental selection, not an official annual rank.
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