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Helen Reddy

Platform Papers No. 4: by Robyn Archer & The Woman I Am by Helen Reddy

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June–July 2005, no. 272

In 1964 the Australian television show Bandstand set up an annual talent contest called Bandstand Starflight International. In its first year, one of the national finalists was a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl called Robyn Smith, who later changed her surname to Archer. The following year, the contest was won by a 24-year-old professional singer called Helen Reddy.

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