Talk:I Am Woman

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Second link to the Myspace page is dead, so I'm cutting it out. - RegBarc 06:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Definitely no longer stub-class, removing that designation. But the NOW article says it was founded in 1966, so I'm confused about the 1973 "10th anniversary" mentioned in this article. -Etoile 23:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, a Google search seems to back that up. I wrote those words; the reference came from one of Friedan's books. I'll check it tomorrow, if I can find it! Grimhim 11:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Can't find the book, but I did find some incomplete notes from when I copied the relevant passage from it (while standing in a second-hand book shop). Friedan did say it was a NOW annual convention in the winter of '73; she said there was a celebration of the 10th anniversary of ... something, but I failed to copy out the complete sentence. I've deleted the reference to the 10th anniversary, which is irrelevant anyway. Grimhim 02:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jay Senter's recollections of recording session

On Feb 22, 2007 Jay Senter, the producer of "I Am Woman", added his recollections of the recording session. Sadly, because of the Wikipedia policy on original research, these comments cannot remain in the article.

This is very similar to the situation at the Avenging Annie article, at which the performer, Andy Pratt, added comments on the circumstances in which he wrote the song. For the same reason, those comments — valuable and revealing as they are — have been shifted to the talk page for that article.

I have included them below, however. I mean no offence; it seems this is the best way of preserving Jay Senter's comments.

It is not surprising that Helen remembers nothing about that session. I(Jay Senter} produced two tracks, "I Am Woman" and "Don't Mess With a Woman". I had he musicians come at 7pm to Sunwest Recording studios. I told Helen and her manager husband Jeff Wald to come at 9pm. They never knew that I was cutting the track in a key higher than she had ever sung the song in before...We cut both tracks before they arrived. After their arrival at the studio and a verbal confrontation with Jeff, she sang the vocal to both songs.

They wanted me to rush finish the song so they could be paid $15,000 from the movie company if Capitol Records would release it as a single. Mauri Lathower, the VP of A&R who had hired me for the project gave me the freedom to finish the record that I wanted to make..There had been other attempts to produce this song with other producers including Helen an her piano player musical conductor...All had failed. I asked my friend Jim Horn to write the string and horn charts( the first strings arraignments of his illustrious career}..They were brilliant and after the Blossoms were added the vocal that Helen had done was too weak. I wanted it re-sung and in order to get her back in the studio, threatened to erase the 24track tape...A very distasteful experience howver her re-singing won her a Grammy.....I stopped working on the album that I was contracted to make because there was a fight about everything. "Don't Mess With A Woman" appears as a cut on the I AM WOMAN album and was prevented from being a single by the producer of that album....I feel it is appropriate to set the record straight...It warms my heart to know that is the only song she is remembered by and she must sing it every time she perorms!!!.....Jay Senter Producer "I AM WOMAN"

Grimhim 23:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)