Singles The song "I Am Woman" was originally written for and included on Reddy's 1971 debut album, ''
I Don't Know How to Love Him, but, because of its length and arrangement, she thought it "clearly was not hit-single material." When it was selected for use in the 1972 film Stand Up and Be Counted'', her record company wanted a longer version to release as a
45 in conjunction with the opening of the film. The new recording of the song, produced by Jay Senter, was done at Sunwest Recording Studio,
Los Angeles, California, on 23 April 1972, and was made available on 22 May of that year. Reddy has summarized the response to the song from most disc jockeys that she experienced as, "'I can't stand this record! I hate this song! But you know, it's a funny thing, my wife loves it!'". Her husband-manager Jeff Wald landed her 19 appearances on various television shows where she could perform it, and "women began calling radio stations and requesting the song, thereby forcing airplay." Other tracks, such as "Peaceful", were recorded at recording engineer Armin Steiner's Sound Labs Studio, Los Angeles, California, for Reddy's album, which would be named after her aforementioned single. It wasn't until almost seven months later, in the 9 December issue of
Billboard magazine, that it sat atop the
list of the 100 most popular songs in the US, and on 18 December it earned Gold certification for sales of the one million copies that was the requirement for singles at that time. and three weeks at number one on RPM's list of Canada's top 100 hit songs. A second single, "
Peaceful", was released on 29 January 1973, ==Reception==