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"Hand a Handkerchief to Helen" is a song and single written by Fred Tobias and Paul Evans and performed by British singer Susan Maughan. [1] It featured Wally Stott and his orchestra and chorus. [1] It was released in 1963 and reached 41 on the UK Charts, staying in the chart for three weeks. [2]
"Peaceful" is a song written by Kenny Rankin, and recorded by several artists.It is best known as hit singles for Georgie Fame (1969) and Helen Reddy (1973).. Introduced by Rankin on his 1967 debut album Mind Dusters on Mercury Records, "Peaceful" was recorded by Bobbie Gentry for her 1968 album Local Gentry on Capitol Records.
"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. [ 1 ] It was first published in the 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe.
"Hélène" is available on the Roch collection (2007), also known as Best of.Voisine also recorded the song wholly in English as "Helen" and included this version on the English portion of his bilingual album Double in 1990 (which was in turn released separately as a full-length English album titled Roch Voisine the same year).
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Helen Reddy considered the lyrics too "paternalistic" to be convincing as a woman's declaration of love for a man. Instead, she interpreted it as a mother singing to a child, which her version clarified by her young daughter Traci's speaking to "Mommy" at the start and end. [2]
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PopDose says "'Helen' took an adult look at divorce and single motherhood in a time when the divorce rate was up and the traditional family unit was taking a beating. At first, the lyrics seem a bit judgmental, until you get to that last bit in the chorus where the girls assure the newly single mother that she can, in fact, make it alone". [5]