Free and Easy

Free and Easy is the sixth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in October 1974 by Capitol Records. The album included rare forays into rock and vaudeville ("Showbiz"). The album debuted on Billboard's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated 2 November 1974, and reached number eight during its 28 weeks there. The following month, on 18 December, the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album with Gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. In the UK it peaked at number 17, and in Canada's RPM magazine it got as high as number nine on its list of the top LPs in the issue dated 11 January 1975. On 27 January 2004, it was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being her other 1974 release, Love Song for Jeffrey.