Peaceful (song)

"Peaceful" is a song written by Kenny Rankin, and recorded by several artists. It is best known in the 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. A 1969 single recording by Georgie Fame - produced by Mike Smith and arranged/conducted by Keith Mansfield for CBS - reached #16 in UK that summer. Fame's version of "Peaceful" had a concurrent single release in the US by Epic Records, prompting Mercury to issue Rankin's original track as a single, but neither single charted.^[1]^[2] "Peaceful" was also recorded in 1969 by The Friends of Distinction for their Grazin' album on RCA.

Rankin re-recorded the song in 1972, in a new arrangement for his album Like a Seed, his Atlantic Records debut and first chart appearance. That same year Helen Reddy recorded "Peaceful" for her 1972 I Am Woman album. Issued as the follow-up to the #1 hit "I Am Woman" in February 1973 and rising as high as #3 in St. Louis and #2 in Chicago (WCFL),^[2] Reddy's version of "Peaceful" peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 that May. "Peaceful" also became Reddy's second consecutive #2 Easy Listening hit: the follow-up "Delta Dawn" would be Reddy's first Easy Listening #1 (the first of six consecutive and eight overall). In Canada, "Peaceful" spent two weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.^[3]

In September 1996 Rhino issued a retrospective Kenny Rankin album with "Peaceful" as the title cut, the full title being Peaceful: The Best of Kenny Rankin.^[4]

Chart performance

(Georgie Fame version):

Chart (1969)	Peak position
UK	16

(Helen Reddy version):

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Canada RPM Top Singles ^[5]	12
Canadian Adult Contemporary ^[3]	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	12
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	2
U.S. Cash Box Top 100	14

Year-end charts

Chart (1973)	Position
Canada	168
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	81

References

↑ "Chartstats".
1 2 "ARSA".
1 2 "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
↑ "AMG".
↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2015-09-01.

Helen Reddy

Albums	I Don't Know How to Love Him Helen Reddy I Am Woman Long Hard Climb Love Song for Jeffrey Free and Easy No Way to Treat a Lady Music, Music Ear Candy We'll Sing in the Sunshine Live in London Reddy Take What You Find Play Me Out Imagination Feel So Young Center Stage The Best Christmas Ever

Compilations	Helen Reddy's Greatest Hits All-Time Greatest Hits The Best of Helen Reddy I Am Woman: The Essential Helen Reddy Collection Absolutely the Best of Helen Reddy The Woman I Am: The Definitive Collection Rarities from the Capitol Vaults

Singles	"One Way Ticket" "I Don't Know How to Love Him" "Crazy Love" "I Am Woman" "Peaceful" "Delta Dawn" "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" "Keep On Singing" "You and Me Against the World" "Angie Baby" "Emotion" "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" "Somewhere in the Night" "I Can't Hear You No More" "You're My World" "Candle on the Water" "We'll Sing in the Sunshine"

Related articles	Discography Toni Lamond Tony Sheldon "Voices That Care"

Book:Helen Reddy

Georgie Fame

Studio albums	Sweet Things (1966) Sound Venture (1966) In Hoagland (1981) Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison (1996)

Live albums	Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo (1964)

Singles	"The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" "Get Away" "Peaceful" "Sitting in the Park" "Sunny" "Yeh, Yeh"

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