"Angie Baby" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Alan O'Day which became a hit for Australian singer Helen Reddy.

She then spends most of her time listening to the radio, imagining lovers entering her room and then disappearing when her father knocks on the door.

"[4] Though not an official video, John D. Wilson of Fine Arts Films made an accompanying animated short film for the song when it appeared on The Sonny & Cher Show in the mid-1970s (Wilson made many other animated shorts for various hit records of the era and his work became a prominent regular feature of the show).

When a "neighbor boy with evil on his mind" tries to enter her room to take advantage of the girl, he is instead drawn into her reality, with weird and unexpected consequences.

The intent was to show that the Angie character had more power than he or the listener expected; she shrank him down into her radio, where he remained as her slave whenever she desired him to come out.

The song was compared to Bobbie Gentry’s "Ode to Billie Joe" (which had a mystery about "something" thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge).

Some also thought of it as a "Women's Lib" song along the line of Reddy's other hits, like her other #1's, "I Am Woman" and "Delta Dawn", though O'Day says that that was not his intent, and that he was not consciously making a public statement.

[6] O'Day revealed in 1998 that the "crazy" heroine in the song had "magic power" and "special abilities", and that he had deliberately blurred the lines between fantasy and reality.