Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)

"Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)"
Single by Helen Reddy
from the album Long Hard Climb
B-side
  • "The Old Fashioned Way" (US)
  • "Don't You Mess With a Woman" (Aus)
ReleasedOctober 1973 (US)
Recorded1973
GenrePop
Length3:26
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Linda Laurie
Producer(s)Tom Catalano
Helen Reddy singles chronology
"Delta Dawn"
(1973)		 "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)"
(1973)		 "Keep On Singing"
(1974)

"Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" is a 1973 song written and first recorded by American singer-songwriter Linda Laurie. It was famously covered by Australian-American singer Helen Reddy several months later; Reddy's cover was a million-selling, Gold-certified hit single.

Laurie recorded "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" for MCA Records in the summer of 1973. The song was shopped to Helen Reddy who recorded it for her Long Hard Climb album which was released August 1973, and the track was issued as a single that October.

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