"Angel Man" is the title of a 1983 song released by American R&B singer Rhetta Hughes

Rhetta Hughes

Rhetta Hughes is a R&B singer and actress. She starred in the Broadway musicals Dreamgirls, Don't Play Us Cheap, and Amen Corner, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in the category Best Actress in a Musical in 1984...

. The "G.A." in the title refers to the Guardian Angels

Guardian Angels

The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world.Sliwa originally created the...

, a crime-stopping volunteer organization known for the red beret

Beret

A beret is a soft, round, flat-crowned hat, designated a "cap", usually of woven, hand-knitted wool, crocheted cotton, or wool felt, or acrylic fiber....

s their members often wear on their heads.

The song was co-written and produced by Kenny Lehman, a Broadway musical director with whom Hughes had previously worked. The song was popular in American dance clubs and discos in 1983, and spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play

Hot Dance Club Play

The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

chart in April of that year.