Did anyone catch her interview at the Commonwealth Club last night? It was charming and notably weird to hear her interviewed by a woman who is her peer in age, but not someone who had musical experience. Her name was Barbara something, I forget. It was kinda cute to hear them giggle about how cute Jackson Browne was. I only heard about half of it -- did anyone hear the end?
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
brilliant singer who I've tried many times to get into and can't, always just sounds a little too perfect for me
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
i didn't know about her parkinson's :(
i know that singers can make much less in royalties than writers, but she sold so many millions of albums in the 1970s through the early 1990s that it's hard to believe she's running low on cash. i guess she didn't invest her earnings well?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I could definitely see her lack of songwriting credits hurting her, but still
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt#Highest-paid_woman_in_rock
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
if you make $12 milliion in a single year, you /should/ be able to put enough away for quite a while. maybe she had bad financial advice.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
this from the wiki page was pretty funny:
"Rampant eclecticism is my middle name."—Linda Ronstadt
—Linda Ronstadt
wouldn't that actually be two middle names? Linda R.E. Ronstadt.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
It's hard to explain how big she was in the late seventies. She was Elton John big in the United States: top five album debuts at a time when these things rarely happened, two singles in the top five, every writer lining up to work for her. And although her eighties profile was smaller she still sold millions of records off those Nelson Riddle things. Sad.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah and she had that late-1980s comeback album with aaron neville that must have sold a zillion copies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Like_a_Rainstorm,_Howl_Like_the_Wind
wiki notes:
In 2009, the album was taken out of print, twenty years after release.
:(
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
where does it say she's hurting for cash?
― salthigh, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
There was another fact to weigh, her dwindling savings. Ms. Ronstadt released many albums but wrote very few songs, so her royalty checks are small. “Writers make all the money,” she said. Her most memorable hits — “You’re No Good,” “Heart Like a Wheel,” “Blue Bayou” — were written by others. “I was making good money when I was touring,” she said. But now “I just can’t do it.”
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
i mean, "dwindling savings" technically could mean "dwindling from $200 million to $100 million," or it could mean, "i need to take out a 3rd mortgage." who knows.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Seems a little quid/ag for someone like her to say "writers make all the money."
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
those celebrity net worth sites say she has $115 million but god knows how they come up with that
― salthigh, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
big NYT profile in fall '13 previewing her memoir.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srpwqf2MWAw
― salthigh, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
"quid/ag"?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
also, god love linda ronstadt, but that warren zevon cover makes pretty plain why people accused her of being the pat boone of the long-hair set.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
which one? I love "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" but am eh on "Carmelita."
yet I love her "Tumbling Dice."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
lol @ her tumbling dice cover, that's quintessential mush-mouthed mick but ronstadt is such an /enunciator/
but it's not a bad cover nonetheless
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lalo90aXXq1qd0imf.jpg
― salthigh, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Jonathan Schwarz last weekend played her Spanish version of "Blue Bayou," which I don't think I'd ever heard. Gorgeous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnR4IsoC_0
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
(Schwartz, I mean)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Damn. This is gorgeous.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Wow
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Senõr Plow to thread :)
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
benefit for Michael J. Fox Foundation:http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7534407/linda-ronstadt-tribute-concert
― dow, Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
What a career: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/they-say-that-loves-a-gentle-thing-the-best-of-linda-ronstadt/
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 April 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link
loving linda these daysher outfit is so cool + she (always) sounds greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2_LKoTYKw
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 November 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
also let's hear it for rhyming gender & blender
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 November 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
classic
― brimstead, Friday, 10 November 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
Linda is magic
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
It's so easyIt's so easyIt's so easy
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 November 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
iiiiiiiiiiiiive been cheateeed
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
my father loved linda ronstadt and i always have too. there’s a small windy intersection by an ugly little bridge near our childhood house that always makes me think of ‘blue bayou’ (and hearing the song always makes me see the intersection, which could not be less bayou-like.) i suppose we must have been singing it in the car driving through there once. my friend has moved to that part of town and a couple of weeks ago i drove over to visit her and the memory turned up as usual, it’s a fixture.
― estela, Friday, 10 November 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
Well, Warren Zevon.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 November 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
take it to the Zevon thread buddy, this is LindaTown
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
lol yes
― estela, Friday, 10 November 2017 04:25 (six years ago) link
the way she rhymes them is all her
― estela, Friday, 10 November 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
ps estela whenever i hear blue bayou i think of watching her sing it on the muppet show, fresh out of the bath sitting in front of the heater so my hair would be dry before bedtime <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
<3 that is darling
― estela, Friday, 10 November 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
Classic!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 07:07 (six years ago) link
Three things I love:
1. Her first solo record, "Dolphins," written by Fred Neil ("Everybody's Talkin'")
2. "Up to My Neck in High Muddy Water," Stone Poneys single from 1968
3. "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," single from 1973, previously recorded by many other people including the Springfields (UK) and the Cowsills but hers is the best
― Josefa, Friday, 10 November 2017 07:20 (six years ago) link
VG & estela otm -- Linda gamely makes those corny lyrics sound charmingI can't stop singing "WoooooooOOOHHHHooooe is me"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
I think interpretation is something of a lost art. Too many singers gravitate toward "standards" but I wish they just cherrypicked their favorite stuff and made something fresh out of it, like LR. Like, there's a difference between a "covers album" and singers doing special with songs by other people, I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
"Will Never Marry" has become one of my anthems.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 November 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
when her voice gets loud on Bayou I get all teary and goosebumpy― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:07 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkme too― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:48 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:07 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:48 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Still true.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
i love her spanish albums
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
She played Sun City!!
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 10 November 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
classic Simpsons/Linda R reference for the nerds:http://www.technologytell.com/gaming/files/2013/12/geeky-cross-stitch-senor-plow1.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/linda-ronstadt-opens-up-about-losing-her-voice-and-living-with-parkinsons-1203126148/
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link