Posted on 10/16/2017 2:26:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hi, Linda. It has been 40 years since the release of your hugely successful album Simple Dreams (1). Do you have happy memories of it?
Well, I don’t ever listen to my stuff once I’ve finished it, and I don’t really know what’s on it. I’m not saying it’s a bad record, I’m just saying I can’t remember it. When I listen to all my old stuff, I tend to be horrified.
What do you feel is horrifying about your old stuff?
I feel as if I really started learning how to sing in around 1980. I sang in an operetta on Broadway (2) and I sang American standards – the material just allowed me to extend my range.
So you don’t have a favourite out of the 28 studio albums you have recorded?
I don’t like any of them, but there are moments on some records that I like. The one with Nelson Riddle; the Trio records (3) I did with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. I made a record with Ann Savoy, the Cajun singer, after I got Parkinson’s disease, and I could barely sing. I had to whisper everything, but that was a really successful record for us – artistically successful (4).
You were diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2012. How has it felt to have the thing that defined you taken away?
Singing was certainly a part of my identity, but it was never the whole thing. It was something I did, but I always felt defined more by where I was from, who my parents were, who my family were and how I interacted with them. Being a successful singer was only a fraction of it.
‘I could call up Emmylou Harris and we would sing together over the phone.’
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Remember when she got kicked out of the casino.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/67266/ronstadt-booted-from-vegas-casino
Nelson Riddle was awesome——his Sinatra stuff was great.
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Lush life was great, but here’s my favorite.
https://youtu.be/LQCVy6YOVfw
Hearts Against the Wind.
Interesting! Thanks.
“I have never heard anything she sang after 1979.”
Skylark, 1984:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzNmG_lpNw8
Thanks, hadn’t ever heard that, it’s a lovely song. Never saw the film.
Ronstadt did a lot of backup singing on diff recordings in her day, e.g. Neil Young’s “Harvest” Album.
She did some great rock covers to go with the country tunes.
Like “Tumblin’ Dice”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s4_teISos0
She was such a babe.
Don’t believe me, huh? Wanna see my picture?
Here's one from that collaboration;
Linda comes right out of the best of Tucson’s poetic soul. And worst of leftist nuttiness.
I always loved this one...
Silver Threads and Golden Needles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xyiDeKWvDE
“Linda comes right out of the best of Tucson’s poetic soul. And worst of leftist nuttiness.”
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Ah well, no one listens to what she has to say in such matters anyway. She had to be dingy to be Brown’s main squeeze back in the day.
Great singer, though. Don’t care much for her standards and Mexican music era, but up to about 1978 she was great.
No, I just don’t like “religious” men who pass stupid remarks on women’s looks.
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