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.’
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Does she sing phonetically? This interview makes it sound like she doesn’t speak Spanish. She says one of the only two apps she has on her phone is one for learning Spanish.
What else do you expect from moonbeam's beard? Hard to give respect to someone who helps a leftist queer politician appear straight to fool the voters so he could screw over California the first time, at least moonbeam married his beard for the second run.
That was the #1 song the week I was born.
What do you mean break up song? You use it to break up with someone, or you listen to it after a breakup?
I've kept all her vinyl records, and have reel-to-reel tapes saved off ~1971 TV's "Good Time Hour" when she appeared with Glenn Campbell.
When I need to reflect on what a great voice she had, I get them out. "Different Drummer" accompanied a tough breakup.
Not like today ...
Lush Life and For Sentimental Reasons are magnificent records.
The Nelson Riddle Orchestra played perfectly and Linda sang beautifully.
They’re not Rock-n-Roll records but covers of classics from the 1930’s and 40’s
“That song. Still hurts after all these years.”
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It’s a fantastic “lost love” song, touching in kind of the same way as “All I Know” by Art Garfunkel.
Ayyyy yii yii yiiii can’t get no satisfaction.
What a thing to ask. Are you a Pharisee?
"[Midnight]'s the only bronc I could not ride. Now they tell me Midnight's blind. He only rides the children for a dime."
Linda sings this to bring tears! So sad...
You will not be an exception.
“Someone to Lay Down Beside” is such a great scorcher of a song. She does it amazing justice.
Take care of yourself and don’t slop at the trough and you won’t be a disgusting fat body.
I’m in better shape in my 60s than I was in my 40s.
So I suppose I am an exception, and you can speak for yourself. But not me.
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/10/linda-ronstadt-parkinsons-listening-singing
Ain't that the truth.
One of the most fantastic voices ever...
I really liked the stuff she did with Nelson Riddle.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linda+ronstadt+nelson+riddle+orchestra+youtube&atb=v79-5__&ia=videos
That was Joan Baez. Linda Ronstadt never covered it.
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