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I hope I posted this right! She really had a great voice!
1 posted on 08/23/2013 6:55:29 PM PDT by mr fish
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I'm sorry to hear this. A great talent. Still have her first efforts on vinyl.
It's got to be tough for a great singer to lose their instrument.

Linda Ronstadt - First Cut is the Deepest

55 posted on 08/23/2013 8:14:55 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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IIRC there's at least one photo of her weighing about 300 pounds.So maybe it was Twinkies that stole her voice.
56 posted on 08/23/2013 8:17:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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I thought she deserved her fame. A lovely voice, intelligently applied. Cute and sexy in her day. Her politics substantially diminished her, but if I could flip a switch and cure her Parkinsons, I’d do it.


57 posted on 08/23/2013 8:22:28 PM PDT by TChad
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I remember Raquel Welch singing “Different Drum” to the troops in Viet Nam. I remember thinking she had a great voice then I realized she was lip syncing.

She was doing it well as her lips matched the music perfect through out the song. I guess it is even possible that she was singing it but I don’t think so. She sure did look good tho.


59 posted on 08/23/2013 8:27:19 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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I have prayed Psalms 58 and 59 over many people. Ronstadt was one of them. She can sort it out with God.


62 posted on 08/23/2013 8:42:04 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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My 1970s would not be the same without her. Her songs litter my playlists.

We are going to see Karla Bonhoff perform in Denver next month. Karla wrote many of Lindas best songs.


68 posted on 08/23/2013 9:01:51 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: mr fish; a fool in paradise
Parkinson's Took My Singing Voice

Who's that guy Parkinson who took her voice? (And by the way Linda, learn the proper use of apostrophe's.)

71 posted on 08/23/2013 9:02:33 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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I always thought Linda would look good in prison, and I was right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgqE7trOJ5I


79 posted on 08/23/2013 9:25:23 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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She really had a great voice!

Indeed she did but in my opinion the greatest female voice ever was Mama Cass Elliot.

80 posted on 08/23/2013 9:45:53 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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OK, I am really ticked off now! They better get her in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame now! It took Leon Russell almost dying a couple of times but they finally did it for him!

There is no excuse for this unconscionable slight.

Donna Summer, but not Linda Ronstadt? Darlene Love, but not Linda Ronstadt? Madonna, but not Linda Ronstadt?

Were Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker and Etta James known as rock n’ rollers? They are all in the RRHOF but not Linda Ronstadt.

81 posted on 08/23/2013 9:57:07 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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My favorite:

Skylark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzNmG_lpNw8


87 posted on 08/23/2013 11:45:57 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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I liked her cover of Silver Threads and Golden Needles

She like Zevon ...knew how to pick a good guitarman

90 posted on 08/24/2013 12:02:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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I saw her at the Fillmore East in NYC with the Stone Ponies, in I think 70 or 71. While we were waiting to get in, she walked through the lobby, right near us. What a babe!
Now as for her politics, she's a wacko. Still, she had a great voice. Her early covers of Buddy Holly were good. And the two Nelson Riddle albums are great.
93 posted on 08/24/2013 12:23:03 AM PDT by JoeA (JoeA / Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est)
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I saw her ten years ago and she sucked. She murmured her way through a bunch of Nelson Riddle crap. Sucked I tell ya.


95 posted on 08/24/2013 12:30:34 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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Jerry Brown (CA Governor) might want to seek consultation with a neurologist as well...


104 posted on 08/24/2013 6:01:57 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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was very good in her day!!!!!


105 posted on 08/24/2013 7:00:35 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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Better when she was with the Stone Pony’s. She obviously toked and snorted a little to much with moonbeam brown back when they were an item. Liberalism and poor judgement made her a didiot.


108 posted on 08/24/2013 8:13:21 AM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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I’m so sorry to hear this about Linda R.

When I heard her version of Heat Wave for the first time over the radio it was love upon first listen!


111 posted on 08/24/2013 11:03:04 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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