Posted on 07/15/2025 8:08:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff
How about The Cure’s “Killing an Arab”?
My favorite story was her spewing crap about Republicans during a show at a casino and the casino kicked her out. They literally packed all her stuff up and put her out.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ronstadt-banned-in-vegas-254630/
Used to be a fan. Until I learned she was a flaming Leftist.
I saw her once as a stupident in the 70s when she performed at my univ, great performer while singing. That said (and maybe she was just road weary) her audience communication skills were simply absent.
Hope she regains her hearing, Covid is nasty and still quite with us.
She had a great voice. Unfortunately, she chose awful songs to release as singles.
Roy Orbison and Joe Melson wrote the song. It was a hit in 1963 for Orbison ....Ronstadt covered it in 1977. Both did very good versions.
FEI (for everyone’s information)
Yeah, some odd choices. My wife and I were speculating not long ago about what Linda Ronstadt’s career would have been like if she had teamed up early on with a good songwriter.
Ah....The Dude from The Big Lebowski :)
The word was that in her younger years, she would copulate with anything with two legs and a pulse.
She once said she didn’t want Republicans to come to her concerts.
All sorts of interesting neurological sequelae are occurring in chronic pot using baby boomers.
Well, she had a big hit with a song written by one of the Monkeys. So there’s that.
Some of the songs were good. Her, meh! Awesome backing players. Did she not follow orders and get her shot and multiple boosters?
Entertaining thread — thanks Biff!
“ I always thought Linda Ronstadt was a good singer, though it seemed to me that she only ever did songs that other artists had already made into hits.”
She was not a song writer
Many great musicians- guitarists. vocalists, etc were not songwriters.
Glen Campbell comes to mind
and Linda had talent, both the vocal kind and especially the visual king...
The keyword here is HAD...
LOL. So True!
Glenn Frey esp.
Don Feldner got fed up with his lefty preaching.
No mention that 95+% of the Elderly got the Cv19 Jabs, and no doubt Ronstadt did, too. That lowers immunity & resistance to other serious pre-existing conditions etc etc
My parents, who had never heard of her, became fans after she did that album with Nelson Riddle.
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