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Post by the Scribe on Feb 15, 2018 5:01:28 GMT -5
The Southern California Rock Sound - How It Began
The Spark That Started The Southern California Rock Sound
Carrie Cooper looks at the germination of the Sothern California Rock Sound. In a small complex of bungalows in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park in the early seventies three future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers lived side-by-side. The musical inspiration and collaboration between Linda Ronstadt , Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne was the spark that lit the fuse, to what would become the Southern California Rock sound of the seventies. She discusses Jackson’s influence on Glenn, finding Don Henley and writing Witchy Woman.
Correspondent Carrie with a Linda Ronstadt update, w/R&R Hall of Fame
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 25, 2018 2:01:16 GMT -5
The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt
The remarkable and varied performing career of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Features hits and deep album cuts (44 songs included in the two-hour version) from all her many genre explorations and commentary from Peter Asher, JD Souther, Maria Muldaur, John Boylan, and others plus Linda herself.
Hosted by Paul Ingles, who brought you "The Emergence..." episodes on Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Otis Redding and more. Also album specials on each major release by The Beatles.
Playlist (All Linda Ronstadt Albums Unless Otherwise Noted) Added to PRX: 6 months ago Produced: Aug 31, 2017 Related Site:
paulingles.com
Paul Ingles' Music Showcase #009 - The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt (Hour 1) from Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase beta.prx.org/series/37798 Length: 59:00 beta.prx.org/stories/232559%C2%A0
The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt by Paul Ingles Length: 1:57:59 beta.prx.org/stories/213919
misc.: www.prx.org/playlists/6475 www.musicsojourn.com/AR/Folk/page/r/RonstadtLinda.htm exchange.prx.org/pieces/213919?m=false
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Post by goldie on Mar 22, 2018 5:49:14 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt nominated for Pirates of Penzance.
Julie Walters wins her first BAFTA in 1984
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Post by goldie on Mar 22, 2018 6:07:34 GMT -5
Sports Illustrated had an article (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119352/index.htm) which selected the best of everything baseball-related (that was possible at that time), and chose Linda Ronstadt's rendition from the 1977 World Series as the one to beat. The link no longer works.
www.giginjapan.com/linda-ronstadt-star-spangled-girl/
70s Rare live the American diva Linda Ronstadt two performances together first appearance! Together recording from good audience master performances in the show and the ’76 South Carolina in September 29 77 Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre. ’77 Is completely reprinted once rare live recordings was familiar with analog boot. ’76 Is a valuable excavation live sound source has not been known until now. 70s would say that must listen Collector’s items that capture the Greatest Hits of the medium-term! DISC ONE 01. Lose Again 02. That’ll Be The Day 03. Blue Bayou 04. Silver Threads And Golden Needles 05. Willin’ 06. Faithless Love 07. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 08. When Will I Be Loved 09. Crazy 10. Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me 11. Desperado 12. Love Me Tender 13. Simple Man, Simple Dream 14. Love Is A Rose 15. Someone To Lay Down Beside Me 16. Band Introduction 17. Tumbling Dice 18. You’re No Good 19. Heart Like A Wheel DISC TWO 01. Heat Wave 02. Sorrow Lives Here 03. Star Spangled Banner Live At Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA September 29th 1977 04. Lose Again 05. That’ll Be The Day 06. Love Has No Pride 07. Silver Threads & Golden Needles 08. Willin’ 09. Give One Heart 10. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 11. When Will I Be Loved 12. Crazy 13. The Tattler 14. Lo Siento Mi Vida 15. Love Is A Rose 16. Hasten Down The Wind 17. The Track Of My Tears 18. Down So Low 19. Someone To Lay Down Beside Me 20. Presenting The Band 21. You’re No Good 22. Heat Wave 23. Desperado Live At Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina August 16th 1976 Midnight Dreamer. MD-706A/B
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 22, 2018 17:47:22 GMT -5
What year was the Sports Illustrated article? Thanks!!!! eddiejinfl
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Post by PoP80 on Mar 23, 2018 13:01:54 GMT -5
I think it was April 15, 1985 issue?
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 11, 2018 2:04:00 GMT -5
Heatwave (on ice)
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 22, 2018 4:46:10 GMT -5
The Johnny Cash Show - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
The Johnny Cash Show s1e3
I know the main performances have been posted many times before (stats at about 3:50).
However, how many are aware of Linda’s cameo in the final number “He’s got the whole world in his hands”? The finale stats at about 47:07 and Linda appears at 48:00
Read more: ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/1466/lindas-cameo-singing-world-hands#ixzz5DOQsBnwa
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 22, 2018 5:13:24 GMT -5
hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc09-encuentro-interviews/item/586-campesino-corridosCorridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution (1987)
Corridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution, nationally broadcasted on PBS and the winner of the George Peabody for excellence in Television in 1987, was the final result of the El Teatro Campesino's stage production of the same name. The piece began as a five-week workshop in ETC's San Juan Bautista playhouse in the summer of 1982, exploring the stories and narrative lyrics of Mexican popular ballads or "corridos." The workshop production was an instant popular success with audiences and critics. ETC decided to stage a new production of "Corridos" at the Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco, where it ran for three months to great reviews and eleven Bay Area Critics Awards. Other stagings followed in 1984. "Corridos" finally evolved into a full-fledged video production in 1987, after several drafts of the script that not only reworked the selection of ballads, but also condensed the material to fit into the confines of a one-hour special. The production presents two full-length "corridos": "Delgadina" (a haunting parable of incest in a wealthy Mexican family), and "Soldadera" (based on the dispatches of American journalist John Reed, in which the compelling story of Elizabeta is framed by three songs of women during the 1910 Mexican Revolution). Highlights from other traditional "corridos" are connected by engaging narrative sequences: "Yo soy El Corrido" (the story of the "corrido" itself), "Rosita Alvirez" (a comedic parable of a defiant young woman who meets an early death), and "El Lavaplatos" (the story of an immigrant who dreams of becoming a movie star and ends up a dishwasher). Joining members of the original cast, the production included popular songstress Linda Ronstadt, singer/actor Daniel Valdez, San Francisco Ballet artist Evelyn Cisneros, and actor Clancy Brown. All in all, "Corridos" broke ground with a form of musical popular theater that made the transition from theater to television without losing its theatricality.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 22, 2018 7:46:43 GMT -5
Emmy Lou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton Win Album of the Year For "Trio" - ACM Awards 1988
Deidre Hall, Earl Thomas Conley and T.G. Sheppard present Emmy Lou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton with the Album of the Year award for "Trio." The award is accepted on behalf of Emma, Linda and Dolly who would want to thank the Academy of Country Music and Warner Brothers Records.
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Post by the Scribe on May 9, 2018 4:40:44 GMT -5
Everly Brothers International Archive Nash, Ronstadt Remember The Everlys' 'Sibling Sound' January 5, 2014·7:44 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday
Listen: ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2014/01/20140105_wesun_nash_ronstadt_remember_the_everlys_sibling_sound.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1039&d=267&p=10&story=259886084&siteplayer=true&dl=1
Phil Everly, half of the record-setting sibling duo The Everly Brothers, died on Friday. Legendary musicians Graham Nash and Linda Ronstadt offer remembrances of Phil Everly, and explain why the Everly Brothers had such a profound influence on their music.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Phil Everly, half of the whole that was the Everly Brothers, died on Friday at the age of 74. The brothers were rock pioneers and their style, including those close, unmistakable vocal harmonies, influenced a generation of musicians.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE")
MARTIN: We spoke with two musicians profoundly shaped by the Everlys: Linda Ronstadt, and Graham Nash of CSN and the Hollies. Nash and fellow singer Allan Clarke formed the Hollies in the mid-'60s, and they were often compared with the Everly Brothers. Graham Nash is a masterful vocal harmonist himself, but he says Phil and Don Everly were unique.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE")
GRAHAM NASH: When the Everly Brothers sang together, there was something in their voice that made two voices into one voice that created a sound that I don't think is possible with unrelated singers.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE")
NASH: I have many, many favorite Everly Brothers songs. But I think the most important one to me was "Bye Bye Love."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BYE BYE LOVE")
NASH: That was the song that Allan Clarke and I, as teenagers, heard one Saturday night at a Catholic school girls' dance in the north of England; walking across the ballroom to go and talk to some friends, getting halfway across and "Bye Bye Love" blasting out of the speakers.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BYE BYE LOVE")
NASH: It stopped Allan Clarke and I in our tracks. We had never heard anything like that. I mean, we were two teenagers that were singing together, but we didn't sound like that.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BYE BYE LOVE")
MARTIN: Linda Ronstadt grew up in a musical family, and knows firsthand about that special sibling sound.
LINDA RONSTADT: You know, the idea that they were raised using the same accent - the accent of the English that you sing in affects phrasing; it affects intonation. So they had that genetic match. And then their voices - one was seated high, one was seated low - you know, that's like lightning striking. You just don't get that very much. (Laughter)
MARTIN: In the mid-'70s, Ronstadt had a huge hit with her remake of "When Will I Be Loved?" written by Phil Everly.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHEN WILL I BE LOVED?")
MARTIN: And that's what made you think, yeah, that's a song I want to take a crack at?
RONSTADT: I mean, I had heard the Blue Sky Boys, and I'd heard the Louvin Brothers. But they had the audacity to put - you know, it was this very traditional duet sound that came down out of this traditional music from Kentucky. And then they added, you know, rock 'n' roll drums and electric guitar and bass, and they made it into something totally different. They opened the door for those of us who later followed, for folk rock. And so Bob Dylan, The Birds, the Eagles, Peter and Gordon, the Beatles, you know, they all went streaming through this gate that the Everly Brothers opened.
MARTIN: Linda Ronstadt remembering Phil Everly, who died Friday at the age of 74. We also heard remembrances from Graham Nash. This is WEEKEND EDITION, from NPR News. B.J. Leiderman wrote our theme music. I'm Rachel Martin.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM")
: ...I need you so, that I could die. I love you so...
www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259886084/nash-ronstadt-remember-the-everlys-sibling-sound
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Post by the Scribe on May 10, 2018 6:44:35 GMT -5
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Post by Linda Fan5 on May 10, 2018 15:12:37 GMT -5
Wait. Am I getting this right? Andrew was basically calling Linda “scatterbrained.” And saying his mother was similarly “scatterbrained.” The mom did set him up for that. But still.. not nice. I guess it was all in fun. Peter Asher would never say that about Linda. He was aware that her giggly stage presence in the 70s caused people to get the wrong idea, that she was highly intelligent and that was just nerves coming through. Linda did admit back in the day she did say some silly things in public when feeling compelled to fill up the silence between songs. She’d trot out a fun fact she’d learned about the city where she was playing. So in upstate NY she told the crowd she’d heard it was “the INCEST capital of the country.” Lol. Maybe AG was playfully aacknowledging moments from that era when she said things without thinking them through.
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Post by the Scribe on May 10, 2018 16:53:35 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 2:28:08 GMT -5
Stunning video mashup of Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt
These Days / Many Rivers To Cross
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 2:36:05 GMT -5
The HiddenWorld of Ann Savoy
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 2:38:34 GMT -5
THE PRAYER CYCLEJonathan Elias discusses the spiritual aspects of his album The Prayer Cycle and its potential impact in helping to promote healing in the hearts of people around the world, especially in the Middle East.
www.projectpeaceonearth.org/Jonathan Elias (the songwriter of The Prayer Cycle, has been in the music business for ages in many roles. Not sure how Linda came to be in this but they probably knew each other and he must have felt this song was just right for her and vice versa. So many comment that they are moved to tears upon hearing it. As you know it had 3 inspirations. Jonathan's new child, the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb. If that doesn't stir your heart you probably have none.
This is yet another example of Linda's involvement in many special musical events. i.e. Graceland, An American Tale, The Secret Garden, Harvest/Harvest Moon, Pirates, etc. Interestingly, The Prayer Cycle is beginning to be performed in its entirety live by other groups, orchestras. Most love it, some hate it but it will endure."The Prayer Cycle" is a contemporary classical composition featuring modern musicians from around the world. This work takes as its inspiration the onset of the Atomic Age in the 20th Century. Not since the harnessing of fire has there been any other single human invention or discovery which has changed the world so greatly, because no other technological development has given us the power to end life as we know it. By mere virtue of its existence, The Bomb has changed the way in which the world's political forces interact. "The Prayer Cycle" is a conceptual album about its history, from the genesis of the Atomic Age to the present state of nuclear proliferation, that examines the influence that The Bomb has had on our society and culture; tracing musically, the origins of The Bomb in the Manhattan Project, the first tests at Trinity Site, the devastating first uses of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the ensuing decades of living in fear of the power unleashed through these weapons. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the 1st test at Trinity, the importance of grasping the impact of this great force on the world is impossible to ignore. "Prayer Cycle" was released on Sony Classical; the follow up will be released on Universal Classics: this fresh "Cycle" mixes new electronics in a uniquely collaborative way, featuring offerings by Sting, Trudie Styler, Salif Kata, Raha Nusraet Fateh Ali Khan, Jonathan Davies of KORN, Serj (from System of a Down), Anthony Keidis, Alanis Morisette, London Phil & Choir, and Angelique Kujo. A portion of the proceeds will fund charities which address children's education and awareness of the Atomic Age, and it's weapons repercussions. As Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of The Bomb, noted: if WW III is fought with nuclear weapons, WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones." From the old forum: ronstadt-linda.com/v-web/bulletin/velco2/viewtopic.php?t=9763&highlight=prayer+cycleJT: Tell us about 'The Prayer Cycle' JE: The project is called 'Prayer Cycle' It's a choral piece that was recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra. JT: It was inspired by the holocaust... JE: It was inspired by the holocaust, but also by the dropping of the atomic bomb... It's really inspired by the power of man's inhumanities. My own fatalistic impressions came when I started writing the lyrics. The lyrics are in several languages...
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 2:58:27 GMT -5
Wir schaffen das
Unexpected support for the beleaguered German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes from some of Mexico’s dead. It remains unclear why they have decided to take a stand on the issue, and why now. But why not? Clearly the refugee problem is not just a German issue, it’s a European issue and indeed a global one. It might be wise for Merkel to explore the whole range of possible alliances, regardless of their origin or their current state of being. Such high-spirited and mature support really is a surprise gift for Chancellor Merkel in these difficult times.
The song chosen by the dead is, “Tu Solo Tu”, which talks about love for a woman who is passionate and a drunk and on her way to perdition, here sung by Linda Ronstadt.
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 4:52:59 GMT -5
Season 13 | Episode 8 | 12/19/1987 Promo
Saturday Night Live Season 13 Episode 08 on December 19, 1987 with host Paul Simon and musical guest Linda Ronstadt & the Mariachi Vargas.Linda Ronstadt- Los Laureles, La Cigarra (SNL 1987)Under African Skies This song is a really nice duet, Paul wrote the lyrics about Linda (who is from Tuscon Arizona) and about Joseph (Shabalala) from Africa. This is what Linda Ronstadt said: "When Paul Simon asked me for something from my childhood that visually symbolized the part of the country I grew up in, without even thinking I immediately said the San Xavier [del Bac] Mission, so he put it in a song ["Under African Skies"] that I sang with him as a duet on his Graceland album." "Tucson also has the most beautiful light in the world. Even at night it's amazing. There are two places on the planet that have the lowest amount of ambient light at night where the sky is very, very dark and the stars are plainly visible - a place in Africa and Tucson. "www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/season-13/episode/8-paul-simon-with-linda-ronstadt-64536
snltranscripts.jt.org/87/87h.phtml
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 5:42:30 GMT -5
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert Season 1 Episode 20 The Eagles with Special Guests Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, live on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert TV music variety show, 1974, at the Beacon Theater in New York
April 13, 1974: The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne setlist:
The Eagles - "Peaceful, Easy Feelin'," "Already Gone" and "Good Day in Hell." Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles - "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," "Desperado" and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore." The Eagles - "Midnight Flyer," "Twenty-One" and "Ol' '55." Jackson Browne - "Your Bright Baby Blues" and "Looking Into You." The Eagles - "James Dean," "Doolin-Daltin" and "Desperado." The Eagles, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt - "Take It Easy."
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 7:03:55 GMT -5
WonderlandWarren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt Wonderland 1977 Part 1 4 HD
Wonderland 1977
In 1977 the Dutch public broadcasting association VARA made a documentary called Wonderland, about then up-&-coming recording artists Warren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt & Jackson Browne. Here is that film. Warren Zevon at Griffith Observatory, Linda Ronstadt in studio “Tracks Of My Tears” alternative studio version, Linda Ronstadt outside her Malibu house, Warren Zevon at a burrito stand, Warren Zevon in concert “Carmelita”, Bonnie Raitt at Frederick’s, Bonnie Raitt in concert “Nothing Seems To Matter”, Linda Ronstadt in the bedroom of her Malibu house, Linda Ronstadt in studio “Lose Again” alternative studio version, Warren Zevon at Griffith Observatory, Warren Zevon in rehearsal “Frank And Jesse James”, Bonnie Raitt, Bonnie Raitt in concert “Give It Up Or Let Me Go”, Jackson Browne, Jackson Browne in concert “Before The Deluge”.
*Note- Reelin' In The Years Productions, LLC has claimed copyright on this video. Don't know how that works or how they get away with it but this is the only copy/part of that documentary that exists. If you can download for yourself I recommend doing that before it disappears too.
Forum member Cornish Pirate posted this link which can be easily downloaded as a .wmv file. The more people who download it the better. It is easy to do here. Place cursor over the link, right click, select save target as, and then either create a file on your computer for it to be stored or use the default that shows itself but you will need to remember that file address on your computer: redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_152621237722416&key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&libId=jh4ratx8010004m6000DA23nspzfr&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fronstadt.proboards.com%2Fthread%2F401%2Flinda-wonderland&v=1&out=http%3A%2F%2Fcornishwrecks.co.uk%2Flrfiles%2FMisc%2F1977_LindaInWonderland.wmv&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fronstadt.proboards.com%2Fsearch%2Fresults%3Fcaptcha_id%3Dcaptcha_search%26where_thread_title%3Dwonderland%26who_only_made_by%3D0%26display_as%3D0%26search%3DSearch&title=Linda%20In%20Wonderland%20%7C%20Linda%20Ronstadt%20Forum&txt=%3Cb%3E1977%20Linda%20In%20Wonderland%20(wmv%2C%20480x360%2C%2068MB)%3C%2Fb%3E
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2018 7:16:14 GMT -5
The Johnny Cash TV Show S01E03 06.07.69
Episode Performances: Guests: Linda Ronstadt Roy Orbison Jerry Reed Eddie Albert Charlie Callas
Highlights:
Johnny sings “Rock Island Line”, “Cry, Cry, Cry”, “I Tremble For You”, “Darling Companion” (with June Carter), “Wanted Man” (written by Johnny and Bob Dylan). Eddie sings “Green, Green Grass of Home” Jerry does “This Thing Called Love”, “Blue Moon Over Kentucky” Linda sings “The Only Man That’ll Walk the Line”, “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” Johnny & Eddie duet with “Detroit City” and “Sloop John B”. All join in for “He’s Got the Whole World in his Hand.”
The Johnny Cash Show was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58 episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970.
Cash opened each show, invariably preceding the first number with his customary “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” greeting, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash (his wife) and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. An instrumental version of “Folsom Prison Blues” was used for the opening credits.
Cash had been approached by ABC to host a television show after the major success of his two live prison albums, At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin. The show started with an hour-long tryout offered by ABC as “a summer replacement for their Saturday night variety extravaganza The Hollywood Palace.” While Cash had a large degree of freedom, he “had to accept some compromises by hosting showbiz royalty like Bob Hope, George Gobel, Kirk Douglas, Burl Ives, Peggy Lee and Lorne Greene. They gave the show gravitas that satisfied both advertisers and the network”.
The show was recorded at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, then home of the Grand Ole Opry. The show was conceived by Bill Carruthers, who also served as executive producer and director for the first season. Stan Jacobson was also a producer on the show. Myles Harmon was the program executive for ABC Television. The first show featured Joni Mitchell, Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, Fannie Flagg as a comic, and Bob Dylan.
The show included a “Country Gold” segment which featured legends rarely or never seen on network TV such as Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. Author Rich Kienzle suggests that as well as providing entertainment, the show operated as a “Country Music 101”.
Cash persisted in the face of ABC “network anxieties” on several occasions. He refused to cut the word “stoned” from Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down”, he stood by his Christian faith “despite network anxieties”, and persisted in bringing on Pete Seeger whose anti-Vietnam War song on another network had “caused a firestorm”. He premiered his “Man in Black” song on an episode taped at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University campus.
In 1970, Columbia Records released The Johnny Cash Show, a live album, as a tie-in with the TV series, though the record is not considered a soundtrack. The release is unusual as Columbia was affiliated with competing network CBS. Cash’s version of Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down”, included on the series, is included on the album and was released as a single, which was a major hit for Cash.
J.R. “Johnny” Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.
While hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Cash died of complications from diabetes at approximately 2:00 a.m. CT on September 12, 2003, aged 71—less than four months after his wife. It was suggested that Johnny’s health worsened due to a broken heart over June’s death. He was buried next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Rate Your Music web site credits Johnny Cash with 1516 albums, EP’s, singles, compilations and recorded video appearances.
See: rateyourmusic.com/artist/johnny_cash
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Post by the Scribe on May 25, 2018 20:11:34 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt , Republican presidents and Philip K Dick's VALIS… posted in Books & Literature, Language & Writing, Philosophy & Critical Thinking, Politics, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Science on July 26, 2004 by Limbic Last week a colleague remarked that singer Linda Ronstadt has caused a near riot in a Las Vegas casino after dedicating a song to propagandist Michael Moore.
We had a brief chat about how polarised US politics had become and continued on with our business.
On my way home that night, I was finishing Philip K Dick’s superb book “VALIS” which is mostly indescribable (read it, READ IT!) but is partly about the downfall of an evil republican president (ostensibly Nixon) brought about inter alia by a girl child prophet.
Imagine my surprise when I open page 213 and read about the protagonist having a dream where he is being driven around by..you guessed it..Linda Ronstadt..who sings him a message. The message is cryptic and highly symbolic. The dream comes after the protagonist frets that the The Empire – recently set back by the downfall of Nixon – will make a comeback and they will have to wait until the child is an adult before they can expect help. What he does not realise is that the child has just been killed in a freak accident. The dream is a message from the messiah child. Linda Rhonstadt is a symbol of her as an adult.
“ What had the little girl told us? That human beings should now give up the worship of all deities except mankind itself. This did not seem irrational to me. Whether it had been said by a child or whether it came from the Britannica, it would have struck me as sound.
Kevin drove me home; I went at once to bed, worn-out and discouraged, in a vague way, I think what discouraged me about the situation was the uncertainty of our commission, received from Sophia. We had a mandate but for what? More important, what did Sophia intend to do as she matured? Remain with the Lamptons? Escape, change her name, move to Japan and start a new life?
Where would she surface? Where would we find mention of her over the years? Would we have to wait until she grew to adulthood? That might be eighteen years. In eighteen years Ferris F, Fremount [Nixon then, now Bush? Ed], to use the name from the film, could have taken over the world—again. We needed help now.
But then I thought, You always need the Savior now. Later is always too late.
When I fell asleep that night I had a dream, In the dream I rode in Kevin’s Honda, but instead of Kevin driving, Linda Ronstadt sat behind the wheel, and the car was open, like a vehicle from ancient times, like a chariot. Smiling at me, Ronstadt sang, and she sang more beautifully than any time I had ever heard her sing before. She sang:
“To walk toward the dawn You must put your slippers on.”
In the dream this delighted me; it seemed a terribly important message. When I woke up the next morning I could still see her lovely face, the dark, glowing eyes: such large eyes* so filled with light, a strange kind of black light, like the light of stars. Her look toward me was one of intense love, but not sexual love; it was what the Bible calls loving-kindness. Where was she driving me?
During the next day I tried to figure out what the cryptic words referred to. Slippers. Dawn. What did I associate with the dawn?
Studying my reference books (at one time I would have said, “Horselover Fat, studying his reference books”*), I came across the fact that Aurora is the Latin word for the personification of the dawn. And that suggests Aurora Borealis—which looks like St Elmo’s Fire, which is how VALIS looked. The Britannica says of the Aurora Borealis:
“The Aurora Borealis appears throughout history in the mythology of the Eskimo, the Irish, the English, the Scandinavians, and others; it was usually believed to be a supernatural manifestation . . . Northern Germanic tribes saw in it the splendor of the shields of Valkyrie (warrior women)”
Did that mean—was VALIS telling me—that little Sophia would issue forth into the world as a “warrior woman”? Maybe so.
What about slippers? I could think of one association, an interesting one. Ernpedoeles, the pupil of Pythagoras, who had gone public about remembering his past lives and who told his friends privately that he was Apollo, had never died in the usual sense; instead, his golden slippers had been found near the top of the volcano Mount Etna. Either Empedoeles, like Elijah, had been taken up into heaven bodily, or he had jumped into the volcano, Mount Etna is in the eastern-most part of Sicily. In Roman times the word “aurora” literally meant “east.” Was VALIS alluding to both itself and to re-birth, to eternal life? Was I being—
The phone rang.
Picking it up I said, “Hello”
I heard Eric Lampton’s voice. It sounded twisted, like an old root, a dying root. “We have something to tell you, I’ll let Linda tell you. Hold on.”
A deep fear entered me as I stood holding the silent phone. Then Linda Lampton’s voice sounded in my ear, flat and toneless. The dream had to do with her, I realized; Linda Ronstadt; Linda Lampton, “What is it?” I said, unable to understand what Linda Lampton was saying.
“The little girl is dead,” Linda Lampton said. “Sophia? How?” I said.
Mini killed here By accident, The police are here, With a laser. He was trying to—*
I hung up.
The phone rang again almost at once. I picked it up and said hello.
Linda Lampton said, “Mini wanted to try to get as much information—”
“Thanks for telling me,” I said. Crazily, I felt bitter anger, not sorrow.
“He was trying information-transfer by laser,” Linda was saying. “We’re calling everyone. We don’t understand; if Sophia was the Savior, how could she die?”
Dead at two years old, I realized. Impossible.
I hung up the phone and sat down. After a time, I realized that the woman in the dream driving the car and singing had been Sophia, but grown up, as she would have been one day. The dark eyes filled with light and life and fire. The dream was her way of saying good-bye.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 9, 2018 5:22:00 GMT -5
I had also read that there was serious talk of a duet for the album by Linda and Mick singing Just My Imagination which was an old Motown hit.Jagger, Richards talk 'Some Girls' 40th anniversary: 'Punk rock was a kick up our ass'Lyndsey Parker Managing Editor Yahoo MusicJune 08, 2018
Vinyl record sleeve of “Some Girls” by the Rolling Stones in 1978. (Photo: Apic/Getty Images)
Few Rolling Stones albums have held up as well as their genre-hopping, expectations-flouting masterwork Some Girls. (Seriously, is there anything as deliciously and decadently sleazy-sounding as Mick totally going off at the end of “Shattered,” or Keef slurring his way through his bloozy rebel anthem “Before They Make Me Run”?) The attitudinal album — which came out an incredible 40 years ago, on June 9, 1978 — still sounds as gritty and urban and sexy as ever, but it’s also a fascinating document of a turbulent and transitional musical era, when punk and disco were taking over and threatening to render all classic rock bands of the 1960s obsolete. So the Stones, of course, reacted to such changing times by unleashing one of their hookiest, cockiest, and downright Stonesiest albums ever.
“Without a doubt, the punks certainly made us sort of look around and say, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve been around for 10 years already!'” Stones guitarist Keith Richards told Yahoo Entertainment at the time of the album’s 2011 deluxe reissue. “The energy of the punk thing affected Some Girls in many ways. The only trouble with the punks is none of them could really play! I loved the attitude, y’know, but where’s the music? And that was their letdown. But otherwise, it was a matter of attitude more than anything else. It was about energy, and it was a kick up our ass.”
“I think it was pretty conscious of living in the day,” Richards’s Glimmer Twins counterpart, frontman Mick Jagger, mused. “This was a very interesting time in music in New York, where I was living a lot at the time. You had sort of a return to very basic rock music — you know, the Sex Pistols and all that — but you also had the beginning of hip-hop, the beginning of rap, and you had lots and lots of kinds of dance music, very different kinds of dance music. The early dance music was quite innovative in lots of ways. So you had a lot of genres, and these were cross-pollinating everything. I think in some ways this album reflects some of that time, and I think that’s what makes it an interesting album.”
“And the disco thing, I don’t know, that was just what was going on in clubs, and you sort of picked up a beat. And we just decided to do a disco song [the polarizing ‘Miss You’],'” Richards added. “At the time, it wasn’t necessarily ‘disco music’ to us; it was just another rhythm-and-blues beat. No doubt hanging around in bars and clubs a lot had something to do with it.”
Rock purists at the time were horrified that the Stones had supposedly sold out and “gone disco” — a laughable nonscandal now, considering how many current rock acts (Muse, Beck, Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, and pretty much any band that’s ever released a remix) draw from dance music now. Recalling the backlash, Richards remarked in his dry and delectable drawl: “Purists of any kind really piss me off. Of course, there are some who are gonna think this or that. But that’s their privilege; it’s cool with me. Not everyone’s gonna get it the first time.”
“Yeah, I mean, now it’s ridiculous to even think about,” Jagger marveled. “It’s a bit like Bob Dylan going electric, isn’t it? It’s ridiculous to even think that people made a fuss about it. Now you look back and think, ‘How stupid was that?’ There were a lot of people that were very narrow-minded about it. To me, I wasn’t brought up on rock music so much as blues and soul music, and a lot of that music was dance music. It was specifically made to dance to. You know, I like dancing, so as far as I’m concerned, all sorts of fast songs for me were all made to dance to. So obviously, I’d be very interested in making dance music. And that particular groove was the groove of the moment. You don’t really play the grooves of yesteryear when you make records; you play the grooves of now. And that sort of beat was the thing that was going around at the time. For some people, it was a very big hit, but not everyone liked it.”
Interestingly, however, many of the unreleased tracks on 2011’s Some Girls boxed set traffic not in disco or punk but in the sort of bluesy, boozy country-stomp of the famous Some Girls cut “Faraway Eyes.” There’s the bar-band rocker “Claudine” (“That one should have been on the original album; it’s a damn good song,” said Richards), the twangy ballad “No Spare Parts,” and covers of country classics like Hank Williams’s “You Win Again,” Freddy Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie,” and the Waylon Jennings/Conway Twitty standard “We Had It All” (the latter features “Before They Make Me Run”-worthy lead vocals by Richards.) Quipped Jagger of the album’s blurred genre lines: “We were doing diametrically opposed kinds of music at the time: dance music on one hand, country on the other. We were like the jack-of-all-trades here!”
No Some Girls retrospective would be complete, obviously, without a look at the album’s infamous artwork. The original die-cut cover, created by Peter Corriston, featured a parody of a vintage wig advertisement, depicting the bewigged Stones in drag alongside Hubert Kretzschmar illustrations of iconic female celebrities like Farrah Fawcett, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch, and Judy Garland. But early album pressings soon became collectors’ items due to threatened legal action from these famous women and/or their estates.
“On the original album, there were old-fashioned film stars, but because we were stupid and never got permission from them, we got stopped a lot from using them,” Jagger explained. Other versions of the controversial cover art were then created — one with hand-drawn generic women, another with ’70s celebrities such as Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Britt Ekland, and even President Jimmy Carter in drag (the latter of which, of course, never saw a commercial release). But the version most fans have in their record collections is probably the one with all faces removed and a “Pardon Our Appearance — Cover Under Reconstruction” banner slashed across it (“as if the cover were a Manhattan department store doing renovations,” according to liner notes author Anthony DeCurtis).
These days, Richards feels nostalgic for the bygone era when the covers for albums like Some Girls and the Stones’ functional-zippered Sticky Fingers were big-deal affairs. “The meaning of an album cover, it has a thousand uses apart from holding a record. You can roll joints on it; you can do all kinds of s*** on it. And it was a good size to look at. A CD is kinda a little small. Miniature. And with downloads, you don’t get a cover at all.” So, what will Stones fans roll their joints on now? “Tough s***, I don’t know,” Richards shrugged.
Regardless of the look or size of its packaging in 2018, Some Girls holds up, and the band is understandably still very proud of it. “It’s one of my favorite Stones albums, I think, because it’s so listenable as an album, and it gets to the heart of the matter straightaway, and there’s no mucking about, and it’s succinct,” said Jagger. “It doesn’t sprawl, it’s to the point, it’s got a lot of style, and it’s got this energy. I think it’s all around a really good album. I think it’s underrated. I don’t know where it comes in the ratings, to be honest. In my ratings, it comes very high — just don’t ask me what number.”
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 7, 2018 4:00:48 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt Net Worth, Lifestyle, Family, Biography, Albums, Children, Young, House and Cars
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 18, 2019 3:49:55 GMT -5
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Post by moe on Jan 18, 2019 9:36:55 GMT -5
I just recently "discovered" the Linda/Paul Simon "Under African Skies" duet on SNL. I don't know how I missed the above post from last May. Be that as it may I thought that version was remarkable for two reasons: 1.They have Linda's part a little more up front than on the album version. 2. As far as I know no one was shorter than Linda and here she is towering over Paul-I don't think she was standing on a box or Paul was in a hole. Somehow this relates to the "Big head/big star" discussion in an earlier thread. Just for the record Linda's Mexican songs were typically outstanding. It was fun to see how the one gentleman violinist was digging her performance.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 18, 2019 15:30:18 GMT -5
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Post by Richard W on Jan 18, 2019 18:04:57 GMT -5
Wonder if we'll have to pony up?
From Wikipedia:
"A fee of $40,000 (as of 2018),payable at time of selection, is collected to pay for the creation and installation of the star, as well as general maintenance of the Walk of Fame. The fee is usually paid by the nominating organization, which may be a fan club, or a film studio, record company, broadcaster, or other sponsor involved with the prospective honoree."
It would be most interesting to know who nominated them.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 18, 2019 18:45:57 GMT -5
I meant to tell the forum re: the youtube lifestyles vid of Linda. I think I knew, AZ would find it, :-) Love "Look Out For My Love". Great vocals and instrumentation!!!! eddiejinnj
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