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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 0:13:06 GMT -5
I thought it would be fun to have a thread that showed the diverse nature of Linda Ronstadt's talent all in one place. Most of this stuff has its own thread somewhere in this and the old forum. Some of it was lost and resurrected. Lots of bits and pieces joined together to showcase a wonderful career. This will be like a ride down memory lane.
Finding this clip is what got me started on this thread. I was excited to see this video has resurfaced after it disappeared a couple of years ago. Copy it while you can.
Mike Douglas Show S10E154 Linda Ronstadt, George Carlin, Rick Nelson, Chuck Berry, Dr Jonas Salk
Published on Feb 16, 2017
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 0:14:54 GMT -5
Hee-Haw Full Episode - Episode 28º(Linda Ronstadt,Merle Haggard,Roy Clark,Grandpa Jones)Apr 01, 1970
Published on Feb 27, 2017
Hee-Haw Full Episode - Episode 28º
Aired Sunday 9:00 PM Apr 01, 1970 on CBS
Buck Owens - My Heart Skips a Beat
Linda Ronstadt - Are My Thoughts with You?
Merle Haggard - Every Fool Has a Rainbow
The Hagers - Your Tender Loving Care
Roy Clark - Maria Elena
Merle Haggard - Jimmie's Texas Blues
Grandpa Jones - Melinda
Buck Owens and Susan Raye- Togetherness
When The Cowboy Sings website
whenthecowboysings.es/
KWC Americana Radio Station
kwcamericanars.com/
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 0:16:18 GMT -5
Late Night with David Letterman 1983 03 21 Charles Grodin Jerry Seinfeld Linda Ronstadt FULL EPISODE
Published on Mar 11, 2017
Late Night with David Letterman
March 21, 1983
NBC
Dave waits at home for the cable guy
Charles Grodin
Jerry Seinfeld
Linda Ronstadt
(rebroadcast)
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 0:19:10 GMT -5
The Johnny Cash Show Full Episode - Episode 3º(Jerry Reed,Linda Ronstadt,Eddie Albert)21 Jun. 1969
Published on Feb 24, 2017
The Johnny Cash Show Full Episode - Episode 3º
Episode aired 21 June 1969
Johnny Cash sings "Rock Island Line", "Cry, Cry, Cry", "I Tremble For You, Darling Companion" (with June Carter Cash) and "Wanted Man" (written by Johnny and Bob Dylan); Eddie Albert sings "Green, Green Grass of Home"; Jerry Reed sings "This Thing Called Love" and "Blue Moon Over Kentucky"; Linda Ronstadt sings "The Only Man That'll Walk the Line" and "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"; Johnny & Eddie duet on "Detroit City", "Sloop" & "John B". All join in for "He's Got the Whole World in His Hand".
When The Cowboy Sings website
whenthecowboysings.es/
KWC Americana Radio Station
kwcamericanars.com/
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 0:25:04 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 0:37:03 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt Concert Announcement 1980 Omaha Civic Auditorium
Published on Jan 2, 2017
Radio advertisement for the April 23, 1980, Linda Ronstadt concert at the Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska. The show was opened by Denny Kortchmar and had 8,289 in attendance.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 0:56:47 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt Narrates 2016 Eagles Tribute
Published on Jan 27, 2017
Linda Ronstadt tells the story of the Eagles band during the 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors filmed documentary in December 2016. Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner were once members of Linda Ronstadt's touring band in the early Seventies. From the beginning of her band collaboration at the Troubadour in Hollywood, CA, one of rock's greatest female singers played a key role in launching the Eagles illustrious musical career.
Eagles current band members Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit and the late Glenn Frey where honored at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 1:23:49 GMT -5
Copy of Sisters in Country: Dolly, Linda and Emmylou Full BBC Documentary 2016
Published on Dec 11, 2016
Sisters in Country: Dolly, Linda and Emmylou Full BBC Documentary 2016 | www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/... | How Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris's careers took off in the 1970s with distinct takes on country, but how they ended up uniting as close harmony singers on Trio. Documentary which explores how Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris's careers took off in the 1970s with very distinct takes on country, but how they ended up uniting as close harmony singers and eventually collaborated on 1987's four-million-selling debut album, Trio. In the 60s country music was viewed by most of America as blue collar and Dolly was country through and through. Linda Ronstadt's take on classic country helped make her the biggest female star in mid-70s USA. Folkie Emmylou learned about country from mentor Gram Parsons and, after his death in 1973, she became a bandleader in her own right. It was Emmylou and Linda - the two west coast folk rockers - who voiced their mutual appreciation of Dolly, the mountain girl singer from Tennessee, when they became early students of her work. The artists talk about uniting as harmony singers and eventually collaborating on their debut album, Trio. The album helped launch the mountain music revival that would peak with the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou. In 2012 Linda Ronstadt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease which left her unable to sing, but 2016 sees unreleased songs from their sessions to create a third Trio album. This is the story of how their alliance made them pioneers in bringing different music worlds together and raising the game for women in the country tradition.Contributors: Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Rodney Crowell, George Lucas, Peter Asher, Chris Hillman, Laura Cantrell, Robert K Oermann, John Boylan, Phil Kaufman, David Lindley, Albert Lee, Herb Pedersen, George Massenberg & Applewood Road. Full description Sisters in Country: Dolly, Linda and Emmylou |
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Post by suzannes on Mar 15, 2017 6:25:26 GMT -5
I had been searching for that Mike Douglas show for awhile and finally it showed up on you tube. Linda at her smart and sassy self!!! Love it!
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 7:29:15 GMT -5
I had been searching for that Mike Douglas show for awhile and finally it showed up on you tube. Linda at her smart and sassy self!!! Love it!
She is a bit of a smart ass here. Poor Mike Douglas did handle her well as he is an even tempered type of guy. I love the fact my favorite philosopher George Carlin is also here looking quite young himself. Even future Eagle Randy Meisner showed up in Rick Nelson's band. Mike is dead, George is dead, Rick is dead, Jonas is dead but Linda, Chuck and Randy are still kicking (knock on wood). Love that first song Rick did. I believe John Boylan was managing Rick around this time but not sure if they (Linda and John) were an item yet. I need to go through my notes lol. I am a big fan of John Boylan and his work.
If anyone has an idea on how to copy it from youtube that would be helpful to know. I love the interchange between the guests here and on top of that we get Swampwater, one of Linda's famous backup bands. |
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 7:37:40 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 7:39:41 GMT -5
 
I think this is a very charming video...fantasy video. I am fairly sure that is a photo of Linda as a child on a horse and then the camera pans to some Pirates of Penzance memorabilia...It sort of reminds me of the Trio video that George Lucas directed as Linda's age seems the same time period. That dress even looks like the same one from Trio's Those Memories video (not that I would notice such things). I haven't seen this posted here before but I could be wrong.
Ok, now I am sure. I just looked at the To Know Him Is To Love Him video and Linda is wearing the same blue sweater that she is wearing here:
Even the intro of both videos is similar. And on top of that the ribbon in her hair is the same lol. I love the way Linda has always recycled clothing for as long as I can remember. |
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 7:42:39 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 7:46:13 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 15, 2017 9:04:43 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
I believe that particular Mike Douglas Show is from April 1971, so it's very likely that Linda was under Boylan's managerial wing; and it wasn't long after this that Meisner stepped down from Rick's band and Boylan found him work backing Linda, along, of course, with a couple of guys named Henley and Frey (and, soon thereafter, Leadon too).
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Post by PoP80 on Mar 15, 2017 12:25:05 GMT -5
It looked like Mike Douglas (bless his heart) was having some difficulty following Linda's rambling train of thought. She was a bit rogue here but she and George Carlin seemed to be on the same wavelength(lol). Great to see this old footage of young talent!
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Post by Dianna on Mar 15, 2017 16:44:59 GMT -5
It looked like Mike Douglas (bless his heart) was having some difficulty following Linda's rambling train of thought. She was a bit rogue here but she and George Carlin seemed to be on the same wavelength(lol). Great to see this old footage of young talent! Thanks Rob. I snagged the Douglas interview and downloaded it. I have been looking everywhere for it but just gave up. Yeah I agree with POP... her mind goes a mile a second.. reminded me of The Carson Interview when he lost track where her conversation was going.. |
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Post by moe on Mar 15, 2017 17:26:53 GMT -5
Thanks a bunch for the Mike D. Interview. I personally don't think Linda was being a smart-ass I just think she was a bit put out over the shoe thing. I imagine she has been asked that a gazillion times and thinks "like dude-you do realize there is more to me than footwear (or the lack thereof)" I also was surprised at her kind of conservative (please hold the hate mail) attitude. And by that I mean not Paul Ryan conservative but reasonable and thoughtful-not a rhetorical bomb thrower. I can say this: she had her shit together a lot better than I did at her age (I guess she was about 24 there). It was a joy watching her agile mind outrun her mouth. You can really feel her blazing intellect.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 18:12:10 GMT -5
What program did you use to download it?
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Post by Dianna on Mar 15, 2017 18:44:13 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 15, 2017 19:59:48 GMT -5
Quote by moe:
I would agree very much with that assessment--likely much closer to Eisenhower than, say, Goldwater or Nixon (to use examples of that time in the early 1970s).
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Post by Dianna on Mar 15, 2017 20:45:16 GMT -5
Quote by moe: I would agree very much with that assessment--likely much closer to Eisenhower than, say, Goldwater or Nixon (to use examples of that time in the early 1970s). I don't know. It just sounded like common sense to me. I guess kids have always behaved like entitled brats, especially nowadays. I think Linda is a very grounded person and obviously worked very hard to achieve her dreams and success.. Reminds me of the washer/dryer story she tells. She knew she was successful when she could afford to buy her washer and did not have to go to the laundromat anymore. Seems like she is appreciative of those things when others seem to take it granted. |
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 22:16:53 GMT -5
FM the Movie (1978) Trailer
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Post by erik on Mar 15, 2017 22:56:42 GMT -5
Quote by Dianna:
You won't get any argument from me on anything you said, Dianna. She has indeed largely lived a very common sense life in a business where she could easily have become self-destructive. Thankfully, she never did. She really loved what she was doing far too much for too many other things to distract her.
In essence, she is politically and socially very liberal, but common sense when it comes to her own life.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2017 5:26:08 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2017 5:43:21 GMT -5
Published on Jul 5, 2015
Hot Gossip on The Kenny Everett Television Show 23.10.86Philip Glass - Songs From Liquid Days (full album) Forgetting, by Philip Glass In the mid 80s Philip Glass was looking for a different way to present his music. He experimented with various types of mediums including Dance (Glass Pieces), Theater (two Samuel Beckett adaptations: Endgame and Company) and Film (Mishima). He then decided to tackle an area far removed from the large scale operas and orchestral works he was famous for: popular song. He was used to set music to librettos, but this time he needed help from folks who wrote short-form lyrics. A true New Yorker, he turned to fellow music artists around the city to write lyrics for him. He then proceeded to write music to these lyrics and cast various singers to sing them. The outcome was Songs From Liquid Days, which might be considered one of his more accessible albums, but definitely not typical radio material, and I would argue not pop either. It is an unmistakable Philip Glass album, flourishing with his signature repetitive style that you can spot a mile away. But the lyrics and the singers make this album unique in his rich catalog.
The lyricists include David Byrne, Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega and Laurie Anderson, who contributed my favorite song on the album, Forgetting. Setting his brand of music to Anderson’s lyrics proved to be a new type of challenge for Glass: “I had that series of words to set. They came in groups of three. but I set them in rhythmic groupings of four. That meant that every line of three had a space in it. It would go one, rest, two, three; or rest, one, two, three; or one, two, tree, rest, and so forth. I remember looking at the words and seeing that she had so consistently used this group of three that I could fit three into the four and form a kind of rhythmic tension between the words and the phrasing. That’s how I began writing that song, I set the actual words at the end. Then I took the second group “They rushed slightly by, these lovers” and I used that same music again. That left me the first group to set up. That became the narrative part of the song.”
The instrumental performance was given to the Kronos quartet who Glass has met earlier when they were performing the music he set for the play Company, and later played a concert version of Mishima. Forgetting was the first piece of music Glass wrote specifically for the Kronos quartet. He later wrote a major work for them, his fifth string quartet shortly after his wife died from cancer.
What makes Forgetting a special song for me is the vocal performance by Linda Ronstadt and the Roches. Ronstadt has a great voice, and while she is mostly known for her rock/pop hits from the 70s, she has a wide range of other musical interests that showcase her voice even better than the hits. Listen to her vocal interpretations of jazz standards on her recordings with Nelson Riddle and you get the idea. Two years after the release of Songs From Liquid Days she appeared on another Philip Glass album, 10,000 Airplanes on the Roof, although her vocal contributions there were limited to oohs and aahs. Recalling her experience singing the song Forgetting she said: “Glass’ stuff was really hard to sing. He didn’t write singer-ly stuff, he wrote eccentric stuff that would make odd jumps in a human voice.”
In contrast to Ronstadt’s vocals, The Roches contribute an operatic part on top of a signature Glass ensemble and keyboards repetitive build up. If you like Glass’s operas like Einstein On The Beach, Akhnaten or Satyagraha but you find the vocal performances on them hard to take, you may like this song better as it is a perfect match between the operatic Glass and a great vocal performance.
Interestingly the year the album was released, 1986, was a good year for the contributors to the song. The Kronos Quartet released their interpretations to the music of Bill Evans, Laurie Anderson put out her wonderful multimedia performance Home of the Brave, and Ronstadt released the third of her recordings with Nelson Riddle, For Sentimental Reasons.
A man wakes up to the sound of rain
From a dream about his lovers
Who pass through his room.
They brush lightly by, these lovers.
They pass. Never touching.
These passing lovers move through his room.
The man is awake now
He can’t get to sleep again.
So he repeats these words
Over and over again:
Bravery. Kindness. Clarity.
Honesty. Compassion. Generosity.
Bravery. Honesty. Dignity.
Clarity. Kindness. Compassion.
musicaficionado.blog/2016/01/27/forgetting-by-philip-glass/
Published on Jan 30, 2017
Michael Riesman (cond.), Linda Ronstadt (vocal), The Philip Glass Ensemble. AllMusic Review by John Young [-]
This collaboration with playwright David Henry Hwang and visual artist Jerome Sirlin premiered in a Viennese airport hangar in 1988, and it beats John Adams. Since Glass took to the stage and screen as his main career in the 1980s, he's repeated chord changes and arrangements to the point of hackwork. Even here, in fact, bits of dramatic musical emphasis are as fussy as his usual orchestral soundtrack work, some of them featuring Linda Ronstadt's high ooh-ing. Moments of pure schlock are crafted from the same old ostinatos, obbligatos, and harmonies once lit up by the electric Philip Glass Ensemble. But most of it works. For one thing, it contains more chord changes than the usual Glass stage or work. Another reason is that this is the last score Glass recorded exclusively with electric keyboards and woodwinds. The composer blends his numerous motifs into one galactic "Grey Cloud Over New York," rendered without a moment's hesitation by PGE vets Martin Goldray,Jack Kripl, Richard Peck, and Jon Gibson. They immediately reprise the nervous title overture into the relaxed schmaltz of "A Normal Man Running." With the sinister voice sampling in "Labyrinth" as a lone reminder that this is a piece for the stage, this it's one of Glass' superior stand-alone works.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2017 8:39:19 GMT -5
Corridos: Tales of passion and revolution Mar 9, 2014 at 5:25am .
Post by kgreen on Mar 9, 2014 at 5:25amEvery 2 years or so, I create this link for the Greatest Screen event of Linda's career. Corridos, a PBS special several months before the Canciones De Mi Padre record. It showcased her Mexican Style and incredible stage presence, better than her other nods on film and TV. From the moment she comes on screen singing "Yo Soy El Corrido: and the next 5 minutes she combines her rock voice to her mexican style to the song "Yo Soy El Corrido, which she also used in her stage show. This version is as gun toting, dancing singing Linda. A real wow for any fan and a personal favorite. She looks gorgeous too. We need to email them to release this and also make the songs available. Want new Linda music, here it is! Some snippits of songs too which probably have a full recording. These need to be released especially since Linda will likely not sing anymore. This is Linda in her "PRIME". Note, after her first 5 minutes, there is a 20 minute segment, while good, has no Linda in it. We need to get this released to the general public. Let me know your thoughts, all show info is below. hidvl.nyu.edu/video/000539671.htmlCOLLECTION TITLE: El Teatro Campesino collection
TITLE: Corridos
ALTERNATE TITLE: Tales of passion and revolution
DATE: 1987 Apr. 1
LOCATION: Recorded at KQED studios, San Francisco, CA, on Apr. 1, 1987.SYNOPSIS: Corridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution, nationally broadcast 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. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: "Materials of the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library are protected by copyright. They may not be copied, downloaded, or reproduced. The owner of this work has granted NYU Libraries non-exclusive rights to include this material in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library and to make it accessible to the public for educational and research purposes. Requests to purchase or for permission to use the work should be directed to the owner." COPYRIGHT HOLDER: El Teatro Campesino CONTACT: Luis Valdez ADDRESS: Luis Valdez 705 4th Street P.O. Box 1240 San Juan Bautista, CA 95045 USA PHONE(BUSINESS): +1-831-623-2444 PHONE(FAX): +1-831-623-4127 EMAIL: teatro@elteatrocampesino.com WEBSITE: www.elteatrocampesino.com Read more: ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/1836/corridos-tales-passion-revolution#ixzz4bUkhBigD
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Post by PoP80 on Mar 16, 2017 10:40:58 GMT -5
This was a beautiful album albeit an acquired taste. I recall Terre Roche mentioning that she stood next to Linda during the recording and Linda's voice was so powerful that Terre's ears were ringing!
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Post by erik on Mar 16, 2017 18:09:09 GMT -5
Quote by PoP80:
Henry Diltz, the famed Laurel Canyon photographer and scene maker, recalled a similar thing happening to him at Capitol Records studios in late 1967, when he was witness to Linda recording with the Stone Poneys. He recalled that Linda's voice, live and in person, was so powerful you had to stand back a couple of feet from where she was at the mic.
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Post by rick on Mar 17, 2017 5:44:32 GMT -5
Published on Jul 5, 2015
Hot Gossip on The Kenny Everett Television Show 23.10.86Philip Glass - Songs From Liquid Days (full album) Forgetting, by Philip Glass In the mid 80s Philip Glass was looking for a different way to present his music. He experimented with various types of mediums including Dance (Glass Pieces), Theater (two Samuel Beckett adaptations: Endgame and Company) and Film (Mishima). He then decided to tackle an area far removed from the large scale operas and orchestral works he was famous for: popular song. He was used to set music to librettos, but this time he needed help from folks who wrote short-form lyrics. A true New Yorker, he turned to fellow music artists around the city to write lyrics for him. He then proceeded to write music to these lyrics and cast various singers to sing them. The outcome was Songs From Liquid Days, which might be considered one of his more accessible albums, but definitely not typical radio material, and I would argue not pop either. It is an unmistakable Philip Glass album, flourishing with his signature repetitive style that you can spot a mile away. But the lyrics and the singers make this album unique in his rich catalog.
The lyricists include David Byrne, Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega and Laurie Anderson, who contributed my favorite song on the album, Forgetting. Setting his brand of music to Anderson’s lyrics proved to be a new type of challenge for Glass: “I had that series of words to set. They came in groups of three. but I set them in rhythmic groupings of four. That meant that every line of three had a space in it. It would go one, rest, two, three; or rest, one, two, three; or one, two, tree, rest, and so forth. I remember looking at the words and seeing that she had so consistently used this group of three that I could fit three into the four and form a kind of rhythmic tension between the words and the phrasing. That’s how I began writing that song, I set the actual words at the end. Then I took the second group “They rushed slightly by, these lovers” and I used that same music again. That left me the first group to set up. That became the narrative part of the song.”
The instrumental performance was given to the Kronos quartet who Glass has met earlier when they were performing the music he set for the play Company, and later played a concert version of Mishima. Forgetting was the first piece of music Glass wrote specifically for the Kronos quartet. He later wrote a major work for them, his fifth string quartet shortly after his wife died from cancer.
What makes Forgetting a special song for me is the vocal performance by Linda Ronstadt and the Roches. Ronstadt has a great voice, and while she is mostly known for her rock/pop hits from the 70s, she has a wide range of other musical interests that showcase her voice even better than the hits. Listen to her vocal interpretations of jazz standards on her recordings with Nelson Riddle and you get the idea. Two years after the release of Songs From Liquid Days she appeared on another Philip Glass album, 10,000 Airplanes on the Roof, although her vocal contributions there were limited to oohs and aahs. Recalling her experience singing the song Forgetting she said: “Glass’ stuff was really hard to sing. He didn’t write singer-ly stuff, he wrote eccentric stuff that would make odd jumps in a human voice.”
In contrast to Ronstadt’s vocals, The Roches contribute an operatic part on top of a signature Glass ensemble and keyboards repetitive build up. If you like Glass’s operas like Einstein On The Beach, Akhnaten or Satyagraha but you find the vocal performances on them hard to take, you may like this song better as it is a perfect match between the operatic Glass and a great vocal performance.
Interestingly the year the album was released, 1986, was a good year for the contributors to the song. The Kronos Quartet released their interpretations to the music of Bill Evans, Laurie Anderson put out her wonderful multimedia performance Home of the Brave, and Ronstadt released the third of her recordings with Nelson Riddle, For Sentimental Reasons.
A man wakes up to the sound of rain
From a dream about his lovers
Who pass through his room.
They brush lightly by, these lovers.
They pass. Never touching.
These passing lovers move through his room.
The man is awake now
He can’t get to sleep again.
So he repeats these words
Over and over again:
Bravery. Kindness. Clarity.
Honesty. Compassion. Generosity.
Bravery. Honesty. Dignity.
Clarity. Kindness. Compassion.
musicaficionado.blog/2016/01/27/forgetting-by-philip-glass/
Published on Jan 30, 2017
Michael Riesman (cond.), Linda Ronstadt (vocal), The Philip Glass Ensemble. AllMusic Review by John Young [-]
This collaboration with playwright David Henry Hwang and visual artist Jerome Sirlin premiered in a Viennese airport hangar in 1988, and it beats John Adams. Since Glass took to the stage and screen as his main career in the 1980s, he's repeated chord changes and arrangements to the point of hackwork. Even here, in fact, bits of dramatic musical emphasis are as fussy as his usual orchestral soundtrack work, some of them featuring Linda Ronstadt's high ooh-ing. Moments of pure schlock are crafted from the same old ostinatos, obbligatos, and harmonies once lit up by the electric Philip Glass Ensemble. But most of it works. For one thing, it contains more chord changes than the usual Glass stage or work. Another reason is that this is the last score Glass recorded exclusively with electric keyboards and woodwinds. The composer blends his numerous motifs into one galactic "Grey Cloud Over New York," rendered without a moment's hesitation by PGE vets Martin Goldray,Jack Kripl, Richard Peck, and Jon Gibson. They immediately reprise the nervous title overture into the relaxed schmaltz of "A Normal Man Running." With the sinister voice sampling in "Labyrinth" as a lone reminder that this is a piece for the stage, this it's one of Glass' superior stand-alone works. That is NOT Linda's lead vocal on "Freezing" in that so-called comedy show "Hot Gossip." Why wasn't a clip used here that used the original track? The only thing that remains is Linda's backing vocals. |
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