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Post by pricepittsburgh on Mar 9, 2019 1:35:44 GMT -5
Most of the songs I listed don't really qualify as her signature song but are all still pretty identifiable with her to some extent.
I feel it's You're No Good with Blue Bayou a close second.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 9, 2019 2:00:18 GMT -5
I chose Desperado but Blue Bayou might be the most recognizable. I may have chosen Heart Like A Wheel if it was available.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 9, 2019 2:59:00 GMT -5
I chose Different Drum because it’s the one I hear most often on the radio.
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 9, 2019 5:40:53 GMT -5
I did Desperado but signature song would depend on the age group of the audience ..... when I mention Linda to "young" (young than me!) most people say Somewhere Out There or Don't Know Much ....
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Post by rick on Mar 9, 2019 5:41:48 GMT -5
At least here are five songs that were / are considered “signature” tunes —
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Post by pricepittsburgh on Mar 9, 2019 8:24:42 GMT -5
At least here are five songs that were / are considered “signature” tunes — I've referenced this same video before in regards to this question. |
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Post by germancanadian on Mar 9, 2019 11:03:24 GMT -5
Heatwave is my favorite and You're no good was her highest charting single at number 1, but Blue Bayou is the one that comes to mind when you hear her name and it has appeared in many movies and gotten lots of radio play. Blue Bayou is by far her most popular song on Spotify, with over 20 million streams.
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Post by RobGNYC on Mar 9, 2019 12:48:35 GMT -5
"Heart Like a Wheel"--I think that Linda might choose that one too.
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Post by rick on Mar 9, 2019 13:22:20 GMT -5
But if I were to ask people in my life who know who Linda Ronstadt is, I would bet you that none of them would answer “Heart Like a Wheel.” To me, a signature song is what people identify with you the way Tony Bennett is known for “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
If this is any indicator at all, when I say: “Alexa, play songs by Linda Ronstadt on Spotify,” invariably the first song is “Blue Bayou,” just as when I ask for The Mamas & The Papas, it’s “California Dreamin’ .”
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Post by Dianna on Mar 9, 2019 13:36:42 GMT -5
Blue Bayou... ICONIC
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Post by erik on Mar 9, 2019 18:11:16 GMT -5
I think the trouble in choosing which is the definitive "Linda" song, her signature song in other words, is that she had so many of them in her career.
That said, I chose "Blue Bayou", with "You're No Good" coming in a close second.
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Post by pricepittsburgh on Mar 9, 2019 20:23:21 GMT -5
I posted this same question on a non Linda general music forum and Blue Bayou was second with 46 votes and You're No Good was first with a whopping 120 votes.
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Post by Mused on Mar 11, 2019 0:25:47 GMT -5
4 GawDessEs Sake!!
Its Blue Bayou!!
that climax note is the MOST beautiful NOTE recorded by a female for that DECADE!!!
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Post by LindaFan5 on Mar 12, 2019 11:02:51 GMT -5
Blue Bayou. A runner up song would not even come close. Someone wrote that what makes Ronstadt so irresistible is that she uses a voice strong enough to peel chrome to ramp up her best songs with desperation and paranoia. Blue Bayou is operatic in its sadness and vigor. Plus it foreshadowed her big foray into Spanish albums. She chose Blue Bayou in part for the Spanish feel of it. The songwriter Roy Orbison said it is Linda’s song. She reinvented it to such a great extent it almost doesn’t qualify as a cover song.
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Post by sliderocker on Mar 12, 2019 19:21:25 GMT -5
My choice was "Different Drum" because that was the song that started it all for Linda. "You're No Good" and "Blue Bayou" would be other choices but without that first hit, how long would Linda have kept trying for that first hit?
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Post by erik on Mar 12, 2019 20:52:44 GMT -5
Quote by sliderocker:
Quite true. I think that, if nothing else (but still a big deal in its own way), "Different Drum" is one of the seminal folk-rock hits of the late 1960s, and obviously a career-establishing song (even if Linda's not wild about how that hit turned out).
I also believe that Linda, again like Elvis, has done so many songs where she has put her own individual stamp on that it's difficult, damned near impossible, to choose just one. Even the many hits she has had that are covers of classic rock, R&B, and C&W hits of the 1950s and 1960s were done by her in such a way that it makes it difficult for anyone else to do them in such a way as to supersede what she did (IMHO).
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