The Recording of Blue Bayou

[musedeva]

I have to say.....of all the "money notes" of vocal pop......bay-OU has just about got to be it.......there are a few of Mariah's but not sure what endures

DO WE HAVE anything about the actual RECORDING of the Song???

I think I'm hearing linda on the back up...but not sure

They filmed "tracks of my tears" did they film BB???

Did she record vocal whilst they played live?  I kinda think yes...and that she wasn't on backup vox

I just listened to BB original again....the grace note is U then OOOOhhhhhhhh

[musedeva]

just found this from a 2017 ? interview re: BB
www.popmatters.com/back-to-blue-bayou-an-interview-with-linda-ronstadt-2495378533.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Working with engineer Val Garay, Peter Asher gathered the band at Sound Factory in LA. "We'd gotten a little bit tighter," says Ronstadt, noting how her rapport with Asher had evolved since Heart Like a Wheel. "Peter was very good at hearing little inner parts of music.

He didn't like to overdub vocals.

I liked to overdub vocals, but we hadn't worked a method for it particularly, so a lot of those vocals are live." Asher's approach to producing Ronstadt would craft one of the era's most evocative portraits of Southern California pop-rock, winning him "Producer of the Year" at the Grammy Awards for his work on Simple Dreams and James Taylor's J.T. (1977) album

[RobGNYC]

Thanks musedeva for that excellent interview. I've been reading about that Japan performance of "Sorrow Lives Here" since the 1980 Playboy interview--so hope that it will be released someday:

PLAYBOY: Have you ever sung anything you felt was perfect?
RONSTADT: I sang Sorrow Lives Here in Tokyo once and I thought it was perfect. I got this reading on this one line exactly the way I wanted to do it. I remember that night.

[the Scribe]

Jun 5, 2019 21:03:12 GMT -5 RobGNYC said:

Thanks musedeva for that excellent interview. I've been reading about that Japan performance of "Sorrow Lives Here" since the 1980 Playboy interview--so hope that it will be released someday:

PLAYBOY: Have you ever sung anything you felt was perfect?
RONSTADT: I sang Sorrow Lives Here in Tokyo once and I thought it was perfect. I got this reading on this one line exactly the way I wanted to do it. I remember that night.

Wonder if it is her performance at Budhokan?


Linda Ronstadt - Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan 1979 (full show, audio only)

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Published on Aug 19, 2015
00:17 - Lose Again
04:06 - That'll Be The Day
06:55 - Blue Bayou
11:31 - When Will I Be Loved?
14:19 - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
18:19 - Willin'
22:06 - Alison
25:26 - All That You Dream
29:29 - Love Me Tender
32:17 - Just One Look
35:43 - Desperado
39:46 - Mohammed's Radio
44:40 - It's So Easy
47:27 - Someone To Lay Down Beside Me
56:02 - Band Introductions
57:06 - My Blue Tears ＞ Poor Poor Pitiful Me
1:03:07 - Tumbling Dice
1:07:18 - You're No Good
1:15:25 - Sorrow Lives Here
1:19:47 - Back In The U.S.A.

[RobGNYC]

I think that's it:

www.popmatters.com/back-to-blue-bayou-an-interview-with-linda-ronstadt-2495378533.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

"I found a live version at the Buduokan in Japan (1979) that was the best version," she says. "It's better than the record. When I was recording, I was still sort of feeling my way through songs. It wasn't until I recorded them and then worked them out on stage that I got really comfortable with songs."

Thank you so much, the sound on this is excellent. Had no idea that she ever did "My Blue Tears" live before the "Trio" album came out. I always thought that in the Rolling Stone interview October 19, 1978, she was talking about "My Blue Tears" here:

"We got a couple of things that are just lovely. One particular thing just turned out gorgeous, just the three of us with an acoustic guitar and God, it just killed us when we heard it."

I love the Hollywood album and so much appreciate all the work that Linda and John Boylan put into her first official live release (not counting "FM" and the tracks on "Linda Ronstadt" 1972) but hearing the Japan recording, and reading today about Dylan's massive "Rolling Thunder" box, hard not to think how much more live Linda is out there (and how much her fans would treasure it). Casting a vote here for an official "Linda Live Bootleg" multi-volume series.

[muse]

I adore my blue tears...OMG...forgot all about that one...have to listen to this sorrow song