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Post by germancanadian on Jun 6, 2019 16:47:51 GMT -5
Linda's lack of radio airplay on Sirius and other stations has been discussed before, and I was wondering, did she get a lot of airplay in the mid 70s to early 80s when she was at the peak of her popularity? I can remember Don't know much getting good airplay on the radio and Muchmusic in 1989/1990 and I really liked it even though I was more into glam metal like Kiss and Def Leppard. It's annoying how even 70s and 80s rock stations today play Hotel California, Sweet home Alabama and Don't stop believin every few hours when they hardly ever play Linda's songs.
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Post by erik on Jun 6, 2019 18:17:21 GMT -5
I remember those times a fair amount; and while Linda did get a fair amount of radio airplay, especially in L.A., where a big part of her fan base was cultivated, it wasn't the kind of "saturation bombing" that we get now with certain groups, artists, and songs. There was a much wider mix of songs, and Linda's stuff could often be found getting mixed in there with her favorite desperados The Eagles; the Bee Gees; Elton John; and many others.
In all good honesty, I still can stand "Hotel California". But I turn the dial when "Sweet Home Alabama" comes on; and please do not get me started on "Don't Stop Believing".
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Post by moe on Jun 7, 2019 8:01:57 GMT -5
Nostalgic pop radio (70's, 80's and 90's) pretty much sucks. I swear they have a playlist of about five songs. There was, on Sirius, an Eagles channel that was pretty good and played quite a bit of Linda.
I signed up for the service and almost immediately the channel was canceled-timing is indeed everything. My favorite radio programs now are the oldie country stations. They seem to play a decent variety of good material. You may even (rarely) hear Linda-Emmylou shows up a little more often. I think country programmers just can't get their heads around the fact that Linda was a legit country artist. So as it turns out about the only radio I listen to is on Saturday morning from 7:00 to 10:00 AM (or FM) Needless to say my Sirius subscription went bye-bye.
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Post by goldie on Jun 7, 2019 8:29:57 GMT -5
I may be missing something but aren't there thousands of internet radio stations with some allowing you to build your own favorites for programming? None play Linda?
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Post by Guest on Jun 7, 2019 10:12:46 GMT -5
No female artists were playing as often as Ronstadt in the second half of the 70s. Rock, top 40, country, Am, Fm - in fact in NYC R&B stations played Ooh Baby, Baby. She was the only artist played almost everywhere - even Mad Love was heavy airplay. In fact the Rock Stations played her far more than say Janis or Starship and then just as much as Fleetwood Mac. Of course her 80s duets with Ingram and Neville were played constantly on Hit stations in NY. And by the 90s those sort of radio stations faded. The currated stations today incl. Sirius are very limited in scope. Spotify and Pandora have plenty Linda ..
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Post by Richard W on Jun 7, 2019 11:40:57 GMT -5
Creating your own playlist is not the same as radio programming.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 7, 2019 21:08:55 GMT -5
No female artists were playing as often as Ronstadt in the second half of the 70s. Rock, top 40, country, Am, Fm - in fact in NYC R&B stations played Ooh Baby, Baby. She was the only artist played almost everywhere - even Mad Love was heavy airplay. In fact the Rock Stations played her far more than say Janis or Starship and then just as much as Fleetwood Mac. Of course her 80s duets with Ingram and Neville were played constantly on Hit stations in NY. And by the 90s those sort of radio stations faded. The currated stations today incl. Sirius are very limited in scope. Spotify and Pandora have plenty Linda .. Seems to me Olivia Newton John got more airplay than Linda during that time period. Linda was hipper and sold more albums but for Top 40 stuff Olivia appeared to be the queen. Since I don't listen to music radio anymore how much air play is Olivia receiving from streaming radio? |
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Post by erik on Jun 7, 2019 21:53:43 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
I would guess that Olivia is a "prestige" artists on streaming services, though others here would know better than I.
As to "Linda versus Olivia" in the 70s, well, when it comes to the Top 40, yes, Olivia did have more #1 hits, but I think they were pretty much equal when it came to the overall number of Top 40 hits; and in terms of albums, Linda's albums sold in greater quantities than Olivia.
The other thing is that Olivia found herself in the middle of a mini-controversy by virtue of being a presence on the country singles charts during the midpoint of the decade, and the Nashville "establishment" being enraged that a "foreigner", not to mention one who didn't think of herself as particularly "country", was messing around their territory. Linda, of course, also had a presence on the country and the pop singles charts during this time, but she was a known quantity to Nashville, even though she was something of an outsider herself (being more or less a "hippie" from California, and who didn't consider herself "country" in the strictest Music Row sense of that term).
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 8, 2019 1:28:20 GMT -5
I think Johnny Cash had a lot to do with Linda being accepted by the Country Music establishment. Johnny loomed large in that genre and Linda was one of his favorites. The fact that she sang country, western and bluegrass so well didn't hurt. Earl Scruggs and Merle Haggard were also Linda fans. When I ran a Ronstadt fan club in the 70's the contact I had with country music pr people was very positive and they looked at Linda as an up and coming alternative country star that did material that enhanced their acceptability outside of country circles. As far as I could tell they were thrilled with her. Being a Dolly favorite helped as did her friendship with the Queen of the Silver Dollar Emmylou Harris.
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