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Post by counselorscottie on Mar 17, 2020 5:32:52 GMT -5
Game: So, if Linda had only recorded one LP with NR, picking from the 32 songs within the trio, what would make the final cut? 12 songs max(or 48 minutes of music max)
We have a Las Canciones Favoritas...maybe Rhino could release a Best of the Nelson Riddle sessions, handpicked by Linda.
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Post by alyn on Mar 17, 2020 6:49:35 GMT -5
It's mostly all the torture tracks for me.... What's New Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry It Never Entered My Mind When Your Lover Has Gone Someone To Watch Over Me Ghost Of A Chance I Get Along Without You Very Well I'm A Fool To Want You Lover Man Round Midnight Goodbye But.....get up off the floor...Bonus Track: Keeping Out Of Mischief  |
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Post by counselorscottie on Mar 17, 2020 10:01:52 GMT -5
Oops, I didn't do mine :-)
What's New
Someone to Watch Ove Me
But Not for Me
You Took Advantage of Me
My Funny Valentine
Crazy He Calls Me
Little Girl Blue
For Sentimental Reasons
Straighten Up & Fly Right
Lush Life
'Round Midnight
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Post by Partridge on Mar 17, 2020 14:10:47 GMT -5
Based on the songs I usually listen to, my compilation would be
What's New
I've Got A Crush On You
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
Someone to Watch Over Me
When I Fall In Love
Skylark
I'm A Fool to Want You
When You Wish Upon a Star
My Funny Valentine
I Get Along Without You Very Well
Straighten Up and Fly Right
Lush Life
Keeping Out of Mischief (unreleased bonus track)
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 17, 2020 15:58:43 GMT -5
With much thought and consulting the song list on the back of 'Round Midnight, here's my list in chronological order by album:
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
Someone To Watch Over Me
What'll I Do
Goodbye
When I Fall in Love
Skylark
I'm A Fool To Want You
You Took Advantage Of Me
Lush Life
When You Wish Upon A Star
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
You Go To My Head
My Funny Valentine!!!!
eddiejinnj
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Post by rick on Mar 17, 2020 23:49:02 GMT -5
1. What's New?
2. I've Got a Crush on You
3. Crazy He Calls Me
4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
5. You Took Advantage of Me
6. Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
7. What'll I Do?
8. Straighten Up & Fly Right
9. Someone To Watch Over Me
10. I Love You for Sentimental Reasons
11. Skylark
12. Lush Life
Bonus Track: Keepin' Out of Mischief Now (unreleased studio track from Nelson Riddle sessions)
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 18, 2020 2:46:09 GMT -5
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- What'll I Do?
- You Go To My Head
- Skylark
- My Funny Valentine
- Little Girl Blue
- I'm A Fool To Want You
- What's New
- When Your Lover Is Gone
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears out To Dry
- Bewitched Bothered & Bewildered
- Round Midnight
Always hard to do these lists ......
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Post by Richard W on Mar 18, 2020 8:15:25 GMT -5
*Skylark
Can't We Be Friends
My Funny Valentine
I'm A Fool To Want You
When Your Lover Has Gone
Guess I'll Hang My Tears out To Dry
Bewitched Bothered & Bewildered
What's New
But Not for Me
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance
Lover Man
It Never Entered My Mind
*One of the most gorgeous, evocative tracks ever recorded by anyone. Ever.
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Post by alyn on Mar 18, 2020 10:58:36 GMT -5
Since compiling my list and creating the 12 track abum (somewhere up there)as a playlist it has been blowing my mind to listen to... Perfection.
I would say that 'I'm A Fool To Want You' has, over the past year or so, risen to become one of my favourite Linda Ronstadt tracks (even closing in on the best from Hasten Down The Wind - and I'm a well documented super fan of HDTW)... the vocal performance is so fine so wonderfully controlled, the Riddle arrangement positively spine-tingling and Don Grolnick provides the tenderist playing to blend it all together. The whole thing has a beautiful Film Noir edge. I'm a huge Sinatra fan but this version knocks spots off his own amazing version of this song.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 18, 2020 16:12:45 GMT -5
"And once again these words I have to say. I'm a fool to want youuuuu"!!!! :-) Love it too!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 18, 2020 16:22:37 GMT -5
Since compiling my list and creating the 12 track abum (somewhere up there)as a playlist it has been blowing my mind to listen to... Perfection. I would say that 'I'm A Fool To Want You' has, over the past year or so, risen to become one of my favourite Linda Ronstadt tracks (even closing in on the best from Hasten Down The Wind - and I'm a well documented super fan of HDTW)... the vocal performance is so fine so wonderfully controlled, the Riddle arrangement positively spine-tingling and Don Grolnick provides the tenderist playing to blend it all together. The whole thing has a beautiful Film Noir edge. I'm a huge Sinatra fan but this version knocks spots off his own amazing version of this song. I love the way she sings the line “time and time again I said I’d leave you” towards the end of the song - such power and emotion ! |
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Post by alyn on Mar 19, 2020 2:40:37 GMT -5
I love the way she sings the line “time and time again I said I’d leave you” towards the end of the song - such power and emotion ! Absolutely.... the whole thing is totally beautiful with the anticipation of that line coming along, it just takes the breath away
(oops did I 'like' my own posting... blushes... carried away :-)
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Post by counselorscottie on Mar 19, 2020 8:40:58 GMT -5
I'd love to know what Linda's choices would be.
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Post by LindaFan5 on Mar 19, 2020 9:17:59 GMT -5
Linda has gone on record choosing “it never entered my mind” and “what’s new” as tracks she’d want people to hear. She’s also praised Nelson’s arrangement for “my funny valentine” as a personal favorite of hers.
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Post by rick on Mar 20, 2020 3:33:09 GMT -5
Tony --
I had a thought.... When this topic came out, it was mentioned that "Jardin Azul" was a collection of the "best" of Linda's Spanish recordings.
We've already had all three of Linda's Nelson Riddle albums put in a two-CD set entitled "Round Midnight" and then there was that Reader's Digest compilation that had a single disc of standards.
WHAT IF ... this instead followed the pattern of "The Complete (sic) Trio Collection"? So you might have Disc 1 be what already exists as Disc 1 of "Round Midnight" (All of "What's New?" and side one of "Lush Life"), Disc 2 is Disc 2 of "Round Midnight" (side 2 of "Lush Life" and then "Sentimental Reasons") and Disc 3 would be the outtakes as it is for "The Complete Trio Collection."
If John Boylan were thinking that there might not be enough to fill out a rarities disc, if I am not mistaken, Linda said she had tried Cole Porter with Nelson Riddle. And it could also include her recordings of "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes," "The Man I Love," her duet with Frank Sinatra on "Moonlight in Vermont," her live medley of "Mister Sandman," "Kalamazoo," "Daddy," "Dream" and "Take Me Back to Track," the live "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now," the version of "Someday My Prince Will Come" from that Disney special on NBC in the 1980s.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 20, 2020 8:16:58 GMT -5
That is a good idea, Rick. Not sure if it should be 3 discs unless they can do it inexpensively. The whole concept is good but I think that the key like you said is to get John to find stuff that was not released in this genre. A few "New" ones (songs that have never been released or even on youtube) I think would be the key to a successful release. eddiejinnj
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Post by Partridge on Mar 20, 2020 12:16:02 GMT -5
I think the "official" attitude now in the Ronstadt camp is that physical releases are not worth the trouble for the cost of producing them vs revenue earned. We didn't even get an anniversary release for Living in the USA or Mad Love!
I think this would be a good release as would be the original full set from the Troubadour 1972 as well as the KOOM album and I don't think there has ever been a Linda Ronstadt Record Store Day release other than the reissue of Silk Purse which had already been released many many times and it didn't even have any extras.
(my attempt at a run-on sentence)
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Post by rick on Mar 20, 2020 14:03:01 GMT -5
Tony —
What were the sales for the 3-CD “Trio
Collection”? Do you know?
What about “Live in Hollywood”? The 2-CD 40th anni edition of “Simple Dreams”?
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Post by Tony on Mar 20, 2020 15:29:43 GMT -5
I don't know the numbers for the Trio collection but I remember it charted well in Australia and also the UK.
First week numbers for Live in Hollywood were high enough that it would have been #1 on the Billboard Rock chart. Only problem is Billboard would not classify it as a rock album so it appeared nowhere on the rock chart. But it did sell more physical copies than the Queen collection that they had at #1.
The 40th anniversary CD of Simple Dreams sold moderately well, but apparently not enough to do a similar release for Living in the USA, although I was told one was forthcoming. Just goes to show you can't believe everything you're told, so I'm glad I didn't repeat that rumor.
I expect the announcement of several collectors editions on the first day of the month!
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Post by alyn on Mar 21, 2020 3:24:22 GMT -5
Linda has gone on record choosing “it never entered my mind” and “what’s new” as tracks she’d want people to hear. She’s also praised Nelson’s arrangement for “my funny valentine” as a personal favorite of hers. That's interesting to know... it's always intriguing to find out the artistes personal choice, kind of get inside their head a bit. I remember a long time ago when I was a young keen naive fan being a bit let down when Donald Fagen mentioned something about never wanting to hear a Steely Dan album when it is finished and to move straight on to a new project (or something like that) and not look back... totally understandable really. And just the other day I was reading that Sinatra never listened to any of his own music (which didn't surprise me) except for the track 'Wave' from his second collaberation with Jobim because he liked the way he hit the bass notes and played it constantly for a while later in his life. I imagine any artiste can always hear faults and wish they had done something differently, being a perfectionist is what makes them who they are. Rambling :-)
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 21, 2020 6:40:51 GMT -5
I don't know the numbers for the Trio collection but I remember it charted well in Australia and also the UK. First week numbers for Live in Hollywood were high enough that it would have been #1 on the Billboard Rock chart. Only problem is Billboard would not classify it as a rock album so it appeared nowhere on the rock chart. But it did sell more physical copies than the Queen collection that they had at #1. The 40th anniversary CD of Simple Dreams sold moderately well, but apparently not enough to do a similar release for Living in the USA, although I was told one was forthcoming. Just goes to show you can't believe everything you're told, so I'm glad I didn't repeat that rumor. I expect the announcement of several collectors editions on the first day of the month! oh dear we are approaching THAT day again .... |
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Post by Richie on Mar 21, 2020 13:33:24 GMT -5
Skylark
When You Wish Upon A Star
I Get Along Without You Very Well
My Funny Valentine
Little Girl Blue
Round Midnight
When I Fall In Love
I'm A Fool To Want You
Little Girl Blue
What'll I Do?
But Not For Me
Bewitched Bothered And Bewildered
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Post by 70smusicfan on Mar 21, 2020 21:01:04 GMT -5
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Post by Partridge on Mar 21, 2020 23:25:46 GMT -5
Where/What's the Keeping Out Of Mischief bonus track from? As I recall, Linda recorded it but did not use it on any of the 3 Nelson Riddle albums. The song was offered to the We Are the World project but was not used. |
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Post by rick on Mar 22, 2020 1:24:33 GMT -5
Hi, '70s -- The Nelson Riddle tracks on Linda's box set are: " Little Girl Blue I Get Along Without You Very Well My Funny Valentine When You Wish Upon A Star It Never Entered My Mind Skylark What's New? " We know it exists. It just has never been released. I think that's why Tony and I both mentioned it as a "bonus track" if someone ever did a hypothetical "Best of" compilation. I would think that these seven songs on the box set would be Linda's picks (at least back at that time). |
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Post by Richard W on Mar 22, 2020 9:05:51 GMT -5
So "Falling in Love Again" popped up on my iPod last night and boy, did I regret not including it on my list.
Linda and Riddle's arrangement swing, and you can almost "hear" Linda winking at herself as she sings "men cluster to me like moths around a flame / and if their wings burn I know I'm not to blame."
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