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Post by Guest on Oct 15, 2020 10:00:11 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 15, 2020 15:11:40 GMT -5
Thanks for posting, Guest!! Welcome to the forum. It is easy to join eddiejinnj
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Post by rick on Oct 15, 2020 15:43:43 GMT -5
Last question: Regarding the duets that you sang, do you have a favorite?Linda: I did my best singing on a duet with Frank Sinatra, but it was really hard to sing a duet with him. His voice was in sort of rocky shape, but he was still dangerous. I had to figure out a way to slide around him and make it work. I was really pleased with the way it came out.
I loved singing with the duet partners I’ve had. Singing with Aaron Neville is like being in heaven singing with an archangel. I learned so much singing with him.
I probably learned the most from singing with Emmylou Harris. She taught me a great deal at a time when I really needed to learn it.
And John David Souther — I was really happy singing with him, too.
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Post by Richard W on Oct 15, 2020 18:30:06 GMT -5
Linda's singing on Moonlight in Vermont is simply gorgeous the way it swirls around Sinatra's.
Didn't he say it was one of his favorite duets?
Alas, the Souther / Ronstadt album that never was. My favorite tune of theirs is Sometimes You Just Can't Win, if you exclude that incredible performance of theirs on the live Prisoner in Disguise.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 16, 2020 8:00:43 GMT -5
I know that Frank Jr. was quoted as saying that the Linda duet was his Dad's favorite. It is a duet masterpiece. As Rich said, her vocals just swirl around Sinatra's and breathe icy fresh life into the song. You can just feel like you are there by their interpretation. eddiejinnj
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Post by alyn on Oct 17, 2020 4:06:30 GMT -5
I think the key here is the statement 'his voice was in sort of rocky shape'... no matter how well Linda did with her contribution to the track for me anything Sinatra recorded, live or studio, from the mid-1970s onwards is almost unlistenable. I love his work throughout the 1950s and 1960s, there was no one to touch him on this planet, I have a massive collection of all his work during that period and I'm still finding more. His performances take me to places of darkness and light, which no other can. But, when the voice went and the live performances became cabaret... it was painful and I just can't listen to it.
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Post by rick on Oct 17, 2020 4:11:08 GMT -5
You should listen to the Ronstadt duet with him.
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 17, 2020 4:20:07 GMT -5
It is wonderful and the best of a mostly rocky bunch of tunes
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Post by rick on Oct 17, 2020 4:41:13 GMT -5
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Post by alyn on Oct 19, 2020 8:43:00 GMT -5
I wouldn't be commenting if I hadn't heard it :-)
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