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Post by Partridge on Sept 17, 2023 20:30:23 GMT -5
Radio and Records, March 21, 1980  Billboard, March 22, 1980    CashBox, March 22, 1980    Record World, March 22, 1980   Radio and Records, March 28, 1980   |
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 18, 2023 4:50:19 GMT -5
good to see Linda dominating the charts!
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Post by Partridge on Sept 18, 2023 22:23:13 GMT -5
Linda had an album that leapt immediately into the Top 10. A top 10 single How Do I Make You. And I can tell you in the last 30 years exactly how many times I have heard How Do I Make You on the radio. One time. Yet I hear the Pat Benatar single from that time almost every week. I think rock radio turned against Linda as soon as she branched out into Broadway. My local rock station stopped playing her and never started back. The only time you will hear Ronstadt on the local rock station is when she is harmonizing with Neil Young and very rarely with Warren Zevon.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 19, 2023 8:46:56 GMT -5
In a certain way, imo, it is like re-writing history when such blatant disregard happens to a very popular cultural icon of a certain period. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Sept 20, 2023 8:28:39 GMT -5
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It just shows the immaturity or the lack of understanding of some of these goons who run radio stations, regardless of musical format. And while I have ranted and raved about this until I am blue in the face, it is especially bad here in Los Angeles, where, apart from the American Top 40 countdown shows, I have heard Linda's music played on the radio maybe a total of one hundred times since the year 2000. Think about that: 100 times in twenty-three and a half years.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 20, 2023 15:31:59 GMT -5
Like once a quarter!!! Pitiful for the stations there to do. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Sept 21, 2023 8:22:33 GMT -5
Quote by Eddiejinnj:
It's particularly bad, because after all Linda lived and worked here for the better part of twenty-five years; and whether it was in clubs like The Troubadour or concert venues like the Universal Amphitheater, she had a huge fan following.
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