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Post by Partridge on Oct 21, 2023 13:45:18 GMT -5
Billboard, June 21, 1980    CashBox, June 21, 1980     Record World, June 21, 1980
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Post by erik on Oct 21, 2023 22:11:32 GMT -5
Even though Linda's version of "I Can't Let Go" was not quite the big hit its Mad Love predecessors were (#31), it was still one of her greatest vocal performances (with her doing multi-track vocals). It also came from such an active period of her career, what with Mad Love being a controversial but ridiculously successful album, and Linda about to take the big plunge into Gilbert & Sullivan.
I don't recall what any of her fans at that time thought of her Pirates excursion at the time. On one hand, in retrospect it is easy to understand why she wanted to do this on an aesthetic level, and, on a more practical level, she never thought what she was doing belonged in arenas and stadiums. On the other hand, I would wager that at least a few people, fans and peers alike, were starting to wonder whether she had finally flipped her lid.
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 22, 2023 1:00:06 GMT -5
I really like the Mad Love album. It has great energy and some wonderful vocals from Linda.
I’m still very disappointed that Party Girl was left off Live in Hollywood as it’s an amazing performance.
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Post by MokyWI on Oct 22, 2023 5:58:09 GMT -5
Never once did it ever cross my mind she flipped her lid, not for a second. Even with the Mexican music, and I knew nothing about that type of music. The only time I ever heard it is when we drove from Nashville where we lived from 72-76 during childhood to my cousins on Easter who lived in Houston Texas. I remember hearing the music on the radio in the car. If people had taken the time to open their ears and their minds the critics that foolishly laughed and made fun of her for making those albums might of heard LINDA knew what she was doing. Having said that, I had no idea it would become the hit over time that it has become. Maybe I kept an open mind because I was infatuated with her at that time, but anyone listening to her vocals on that first one, really listened instead of laughing at what they didn’t understand I think would have heard LINDA knew exactly what she was doing! Now who’s laughing?! …not Elvis Costello…
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 22, 2023 6:10:25 GMT -5
The diversity of the music Linda put out in the 80s is astonishing - especially when much of it was not initially supported by her record company, until it sold in the millions!
She absolutely knew what she was doing and I for one am so pleased to have all this music to enjoy still today.
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Post by erik on Oct 22, 2023 13:13:34 GMT -5
Quote by fabtastique:
If ever they put out the complete Live In Hollywood, both on DVD and CD, as, in my opinion, they should, then I think a lot of us will be in seventh heaven.
Quote by MokiWI:
Mind you, I'm not saying that every fan thought Linda had flipped her lid by doing the things she did during the 1980's, just some. What made practical and emotional sense for her to do may simply not have made sense to the "bean counters", at least not immediately. Even Trio wasn't exactly welcome by open arms in Nashville when it came out in March 1987 (according to George Massenburg, who produced it: "It hit Nashville like a bomb. They loathed it").
And although it's kind of redundant now to say, even Elvis Costello came around (too late for a lot of people, but that's the way it is).
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