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Post by Partridge on Mar 23, 2024 19:33:46 GMT -5
Yes, I like that Lou Ann Barton album. A couple of Wanda Jackson songs on that CD. You've convinced me to take it down off the shelf. Haven't listened to it in years. I would recommend her album Old Enough, on Asylum Records, also.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 23, 2024 14:23:33 GMT -5
Wanda Jackson, Let's Have a Party
That's one of the first songs I liked as a child. That, and also Mean Mean Man by Wanda Jackson, in which she does a pretty good Elvis impersonation. I'm certain I heard this song by her before 1960,as I had not yet started going to school. Wanda Jackson was my first favorite female singer. I liked her and Ricky Nelson.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 22, 2024 20:42:48 GMT -5
I wonder what the penalty for creating a new fake Luke Bryan song would be. Maybe the damages would have to be decided by a lawsuit.
Personally, I think anyone creating a fake Luke Bryan song should be persecuted to the full extent of the law.
I know.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 20, 2024 17:08:17 GMT -5
Billboard, June 13, 1981CashBox, June 13, 1981Billboard, June 20, 1981Record World, June 20, 1981Billboard, June 27, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 20, 2024 13:39:01 GMT -5
I found this article on the 25 most-covered country songs of all time:
25 most covered country songs of all time
Linda has recorded several of these songs:
Crazy Arms I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) I Fall to Pieces Hey Good Lookin' I Will Always Love You Ring of Fire Crazy
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2024 23:08:01 GMT -5
The main purpose of this article was not to inform, but to present the information in the most verbose way as possible, in order to make the article longer with more room for advertisements. So you would think they would have had more explanation about Linda's version. The placement of the intrusions made it hard to read.
But thank you rick for posting it.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2024 23:04:24 GMT -5
I was watching on an 85-inch screen and some panels were so small as to be almost impossible to read. They would be meaningless if watching on a smaller screen or even on an ipad. Common sense.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2024 2:12:05 GMT -5
Billboard, May 2, 1981CashBox, May 2, 1981Record World, May 2, 1981Record World, May 9, 1981Billboard, May 16, 1981CashBox, May 16, 1981Record World, May 16, 1981Radio and Records, May 22, 1981Billboard, May 23, 1981Billboard, May 30, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 14, 2024 12:07:32 GMT -5
Back in the day, I remember a lot of people thought Linda oversang Long Long Time. She was often accused of shouting or screaming instead of singing. My how the times have changed, as one of the many "reaction" videos complained that he was waiting for Linda to amp up the song. These days a lot of people expect too much amperage.
"Searching for the first power ballad" could be a new thread, applying that term to songs that came before. I thought of another. "It Must Be Him" by Vikki Carr would be called a power ballad if it had been released a couple of decades later.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 9, 2024 23:41:25 GMT -5
Billboard, April 4, 1981Record World, April 4, 1981Billboard, April 11, 1981Record World, April 11, 1981Billboard, April 25, 1981CashBox, April 25, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 7, 2024 21:35:26 GMT -5
Radio and Records, March 20, 1981CashBox, March 21, 1981Record World, March 21, 1981Billboard, March 28, 1981CashBox, March 28, 1981Record World, March 28, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 2, 2024 21:34:26 GMT -5
I don't know of anyone who would appreciate my stuff. I had a younger cousin who asked me to leave him my comic book collection and my LPs. I gave him a few items he wanted but he has already left this world.
I have given away most of my LPs to enthusiasts since vinyl has made a comeback. I did have some remorse at getting rid of most of my Kinks albums from the 1960s. I have every Skeeter Davis LP on vinyl (no one cares, not even me), most every Ronstadt title on vinyl, every Ronstadt CD. People do want my Ronstadt LPs but I'm not ready to part with them yet. I did give away to a teenage cousin a promo copy of Greatest Hits II.
I suppose the items I have that might be wanted by an organization would be the gold record for Blue Bayou, the platinum album for TRIO presented to Linda Ronstadt, the NARM award for having the best-selling LP by a female artist. And a few other RIAA platinum albums presented to people in the industry.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 26, 2024 22:43:08 GMT -5
Billboard, March 7, 1981CashBox, March 7, 1981Record World, March 7, 1981Billboard, March 14, 1981CashBox, March 14, 1981Record World, March 14, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 24, 2024 21:49:02 GMT -5
Billboard, February 21, 1981CashBox, February 21, 1981Record World, February 21, 1981Billboard, February 28, 1981CashBox, February 28, 1981Record World, February 28, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 23:05:57 GMT -5
Billboard, February 7, 1981CashBox, February 7, 1981Record World, February 7, 1981Billboard, February 14, 1981CashBox, February 14, 1981Record World, February 14, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 22:48:13 GMT -5
The song I was thinking about that has not been recorded by anyone else- It's About Time- from the Hand Sown album. I could not find another version so I wrote the writer/producer and he said no one else had ever recorded the song.
I can't think of another version of The Long Way Around either.
Apologies for hijacking the original intent of this thread with my offhand remark! I suppose this discussion should properly be a separate thread.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 13:09:43 GMT -5
Alyn, another problem with vinyl is that it is just so heavy. I heard a crash last night. I had one of those cheaply made shelving units from Office Depot that have shelves held into place by pegs in tiny holes. The pegs failed and one shelf of vinyl records crashed to the floor. My first thought was that a cat had caused the crash and I was fearful the cat was under that pile of records. But no, it was peg failure. Luckily, no records were seriously damaged.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 12:48:47 GMT -5
He refers to everything Linda sings as being a cover. That is not true. She recorded many songs in her career that she was the first person to bring to record. If the songwriter later records the song, that does not convert Linda's to a cover version. She recorded Karla Bonoff songs a year before Karla recorded them on her own album. And if Linda had not recorded the songs, chances are that Karla would not have had that major label deal. She recorded Faithless Love a year before J D Souther released his own recording. (Can you name any song that Linda recorded that has never been released, before or since, by any other artist?} She recorded Heart Like a Wheel the year before the McGarrigles released their first album, and chances are... (However, Heart Like a Wheel had been previously released in 1972 by McKendree Spring.)
Also, I think his memory failed him. He relates a story about Linda not liking Andrew Gold's guitar work on When Will I Be Loved. I don't recall ever hearing that. But I could be wrong. I think he is referring to the guitar extro that Gould added to You're No Good.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 14, 2024 1:58:32 GMT -5
Billboard, January 24, 1981CashBox, January 24, 1981Record World, January 24, 1981Billboard, January 31, 1981CashBox, January 31, 1981Record World, January 31, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 13, 2024 22:23:21 GMT -5
Well, first off it's not so funny. The only thing I get from this cartoon is that Neuman is bringing Linda flowers and candy for Valentine's Day, and the improbability that Linda would be interested in him. But according to his shirt, he has no worries.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 12, 2024 23:37:33 GMT -5
Billboard, January 10, 1981CashBox, January 10, 1981Record World, January 10, 1981Radio and Records, January 16, 1981Billboard, January 17, 1981CashBox, January 17, 1981Record World, January 17, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 12, 2024 11:18:58 GMT -5
She wants to add to her collection another Grammy in a different category. This could be her Album of the Year.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 9, 2024 10:54:05 GMT -5
He had several songs over the years that I liked, and many that I detested.
I liked: I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying Who's That Man I'm Not As Good As I Once Was
I never knew until after reading his obituary what caused the friction between him and the Dixie Chicks. I always thought of him as a centrist patriotic conservative, but apparently he was just a run-of-the-mill asshole. He should have been cancelled, not the Chicks.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 8, 2024 21:09:03 GMT -5
Mojo made my Top 10 favorite songs list (only one song per artist): 10 favorite songsOf course I got carried away and expanded my list to 50 songs. I wanted to have enough data so you could create a personality profile of me.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 6, 2024 22:00:24 GMT -5
The three publications are not covering the same areas of time. I think Record World and maybe CashBox try to include their statistics up close to December but Billboard measures chart success from October to October. I noticed that Ronstadt Greatest Hits 2, which I think was available for almost 3 months of 1980, was not listed as charting during Billboard's measured time period.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 6, 2024 15:15:31 GMT -5
CashBox, December 20, 1980Record World, December 20, 1980Billboard, December 27, 1980Record World, December 27, 1980
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Post by Partridge on Feb 5, 2024 2:31:20 GMT -5
I haven't watched the Grammy Awards yet, or rather sped through them. But I did see someone on the news, a singer whose name I don't even remember, and it said she was nominated as a Best New Artist, and all I could think is "this is what singing is now."
But the Grammys have always been a joke.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 4, 2024 12:17:15 GMT -5
Billboard, December 20, 1980
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Post by Partridge on Feb 1, 2024 23:20:05 GMT -5
Billboard, December 6, 1980CashBox, December 6, 1980Record World, December 6, 1980Radio and Records, December 12, 1980Billboard, December 13, 1980Record World, December 13, 1980
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Post by Partridge on Feb 1, 2024 1:40:06 GMT -5
Thank you, Tony, for posting the article with the photos and captions. And thank you for sending me it.
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