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Post by Partridge on Apr 20, 2020 13:43:21 GMT -5
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Post by Partridge on Apr 18, 2020 22:06:50 GMT -5
Okay, so that shows A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes was commercially available as a cassette single. The CD single on ebay is a promo, which I thought I had a copy of, but I may be confusing that with the Dreams to Dream CD single.
I used to have a cassette single of Dreams to Dream. I had it on my desk at work and tosis dude came in and said that he loved that song, so I gave him the cassette. Then later on I read in Billboard that it was one of the rarest cassette singles and had a twinge of regret about my generosity.
Having a lot of time on my hands in recent weeks, I have again alphabetized my CD collection (excluding all the Ronstadt CDs I've accumulated) and alphabetized my LPs. Somehow over the years with shrinkage I no longer own an LP copy of Prisoner in Disguise. I suppose it is time to get the Ronstadt CDs in some kind of order. I don't actually play them any more because I've got all my music on a hard drive.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 18, 2020 12:02:24 GMT -5
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes by Linda Ronstadt was reviewed in the September 30, 1995 issue of Billboard Magazine. The review notes that it is a CD single, as opposed to the Dusty Springfield song which is identified as a CD promo. I looked for this single for weeks but never found one and have never seen one other than a promo. I don't think this record exists as a retail item. Does anyone have one? I thought I had a promo but I can't find it.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 18, 2020 1:49:03 GMT -5
Linda looks thrilled. 😉 All those sales, marketing, and promo people didn't really deliver a lot of results, did they?
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Post by Partridge on Apr 18, 2020 1:46:00 GMT -5
I have really been trying over the years to hear and hear something I missed in "High Sierra", but it hasn't worked. It was really the first time in all the years I have been a fan of hers where I just plain didn't like the way she sang. One song I've never warmed up to is So Right So Wrong but as I recall the Paul Carrack version didn't offend me as much. I think I would like the song better if Linda re-imagined it as a lullaby.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 17, 2020 22:19:22 GMT -5
from Billboard Magazine, July 15, 1995
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Post by Partridge on Apr 17, 2020 22:10:17 GMT -5
Erik, you need to give those songs that don't impress you much another listen now and then. It took me over 20 years to develop an appreciation for the Don't Cry Now album, but then one day it clicked with me.
Likewise, today I heard Aretha Franklin's version of I Say A Little Prayer. I have never liked her version of that song, but today my mind was receptive.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 17, 2020 15:03:50 GMT -5
Lack of radio support killed this album. Plus the record company refused to have it chart as a country album.
One factoid that had eluded me is that more than one million dollars was spent recording the album (but in retrospect I suppose that sum also includes the recording of Trio II). Still a lot of money to recoup.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 17, 2020 1:32:14 GMT -5
May 10, 1995- Philadelphia Daily News
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Post by Partridge on Apr 17, 2020 1:30:14 GMT -5
April 23, 1995- The Odessa American (TX)
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Post by Partridge on Apr 17, 2020 1:27:52 GMT -5
April 23, 1995- Chicago Tribune
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Post by Partridge on Apr 17, 2020 1:25:52 GMT -5
San Francisco Examiner, March 19, 1995
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Post by Partridge on Apr 9, 2020 14:41:17 GMT -5
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Post by Partridge on Apr 9, 2020 14:38:51 GMT -5
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Post by Partridge on Apr 9, 2020 3:20:05 GMT -5
from the Daily News, September 23, 1979
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Post by Partridge on Apr 8, 2020 3:26:57 GMT -5
I bought his first album back in 1971. I had not heard him but I bought it based on a review, I think, in Penthouse Magazine. And then later I loved Bette Midler's version of Hello in There from that album. And Bonnie Raitt's Angel from Montgomery of course.
I've enjoyed many of his albums over the years.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 6, 2020 1:37:39 GMT -5
I've been looking through the newspaper sources - there was a lot of comparison of Pat Benatar with Linda Ronstadt in the early '80s, and it seems the media usually called Pat Benatar the true rocker because she didn't do those mopey sad broken-heart songs. The truth probably was she did not have the talent for those types of songs.
At any rate, I thought it was odd that Linda's album Mad Love, a million-seller that peaked at #3 is regarded as a flop by some.
But here I'm reading about Pat Benatar's departure album, True Love, after her platinum days were over. This album produced no hits, did not even go gold, and peaked at #37 on the charts, and this article says that "True Love" was "a solid success."
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Post by Partridge on Apr 5, 2020 1:16:35 GMT -5
I think I might have captured some of those articles but my computer died about 10 days ago and I lost some stuff that wasn't backed up. But I've ordered a cable to attach to the hard drive to retrieve some lost files. I will look for the Dedicated article.
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Post by Partridge on Apr 4, 2020 13:12:38 GMT -5
About six months ago, I started posting some newspaper articles that are related to Linda Ronstadt, not so many in the last month or so. That is because I got a subscription to newspapers.com, which allows access to hundreds, maybe thousands of newspapers. But my subscription is expiring next week, and I've decided not to pay the $75 for another six months.
So if anyone can think of a particular Linda Ronstadt newspaper article that they remember, let me know and I'll try to find it before the subscription lapses.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 26, 2020 13:28:07 GMT -5
Ah! I need to read more carefully. I didn’t catch that.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 26, 2020 11:46:09 GMT -5
And the picture in the middle of the shirt is not Linda Ronstadt. It's the now ubiquitous Holly. 1000th post
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Post by Partridge on Mar 25, 2020 23:50:04 GMT -5
I viewed on youTube the Ann Hampton Callaway tribute to Linda Ronstadt from the Kennedy Center this past December.
Not a Linda Ronstadt impersonator, she does a tribute to Linda but many of the arrangements are totally different from Linda's. I enjoyed the hour.
Linda spent 20 years of her performing career dressed in black from head to toe, and Callaway has that attire too. But Callaway did dress up the look with her Tucson boots and a nice jacket. 999 post
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Post by Partridge on Mar 24, 2020 21:55:44 GMT -5
I am only going by what I recall, but if I remember correctly, Linda did not want to sing the song because she was in the midst of Nelson Riddle mania and she thought she should stick to that one style for the time. Streisand did not care for the song.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 24, 2020 21:53:53 GMT -5
Looking at the year-end charts, I see John Boylan had 8 charted singles as a producer.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 24, 2020 20:44:37 GMT -5
I thought the days of Rolling Stone torpedoing Linda Ronstadt were behind us. This article is just a steaming pile of bullshit. The album was a hit and went platinum almost immediately. As pointed out here, it entered the chart at #5, higher than any female artist had ever done before. Surprisingly, it peaked at #3. Still, in their December year-end charts, Billboard placed the album at #27 for the year. Linda did not dominate the sales charts as she had in previous years, but those singles that Rolling Stone claim did not do well were enough to place Linda as the #1 female singer for the year, according to Billboard. Pat Benatar came on strong as an album artist during 1980, although surprisingly her singles did not do as well. I think there was a lot of radio resistance to Linda's new sound too. And as we have seen, it is primarily radio airplay, not sales, that determines chart position. Linda was one of the best-selling female artists of the 1980s decade- everything went platinum except Get Closer. I like to point out that if you take away Linda's Nelson Riddle recordings, her Trio record, her Canciones recording, and her Broadway album, and left only her pop music, she scored more Top 10 hits during the decade than Pat Benatar. Yet you never hear Linda's Top 10 hits any more, but they play the heck out of Benatar songs that only went Top 30. Here is a page from Billboard's year-end awards issue of December 20, 1980:
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Post by Partridge on Mar 24, 2020 0:40:27 GMT -5
According to USA Today, Kenny Rogers asked both Linda Ronstadt and Barbra Streisand to duet with him on Islands in the Stream before Dolly Parton.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 21, 2020 23:30:23 GMT -5
I had looked at his website and some of his sketches are priced very reasonably. $75 for Adele. I wondered why at this point in time he was drawing Linda Ronstadt. Very good work. This looks like one of his more pricy commissions. Thanks for sharing it with the world (I grabbed it from a Twitter post).
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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 Partridge on Mar 21, 2020 14:45:59 GMT -5
I have picked two country artists, Skeeter Davis and Waylon Jennings, and am listening to all their albums in chronological order.
It took Skeeter quite a while to find her groove. Much of that blame can be placed on Chet Atkins. The first album from 1959 is very good, but that double-tracking of the vocals can get tiresome. And the concept for the second album is a total loser- "Here's the Answer"- to take 6 hit songs and provide 6 answer songs. So it's only half a Skeeter Davis album to begin with, and only two of the answers are worth hearing. And I suppose she will always be remembered for the title of her third album- The End of the World. At least on this album they did not double-track her vocals, and I actually prefer her version of My Coloring Book to the Streisand.
Waylon Jennings was also produced by Chet Atkins and he spent the entire 1960s complaining about the arrangements and musicians because he would have preferred using his own band. Still, from the very beginning, each album has several gems. And you can credit that to his amazing baritone. Certainly one of the best country singers ever.
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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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