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Post by Richard W on Aug 8, 2019 10:02:26 GMT -5
Dying to see this.
But I'm curious as to how much of the "performance footage that will knock [our] socks off" will be new to anyone on this forum. I mean, we have certainly been thorough in our excavations!
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Post by Richard W on Jul 29, 2019 8:41:14 GMT -5
I considered it, too, Erik, but had to go with Just One Look because it was a song I'd always felt missed the mark on the album.
But here, Linda and the band (especially Payne's keyboards) hit the song's sweet spot with a rollicking, Werewolves of London-like groove that the studio version just couldn't muster. Plus, Linda and Wendy really open up the old vocal chords to deliver some thrillingly soulful harmonious vowels on those sustains.
Knocks the album version off the shelf.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 24, 2019 14:55:19 GMT -5
Personally, I hope Sheryl Crowe is not involved. Although she appears to be the go-to for Linda doings, I don't think her voice is that much akin to Linda's to evoke anything about it.
Recently I read two interviews with Crowe, one in the Chicago Tribune not long after her performance at the documentary showing. In both, when asked about her influences, she named an extensive list that included just about everyone BUT Linda. She's allegedly named Linda in the past (right?), but you'd think after her several Linda-related performances Linda would be in the forefront of that list.
Maybe it's just me, but I find Crowe an uninteresting singer.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 23, 2019 12:59:00 GMT -5
Well, she loved traditional country music, she recorded a lot of it, she had hits with it, and her singing and country-rock pioneering influenced not only many later performers of it, but the genre itself.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 23, 2019 8:13:12 GMT -5
Read the comments. All positive, with several personal stories of encounters with her.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 13, 2019 13:38:46 GMT -5
I believe you're right. The DVD threw me off. It's a DVD-Audio disc.
Please ignore previous transmission...
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Post by Richard W on Jul 12, 2019 9:00:10 GMT -5
Used one is available, although I don't recall it ever being released on DVD in the US. However, this looks official.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 6, 2019 14:54:27 GMT -5
Agree, Erik.
I'm 1/4 Italian (with a maternal grandfather named Pasquale Monaco, first generation American) and while I'm proud of that Italian ancestry, I'd call into question any publication who referred to me as "Italian" as opposed to American.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 6, 2019 11:46:57 GMT -5
But why the headline "...Unpacks the Truth About a Mexican Music Star"?
She's not Mexican, she's American.
Unless no one no longer is American.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 5, 2019 9:30:36 GMT -5
With Madonna's latest "Madam X" incarnation, the discussion of reinvention to sustain one's career is especially relevant, and this guy gets it with regards to Linda. Good article.
I'd tell the author myself how much I appreciated his article, but the page has one of those "sign-up" apps to thwart trolling and I don't like them (much as I appreciate why they exist). I get enough spam as it is.
He gave the film 4 stars (out of 4?).
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Post by Richard W on Jul 3, 2019 7:41:44 GMT -5
It's almost like Princess Leia let down her buns.
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Post by Richard W on Jun 7, 2019 11:40:57 GMT -5
Creating your own playlist is not the same as radio programming.
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Post by Richard W on May 23, 2019 17:00:37 GMT -5
Sounds like a great collection. Thanks, Rick.
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Post by Richard W on May 15, 2019 9:48:29 GMT -5
"She never let her celebrity affect her and who she was...who was extraordinarily talented and went out in the world and did what she loved to do despite herself."
"She was guileless...and she would say, ‘I don’t understand it’ about why she was so loved. She knew her fans loved her...and that meant a lot to her."
Hmm. Sounds familiar...
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Post by Richard W on May 15, 2019 8:46:22 GMT -5
Well, Soul Bro got it -- it's the voice: "Angel of God singing in your face." I also appreciated that he scolded his audience for posting nasty, negative comments about some of his artist choices. I got the sense that when he said he'd be profiling the "ladies" of rock, there was a lot of negative feedback from the headbanger contingent, some of it evidently directed at his choice of Linda in particular. He was having none of it. One could carp about his (?) choosing that CMT video of the truncated version of Long Long Time (or the lame homemade "video" of You're No Good), but Soul Bro was obviously moved by it anyway (and who wouldn't be?). Still, I can imagine his breaking down in sobbing wonder if he'd played the live version from the Capitol compilation, which would have blown the "cans" right off his ears! Loved this pic from the episode: Attachments:
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Post by Richard W on May 14, 2019 13:08:52 GMT -5
It sure is, jhar.
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Post by Richard W on May 14, 2019 9:14:56 GMT -5
I think she hated doing that tv show but reluctantly did it as well as several movies she didn't care for out of loyalty to her employer whom she felt was doing things in her best interest. She did the TV show because her husband and manager (not a good combo!) Marty Melchor stole and squandered the money she'd made over the years, and she was broke. The TV show restored her finances (somewhat), and she came to like doing it, even if it were more a means to an end at the start. Melchor also, as her manager, committed her to that string of (largely) lame sex comedies in the '60s (Where Were You When the Lights Went Out, Caprice, etc.) that she was contractually/legally obligated to make. She only discovered all of this perfidy upon Melchor's death. No wonder she quit making movies!
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Post by Richard W on May 14, 2019 9:09:43 GMT -5
Lovely woman, lovely actress, great singer. R.I.P. She could make the sun shine on a cloudy day. Also, let's not forget that Doris made a number of fine albums that aren't related to her movies. And then there is her early music with Les Brown. A fine, fine artist. Day by Night is a fantastic album.
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Post by Richard W on May 14, 2019 9:08:55 GMT -5
I am a huge fan of Doris Day (and Lucille Ball). Day starred in my favorite movie: "Lullaby Of Broadway". Just watched Lullaby of Broadway for the first time last night! Loved it. Funny you mentioned Linda in your letter to Doris. So did I! In my cover letter I said how much I loved her big band singing and said the only other singer who could put across that "intimate" sound was Linda.
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Post by Richard W on May 13, 2019 13:55:30 GMT -5
Loved her. I have an autographed picture she signed for me several years ago, a still I made from the Hitchcock film and stylized in Photoshop. She had a marvelous, intimate singing style -- when she wasn't belting, and she could belt it with the best of them.
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Post by Richard W on May 10, 2019 8:29:17 GMT -5
What Keach says I (and we) have been saying for what seems like a billion years.
Only now, people are finally hearing it and paying attention. I would never have suspected that 2019 would be such a bandwagon year for Linda.
One thing is for sure, though: none of my friends could ever accuse me of jumping on that bandwagon! I've been driving those horses since 1973.
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Post by Richard W on May 10, 2019 8:21:44 GMT -5
"I suppose Linda doesn't fit in the clique but they let her visit to attend funerals." Hi-larious!
Yep, Outlaw Country: 90% Jennings, Cash, Nelson, and Coulter (!), 10% misc.
Not only that, but seemingly the same 10 or so songs from each. Got old real fast.
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Post by Richard W on May 10, 2019 8:16:18 GMT -5
Agree with you about Collins's voice, Eddie, but I'd go further and say I find it outright irritating. Not saying she's not worthy, just that I don't personally find the (ahem) sound of her voice particularly appealing. Same for Mitchell. Both are pitched too high for my ears.
In fact, when I saw The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress listed on Linda's (then) new album Get Closer, I cringed, having been subjected to Collins's warbling of it too many times in college. Needless to say, I was tinglingly (?) surprised when I first played Linda's version (even if I still find the piano too tinkly-winkly).
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Post by Richard W on May 9, 2019 9:23:33 GMT -5
My error, Erik.
Still, never heard anything from Guilty played on the Sirius '80s channel, either!
It must be in the bottom of the same box in the storage locker as Mad Love.
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Post by Richard W on May 8, 2019 18:20:41 GMT -5
I can testify to all that, Tony.
Remember the Streisand / Gibb album, Guilty? Huge hit, several hit singles.
In 10 years of Sirius, I never heard any track from that album on the '70s station, even if I heard such dreck as Chirpa-Chirpa-Cheep Cheep, One Tin Soldier, and Seasons in the Sun so many times I developed song cancer from them.
The thing I did like about satellite radio was when you are on a road trip you can keep the station no matter how far you drive. But I don't do enough of that.
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Post by Richard W on May 7, 2019 8:57:30 GMT -5
Isn’t there an anecdote attributed to Carly Simon in the book “Girls Like Us,” in which Carly says she, Joni and Linda would meet for lunch, and, Carly said something to the effect of: “Of course, Linda ate all of the food.” ?? Well, if Linda did, she needed all that food for her calorie-burning vocals and to maintain her stamina on her strenuous album tours. Carly and Joni could get by on much less...
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Post by Richard W on May 7, 2019 8:53:04 GMT -5
Just canceled my Sirius sub after 10 years. Just wasn't worth it. I'll miss a few stations, Willie's Roadhouse in particular, but having found a local FM oldies station, 87.7 ME, that plays a great mix of 50s - 80s songs, with plenty of Linda, more obscure hits, and the occasional album cut (when was the last time I heard Baez's Diamonds and Rust on Sirius? never), I find I don't need Sirius's decade channels, particularly their non-Linda 80s channel. (Having listened to that channel for 10 years I can verify that Linda has never been played on it except in the context of a weekly countdown).
Be aware, Tony, that you can't cancel your subscription online. If you try you'll find yourself in a loop wasting time. You'll ultimately have to call them and talk to a sales rep who will do their very best to keep you.
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Post by Richard W on May 3, 2019 18:30:10 GMT -5
She is proud of her Mexican roots and culture, and always has been. But she also, as an American, had other interests, casting a wider net beyond heritage.
That she didn't focus exclusively on Mexican music is an issue for some people. As if ethnicity defines—or should define—all, and is the only legitimate direction you're allowed to explore.
Linda's brilliance and originality are that, wide as that net was, she always caught what she was after. All of the styles and genres she sang in were authentic to her art.
Linda may not agree with that next to last sentence, but she would with the last one. She's said so herself, albeit in different words.
Viva Linda!
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Post by Richard W on May 3, 2019 17:52:54 GMT -5
I agree with everything you say, Ronstadtfanaz. What irritated me about that review was that the reviewer held the film to task for not delving into the socio-political aspects of Linda's life, when the purpose of the movie was to document her musical/artistic life.
Your post reminds me of when Canciones came out and the Chicago Tribune reviewer accused Linda of cultural appropriation, obviously ignorant of her ethnicity, something that Linda herself never tried to hide, even if she didn't declare it from the rooftops.
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Post by Richard W on May 3, 2019 8:12:15 GMT -5
That Remezcla review was irritating. I can't stand reviewers that focus more on what's NOT in a film, what the film DOESN'T say, rather than evaluating what's right in front of their faces. I can't stand it when they drag all their luggage into the theater and expect the film to carry all of it. It seems as if this reviewer would only be satisfied if Linda's musical story (emphasis on musical) were embedded in a 10-hour documentary on the history and sociological struggles and cultural sufferings of Mexican-Americans in the 20th century. That Linda herself (evidently and as far as we have been told) did not suffer overt discrimination or repression because of her ethnic roots is some sort of strike against her. That she apparently suffered more discrimination for being female in a male-dominated industry just isn't suffering enough for this reviewer. Nope. Linda in this movie has to represent all Mexican-Americans and tell all of their stories, not just her own.
Also, I'm getting sick of race and identity politics constantly being thrown up all over everything. For one thing, "Mexican" is not a race, it's an ethnicity. For another, the whole concept of "race" is about as meaningful as phrenology. Maybe "racist" is just easier to say than "ethnicist". And of course the reviewer couldn't resist bringing up the fact that it was two white men with their inherent "white gaze" who [took the time, money, and effort] made this film, completely straight-gazing (if you will) over the fact that both filmmakers are gay, a fact that is hardly relevant to the film but that I point out as an example of the reviewer's identity-politics hypocrisy.
Crap! I've got to stop.
I don't know why this particular review set me off this morning. Perhaps I need more coffee and some Linda tune-age to perk up me spirits. (But no canciones since I'm a white guy/Anglo and I couldn't possibly properly appreciate an art form and a culture that is not my own. Maybe I should just stick with Pat Boone.)
I guess I've just had my fill this week (and the one before, and the one before that, and the one...) of identity politics and tribalism. Tribalism. It will be the death of us all, if climate change doesn't get us first.
Crap! Music, now!, before I...
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