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Post by Richard W on May 8, 2013 10:38:18 GMT -5
She is a dead ringer for Linda Blair in that photo.
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Post by JasonKlose on May 9, 2013 16:05:24 GMT -5
This is my favorite album cover of Linda's, next to "Hasten Down the Wind". "Hummin' to Myself" in 2004 was Linda's last album; then of course she did "Adieu False Heart" with Ann Savoy in 2006, but that was a collaboration. But I love this cover. It's so colorful and Linda's beauty was never more apparent. Her eyes just sparkle and she has the most perfect lips. Love her hair too at this time, with the highlights. Linda was and is beautiful in any decade, but I really think in a way she has become more beautiful with age. What a gorgeous woman!
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Post by sliderocker on May 9, 2013 16:24:29 GMT -5
This is my favorite album cover of Linda's, next to "Hasten Down the Wind". "Hummin' to Myself in 2004 was Linda's last album; then of course she did "Adieu False Heart" with Ann Savoy in 2006, but that was a collaboration. But I love this cover. It's so colorful and Linda's beauty was never more apparent. Her eyes just sparkle and she has the most perfect lips. Love her hair too at this time, with the highlights. Linda was and is beautiful in any decade, but I really think in a way she has become more beautiful with age. What a gorgeous woman! I like the "Hummin' to Myself" album cover as well for all the reasons you list. A funny thing about the front covers of Linda's albums is that I thought some were gorgeous (like HTM and HDTW) while others were hit and miss. "Heart Like a Wheel," great album but I always thought they should've used the b&w front cover photo as a back cover photo, and used a different shot as the front cover photo. "Don't Cry Now" used a reasonably good photo but it was ruined by bad color. Many of the album covers may have looked good at the time but some just didn't hold up well over time. And with album covers being part of the production costs (in that the record company either had an in-house art department or used an outside art company, which meant spending money), one would've thought the record company would've wanted the best possible designed album covers.
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 9, 2013 17:05:25 GMT -5
simple dreams is classic par excellence. I have "mad love" framed and down in florida in a room that it would match in. it is a work of period art too. eddiejinnj
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Post by MokyWI on May 9, 2013 17:12:21 GMT -5
Several of her albums were nominated for a Grammy for best album package, and a few even won. I love the cover of HTM, one of my favorite album cover of Ronstadt's IMO. As far as HLAW that cover is timeless and breathtaking, again, my opinion. My favorite is HLAW tied with PID. DCN fits 1973 perfectly. The only cover I don't care for and was shocked she did was LIUSA. It was beneath her IMO and it does not hold up well. I would guess it is the most well known of all of them though it was not her top seller but was the first album in history to shipped double platinum at that time. I don't think it helped her image. I know many that dismiss her importance in music history because of it.
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Post by MokyWI on May 9, 2013 17:20:06 GMT -5
I would have picked the photo that shows her relaxing in a chair on a front porch with her roller skates on and legs over the arm of the chair. It was used for promotion and a single release from LITUSA, but that hairstyle was AWFUL! One of my sisters has the same coloring of hair, was Ronstadt's size and skin tone. When that album came out she got her hair permed just like it! She graduated from high school in 1978 and was a Ronstadt fan as well. We teased the hell out of her when she came home with that hair.
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 9, 2013 17:31:56 GMT -5
winter light is a cool package with her face on the cd and inside back liner. Jason how did you come upon linda and your passion for her music is very refreshing. I think it was erik or one other member that said if they heard don't stop believing they turn it off. it is good you found a class act that is not played ad nauseum especially one or two hits. you talk about linda as if she were the female version of Justin Bieber sp? in your mind. that is soooo cool. just thought i'd add that. kudos for your excellent taste. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on May 10, 2013 9:38:57 GMT -5
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Post by Robert Morse on May 10, 2013 10:25:32 GMT -5
Thanks for posting these pics Erik. This was such a great show with both Linda and Emmy on the bill along with Stray Cats, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. I have some pictures someplace taken from very far away so it was a treat to see these close up shots.
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Post by musicaamator on May 10, 2013 10:36:59 GMT -5
Thanks for posting these pics Erik. This was such a great show with both Linda and Emmy on the bill along with Stray Cats, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. I have some pictures someplace taken from very far away so it was a treat to see these close up shots. Can you or anyone provide some details of this show? What music festival was this? Did Linda headline it? Attendance figures too? Just curious. Thanks.
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Post by JasonKlose on May 10, 2013 11:22:05 GMT -5
I was struck at how similar these two pictures are of Linda. Similar pose and similar expression on Linda's face, but 40+ years apart. She has aged so well.........still so pretty.
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Post by the Scribe on May 10, 2013 11:39:36 GMT -5
Yes, Linda was blessed with a very cute "baby face" that usually doesn't translate well with age but her case seems to be the exception. She looks so much like her Grandma that I would be curious to see her at that age too. Wouldn't we love to have access to the Ronstadt Family photo stash!
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Post by Robert Morse on May 10, 2013 13:34:09 GMT -5
It was a Willie Nelson Family Picnic. I think that was the entire line up but there may have been another artist. I remember it seemed like a long tie from when Emmy opened the show until Linda went on. The old Giants Stadium was huge - you might be able to research online.
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Post by musicaamator on May 10, 2013 13:57:14 GMT -5
It was a Willie Nelson Family Picnic. I think that was the entire line up but there may have been another artist. I remember it seemed like a long tie from when Emmy opened the show until Linda went on. The old Giants Stadium was huge - you might be able to research online. Thanks! Found the information: 1983
PICNIC? Sorta. Willie played July 4 at Atlanta International Raceway, July 3 at Giants Stadium in New Jersey and July 2 at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
WHAT HAPPENED: Two years without a Picnic apparently gave Willie the itch to ease back into it with a few all-day stadium shows. The Associated Press duly noted that the show in Syracuse would mark the first time beer would be sold in the Carrier Dome since a Kenny Rogers concert in 1982. About 25,000 showed up.
The show in East Rutherford, N.J. attracted nearly twice that, though dueling reports said temperatures reached 96, 103 and 115 degrees on the field
And in Hampton, just outside Atlanta, up to 30,000 saw a show that mixed David Allan Coe with the Stray Cats and Linda Ronstadt. (source: www.austin360.com/news/entertainment/music/the-almost-definitive-chronology-of-willies-four-1/nRtzC/) Also found a NYT review of said concert. Gave good reviews for Linda: www.nytimes.com/1983/07/05/arts/music-willie-nelson-and-friends-perform-at-jersey-picnic.html
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 12, 2013 8:13:44 GMT -5
I guess with litusa, she was reflecting what was goin on in the country with the roller skating fad she helped bolster. her photo shoot with the white pants suit on and curly hair is gorgeous and also the one pic that was on the single sleeve for back in the usa of her in the dodgers shirt and curly hair in that cool lighting is awesome. she looks like a baseball china doll lol and almost looks fake she looks so perfect. eddiejinnj
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 12, 2013 8:38:50 GMT -5
I am not sure how I did not hear of the willie picinic at the time. I did see her that summer. it was right before "what's new" came out and me and some friends saw her at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center in NY. she looked great and was a rocking show. eddiejinnj
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Post by JasonKlose on May 12, 2013 11:11:22 GMT -5
I guess with litusa, she was reflecting what was goin on in the country with the roller skating fad she helped bolster. her photo shoot with the white pants suit on and curly hair is gorgeous and also the one pic that was on the single sleeve for back in the usa of her in the dodgers shirt and curly hair in that cool lighting is awesome. she looks like a baseball china doll lol and almost looks fake she looks so perfect. eddiejinnj I have to say.......Linda's permed hair was not my favorite hairstyle of hers, but I thought she looked really cute actually. I think Linda looks good with any hairstyle or in any outfit. She has such an adorable face. I think I know the pic you're talking about.......the one of her in the white pants suit. I have an 8x10 of that picture which I want to frame. And you're absolutely right. She is gorgeous! She did look so cool in the Dodgers shirt and roller skates. It was the Living in the USA album that was popular when I first heard Linda's lovely voice on the radio. I have that album on vinyl and it will always be very special to me. I only rediscovered Linda and her music a little over two years ago, and I wish I had much sooner. I never had the chance to see her in concert but hope to meet her sometime. It would be awesome if she could sign one of my albums.
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Post by musicaamator on May 12, 2013 15:11:28 GMT -5
eddie/jason: Is this the photo you are both referring to? I must admit too that her permed hairstyle of 1978 was not my favourite, but still very pretty nonetheless! I like her with long hair personally although I really thought she slayed it with the short hair during the Mad Love era. She was so pretty there!
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Post by JasonKlose on May 12, 2013 21:09:49 GMT -5
eddie/jason: Is this the photo you are both referring to? I must admit too that her permed hairstyle of 1978 was not my favourite, but still very pretty nonetheless! I like her with long hair personally although I really thought she slayed it with the short hair during the Mad Love era. She was so pretty there! Yes......that's the one! She is so gorgeous! But like you, I also prefer her hair longer.......like during her Hasten Down the Wind and Simple Dreams era.
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Post by Robert Morse on May 13, 2013 12:05:18 GMT -5
I am not sure how I did not hear of the willie picinic at the time. I did see her that summer. it was right before "what's new" came out and me and some friends saw her at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center in NY. she looked great and was a rocking show. eddiejinnj Eddie - we were at the SPAC show together:) I have some pictures somehwere - sadly not the best! I was remember all the times I saw Linda at SPAC when I saw the Beach Boys there last summer. For several years it just worked out that the Beach Boys played one night and Linda the next at SPAC (or the other way around) - ah the good old days!!!!! That Willie Nelson picnic was brutal. It was hot as all get out and it just seemed like years between Emmy and Linda doing their sets. I remember walking out on Willie Nelson as he was just going on and on - perfect Willie set if you were a huge fan!
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Post by musicaamator on May 13, 2013 14:16:12 GMT -5
A friend recently found this youtube video and spotted the photo of me and Linda right in the middle of When Will I Be Loved and decided the guy in the background needed to go. With or without me it is one of the cutest photos of Linda (even if Roy cut half of her out of the photo... oh the humanity). May I ask how you were able to be next to Linda? She is absolutely stunning in that photo and the way she is looking at you makes me envious! That is a great photo although I am saddened too that Roy didn't get all of Linda.
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 13, 2013 17:34:10 GMT -5
I remember at the spac show of '83 her doing a song I never heard of before. do you recall or know what I am referring to Rob? It was a midtempo beautiful song. Not sure if it was "Falling Star." It was that type song if I recall correctly. eddiejinnj
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2013 18:01:01 GMT -5
May I ask how you were able to be next to Linda? She is absolutely stunning in that photo and the way she is looking at you makes me envious! That is a great photo although I am saddened too that Roy didn't get all of Linda.
musicaamator, Linda showed up with The Earl Scruggs Review for a benefit concert back in 1972 during my freshman year in college. I'd been a big fan for 5 years and I snuck backstage so it was a thrill.
Jason, you have a good eye, amazing how Linda practically looks the same in those photos that have to be 40 years apart.
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Post by erik on May 13, 2013 18:16:07 GMT -5
Two screenshots of footage of Linda, with the soon-to-be Eagles, in concert at the Troubadour in 1971, that was used in History Of The Eagles. I still find it a touch disappointing that Linda didn't consent to a new (even if brief) interview about the band she had a huge hand in bringing together.
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Post by Robert Morse on May 13, 2013 20:06:25 GMT -5
I remember at the spac show of '83 her doing a song I never heard of before. do you recall or know what I am referring to Rob? It was a midtempo beautiful song. Not sure if it was "Falling Star." It was that type song if I recall correctly. eddiejinnj I am pretty sure it was "bandit and a heartbreaker"
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 14, 2013 6:51:23 GMT -5
I was going to say that. thanks, eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on May 17, 2013 18:48:27 GMT -5
Another pic from her July 4, 1983 appearance at Giants Stadium (this one in sepiatone):
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Post by philly on May 19, 2013 3:38:36 GMT -5
In the summer of '77, in the Netherlands to promote Simple Dreams
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Post by philly on May 20, 2013 0:06:20 GMT -5
just stumbled on this on someone's facebook today
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Post by the Scribe on May 20, 2013 11:49:39 GMT -5
Erik, Linda looks like Taylor Swift in that Giants Stadium photo. No wonder you posted it.
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