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Post by the Scribe on Aug 16, 2013 18:11:32 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 16, 2013 19:05:04 GMT -5
Here is Linda singing Merle Haggard's beautiful "Silver Wings."
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Post by Dianna on Aug 18, 2013 15:51:29 GMT -5
Linda at home on my birthday NOT texting me:
MAYBE SHE TRIED
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 18, 2013 16:17:01 GMT -5
well done and funny dianna!!!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 7, 2016 2:38:57 GMT -5
Inheritance TracksCelebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to the future John Barrowman Actor, singer, dancer and presenter John Barrowman chose After The Lovin' by Englebert Humperdinck and Goodbye My Friend by Linda Ronstadt Listen in pop-out player open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03vvc4q.mp3
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vvc4l This must be the tearful performance John is talking about. I am surprised he kept things together so well. I think it must be the most popular pet tribute song ever written. Anyone who has ever experienced the unconditional love and joy of having a pet friend understands this song of loss. I can barely listen to it anymore as I lose so many rescue animals each year from old age, bad circumstances they got themselves into or just plain abuse and neglect from others before they came to me.An Evening with John Barrowman Tour DVD
This is a video clip of John Barrowman talking about his dogs and singing the song.
I don't own the video and I am not making money out of it.
I'm just a JB fan that wants to share this video.
Please leave nice comments and thanks for watching
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2016 3:13:20 GMT -5
A Linda Ronstadt Tribute by Rufus Wainwright
On the day her memoir “Simple Dreams” releases, the musician pays a personal homage to one of rock-n-roll’s most alluring stars Written by Rufus Wainwright
I am more than a fan—I’m actually kind of vaguely a product of Linda Ronstadt.
Back in the 1970s, my mother and aunt, the McGarrigle Sisters, released an album. My aunt Anna wrote the song “Heart Like a Wheel,” which then Linda Ronstadt covered. It was a hit and a very successful album for her, and she went on to sing a lot of songs by Anna and Kate (Wainwright’s mother). You know, for us growing up, those were the big checks—that’s what put me through boarding school, basically.
It wasn’t a distant kind of business relationship at all: Linda was so kind and normal and would hang out with my mom and my aunt whenever they were in the same area. There was Kate and Anna and Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, so it really was like the four McGarrigle sisters. My family owes so much to her and her work, her attention and her grace above all, because Linda always has great taste in songs.
What I always love about her voice is that she’s totally unaffected. Whether she’s singing a gospel song or a pop song or a country ballad, she never sounds like she’s putting anything on stylistically. Her voice and her phrasing and the volume is extremely solid. She takes the song and turns it into her own sculpture—a musical sculpture—and doesn’t try to turn herself into a sculpture to fit into the song.
She managed to encompass so many elements at once, whether it was being a sex symbol, or a great kind of interpreter of song, or an intelligent woman who was in it for the music but at the same time widely successful and mainstream being herself. Certainly there were some great outfits, photo shoots and looks, but you always got the feeling that she wasn’t trying to cover up who she really was. [She was] Linda Ronstdat in a baseball outfit or a Mexican outfit or a cowboy suit, but she was always first and foremost a person and then came the voice, and she had fun with it. I think that’s something that is really lacking today.
In the world of music, it seems like women—men, too, certainly, but especially women—have to go that extra mile, they have to create this whole persona where they’re completely varied with who they are. You never had the feeling that Linda was doing that. She was just totally being herself—of course, coupled with one of the most amazing pair of pipes that the pop world has ever known.
“Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir” by Linda Ronstadt releases September 17.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2016 3:19:29 GMT -5
Hear an Unreleased Duet From Joe Ely and Linda Ronstadt
"Where Is My Love" was recorded in 1987 but just recently made publicCLICK BELOW TO PLAY SONG[/a] w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/181242273%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-WLcBa&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true[/p]
Joe Ely, performing here in San Francisco in 2011, recently released a long-lost duet with Linda Ronstadt. Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns By Stephen L. Betts December 30, 2014
A long-lost duet from Texas singer-songwriter Joe Ely and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist Linda Ronstadt has been unearthed after more than 25 years. "Where Is My Love," which Ely has been playing live for a number of years, was recorded with Ronstadt in a Los Angeles studio in 1987 but was never released. The song was recently added to iTunes.
Written by R.C. Banks, "Where Is My Love" features Mitch Watkins on guitar, Bill Ginn on keyboards, Jim Keltner on drums and Tony Marisco on bass. According to a statement, Ely and Ronstadt talked about the song during a recent visit and decided it was finally time for it to be made available to the public.
Meanwhile, Ely has also issued his debut novel, Reverb: An Odyssey, a coming-of-age tale that takes place in the West Texas town of Lubbock, where Ely grew up. Set in 1965, the story follows a high-school dropout named Earle. In October, Ely released B4 84, an album he recorded in 1983 using an early Apple II computer, which made him one of the first musicians to record an album on a computer.
Ronstadt, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, has since retired from singing after revealing in 2013 that she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Her autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, was released last year.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2016 14:17:30 GMT -5
ELVIS*PRISCILLA*LINDA
LINDA AT 6:45
THE FAST ONE FROM 1972
This is the band she had when I met her in 72.
LINDA ON HEE HAW SINGING MICKEY NEWBURY'S ARE MY THOUGHTS WITH YOU
It was this song that got me into Newbury's music. What a talent he was.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 21, 2016 21:55:09 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 21, 2016 22:05:51 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 30, 2016 0:33:50 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Sept 30, 2016 9:11:11 GMT -5
With respect to Linda's C&W output, how about "Walk On" (written by ardent LR fan and all-around great female songwriter Matraca Berg)?:
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 1, 2016 7:18:42 GMT -5
I love "Walk On"!!!!!! Perfect country rock song. Love the way she talks the words "Walk On" at the end of the one chorus especially. Erik and I, amongst others, really feel that it should have been a big hit. Matraca must have been in her glory. eddiejinnj
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 3, 2016 14:03:52 GMT -5
I found this Linda Ronstadt fan website today. It is a bit sterile but nicely done by an obvious fan.
linda-ronstadt.net/ also this nice video interview by Michael Hawley: player.vimeo.com/video/72730813?api=1&player_id=vimeoplayer
www.egconf.com/videos/linda-ronstadt-vocalist-eg7
Linda Ronstadt, Vocalist (EG7)
April 2013: Linda Ronstadt, interviewed by Michael Hawley, recalls her upbringing in a musical family, various influences throughout her career, and the importance of a creative, musical environment for young people. Ronstadt is arguably the most versatile vocalist of the modern era, and has forged a four-decade career establishing her as one of the very important artists in one of the most creative periods in the history of modern music.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 13, 2016 21:43:19 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on May 25, 2017 11:10:47 GMT -5
Cameron Diaz and Linda Ronstadt sing "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" with Lyrics
Published on Jun 26, 2012 Cameron Diaz is "terrible" singing I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself Karaoke style but Linda Ronstadt music track is done right on Burt Bacharach's hit (with lyrics), the best version ever! Sexy Cameron Diaz photo slide show included. Courtesy excerpt from movie My Best Friend's Wedding.
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Post by the Scribe on May 25, 2017 11:34:03 GMT -5
A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt and Them There Eyes
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Post by musedeva on May 26, 2017 21:28:26 GMT -5
...the Windows to the Soul......
one of my Favesongs!!!
THIS! is a great thread
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Post by the Scribe on May 27, 2017 8:00:54 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 27, 2017 8:19:45 GMT -5
Great to hear without the vid!!!! Thanks, az!!!!! Doesn't Linda do different lyrics on her recorded version of "But Not For Me"? eddiejinnj
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 27, 2017 8:27:12 GMT -5
That Frankie song is just perfect for a Linda Tribute!!!!!!!!eddiejinnj
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2017 3:39:42 GMT -5
SOLD
SINGER LINDA RONSTADT’S PINK HOUSE IN ARIZONA
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2017 3:47:19 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt - AMEHOF Inductee
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2017 3:50:37 GMT -5
koshdesign.blogspot.com/
Winner of three Grammy Awards, Kosh is the former art director for Apple Records and designer for many of The Beatles solo projects. His first project at Apple was the design of the Abbey Road package. After his Apple days, his clientele expanded to cover the cream of British rock bands including The Rolling Stones, ELO and The Who. He remained close to John Lennon and handled the WAR IS OVER campaign for John and Yoko.
The 1970's brought Kosh to L.A., where he worked with the likes of James Taylor, The Pointer Sisters, The Jackson 5, Cher and Jimmy Buffett. During that time Kosh also won three Grammys for his work with Linda Ronstadt and designed the cover of Hotel California for the Eagles. Many of his album designs have been exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. These days, Kosh continues to work with Jimmy Buffett and Linda Ronstadt as well as Lewis Black and Ron White, while also doing graphic design work that includes TV titles, logos and book designs.
Music Tips from Sidebeat Music Kosh
Kosh - on "That's Art?! with Bif Naked"
koshdesign.blogspot.com/ John Kosh Documentary Excerpt - Abbey Road
John Kosh Documentary Excerpt - Hotel CaliforniaKOSH - Linda Ronstadt
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2017 3:58:58 GMT -5
Rhonda Weiss and the Rondettes
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 24, 2017 23:36:42 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt & Mike Nesmith - Diffrent Drum - Female Angel ( Linda ) - Bubblerock Radio Mix
Published on Jan 24, 2014 Here is a beautiful Bubblerock video I put together of Linda Ronstadt's big 1967 hit - Different Drum written by Monkee's musician , Mike Nesmith. The Linda & Stoneponies performance is from The Bitter End club in NYC , 1967. The Mike Nesmith footage is from his B&W Screen Test and a Monkees episode where he spoofs his own song. I remastered the video and music and added cool efxs and pics of Nesmith & Linda. I used 3-D Avatar program to make Linda come to life. It came out pretty good. Enjoy !!!
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 24, 2017 23:49:52 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt performing with Nelson Riddle.
singing just slightly different than we are used to seeing her do this song from her appearance on Smokey Robinson's show.
Linda Ronstadt and Jim Carrey
Linda Ronstadt : When You Wish Upon A Star
Linda Ronstadt - Someday my prince will come
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 25, 2017 0:17:12 GMT -5
Johnny Cash & Linda Ronstadt Walk a mile in my Shoes
LINDA RONSTADT - EL LAGO AZUL en español
Published on Dec 7, 2013
LINDA RONSTADT..en una clásica balada del año 1977
Triste y preocupada estoy Solitita cuando me voy Alejándome de mi amor en lago azul
Trabajando sin descansar Cuando pienso lo qué es amar Esperando mi amor escuchar en lago azul
Un día llegaré otra vez a ver mi lago azul Con cariño ver a quien amo yo en mi lago azul Ver las lanchas como mariposas Otra vez al despertar Cuando sale el sol mi corazón quiere cantar
Voy a ver mi amor otra vez Y solita nunca seré Tan contenta yo estaré en lago azul
Trabajando sin descansar Cuando pienso lo qué es amar Esperando mi amor escuchar en lago azul
Un día llegaré otra vez a ver mi lago azul Con cariño ver a quien amo yo en mi lago azul Ver las lanchas como mariposas Otra vez al despertar Cuando sale el sol mi corazón quiere cantar
Amorcito mío, a mi lado estás Luna de plata, agua de cristal Ya podré olvidar el cruel dolor que me hace llorar Y contenta estaré con mi amor mio en lago azul
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2017 15:38:33 GMT -5
feastyourearsthefilm.com/index.htmlFeast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM - Trailer Published on Nov 11, 2015 Documentary film about WHFS freeform FM radio station. Interviews with DJs & musicians from the '68-83 era of social, cultural & political change. More info at www.feastyourearsthefilm.com
Feast your ears: Film to tell homegrown radio story of WHFS
Many former WHFS radio deejays appeared at a reunion of sorts in Bethesda last week celebrating the upcoming film Feast Your Ears, The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM. The film's producer, Jay Schlossberg, left and deejays Jonathan Gilbert - known as Weasel - and Damian Einstein before the celebration and concert by NRBQ. (By E.B. Furgurson III / Staff)
Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, there was a little radio station named WHFS.
For six years the station fed eager listeners its eclectic mix of music from studios in Annapolis. But before that, from about 1969 until the station moved here in 1983, WHFS was a vanguard of progressive radio, molding musical tastes and reflecting the culture — and counterculture — of several generations, from Woodstock to punk and new wave, and beyond.
A documentary film, "Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS, 102.3 FM," now in mid-production hopes to showcase the times, people and music that capture WHFS' influence on the local music scene. The film's producer Jay Schlossberg hopes to have a rough cut by the end of the year and have the film ready to roll sometime next year.
"The station, the people who worked there and listened to it, experienced a time, an era of political change and social upheaval," Schlossberg said. "They were in the middle of it, all in their 20s. They sort of grew up together."
This interview features disc jockey Cerphe with Lowell George of Little Feat and Linda Ronstadt, and is an example of the free-for-all nature of the station's sound. It is a recording from the station's board of the March 3, 1974, broadcast.
Most of the old staff gathered last week at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, remade out of the old Bethesda movie theater, for a kickoff for the film's new website and the announcement of a Kickstarter effort to raise money to finish the film. The audience applauded as their old favorite disc jockeys were introduced. Even old front office staff got a cheer.
Disc Jockeys Jonathan Gilbert, known to all as "Weasel," and Damian Einstein, who both moved to the Annapolis station in 1983, got the biggest hand.
Einstein, who closely guards his privacy, wasn't sure he would come. "But then I read about it. Hey, these are my people," he said as another fan walked up to say hello or relate a story from back in the day.
WHFS disc jockeys, Weasel (Jonathan Gilbert) second from left, and Damian Einstein, right, ham it up with musician Jesse Colin Young, between them. At left is an unidentified record exec.The station moved to Annapolis in 1983. (Courtesy of Steven King / Handout)
Gilbert was enjoying the moment. "It is amazing the reaction the project is getting. It's outstanding."
What made 'HFS, as fans call it, different was the wide open, free-form musical event that hit the air. It was an organic thing. To call it a format would be a disservice.
"The music would go from Frank Zappa to Mahler to Emmy Lou (Harris) to the Nighthawks to the Slickee Boys, Danny Gatton and then the Beatles," Schlossberg said.
And the station was also the place where listeners heard many stars on the rise for the first time: Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, the Allman Brothers Band and Elvis Costello. Later, the station helped to break U2, REM, the B-52's and the Cure.
The studios in Bethesda and Annapolis were often filled with performers broadcasting live.
One time, Texas troubadour Jerry Jeff Walker and the Lost Gonzo Band showed up and played from 12:30 to 6 a.m. Bonnie Raitt played on a few occasions. So did reggae's Peter Tosh. Linda Ronstadt and Little Feat's Lowell George sang a 10-tune set of duets one night in 1974.
All from the little station broadcasting over 2,900 watts.
"If you were on the wrong side of a tall building in Bethesda, you sometimes could not get the signal," Schlossberg said.
Progressive influence
But what was happening on the air gave the station an influence far beyond its broadcast oomph.
"Other radio stations across the country looked at what 'HFS was playing. They were way out in front of the progressive movement," said Mark Wenner, founder of the Nighthawks, the blues and rock 'n' roll band that got its break with help from a lot of airplay at their hometown station. "That's what helped propel us semi-nationally, we got a lot of credibility across the country."
The station supported and became a clearinghouse for local music.
"WHFS mainstreamed local bands," said Tom Carrico, a longtime manager and promoter, when he addressed the gathering in Bethesda on Wednesday night. "They didn't turn it into a 'local' show. It was not cute. It was not a theme. It was part of their regular programming."
He said that allowed bands to work five or six nights in Annapolis, and allowed managers and others to have jobs.
"I mean God bless WHFS," Carrico said.
WHFS had been a sleepy little station in an apartment building in Bethesda playing easy listening and classical music when in 1969 three students fresh out of Bard College walked in and pitched an everything-goes free spirited radio show. They were turned down. But then the station said it would sell them airtime at $160 a week.
So they hustled and wrangled ads and "Spiritus Cheese" went on the air in July 1969, the same week that men landed on the moon.
Three weeks later, the trio was at Woodstock with a press pass but could not get in.
"Just then Johnny Winter got out of a helicopter. We had known him from gigs at Bard, and we yelled at him," recalled Josh Brooks, one of the three Cheese staffers, who spent about 10 years at the station and now sells advertising at a Frederick radio station.
"Winter yelled, 'Hey, let them in,' and there we were — wow — backstage at Woodstock."
Brooks got interviews with Jerry Garcia, Neil Young, and Jim Hendrix's conga player.
"Pretty amazing. Just at the right place, at the right time. And things took off for us."
Spiritus Cheese has been credited with changing 'HFS. But one of the surprises Schlossberg, who worked one summer at the station and was hooked for a lifetime, found is there were two other shows at the station with a similar eclectic point of view. "Electric Brew" and "Through the Looking Glass" had been on the air for a short while.
But "Spiritus Cheese" spirited the station from what was to what could be, even though they were tossed off the air after complaints of foul language in a Firesign Theater record they played on the air. Brooks stayed on though.
Many credit station part-owner Jake Einstein, for giving the merry pranksters free rein. "Jake let them do their thing," Wenner said. "He deserves a lot of credit."
Einstein later brought the WHFS call letters to the 99.1 frequency in Annapolis, then after selling it in 1989 he returned to create WRNR radio in Annapolis with the old 'HFS format, and some of the DJs, his son, Damian Einstein, John Hall and others.
Film flame lit
Schlossberg got the idea for the movie after a 2013 National Record Day event at Joe's Record Paradise in Silver Spring, where DJs and serious vinyl record fans have been finding rare discs for years. There was a panel featuring many of the old WHFS DJs. Schlossberg could not go but later saw photos of all those who attended.
"I literally said out loud: 'Oh wow, they're all not dead yet. Someone needs to do something about this,' " Schlossberg said.
He organized a meeting a few months later in the old Triangle Towers apartment building from where WHFS used to broadcast it's "homegrown radio." And the project was born, with most of the old crew on board.
So far scores of interviews have been shot with musicians David Bromberg, Roger McGuinn, Bruce Cockburn, Joan Armatrading, Jonathan Edwards, Chris Smither, Freebo, Nils Lofgren, Paul Barrere, Bill Payne of Little Feat and more.
Rickie Lee Jones, Dan Hicks, Jesse Colin Young, Don Dixon and Marti Jones, plus Michael Lang and Wavy Gravy of Woodstock fame are on the list of interviews not yet in the can. Many local musicians and industry folk, like Wenner, promoters Seth Hurwitz and Mike Schreibman and others are also on the to-do-list.
To help him get there, Schlossberg — whose day job is running Media Central LLC, a company that books video and film production crews, and post production services across the country and the globe — is organizing a Kickstarter online fundraising project launching Sept. 19.
"That money will allow us to get researchers on board to search the National Archives and other sources, and finish the film," he said.
The call letters WHFS still exist for a station at 104.9 FM in Baltimore, but it is not associated with the previous iteration.
For more information
For updates on the movie production and other details, visit www.feastyourearsthefilm.com
and www.facebook.com/feastyourearsWHFS.
www.capitalgazette.com/news/ph-ac-cn-whfs-film-0727-20150727-story.html
a Linda Ronstadt album for $3.99:
WHFS Weasel's Monolog Last Day on Air July 14, 1983 Published on May 19, 2015 WHFS, the Original WHFS in Bethesda, MD last day on air. Weasel comes on after his theme and Bob joins Weasel. Weasel tells Bob, a joke that Murray the K would tell, then they talk about Weasel's can of Space Ravioli with Aliens, food ingredients and how to cook. More of this day at WHFS can be heard at www.archive.org search WHFS. I have the wrong month on the tape written down.
WHFS-FM 'Sailing Shoes' by Lowell George & Linda Ronstadt
. WHFS-FM 'Unemployed' by Steve GoodmanPublished on Oct 20, 2012 The late Steve Goodman recorded live on the radio at WHFS-FM (high atop the Triangle Towers) in Bethesda, Maryland. Probably in the Fall of 1975 with DJ Don "Cerphe" Colwell. I have never heard this song on any of his recordings so I made up the title. Apparently he was rather dissatisfied with the economic climate under President Gerald Ford and wrote this song.WHFS DJ Don “Cerphe” Colwell with Linda Ronstadt in 1977 after the singer was interviewed on his show
And What a Time It Was: Telling the WHFS Story on FilmPosted on: August 24, 2016 by Ellyn Wexler August 17, 2016 –
Jay Schlossberg wants to take us back in time to an “era of cultural, social and political upheaval.” During those years from 1961 to 1983, he and countless other mostly teens and twenty-somethings were steadfast fans of the free-form progressive radio station that rocked the metropolitan area’s airwaves from the Triangle Towers apartment building in downtown Bethesda.
Bruce Cockburn & Jay Schlossberg – WHFS – photo by Jay at City Winery
“Feast Your Ears – The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM” is Schlossberg’s work-in-progress documentary about WHFS, where locally-legendary DJs—including Weasel, Cerphe, Damian, Josh, Adele and Thom—spun non-Top 40 tunes and chatted about the important issues of the day. “It was more than a local radio station,” Schlossberg said. “It was the voice of a generation.”
The substance was transmitted in more than one way. “Not only were we getting messages through the music of these national and local musicians,” said the Dufief resident who is the film’s director and executive producer, “but we also were getting local news (on topics like) when an anti-war protest would be held, where to buy records, health food, the nearest surf shop. The station served as a conduit for all the thriving retail businesses that sprung up around the culture.”
Most important, Schlossberg emphasized, was that WHFS promoted and supported local music. “We heard news about the live music venues—who was playing where and when.” After rattling off the names of some of the major places—The Psyche Delly, The Cellar Door, Redfox Inn, the Bayou, Lisner, the Warner, he observed, “’HFS was the center of it all.”’
Schlossberg’s allegiance to the station was cemented at age 17 when the Charles W. Woodward High School student was fortunate enough to have a summer job there. “I’d pay you to let me work here,” he remembers thinking in 1972. At Montgomery College the following year, Schlossberg was among 16 students who started the campus radio station. He served as WMCR’s program director and DJ, aspiring to be like Weasel and Cerphe, and honed his guitar skills by jamming in the student lounge when he was supposed to be in class.
The idea to tell the WHFS story came to Schlossberg some 30 years later after seeing a group photo on Facebook of the iconic station’s DJs, taken at the April 20, 2013 Record Day celebration at Joe’s Record Paradise in Silver Spring. “I said out loud, ‘Oh my God, they’re all not dead yet. Someone needs to tell this story,’” he recalled. “Of course, I knew them all already, but seeing the photograph just crystallized it. A flashbulb went off.”
Schlossberg is president and owner of Media Central, the global crewing, production and post-production services broker-agent company he founded on Aug. 1, 1993 (Jerry Garcia’s birthday, he noted). His clients have included HBO, Lucasfilm, Discovery Channel, Paramount Pictures, Showtime and BBC Worldwide. His company Media Central Films has produced a web series, “AutoExotika Presents: Cars ‘N Coffee,” with episodes in Bethesda, Las Vegas, Santa Barbara, Cincinnati, Palm Beach and Paris.
Despite his successful businesses and concomitant media industry contacts, Schlossberg had never done a documentary before. Thus, it was essential that he research and brainstorm the project by talking to people who had been there as well as industry professionals. About six months post-epiphany, he hosted what he called a “meeting-party” with the WHFS DJs in the building where they once broadcasted.
Maryanne Culpepper, former president of National Geographic Television, was enlisted as executive producer “to help with the front and back ends, to help me get the plane off the ground and into the air and with the landing,” he said. “She knows about film festivals.” Also on the team are consulting producer Jonathan Gilbert AKA Weasel; story consultant and former Washington Post writer Richard Harrington; and Bethesda native and writer of “Homicide” and “The Wire” David Simon, who helped with background and context.
Filming began in June 2014, and a Kickstarter fundraising effort in October and November 2015 raised $65,000 for the project. With two-thirds of the filming completed, Schlossberg expects the editing process to begin in September with a rough cut by the end of the year. Plans include local screenings—perhaps at AFI in Silver Spring and Landmark in Bethesda—and Netflix and Showtime and even director Morgan Spurlock have expressed interest and encouragement. Schlossberg is confident and optimistic about the film’s future. “We have gotten a lot of positive feedback from the trailer,” he said. “And I think the film will have wide-ranging international appeal, too.”
Having acquired a taste for music documentaries, Schlossberg is also acting as executive producer of “The Humbler,” a film about legendary guitar player Danny Gatton.
Visit www.feastyourearsthefilm.com to see the trailer, donate to the film, buy merchandise and read other stories about the documentary.
Bruce is in the trailer and in the film.
Credit: towncourier.com/and-what-a-time-it-was-telling-the-whfs-story-on-film/.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 21, 2018 4:09:42 GMT -5
LINDA RONSTADT Ultrasonic Studios [Mid Valley Records, 1CD] Live at Ultrasonic Studios, Washington Ave, New Orleans, USA; April 7, 1990. Excellent soundboard stereo.
Did you know that last year, Warner Music removed from circulation the following Linda Ronstadt albums - Get Closer, Cry Like A Rainstorm (Howl Like The Wind), We Ran and Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions? Winter Light went out-of-print a year earlier in 2008.
This year the Japanese bootleg label Mid Valley surprised collectors with the release of a Linda Ronstadt session, Ultrasonic Studios. The cover art has a 3M tape box naming the producer as Peter Asher and the engineer as George Massenburg. The session was held in New Orleans.
This appears to have been recorded right after the success of her 1989 album, Cry Like A Rainstorm, which also included duets with Neville Brother, Aaron. One track here, Close Your Eyes, would later be re-recorded with Ronstadt as producer for Aaron Neville’s solo album Warm Your Heart. Whatever tracks that were later released were all re-recorded elsewhere or had additional work done to them. Neville’s album was recorded in California.
By the ’90s, Ronstadt had already moved far away from California Rock or Soft Rock. She’d become a mature song stylist working with Nelson Riddle and offering a trio of world music albums. But the business beckoned and she’d made one more pop album with Cry Like A Rainstorm which earned her two Grammys and sold for her record label three million copies.
This session in New Orleans might have been an attempt to repeat that formula. However, with the exception of Close Your Eyes which was another duet with Aaron Neville, the rest of the songs did not make it out until 1998. Two remain unreleased. In the interim, Ronstadt made Frenesi, produced her first album with Winter Light and recycled her Trio II recordings and released Feels Like Home.
Two tracks from the New Orleans session were finally brought out when she attempted her second self-produced album, We Ran, in 1998. But poor health led her to send for producer Glyn Johns who made We Ran a rock album, rather than a rock ‘n’ roll album that Ronstadt had originally planned. It would be the last rock album, to date, that Ronstadt recorded. Here’s why:
“…it’s very important for me to not have my middle-age be a repeat of my youth, and my old age to not be a repeat of my middle-age. Whatever it is, there’s blessings and there’s disadvantages of all those things, and I want the genuine blessings.”
She said that in 1998. Read the full interview here: www.debbiekruger.com/writer/freelance/ronstadt_transcript.html
Ronstadt, 64, is no recluse. If she’s not chasing for chart action it’s because she’s been there and done that. Right now travelling and playing in big halls/arenas are not her “thing”. She’d rather be at home. Too bad her label has other ideas and not creative ones at that. Artists like Ronstadt need to be challenged to come out with something new and not made to recreate “glory days”.
Whoever passed that tape to Mid Valley, all Ronstadt fans are grateful. If anyone knows who played at the New Orleans sessions, please post the details. - Professor Red
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality MP3s - sample rate of 224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Track 01. Close Your Eyes :Vo (3:30) (5.6MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra01.mp3 Track 02. Close Your Eyes :Inst (3:18) (5.3MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra02.mp3 Track 03. Wait, Wait, Wait :Vo (3:35) (5.7MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra03.mp3 Track 04. Wait, Wait, Wait :Used For Intro (3:29) (5.6MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra04.mp3 Track 05. Wait, Wait, Wait :Inst (3:25) (5.5MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra05.mp3 Track 06. Ruler Of My Heart : Inst (3:49) (6.1MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra06.mp3 Track 07. Ruler Of My Heart : Intro (Take.7-18) (4:39) (7.5MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra07.mp3 Track 08. Cry Until My Tears Run Dry :Vo (4:09) (6.6MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra08.mp3 Track 09. Cry Until My Tears Run Dry : Vamp-1 (0:46) (1.2MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra09.mp3 Track 10. Cry Until My Tears Run Dry : Vamp-2 (1:11) (1.9MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra10.mp3 Track 11. Cry Until My Tears Run Dry : Inst (4:06) (6.5MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra11.mp3 Track 12. World I Never Made :Vo (3:55) guide vocal? (6.3MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra12.mp3 Track 13. World I Never Made :Inst (3:38) (5.8MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra13.mp3 Track 14. Too Soon To Know : Vo (2:58) (4.7MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra14.mp3 Track 15. Too Soon To Know : Bass Od-1 (0:55) (1.5MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra15.mp3 Track 16. Too Soon To Know : Bass Od-2 (0:40) (1.0MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra16.mp3 Track 17. Too Soon To Know : Inst (2:29) (4.0MB) www.bigozine2.com/MPX3/LRultra/LRultra17.mp3
Note: A different version of Close Your Eyes was released on Aaron Neville’s 1991 album Warm Your Heart.
Ruler Of My Heart and Cry Until My Tears Run Dry finally made it on Linda Ronstadt’s 1998 album, We Ran. Both were different recordings with input from We Ran’s producer Glyn Johns.
Too Soon To Know was rerecorded for the 1993 Linda Ronstadt album, Winter Light.
Both Wait Wait Wait and World I Never Made remain unreleased.
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