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Post by ausfan2 on Dec 6, 2015 20:06:54 GMT -5
I have known about this version for a while but this is the first time I've heard it.
"Get Closer" recorded live on the Dutch television program Sonja op Vrijdag with The Los Vast Band In 1983. Backing vocals by Jody Pijper and Lisa Boray.
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Post by rumba on Dec 6, 2015 23:08:45 GMT -5
That's great
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Post by Dale on Dec 7, 2015 0:12:40 GMT -5
I love anything and everything associated with the Get Closer project. Thanks for posting this! I managed to get my hands on the alternate takes of Get Closer sometime ago, however it is my understanding that there are other alternate versions of songs from that album floating around somewhere. I think I Knew You When had alternate takes. Is that correct? Are there any tracks from Get Closer with alternate takes?
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Post by Goldie on Dec 7, 2015 16:47:40 GMT -5
Wasn't that show posted on youtube before?
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Post by moe on Dec 7, 2015 17:40:03 GMT -5
Wasn't that show posted on youtube before? If it was it had to be four or five years ago before I started noticing such things. (Or I just missed it) It's been said before but I'll say it again-no one can deliver the goods live like Linda. Wonder why she didn't use her own band? Wish this was videotaped. |
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Post by jhar26 on Dec 8, 2015 7:35:50 GMT -5
I remember seeing that program at the time. After Linda had finished the song someone from the audience ran up to her to give her some flowers. There was sheer terror on Linda's face.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2022 9:57:39 GMT -5
Not that GC, but the Mike Curb Sidewalk label demo single, Linda/Stone Poneys "So Fine", must be the rarest.
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Post by ausfan2 on May 14, 2022 23:47:47 GMT -5
Whilst the So Fine single is rare, I truly believe that the Get Closer single is the rarest commercially released.
"Get Closer" was recorded live on the Dutch television program Sonja op Vrijdag with The Los Vast Band In 1983 with backing vocals by Jody Pijper and Lisa Boray. It was released in the Netherlands.
Does anybody have a copy or seen a copy offered for sale?
The 2 songs on the So Fine single are both available on CDs including 1 track on the Linda Ronstadt Box Set.
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Post by fabtastique on May 15, 2022 0:44:31 GMT -5
Did anyone save this YouTube video ?? It disappeared now, thanks !
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Post by rick on May 15, 2022 0:57:00 GMT -5
Did anyone save this YouTube video ?? It disappeared now, thanks ! Fab, I search YouTube -- which you probably did, too -- for "Sonja op Vrijdag Linda Ronstadt Get Closer " and it doesn't come up. I see other live performances. To be honest, I do not know why the studio version single of "Get Closer" would be rare. Is AusFan saying that a single was released of that Dutch live version of "Get Closer"? |
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Post by ausfan2 on May 15, 2022 3:40:19 GMT -5
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Post by ausfan2 on May 15, 2022 4:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by rick on May 15, 2022 4:47:43 GMT -5
Ausfan, thank you. That seems like it IS the rarest single. Too bad that it was removed from YouTube.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 6:36:27 GMT -5
What performance is this?
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 6:38:20 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 6:47:41 GMT -5
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Post by rick on May 15, 2022 7:02:20 GMT -5
What performance is this? Not 100% sure, but I think it be the Grammy Awards. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 8:01:58 GMT -5
I will MP3 my single. It is not the most expensive Linda single though, so far that is still the TSP "So Fine".
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Post by ukfan on May 15, 2022 13:59:56 GMT -5
The above youtube performance is Linda singing at 25th Grammy Awards 1983.
According to discogs in U.K. there is one copy of Linda with the Los Vast Band available for sale on the marketplace for the princely sum of £64.06.Never bought anything from there but if you have to have it get it quick before it goes.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 14:39:23 GMT -5
The above youtube performance is Linda singing at 25th Grammy Awards 1983. According to discogs in U.K. there is one copy of Linda with the Los Vast Band available for sale on the marketplace for the princely sum of £64.06.Never bought anything from there but if you have to have it get it quick before it goes.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 14:43:33 GMT -5
There is or was a clip of Linda performing a GC song in her red dress on a European TV show, but I don't remrmber which song. Another very short clip from that same show has Linda going down some ornate stairs.
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Post by ukfan on May 15, 2022 16:00:07 GMT -5
Linda did a whirlwind tour of several European dates in 1983 to promote Get Closer album. The clip you mention is from Paris where she performed on the French tv show Champs-Elysees and sang Lies.
The following photo is from Italian performance where I don’t know what she sang.
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Post by ukfan on May 15, 2022 16:00:42 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2022 14:16:05 GMT -5
Got my vinyl this morning. Side A is the Dutch side, and is mono. The recording was 7th Jan. 1983. B side is "Get Closer" album track in stereo. I will play this later & see what I think. Photos of the cover and record soon..
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2022 10:57:40 GMT -5
Got my vinyl this morning. Side A is the Dutch side, and is mono. The recording was 7th Jan. 1983. B side is "Get Closer" album track in stereo. I will play this later & see what I think. Photos of the cover and record soon.. Attachments:
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Post by I'm not a robot on Jul 14, 2022 13:59:29 GMT -5
LINDA RONSTADT - FIRST LADY OF ROCK
January 1983
“Ooh, I'm just like a Dutch milkmaid,” says Linda Ronstadt cooing, standing in front of the mirror with the peasant's lace cap she just received as a gift. “Almost no one knows that I am partly of Dutch descent. My mother's surname is Copeman, which is derived from Koopman. And my father's ancestors are from Germany. So I'm kind of at home here. But come on, let's have a nice interview. I've ordered tea, so don't hesitate to pour me a cup.” The American singer settles down on the sofa of her suite in the metropolitan Amstel Hotel, chatting tirelessly. After TV recordings were made for Toppop and Veronica House yesterday , she will perform as a musical guest tonight inSonja On Friday , but first the national press is allowed to have an audience with her this afternoon.
It has been more than seven years since Linda Ronstadt last visited the Netherlands. At the time, she had found her way to the general public in the footsteps of the Eagles, who were also on stage together for the first time as her accompanists, with the heart-warming country rock of Heart Like A Wheel , Prisoner In Disguise and Hasten Down The Wind . Partly responsible for the commercial breakthrough was Peter Asher, the former half of the British beat duo Peter & Gordon, who, as producer and manager, was able to map out the right approach for the gifted singer. After the impeccable successor Simple Dreams with the melancholy world hit Blue Bayoushe appeared to have passed her commercial peak, although the forced new wave-like Mad Love with no less than three songs by Elvis Costello did not do so badly.
With her eleventh solo album Get Closer now, Linda Ronstadt wants to offer something for everyone, which has resulted in an incoherent and mannerist whole that comes across as downright perfunctory. Well over thirty-five she appears to have largely outgrown pop music. The short American tour at the end of last year in support of Get Closer , for example, has been particularly bad for her. “I've always hated going from city to city, but now I'm really tired of having to perform somewhere different every night,” she sighs. “In that respect, my heart goes out more to theater than to pop music these days. That can be just as exciting and also has the advantage that it involves more regularity and discipline.”
Linda Ronstadt will soon make her film star debut in The Pirates Of Penzance , the cinema version of the Gilbert & Sullivan musical of the same name, in which she played one of the five leading roles for several months. “It was possibly the best time I've ever had in my life,” he enthuses. “We first played in a small open-air theater in New York, where everyone could just go for free. The performance was part of the annual Shakespeare In The Park festival. If a piece proves to be successful, it will be extended on a commercial basis after the summer months. That happened with The Pirates Of Penzanceand so suddenly I was on Broadway. It was in one word fantastic. The people I played with were so nice to me too, they just couldn't have been nicer. I'd heard stories about how difficult theater people can get at times and I'm sure they must have heard terrible things about pop stars in their turn, but I'm happy to say we got along just fine from the start."
Linda Ronstadt is currently planning a television show with work by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht with the producer of Shakespeare In The Park. “Initially we wanted to turn it into a theatrical performance, but that ran into practical objections. The Kurt Weill Foundation has the right to determine the musical arrangements. For example, it appears that they prescribed the number of orchestra members, while we wanted to work with a small ensemble, because otherwise there is hardly any room left for an audience in the Public Theater. Hence, we came up with the form of a television show. We're supposed to ask Lindsay Kemp, a truly fantastic mime artist and ballet choreographer. But who knows, we may not get it off the ground.”
For the time being, Linda Ronstadt will be busy recording a new album with interpretations of jazz standards by, among others, her two great idols Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Led by the famous producer Jerry Wexler, who made records with greats from Ray Charles to Bob Dylan, she already tried it about a year and a half ago, but the end result was not able to satisfy her. “More than anything, it was an experiment,” she claims. “It was a learning process, I was trying to figure out exactly how I wanted to do it. All in all, I suddenly realized that I didn't want to do it the way that East Coast producer had done it. For example, I felt that some pieces should be orchestrated by Nelson Riddle, whom I admire so much for his work for Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, but the man didn't want to hear about that. In fact all I had to do was show up and sing my parts. But I am not used to working that way, I demand full participation in the entire process. The problem was that Peter didn't want to produce that record in the first place, because he hardly feels an affinity with that kind ofmiddle class jazz . After he had seen me try out some things in the studio with Nelson, he finally gave in. Peter and I have a very good relationship, in the sense that he helps me shape my ideas instead of doing everything for me.”
Opinions about Linda Ronstadt's upcoming album will undoubtedly be strongly divided again. Because while for some she is regarded as the uncrowned Queen Of The Cover , for most others she is a meaningless interpreter, who achieves cheap success with classics from rock, soul and country in combination with painful ballads by singer-songwriter friends such as her former lover. John David Souther. “People have the most idiosyncratic ideas about why I do certain things. Why shouldn't I be allowed to sing those jazz standards? They are beautiful pieces and I canthey sing. I don't understand all that criticism and that's why I don't care anymore. If I did, it wouldn't even have crossed my mind to try to sing opera. But I'm just doing it and I'm firmly convinced that I can do it well within two years," she responds in a surprisingly laconic tone. “I don't consider myself an inferior artist at all, because I lack the talent to write my own repertoire. Singing and composing are two separate disciplines. Until well into the sixties, people generally only knew good vocalists who brought material from good songwriters. Well, I happen to be a singer.”
Since her breakthrough in the United States, Linda Ronstadt has been part of the jet set, especially after she entered into an amorous liaison with California governor Jerry Brown. The First Lady Of Rock only has to stick her nose out the door or the tabloid press will report extensively. No wonder, then, that she has a healthy mistrust of journalists. Contrary to the encouraging title Get CloserWith an apparently disarming charm, she is careful to keep the necessary distance, even when questions are only asked about her artistic pursuits. “Well, after all these years I'm well trained in talking to reporters. It's hard to get the truth in an article when someone else is interpreting your words. And something once printed is quickly regarded as gospel. I get angry when I read something that isn't right. And sometimes I even get angry when I read the truth.”
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