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Post by PoP80 on Jul 31, 2021 7:54:15 GMT -5
Pop, you are very lucky to have several in person autographs. I have one signed in front of me but a number of her autographs just not in my presence. I have the Boss to thank for getting my "So Fine" 45 very reasonably. He has been so kind to me over the many years on here. eddiejinnj Yes, I'm very happy that I got to meet Linda in person! I seized the opportunity when she was in Pirates--first at the Delacorte and then at the Uris Theatre on Broadway. A bunch of us were "groupies" at that show and the whole cast got to know us. Linda was very shy (scared) around fans, especially after John Lennon was killed in December 1980. She would run into the theatre when she arrived at the stage door and didn't interact with anyone. For some reason, she took a liking to me and my then boyfriend, and only spoke to us and signed autographs after the show. I remember the first time she said hello to me by name--I nearly fainted!! I'm glad you have one personal autograph and that memory of meeting Linda. It's extra special now that she can no longer sign her name at all.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 8:27:28 GMT -5
I now have 2 autographed "Simple Dreams" books. One has "Linda Ronstadt", the other "L Ronstadt" signed. They are my most personal Linda items. Both are shaky-handed writing, even back in 2013.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2021 8:23:37 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2021 17:46:17 GMT -5
I have found the CD with "Will You Still Remember Me?" (The Christmas Spirit). Its "Out of Nowhere, The White Whale Story Vol. 2" The song alone can be bought as a MP3 from Amazon, which I have done. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2021 10:48:04 GMT -5
This song, a bonus track from "Best of... The Capitol Years" has it noted "live at The Troubador". Linda is the female chorus voice. Only worth listening to once. Late 60s, early 70s.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2021 10:56:38 GMT -5
Nashville Session "He Darked The Sun". SP track much better.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2021 11:08:00 GMT -5
Back to The Troubador, and Linda singing "Long Long Time", best of the bonus tracks.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 8:50:45 GMT -5
These are the liner notes about "A Christmas Spirit" from my CD.
"The Christmas Spirit 45 is one of the rarest and most sought after singles ever released on White Whale. Recorded at Harmony Recorders, both sides feature the vocal talents of a post-Stone Poneys Linda Ronstadt. Legendary producer and arranger Chip Douglas (AKA Douglas F. Hatlelld) fills in the details from his Hawaiin abode.
'Linda Ronstadt was my girlfriend at the time. One of the guys in her group The Stone Poneys, was a guy named Robert Kimmel. He wrote "Will You Still Believe In Me". Linda and I were hanging out with Robert and his wife and we were all listening to some of Robert's songs. Linda had just gone on her own as an artist on Capitol. She had just left the Stone Poneys and I was busy working on her first solo album. I heard the song ("Belueve in Me") and I liked it do we began to sing it together and I approached the guys at White Whale. So we had to make up a name for the record. It was the B side of another song I wrote with Howard Kaylan ("Christmas Is My Time Of Year"), which he wrote about one line of. I went in (the studio) with Howard and Mark Volman (of The Turtles). I subsequently arranged the lyrics a bit on the verses and I produced it again on my own for the Monkees (version) in about 1977 or so.
"I had done some work with the Gospel Pearls, and was kind of into that (gospel) background screaming voices thing. So I hired them to come in. There was something that night I tell you! When they all come in drinking beer and whiskey and everything. It was pretty weird and I wasn't completely happy with it, and couldn't quite get what I wanted. Eddie Hoh probably played (drums), though it might have been Johnny Barbatta. I don't recall who ekse was there, if you hear a girl its definitely Linda.
"Harmony Records was where we recorded "Believe in Me", with possibly Bobby Kimmel on it. More likely I played guitar on it. It was something Linda didn't personally want to do, I think. She was doing it as a favour for me."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 9:26:30 GMT -5
So there you have it, Linda distinctly on a recording, uncredited commercially, for a small label, between her TSP & HSHG days, reluctant but doing a favour. A sweet result.
The CD is a 2004 release, I found mine on ebay. Another rare early Linda gem on a themed compilation CD.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2021 16:26:39 GMT -5
Are there any videos or recordings of Linda being backed by The Corvettes group (Chris Darrow, John Ware, Bernie Leadon..)?
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Post by sliderocker on Nov 14, 2021 23:45:29 GMT -5
Are there any videos or recordings of Linda being backed by The Corvettes group (Chris Darrow, John Ware, Bernie Leadon..)? You can or could find a couple of songs by the Corvettes on Youtube, one song written by John Ware (Back Home Girl) and another song written by Chris Darrow (forget its title, been a long time since I looked it up). Linda did not sing lead on either song, only backing vocals. Both sides were produced by Mike Nesmith. John Ware and bassist John London both joined Nesmith's First National Band and it was actually Ware who talked Nesmith into leaving the Monkees to form the FNB.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2021 8:26:23 GMT -5
Can't hear any Linda on BHG
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Post by erik on Nov 15, 2021 9:37:27 GMT -5
As to whether Linda ever actually recorded anything with the Corvettes in an actual studio....well, there's this C&W-influenced track from the Free Creek sessions she and the band did in New York City in July 1969, "Living Like A Fool":
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Post by PoP80 on Nov 15, 2021 13:08:29 GMT -5
As to whether Linda ever actually recorded anything with the Corvettes in an actual studio....well, there's this C&W-influenced track from the Free Creek sessions she and the band did in New York City in July 1969, " Living Like A Fool": Linda had her own brand of Folky-Country vibe. It's interesting to listen to these old recordings and hear how her voice and style transformed over the years.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2021 15:02:44 GMT -5
allmusic's review of Freecreek album
"The 2003 re-release of Music from Free Creek: The Long Lost Super Session Album comes with a six-page booklet explaining who plays what on a simply amazing collection of marquee talent recorded at the Record Plant in June through August of 1969. This edition features a 2001 interview with Moogy Klingman conducted by I.C. Timerow for the fanzine Heavy Metal Mayhem, which goes into great detail on how this event came together. While record labels were looking for something of this enormity -- keep the alleged "jam" between Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan that never happened in mind -- and a prank of an album called The Masked Marauders slipped into record stores, the public had little clue that something on that scale actually did exist. Linda Ronstadt, backed up by musicians from the Eagles and Three Dog Night, might not have shaken the Earth, as Ronstadt and Three Dog Night only had one hit each at the time, but in retrospect they add diversity to an album featuring Dr. John, Chris Wood, Delaney Bramlett, Todd Rundgren, Mitch Mitchell, and so many others. It also has Buzzy Linhart and Buzzy Feiten, the two "Buzzys" who get confused with each other in musical discussions of the day. Broken up into six divisions -- the Eric Clapton session, the Jeff Beck session, the Keith Emerson session, the Harvey Mandel session, Moogy Klingman's odds & sods, and the Linda Ronstadt session, Music from Free Creek is easy to digest. Mitchell jamming on an instrumental "Hey Jude" with Feiten, Elliott Randall, and 19-year-old Moogy Klingman is a delight. Material by Mike Gayle of the Glitterhouse, Bernie Leadon of the Eagles, Aaron Neville, Allen Toussaint, Dylan, co-producer Earl Dowd, Harvey Mandel, and others helps the effort live up to its billing. Music from Free Creek is a super session album where the musicians are playing for the fun of it, and that comes across. The material doesn't get bogged down in "names"; it just flows."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2021 15:12:09 GMT -5
Playboy After Dark performance has Linda introducing John Ware, John London
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Post by sliderocker on Nov 15, 2021 18:35:30 GMT -5
Can't hear any Linda on BHG My guess would be the vocals are there, but possibly were mixed very low or mixed out on the single. John Ware and John London would be members of Linda's group in 1969, as would Bernie Leadon and Chris Darrow. Back Home Girl is from 1968 and I don't know if Linda would've had permission from Capitol to appear on another artist's record or another label at the time. Record companies were notorious in the 60s for restricting their artists on free lance work. Linda could not appear as an artist on another work by another artist on another record label without Capitol being notified and authorizing their appearance. Authorizing usually meaning Capitol be paid a fee. However, Capitol may have slipped up in a way similar to what RCA Records did with Michael Nesmith. RCA Records was the powers that be behind the Monkees's records in the 1960s. He likewise could not appear as a vocalist on another recording by another artist on another record label without authorization. However, RCA failed to prohibit Nesmith from producing other works for other artists or record companies. Nesmith's The Wichita Train Whistle Sings was a collection of his songs, set in a big band format with no vocals whatsoever and was released by Dot. American Wichita and Runner Music were his companies, which allowed him to produce other artists and release them through his companies. Linda may have been guesting with the Corvettes and although the assumption was that it was for backing vocals, it very well could've been as a musician. Although Linda was mostly seen playing tambourine, many people laughed at the idea that constituted playing a musical instrument. But, it is a legitimate musical instrument and the instrument is listed as a percussion instrument. So, if you don't hear her on vocals, she could be there in the mix playing a tambourine or even a guitar. Capitol's contract with Linda may have applied to her as an artist only but not for any musical instruments she played.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2021 6:28:47 GMT -5
In her memoir, I think an early chapter, Linda said she played second fiddle for a band's performance, and there are early photos of her with a violin under her chin.
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Post by PoP80 on Nov 16, 2021 8:42:29 GMT -5
In her memoir, I think an early chapter, Linda said she played second fiddle for a band's performance, and there are early photos of her with a violin under her chin. LOL--Knowing Linda, she probably meant that she took a subordinate position to the other musicians by "playing second fiddle."
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Post by eddiejinnj on Nov 16, 2021 9:06:52 GMT -5
I think I have the Christmas 45. Doesn't it have both songs on it? Back Home Girl is a pretty good song. There are too many male voices to tell specifically, imo, to say I hear a female voice, either. All have a great day!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2021 11:11:13 GMT -5
I think I have the Christmas 45. Doesn't it have both songs on it? Back Home Girl is a pretty good song. There are too many male voices to tell specifically, imo, to say I hear a female voice, either. All have a great day!!! eddiejinnj You can buy both songs on a CD, nice clean digital sound, or MP3s from Amazon from the CD. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2021 10:51:44 GMT -5
Linda sang 2 songs at the 1969 Free Creek mass-jam session. The Free Creek album is on LP album and CD. If you have the Raven CD RVCD-325 Linda Ronstadt/Heart Like A Wheel, it has 3 bonus tracks, of which 2 are Linda's FC songs.
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