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Post by eddiejinnj on Jun 15, 2022 10:16:01 GMT -5
Thanks for posting vid and welcome to the forum, guest. eddiejinnj
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Post by rick on Sept 17, 2022 7:34:54 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 17, 2022 7:39:29 GMT -5
I can hear Linda doing the Lovett song. She would have been excellent as background vocals on this song. eddiejinnj
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Post by Track29 on Nov 4, 2022 11:55:26 GMT -5
Mississippi Queen
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Post by Dianna on Jan 17, 2024 0:48:32 GMT -5
I've always thought that Linda could have played this part very well.. Lesley Ann and Linda are almost the exact same age.. Although, relatively still unknown at the time which would have put Linda around 18 years old when this musical came out.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 17, 2024 15:25:00 GMT -5
She did an excellent job, to say the least, with "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes". eddiejinnj
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 17, 2024 17:44:28 GMT -5
God, I played the "Cinderella" vid and I remember seeing this as a kid. Linda could have done the role well, imo!!! Celeste Holm is from NJ, tmk. eddiejinnj
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Post by Dianna on Jan 17, 2024 23:13:07 GMT -5
Yeah, Eddie especially with the Pirates role.. as both characters have the same doe eyes- disney princess vibe. lol
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Post by musedeva on Jan 18, 2024 21:19:20 GMT -5
Linda did sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow in the Riddle concert at Caesar’s Tahoe,Stateline,Nevada on 9th August 1986 when she also sang one of my favourites In The Mood.Perhaps she was trying these out for future recordings but changed her mind.Wish there was a recording of that concert. yep.....just about positive that was the show I saw.....little cocktail tables with thick white linens......................candles, real ones...on top
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Post by Mr. Kaplansky on Jan 25, 2024 13:12:56 GMT -5
Who ever told You? by Chi Coltrane
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Post by erik on Jan 26, 2024 9:16:15 GMT -5
Out on a limb here:
"Poor Wayfaring Stranger", the traditional folk ballad (although Linda's good pal Emmylou already covered it back in 1980)
"Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma", the song by the late Melanie (Safka), which was a hit for The New Seekers in the fall of 1970, roughly the same time Linda was hitting with "Long Long Time".
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Post by liza on Jan 27, 2024 0:20:28 GMT -5
A bit offbeat - "Not Exactly Paris". It wouldn't pose much of a technical challenge for her voice (although who knows how she might tweak the arrangement to change that!), but I would have loved to hear the emotion she would wring out of it, especially if she took it on a little later in her career and her life. The version I'm most familiar with is by Nancy Lamott.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 28, 2024 13:44:21 GMT -5
I only remember Melanie's own version of LWTDTMS Ma with it's raw sometimes raspy approach. I do know it was made famous by The Seekers but can't recall ever hearing it. eddiejinfl
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Post by heatwavedave on Jan 28, 2024 19:56:47 GMT -5
saw this (I Know Him So Well) on the other site and thought it would have made a great duet with Aaron and Linda
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Post by RobGNYC on Jan 28, 2024 20:13:42 GMT -5
saw this (I Know Him So Well) on the other site and thought it would have made a great duet with Aaron and Linda Gorgeous song (written by Tim Rice and Benny and Bjorn of ABBA for “Chess”) but I can’t see how it could have worked for Linda and Aaron—it was written for the roles of two women (wife and mistress) who love the same man.
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Post by heatwavedave on Jan 28, 2024 21:01:50 GMT -5
Linda has "tweaked" a lot of songs to fit including genre switching in some cases. I know it was originally written for two women but suppose it was the mistress singing about the husband and he about her or his wife. He would sing she knows me so well while she "I know him so well." Or they could do it like Susan Boyle and Peter Kay did and even wear the same outfit.
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Post by sliderocker on Jan 29, 2024 1:46:47 GMT -5
Linda has "tweaked" a lot of songs to fit including genre switching in some cases. I know it was originally written for two women but suppose it was the mistress singing about the husband and he about her or his wife. He would sing she knows me so well while she "I know him so well." Or they could do it like Susan Boyle and Peter Kay did and even wear the same outfit. The beginning of this song sounds so much like Agnetha Faltskog and then it switches in a Frida Lyngstad-like vocal. A lot of ABBA fans took this as an ABBA song. And as ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus were two of the three songwriters on the song, it's easy to see why. As an ABBA fan, I would love to have seen Linda recording a version of the song. Just something that would've shaken up her fan base a little with something out of left field. After three albums of standards and three Spanish language albums, have to wonder though if it was something which would've worked for her fan base? When she came out with Heartbeats Accelerating, I didn't know it was Linda at first except on a few lines. I thought she was duetting with another artist again. But, Heartbeats... didn't work for Linda and it might have been the same if she had recorded I Know Him So Well.
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Post by heatwavedave on Jan 29, 2024 3:18:33 GMT -5
The song has so many possibilities. Linda and Barbra together, Linda in the Trio, Linda and Aaron or James. Whitney and her mom Cissy recorded it.
Here are 5 people/Steps singing it. Three women and two men.
It is a hard song to mess up as it is almost perfection.
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Post by sliderocker on Jan 29, 2024 7:31:01 GMT -5
The song has so many possibilities. Linda and Barbra together, Linda in the Trio, Linda and Aaron or James. Whitney and her mom Cissy recorded it. Here are 5 people/Steps singing it. Three women and two men. It is a hard song to mess up as it is almost perfection. A lot of the ABBA songs were almost perfection as both Benny and Bjorn believed in strong melodies to go with the lyrics, which were penned by Bjorn and/or their manager, Stig Anderson. Benny wrote the melodies although Bjorn was capable of writing melodies as well. But, in their songwriting relationship, Benny was in charge of the melodies and Bjorn in charge of the lyrics. And they didn't really deviate from that arrangement. Ironically, even Agnetha and Frida were capable of writing songs but they shared one thing in common with Linda: they thought their songs paled compared to songs written by others, including their ex-husbands Benny and Bjorn, Lennon and McCartney, Brian Wilson, the Gibb brothers, and many others. They were afraid their songs wouldn't measure up. Just thinking of who could've done I Know Him So Well with Linda. Linda and Barbra would've made for an interesting duet. It would've come out of left field and would've been unexpected. I would've suggested Linda work with someone she hadn't worked with before, so it would've been a surprise to her fan base. I believe it was said Linda had worked with over 200 different artists over the course of her career providing backing and harmony vocals and occasional lead vocals, so I think Linda could've found herself a few partners to record the song. ABBA had a large fan base of artists who liked their songs, and Linda had a pretty large fan base of artists who liked her songs too. Here's another song from Benny and Bjorn, this time from ABBA, One Man, One Woman, from 1978's ABBA The Album. Linda could've had Andrew and Kenny on backing vocals, possibly joined by Wendy Waldman and Valerie Carter. Or her own brothers and sister, to make it a family affair. I truly wish Linda's brother Michael and his band had managed to have had the kind of success Linda had. Sad it never happened for him but that's usually how it goes in the music biz. James Taylor's brother and sister never got close to the kind of success James had. And even most kids who were considered the next generation artists had minor success, if they had success at all. But, the below is a very good song.
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Post by erik on Jan 29, 2024 10:03:19 GMT -5
If it isn't too morbid-sounding:
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Post by MokyWI on Jan 30, 2024 6:45:59 GMT -5
If it isn't too morbid-sounding: I can hear Linda doing this in my head. I can also hear Norah Jones doing a great version of this as well.
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Post by Dianna on Feb 1, 2024 4:46:02 GMT -5
If it isn't too morbid-sounding: I can hear Linda doing this in my head. I can also hear Norah Jones doing a great version of this as well. It also reminds me of A preview teaser for American Horror Story (the song) God, I love their teasers.. i.e.
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Post by revin2go on Feb 16, 2024 19:31:29 GMT -5
When she came out with Heartbeats Accelerating, I didn't know it was Linda at first except on a few lines. I thought she was duetting with another artist again. But, Heartbeats... didn't work for Linda and it might have been the same if she had recorded I Know Him So Well. [/quote]
What ever made Linda think that song would be a successful single? Didn't the powers that be make a case for that? The first song on an album should be a grabber and that clearly wasn't it.
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Post by rick on Mar 8, 2024 6:58:15 GMT -5
Was watching a Turner Classic Movies’ program hosted by the late Robert Osborne and the theme music used was Billie Holiday’s version of “These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You).” Thought a simple version of this sung by Linda might have been a good choice for “Lush Life.”
Another one — different genre — is “Lover’s Cross” (sung here by Holly Dunn) —
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 8, 2024 9:27:15 GMT -5
I think Linda would have done well with Rick's last entry by Billie. Other than for its smokiness at times, I am not a fan of Billie's voice. It is not full bodied like Linda's is. To each his own. Variety is the spice of life. eddiejinfl
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Post by erik on Mar 8, 2024 10:19:33 GMT -5
I'm going out on a slender limb here, but I always conceived Linda putting a country-rock spin on the 1951 blues song "The Thrill Is Gone", which was made into an R&B standard in the winter of 1969-70 by B.B. King:
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