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Post by profstadt on Sept 16, 2012 16:02:45 GMT -5
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Post by djay on Sept 16, 2012 17:39:30 GMT -5
Well, certainly no one who's ever heard of the incomparable Manhattan Transfer.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 16, 2012 19:47:11 GMT -5
is that a member of the manhattan transfer? i have seen that pic used as linda's b4. it might have been that site brought up on here. not sure. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Sept 16, 2012 19:50:15 GMT -5
Yes, I really don't know how anyone could have mistaken her for Linda--unless they had too much of the sauce last night.  |
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Post by Richard W on Sept 16, 2012 20:01:44 GMT -5
That is Janis Siegel from The Manhattan Transfer (and subsequent solo work).
Well, they're both brunettes and female with two eyes a nose and a mouth -- and they're both great singers. (Although I bet Janis regrets that blue eyeshadow.)
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Post by philly on Sept 17, 2012 2:04:03 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 17, 2012 14:47:28 GMT -5
People are stupid. Reminds me of those bootlegs that don't take the time to figure out the real name of a song. Instead they take a repeating line and assume that is the title.
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Post by Dianna on Sept 17, 2012 19:54:54 GMT -5
I could be wrong but most people who purchase memorabilia for themselves . I'd think would be a die hard fan and could tell that photo is not of Linda.. I could see if purchased as a gift for someone else who is a fan... person who made purchase might not know. lol.. just in case one of us ends up with it, we better forewarn our friends and relatives.. The holidays are coming. ha
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Post by rick on Sept 17, 2012 23:42:21 GMT -5
That is Janis Siegel from The Manhattan Transfer (and subsequent solo work). Well, they're both brunettes and female with two eyes a nose and a mouth -- and they're both great singers. (Although I bet Janis regrets that blue eyeshadow.) Richard, LOL! Do you think it could be the polka dots and somehow they are conflating the cover of "Get Closer" with Janis Siegel from the 1970s? And, RichWar, have you ever regretted blue eyeshadow?  Speaking of dumb, someone had a bootleg Supremes CD listed on eBay recently and instead of using a photo of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard, the Supremes were made up of a 1965-era Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and the 1970s Diana Ross. I see no similarities between Linda and Janis, other than, as Richard says, they are both gifted singers. |
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Post by Richard W on Sept 18, 2012 8:32:46 GMT -5
That is Janis Siegel from The Manhattan Transfer (and subsequent solo work). Well, they're both brunettes and female with two eyes a nose and a mouth -- and they're both great singers. (Although I bet Janis regrets that blue eyeshadow.) And, RichWar, have you ever regretted blue eyeshadow? I never wore that much of it.  |
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 18, 2012 14:38:39 GMT -5
What is the point of eyeshadow anyway? It looks really stupid and like war paint.
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Post by rick on Sept 19, 2012 0:53:12 GMT -5
Janis Siegel from The Manhattan Transfer's CBS summer replacement series in the 1970s.... with eyeshadow.....
singing a song Linda would later record with Nelson Riddle
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Post by Dianna on Sept 19, 2012 10:31:08 GMT -5
Thanks Rick, To be honest, I've never heard of her.. Manahatten Transfer yes, but I did not make the connection. Nevermind the eyeshadow, what the hell was up with those short old lady perm'd hairstyles? I know Linda had one back in the late 70's. Just awful. lol
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Post by philly on Sept 19, 2012 16:28:10 GMT -5
Thanks Rick, To be honest, I've never heard of her.. Manahatten Transfer yes, but I did not make the connection. Nevermind the eyeshadow, what the hell was up with those short old lady perm'd hairstyles? I know Linda had one back in the late 70's. Just awful. lol You no like late 70's hairstyles?  another relic(?) of the 70s thank God Linda was no disco queen  |
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Post by rick on Sept 19, 2012 18:55:50 GMT -5
Thanks Rick, To be honest, I've never heard of her.. Manahatten Transfer yes, but I did not make the connection. Nevermind the eyeshadow, what the hell was up with those short old lady perm'd hairstyles? I know Linda had one back in the late 70's. Just awful. lol Since I graduated high school in 1975, there were all kinds of interesting hair and fashion trends in the 70s. Dare I admit that there is a pair of gray parachute pants in my closet somewhere? Speaking of Janis Siegel, on the previous Linda board, someone has asked about members' 10 Desert Island discs and Janis Siegel had one of my 10 spots. Maybe you weren't reading the board at the time, dianna. Here is the URL -- ronstadt-linda.com/v-web/bulletin/velco2/viewtopic.php?t=8899&highlight=desert+island+discs |
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Post by Dianna on Sept 19, 2012 19:38:17 GMT -5
I must have missed that link. thanks rick.. I did learn a few interesting things about richwar, btw.. richwar, from where I'm sitting..it's the professor.
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Post by sliderocker on Sept 20, 2012 11:47:36 GMT -5
another relic(?) of the 70s thank God Linda was no disco queen Linda and disco, like oil and water, not a good mix. That said, I never had anything against disco music and often found that those who hated disco were the kind who thought the music had to have some relevent words of wisdom to the times or had to be a work of art, either of which could be extremely pretentious and phoney. They took rock music way toooooooooooooo seriously and seemed to forget that rock music had started out as dance music. There was nothing wrong with listening to the music just for listening to the music but why so many rockers were so hung up over disco is a headscratcher. When I think about those idiots who staged the burning of disco records, I sometimes wanted to yell at them, "Grow up! You f--kin' morons!" As they were no different from the religious morons who burned Beatle records in the 60s and then burned pop-rock albums in the 70s because of the idiotic belief the rockers were in league with the devil. Some of those religious fanatics had Linda on their hate radar because of her Catholic upbringing and because she had said something about wanting to seduce her priest when she was 17. I also considered those who burned records of any kind to be committing an act of irrational violence because what could've happened if it hadn't stopped there? The way I saw it, if someone didn't like disco music, what was the problem they had with those who did? Were people who liked disco, liked to dance, stopping them from listening to the rock music they listened to, some of which was alright, though some of it was as pretentious and as bad (if not worse) as the worst disco recordings? (Disclaimer: I was one of those people who listened to the music and who never got on a dance floor at the height of disco. I couldn't dance to save my life and didn't want to look foolish trying to dance. I listened to some disco but not all disco. Much of it came across as pretentious and as phoney as the worst artsy rock artists and their albums, but disco never stopped me from listening to the rock artists and albums I did happen to like.) |
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Post by Dianna on Sept 20, 2012 13:56:09 GMT -5
boy, those perms were sure popular in the late 70's . I found a clip from the mike douglas show with joyce dewitt singing with the lettermen. Some of the acts back then were kind of corny. lol
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 20, 2012 14:16:47 GMT -5
Loved that show and the Lettermen and the nostalgia. They were never hip but I didn't care.
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