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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 4, 2023 9:05:49 GMT -5
Thanks for letting me know, Pop!!! It was also that month that I got Greatest Hits Vol 1 and started my Linda fandom (made up word lol). eddiejinnj
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Post by PoP80 on Dec 4, 2023 13:29:25 GMT -5
That's cool, Eddie! I was intrigued by Linda the minute I heard her voice and saw her with barefeet and hoop earrings, but Heart Like a Wheel clinched it for me!
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 5, 2023 8:27:58 GMT -5
I don't think I started buying albums yet when HLAW came out. I remember I had "Mandy" and "Have You Never Been Mellow" 45's. eddiejinnj 5500
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Post by erik on Dec 8, 2023 10:08:50 GMT -5
Winter 1974-75:
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Post by MokyWI on Dec 8, 2023 14:57:51 GMT -5
I don't think I started buying albums yet when HLAW came out. I remember I had "Mandy" and "Have You Never Been Mellow" 45's. eddiejinnj 5500 OMG I had “I Honestly Love You” 45! I was into ONG for about a year before I got Ronstadt crazy. With Linda it was albums only from day one for me. I was 8-9 yrs old when I fell for her. Prisoner In Disguise was her current release. I was really into Heart Like A Wheel. I got both Heart and Prisoner at the same time.
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Post by Dianna on Dec 8, 2023 17:15:09 GMT -5
I remember one of the first 45's I would listen to... Brandy, You're a fine girl, by the looking Glass it belonged to another neighborhood kid and it ended up on my little record player. Didn't start buying them until 5th or 6th grade.. and for (I want to say 25 or 50 cents)Didn't have any Linda 45's.. Simple Dreams was the first Linda album I got and asked for it specifically for Christmas..
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 9, 2023 8:26:43 GMT -5
After I bought GH early in Dec of '76, I asked for Linda albums from my maternal Grandmother, whom I was extremely close with. She bought me PID, HLAW and Hasten, I believe, but I may have one wrong and got another album. I know I got 3 from her. I had bought (and returned what seemed a million times for skipping) Simple Dreams when it came out so I couldn't ask for that one for Christmas of '77. I do remember hearing on the car radio driving with my Mom that Linda had 2 songs in the Top 5 and the dj made kind of a big deal about it. It warmed the heart of my cockles lol eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Dec 19, 2023 18:57:29 GMT -5
Linda's classic early 1970's country-rock look (Summer 1973):
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Post by erik on Dec 20, 2023 20:17:09 GMT -5
Backstage with Linda at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (January 13, 1974) (the girl in the photo is said to be Maria Muldaur's daughter Jenni):
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Post by MokyWI on Dec 20, 2023 21:50:41 GMT -5
Backstage with Linda at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (January 13, 1974) (the girl in the photo is said to be Maria Muldaur's daughter Jenni): Looks like she would be Maria’s daughter. Same eyes and chin.
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Post by erik on Dec 21, 2023 9:28:04 GMT -5
Linda possibly in Christmas mode (though I suspect this is a still pic from the video for "To Know Him Is To Love Him" that she did with Dolly and Emmylou, in 1986):
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Post by MokyWI on Dec 21, 2023 12:46:26 GMT -5
She/they are cutting out Valentine’s cards in this video.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 22, 2023 11:09:17 GMT -5
They played that vid a lot on CMT back in the day. A really cute vid!! eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Jan 2, 2024 23:06:50 GMT -5
Linda in 2019:
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 3, 2024 8:12:43 GMT -5
Just noticed it says date is jan 3 23 vs 24. I guess program doesn't automatically adjust year. Just wanted to let y'all know. eddiejinnj
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Post by Partridge on Jan 8, 2024 23:41:12 GMT -5
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Post by Partridge on Jan 8, 2024 23:44:39 GMT -5
a clipping from an unknown magazine... maybe one of the Rona Barrett gossip magazines
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Post by RobGNYC on Jan 9, 2024 0:35:19 GMT -5
Yes, RBH was “Rona Barrett’s Hollywood.” Bill Royce was Editor.
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Post by MokyWI on Jan 9, 2024 6:39:20 GMT -5
I remember reading article/interview something about Spector being a pain backstage at a show but not Linda telling Phil to “go back to the zoo”, that part I’m not sure I’d trust a write-up from Rona Barrett of all people. She was known for spinning way beyond the truth. Would have been great if Linda did tell him that if he couldn’t take the excuse she had a show to do. Spector I believe was borderline crazy, and when he wasn’t, he just FULL ON Cray Cray. He wasn’t only crazy, from all I’ve read he was also very mean spirited much of the time.
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Post by erik on Jan 9, 2024 9:23:18 GMT -5
Quote by MokyWI:
I think he always felt he was something of a genius--or at least he was narcissistic enough to believe what the press had been saying about him for years. Rona Barrett probably did exaggerate what took place between him and Linda; but if she did, it may not have been by all that much.
And as for Spector being crazy--well, as we all know, it went well beyond that in later decades, like, say, into the Homicidal.
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Post by RobGNYC on Jan 9, 2024 10:03:49 GMT -5
The Spector story sounds apocryphal but Rona wasn’t the only one who reported it. This was in The Record (Hackensack NJ) October 18, 1977:
“Accompanied by three bodyguards, producer Phil Spector drove up to the backstage area in a long black limousine on the final night and demanded to see Miss Ronstadt. She obliged, leaving her dressing room to talk with him at his car. After a brief but animated conversation, she returned to her dressing room, only to have Spector throw a tantrum and scream to have her back. She again obliged, this time ending the discussion with a curt, "Go back to the zoo." Miss Ronstadt threw a private party after the show with a guest list including Bernie Taupin, Cooper, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, J.D. Souther (who accompanied Linda), Andrew Gold, Louise Goffin (Carole King's daughter), Peter Asher, and Warren Zevon.”
Not sure who “Cooper” is, there’s no more information. Alice?
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Post by PoP80 on Jan 9, 2024 12:27:20 GMT -5
Regarding Phil Spector, To Know Him was NOT to Love Him!
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Post by Partridge on Jan 9, 2024 13:16:42 GMT -5
The Spector story sounds apocryphal but Rona wasn’t the only one who reported it. This was in The Record (Hackensack NJ) October 18, 1977: “Accompanied by three bodyguards, producer Phil Spector drove up to the backstage area in a long black limousine on the final night and demanded to see Miss Ronstadt. She obliged, leaving her dressing room to talk with him at his car. After a brief but animated conversation, she returned to her dressing room, only to have Spector throw a tantrum and scream to have her back. She again obliged, this time ending the discussion with a curt, "Go back to the zoo." Miss Ronstadt threw a private party after the show with a guest list including Bernie Taupin, Cooper, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, J.D. Souther (who accompanied Linda), Andrew Gold, Louise Goffin (Carole King's daughter), Peter Asher, and Warren Zevon.” Not sure who “Cooper” is, there’s no more information. Alice? Thanks for the reference. I found the paper:
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Post by RobGNYC on Jan 9, 2024 13:36:48 GMT -5
Thanks Tony. I was pretty sure that I first read the story in Rolling Stone but I couldn’t find a RS citation.
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Post by erik on Jan 25, 2024 10:00:16 GMT -5
Linda in 1979 (possibly from the Lowell George Benefit concert at the Inglewood Forum that August):
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Post by erik on Jan 26, 2024 21:09:55 GMT -5
Linda and Emmy at the 1986 Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, as they and Dolly were previewing the Trio album (this remains likely Linda's last appearance at a country-centric awards show):
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 28, 2024 13:50:56 GMT -5
Speaking of photos, I received a beautiful slightly early bday present from a dear friend back in NJ. It is an 8x10 glossy gorgeous clarity photo of Linda. It is the shot from the "What's New" era of her lying down on her stomach, head resting on her right hand and her back heeled foot in background kicked up. Always thought that a particularly evocative picture and love/d it. I feel very grateful to have a friend who would think of me and send such a special gift,
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 28, 2024 13:58:18 GMT -5
Hey Boss, in the article it says Alice Cooper (hunkster Bradley was maybe not born yet lol). eddiejinfl
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Post by erik on Feb 15, 2024 9:21:55 GMT -5
Pic taken off of E-Bay (by the looks of it, I think this is Linda from about 1974): Another pic taken off of E-Bay, this likely from 1982:
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Post by RobGNYC on Feb 15, 2024 9:33:39 GMT -5
In the circa 1974 photo above, Linda is holding Maria Muldaur’s self-titled debut album (1973). That’s the back cover.
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