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Post by Partridge on Mar 31, 2024 20:21:17 GMT -5
A bit strange since Fleetwood Mac is not a female singer. It probably should have been Stevie Nicks. Linda is moving up in the ranks so that's a "seriously"nice nod to her! They played 2 songs by each Top 20 artist. For Fleetwood Mac they played one with Stevie Nicks on lead and one with Christine McVie. I was not paying attention to the Abba selections. The two Linda selections were You're No Good (I think) and Blue Bayou. I got a phone call just as Linda came up. I was hoping for When Will I Be Loved/ Long Long Time. But Long Long Time is not on the '70s playlist. I suppose it wasn't a big enough hit, although they play songs by Elton John that didn't even go Top 40. Also, they never play my favorite Olivia Newton-John Song, the first I ever heard by her, If Not For You. It barely made the Top 30. Not to be morbid, but my initial thought was that Linda was #1 among living artists. I am surprised that Donna Summer was not higher. She is by far the female artist I hear the most on the '70s station.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 31, 2024 16:30:11 GMT -5
What is this Kanyesque thinking that Beyonce deserves a Grammy just because she is Beyonce? She's just another female singer- how is she getting all these Grammy awards?
Of course Grammy Awards are nice but I've never thought they meant much since A Taste of Honey with their hit Boogie Oogie Oogie won over uber-ass Elvis Costello for best new artist. And then they were never heard from again.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 31, 2024 16:25:08 GMT -5
Sirius XM 70's Channel had listeners vote on their favorite female singers of the 1970's.
Here are the results:
1 Karen Carpenter 2 Olivia Newton-John 3 Linda Ronstadt 4 Fleetwood Mac 5 Donna Summer 6 Carole King 7 Abba 8 Heart 9 Carly Simon 10 Barbra Streisand 11 Helen Reddy 12 Cher 13 Diana Ross 14 Anne Murray 15 Tina Turner 16 Dolly Parton 17 Gladys Knight 18 Blondie 19 Joni Mitchell 20 Gloria Gaynor
The top three are the same as I recall from last year's poll.
Sirius 60's channel recently had a poll where the listeners voted on their favorite female singers from the 1960's. Linda finished #12 in that poll. As I recall she was #9 last year.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 31, 2024 14:40:10 GMT -5
It’s too much. Can you be tired of an album that you haven’t heard? yes. the release of this album was even featured on the ABC Nightly News. it is not that newsworthy.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 29, 2024 23:32:07 GMT -5
Interesting is it that in the chart that shows the Top 40 songs of each year, or as they call it, TOP SINGLES OF PAST DECADE, the only Ronstadt song I see is When Will I Be Loved. You're No Good was a bigger hit but does not show up here. Blue Bayou was Linda's best-selling hit but it is not shown here.
I think the answer relates to the cut-off dates for each year's eligibility. For example, You're No Good was released in the latter part of 1974 and peaked on the chart in early 1975, so any points it earned are divided between two years. Likewise, Blue Bayou peaked on the chart the last week of December 1977 and continued to chart in 1978, its data points divided among two years.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 29, 2024 21:09:47 GMT -5
CashBox, July 4,1981Radio and Records, July 10, 1981Billboard, July 11, 1981Record World, July 11, 1981Billboard, July 18, 1981CashBox, July 18, 1981Radio and Records, July 24, 1981Record World, July 25, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 28, 2024 12:20:15 GMT -5
Does anyone know the name of this band? The band was Darryl Rhoades and the Hahavishnu Orchestra. Their hit record was Surfing Shark. But I do have that LP by Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band (with the Rootettes).
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Post by Partridge on Mar 27, 2024 13:41:14 GMT -5
How the hell did Dolly Parton get in before Cher? Cher was well-known before Dolly arrived and has had a long legitimate pop/rock career. "I think there's something fishy going on."
For that matter, now that the Hall is no longer doing the "is she really rock?" game like they did with Linda Ronstadt, how the hell did Dolly Parton get in before Olivia Newton-John?
Is it possible that Dolly's management lobbied to get her inducted, so that she could pretend to reject the induction, so that she could then go on to accept and then record her rock masterpiece? Well, that's my conspiracy theory for the day, since our favorite conspiracy theorist no longer posts here.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 23, 2024 19:33:46 GMT -5
Yes, I like that Lou Ann Barton album. A couple of Wanda Jackson songs on that CD. You've convinced me to take it down off the shelf. Haven't listened to it in years. I would recommend her album Old Enough, on Asylum Records, also.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 23, 2024 14:23:33 GMT -5
Wanda Jackson, Let's Have a Party
That's one of the first songs I liked as a child. That, and also Mean Mean Man by Wanda Jackson, in which she does a pretty good Elvis impersonation. I'm certain I heard this song by her before 1960,as I had not yet started going to school. Wanda Jackson was my first favorite female singer. I liked her and Ricky Nelson.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 22, 2024 20:42:48 GMT -5
I wonder what the penalty for creating a new fake Luke Bryan song would be. Maybe the damages would have to be decided by a lawsuit.
Personally, I think anyone creating a fake Luke Bryan song should be persecuted to the full extent of the law.
I know.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 20, 2024 17:08:17 GMT -5
Billboard, June 13, 1981CashBox, June 13, 1981Billboard, June 20, 1981Record World, June 20, 1981Billboard, June 27, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 20, 2024 13:39:01 GMT -5
I found this article on the 25 most-covered country songs of all time:
25 most covered country songs of all time
Linda has recorded several of these songs:
Crazy Arms I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) I Fall to Pieces Hey Good Lookin' I Will Always Love You Ring of Fire Crazy
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2024 23:08:01 GMT -5
The main purpose of this article was not to inform, but to present the information in the most verbose way as possible, in order to make the article longer with more room for advertisements. So you would think they would have had more explanation about Linda's version. The placement of the intrusions made it hard to read.
But thank you rick for posting it.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2024 23:04:24 GMT -5
I was watching on an 85-inch screen and some panels were so small as to be almost impossible to read. They would be meaningless if watching on a smaller screen or even on an ipad. Common sense.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2024 2:12:05 GMT -5
Billboard, May 2, 1981CashBox, May 2, 1981Record World, May 2, 1981Record World, May 9, 1981Billboard, May 16, 1981CashBox, May 16, 1981Record World, May 16, 1981Radio and Records, May 22, 1981Billboard, May 23, 1981Billboard, May 30, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 14, 2024 12:07:32 GMT -5
Back in the day, I remember a lot of people thought Linda oversang Long Long Time. She was often accused of shouting or screaming instead of singing. My how the times have changed, as one of the many "reaction" videos complained that he was waiting for Linda to amp up the song. These days a lot of people expect too much amperage.
"Searching for the first power ballad" could be a new thread, applying that term to songs that came before. I thought of another. "It Must Be Him" by Vikki Carr would be called a power ballad if it had been released a couple of decades later.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 9, 2024 23:41:25 GMT -5
Billboard, April 4, 1981Record World, April 4, 1981Billboard, April 11, 1981Record World, April 11, 1981Billboard, April 25, 1981CashBox, April 25, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 7, 2024 21:35:26 GMT -5
Radio and Records, March 20, 1981CashBox, March 21, 1981Record World, March 21, 1981Billboard, March 28, 1981CashBox, March 28, 1981Record World, March 28, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Mar 2, 2024 21:34:26 GMT -5
I don't know of anyone who would appreciate my stuff. I had a younger cousin who asked me to leave him my comic book collection and my LPs. I gave him a few items he wanted but he has already left this world.
I have given away most of my LPs to enthusiasts since vinyl has made a comeback. I did have some remorse at getting rid of most of my Kinks albums from the 1960s. I have every Skeeter Davis LP on vinyl (no one cares, not even me), most every Ronstadt title on vinyl, every Ronstadt CD. People do want my Ronstadt LPs but I'm not ready to part with them yet. I did give away to a teenage cousin a promo copy of Greatest Hits II.
I suppose the items I have that might be wanted by an organization would be the gold record for Blue Bayou, the platinum album for TRIO presented to Linda Ronstadt, the NARM award for having the best-selling LP by a female artist. And a few other RIAA platinum albums presented to people in the industry.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 26, 2024 22:43:08 GMT -5
Billboard, March 7, 1981CashBox, March 7, 1981Record World, March 7, 1981Billboard, March 14, 1981CashBox, March 14, 1981Record World, March 14, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 24, 2024 21:49:02 GMT -5
Billboard, February 21, 1981CashBox, February 21, 1981Record World, February 21, 1981Billboard, February 28, 1981CashBox, February 28, 1981Record World, February 28, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 23:05:57 GMT -5
Billboard, February 7, 1981CashBox, February 7, 1981Record World, February 7, 1981Billboard, February 14, 1981CashBox, February 14, 1981Record World, February 14, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 22:48:13 GMT -5
The song I was thinking about that has not been recorded by anyone else- It's About Time- from the Hand Sown album. I could not find another version so I wrote the writer/producer and he said no one else had ever recorded the song.
I can't think of another version of The Long Way Around either.
Apologies for hijacking the original intent of this thread with my offhand remark! I suppose this discussion should properly be a separate thread.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 13:09:43 GMT -5
Alyn, another problem with vinyl is that it is just so heavy. I heard a crash last night. I had one of those cheaply made shelving units from Office Depot that have shelves held into place by pegs in tiny holes. The pegs failed and one shelf of vinyl records crashed to the floor. My first thought was that a cat had caused the crash and I was fearful the cat was under that pile of records. But no, it was peg failure. Luckily, no records were seriously damaged.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 20, 2024 12:48:47 GMT -5
He refers to everything Linda sings as being a cover. That is not true. She recorded many songs in her career that she was the first person to bring to record. If the songwriter later records the song, that does not convert Linda's to a cover version. She recorded Karla Bonoff songs a year before Karla recorded them on her own album. And if Linda had not recorded the songs, chances are that Karla would not have had that major label deal. She recorded Faithless Love a year before J D Souther released his own recording. (Can you name any song that Linda recorded that has never been released, before or since, by any other artist?} She recorded Heart Like a Wheel the year before the McGarrigles released their first album, and chances are... (However, Heart Like a Wheel had been previously released in 1972 by McKendree Spring.)
Also, I think his memory failed him. He relates a story about Linda not liking Andrew Gold's guitar work on When Will I Be Loved. I don't recall ever hearing that. But I could be wrong. I think he is referring to the guitar extro that Gould added to You're No Good.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 14, 2024 1:58:32 GMT -5
Billboard, January 24, 1981CashBox, January 24, 1981Record World, January 24, 1981Billboard, January 31, 1981CashBox, January 31, 1981Record World, January 31, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 13, 2024 22:23:21 GMT -5
Well, first off it's not so funny. The only thing I get from this cartoon is that Neuman is bringing Linda flowers and candy for Valentine's Day, and the improbability that Linda would be interested in him. But according to his shirt, he has no worries.
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Post by Partridge on Feb 12, 2024 23:37:33 GMT -5
Billboard, January 10, 1981CashBox, January 10, 1981Record World, January 10, 1981Radio and Records, January 16, 1981Billboard, January 17, 1981CashBox, January 17, 1981Record World, January 17, 1981
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Post by Partridge on Feb 12, 2024 11:18:58 GMT -5
She wants to add to her collection another Grammy in a different category. This could be her Album of the Year.
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