Linda Ronstadt, who emerged from SoCal's vaunted early-'70s country-folk scene, became the American female rock superstar of the Me Decade. After the initial success of the Stone Poneys' Michael Nesmith-penned "Different Drum," Ronstadt expanded her horizons through interpretations of a long string of successful pop and R&B covers. Along the way she championed emerging songwriters like Warren Zevon ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me") and contemporary favorites like Neil Young ("Love Is a Rose") in the bargain. As the formula waned with the changing tastes of the '80s, she briefly turned to new wave before stepping boldly back to the pop standards of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Unfortunately, this collection inexplicably skips over that three-album collaboration with arranger-conductor Nelson Riddle, a body of work that presaged the 1990s' lounge-pop revival by a full decade--and outclassed it by miles. It also eschews a compelling contemporary Latin chapter of her career in favor of her winning collaborations with Aaron Neville ("Don't Know Much" and "All My Life") and less successful AC fodder like "Winter Light" and "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram. A good primer to Ronstadt's immense vocal talents and recording history, but one that's flawed by some crucial missing chapters. --Jerry McCulley
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The very best of Linda Ronstadt packs a single CD with 21 Ronstadt classics released by Capitol and Elektra/Asylum from 1967-1993. 2002.
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ASIN: B00006J424 Release Date: 2002-09-24 |
Tracks:
- When Will I Be Loved
- Heat Wave
- You're No Good
- It's So Easy
- Blue Bayou
- Just One Look
- Different Drum
- Poor Poor Pitiful Me
- Tracks Of My Tears
- That'll Be The Day
- Ooh Baby Baby
- Long Long Time
- Back In The U.S.A.
- Love Is A Rose
- Hurt So Bad
- Heart Like A Wheel
- Adios
- Somewhere Out There
- Don't Know Much
- All My Life
- Winter Light
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Linda Ronstadt, who emerged from SoCal's vaunted early-'70s country-folk scene, became the American female rock superstar of the Me Decade. After the initial success of the Stone Poneys' Michael Nesmith-penned "Different Drum," Ronstadt expanded her horizons through interpretations of a long string of successful pop and R&B covers. Along the way she championed emerging songwriters like Warren Zevon ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me") and contemporary favorites like Neil Young ("Love Is a Rose") in the bargain. As the formula waned with the changing tastes of the '80s, she briefly turned to new wave before stepping boldly back to the pop standards of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Unfortunately, this collection inexplicably skips over that three-album collaboration with arranger-conductor Nelson Riddle, a body of work that presaged the 1990s' lounge-pop revival by a full decade--and outclassed it by miles. It also eschews a compelling contemporary Latin chapter of her career in favor of her winning collaborations with Aaron Neville ("Don't Know Much" and "All My Life") and less successful AC fodder like "Winter Light" and "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram. A good primer to Ronstadt's immense vocal talents and recording history, but one that's flawed by some crucial missing chapters. --Jerry McCulleyAlbum Description
The very best of Linda Ronstadt packs a single CD with 21 Ronstadt classics released by Capitol and Elektra/Asylum from 1967-1993. 2002.Customer Reviews:
Missing Too Many Hits.......2007-06-07
really is the best of..........2007-03-22
Ooo Baby Baby.......2007-03-09
LINDA RONSTADT GREATEST HITS .......2007-03-08
FAITHLESS LOVE.......2007-02-28
When I gained weight after the Army in 1980 and needed to lose weight, I took up jogging and it seemed that about evey night that I went out the adult contemporary radio station would play this phantom song that moved me deeply-SOMEONE TO LAY DOWN BESIDE ME. I had searched the record stores like crazy to figure out what the name of that song was that got to me so much. I found SOMEONE TO LAY DOWN BESIDE ME on her greatest hits album. It seemed to say to me that although I will never find the perfectly comptable mate, it seemed to me that what you get in life is someone to ;ay down beside you at night! I could understand this well!
Lately, when I bought a new table top stereo CD, I would put this soft romantic album on continual play and let ol' Linda sing me to sleep at night> I guess I was feeling pretty lonely at the time! My mom had to come into the room and turn off the stereo because this thing played on and on all night snd it drove my poor mom nuts! (I can also have a sense of humor when the neighbors don't annoy me!) Linda had a nice sweet romantic voice.
I was touched by HEART LIKE A WHEEL-"its only love that can take a human heart and turn it inside out!". And since my divorce, I have done my share of finding the girl of my dreams who at one time actually in my sleep since 1984 was this pretty little bleach blonde girl. That's a phantom girl, too. You can really mess your head up talking to so many pretty girls and they all turn you down.
Then the duet she sang with Erin Neville, to me I call it I DON'T KNOW MUCH! I would also put this sweet romantic song on repeat play when I was awake.
I seem to recognize that she had a Motown influence and a country influence. I recognize a Chuck Berry song and a Smokey Robinson song "OOH OOH OOH BABY BABY-gives me dirty feelings when she sings it. And I thought I picked out a Hank Williams song-was FAITHLESS LOVE on that album? But of course there were songs used in commercials-like ITS SO EASY to sell spray cleanser. And JUST ONE LOOK to sell Japanese cars. I used to really be into music!
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Seventies Feelings
James Taylor , The Captain & Tennille , Maureen McGovern , Olivia Newton-John , Harry Chapin , Melissa Manchester , Beverly Bremers , Rupert Holmes , Carly Simon , and Ambrosia Manufacturer: Mystic Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Soft Rock
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MYSTIC MUSIC presents Seventies Feelings, a 2 CD set w/ 40 of the best soft rock songs from the 70s. AS SEEN ON T.V. Disc 1 01. FIRE AND RAIN JAMES TAYLOR 02. IT'S A HEARTACHE BONNIE TYLER 03. DANCE WITH ME ORLEANS 04. DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME THE CAPTAIN & TENNILLE 05. YOU AND ME ALICE COOPER 06. GET CLOSER SEALS & CROFTS 07. LONG LONG TIME LINDA RONSTADT 08. LONELY PEOPLE AMERICA 09. MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS MARIA MULDAUR 10. HOW MUCH I FEEL AMBROSIA 11. THAT'S THE WAY I'VE ALWAYS HEARD IT SHOULD BE CARLY SIMON 12. DON'T GIVE UP ON US DAVID SOUL 13. THE TIMES OF YOUR LIFE PAUL ANKA 14. I HONESTLY LOVE YOU OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN 15. SOLITAIRE NEIL SEDAKA 16. THE MORNING AFTER MAUREEN MCGOVERN 17. JOANNE MICHAEL NESMITH 18. LOVIN' YOU MINNIE RIPERTON 19. FOR THE LOVE OF HIM BOBBIE MARTIN 20. DREAM WEAVER GARY WRIGHT Disc 2 01. TIME IN A BOTTLE JIM CROCE 02. DON'T CRY OUT LOUD MELISSA MANCHESTER 03. DIARY BREAD 04. SEND IN THE CLOWN JUDY COLLINS 05. RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD B.J. THOMAS 06. DEJA VU DIONNE WARWICK 07. SUSPICIONS EDDIE RABBITT 08. LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO MY SONG MA THE NEW SEEKERS 09. HOBO'S LULLABY ARLO GUTHRIE 10. AIN'T NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY HELEN REDDY 11. VINCENT DON MCLEAN 12. GOOD TIME CHARLIE'S GOT THE BLUES DANNY O'KEEFE 13. OH ME OH MY (I'M A FOOL FOR YOU BABY) LULU 14. COME SATURDAY MORNING THE SANDPIPERS 15. IF YOU LEAVE ME TONIGHT I'LL CRY JERRY WALLACE 16. DIAMONDS AND RUST JOAN BAEZ 17. REMEMBER WHEN THE MUSIC HARRY CHAPIN 18. DON'T SAY YOU DON'T REMEMBER BEVERLY BREMERS 19. AFTER THE LOVIN ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK 20. ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) RUPERT HOLMES
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The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt (Time Life)
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2 CD, 32 track compilation which expands over the single-disc best of. *DISC 1* 1. You're No Good 2. It Doesn't Matter Anymore 3. Love Has No Pride 4. Silver Threads And Golden Needles 5. Desperado 6. Love Is A Rose 7. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) 8. That'll Be the Day 9. Long Long Time 10. Different Drum 11. When Will I Be Loved? 12. Back in the U.S.A. 13. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave 14. Tracks of My Tears 15. Heart Like a Wheel 16. Someone To Lay Down Beside Me *DISC 2* 1. It's So Easy 2. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me 3. Hurt So Bad 4. Blue Bayou 5. Ooh Baby Baby 6. Just One Look 7. Piel Canela 8. I Get Along Without You Very Well 9. What's New 10. When You Wish Upon A Star 11. Adios 12. Somewhere Out There 13. Don't Know Much 14. Try Me Again 15. All My Life 16. Winter Light
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The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
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ASIN: B0000787IS Release Date: 2003-10-06 |
Tracks:
- When Will I Be Loved?
- (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
- You're No Good
- It's So Easy
- Blue Bayou
- Just One Look
- Different Drum - Stone Poneys
- Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
- Tracks of My Tears
- That'll Be the Day
- Ooh Baby Baby
- Long Long Time
- Back in the U.S.A.
- Love Is a Rose
- Hurt So Bad
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Adios
- Somewhere Out There - James Ingram, Linda Ronstadt
- Don't Know Much - Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt
- All My Life - Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt
- Winter Light
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Digitally Remastered Collection of from the Pop Princess of the '70's with all her Hits and More. This Edition Includes Four Tracks that Are Not Present on the USA Equivalent Release: "After the Gold Rush" (A Neil Young Cover with Valerie Carter and Emmylou Harris), "Love Has No Pride", "How Do I Make You" and a Cover of the Eagles' "Desperado".Customer Reviews:
Very well-chosen mix of Linda's biggest and best tracks.......2003-11-04
What's here manages to blend all of Ronstadt's biggest hits with some excellent lesser hits and album tracks. "Love Has No Pride" and "Just One Look" did not do as well on the charts as, for example, "Get Closer" or her version of "Tumbling Dice," but they are clearly the superior records.
Ronstadt has been both praised and vilified for her many remakes (almost all her Top Tens); on one hand she was the first to bring songwriters like Warren Zevon, Karla Bonoff, Kate and Anna McGarrigle to the masses. On the other hand, some of her remakes are thought to lack feeling. Dave Marsh, in the good version of the Rolling Stone Record Guide, called Ronstadt a "horrid interpreter of...rock and soul material, frequently missing the essence...and never cutting below the surface." Scathing, and possibly accurate regarding "Tumbling Dice" (probably why it's not included here) and "Back In The U.S.A." I would side with Linda, however, on the hypnotically-beautiful "Ooh Baby Baby" and the uptempo hits "When Will I Be Loved," "That'll Be The Day," and the #1 "You're No Good." Of course, the duets with Aaron Neville are stunning--welcome comebacks for both singers--and I have always liked both "Somewhere Out There" and James Ingram. Although the song, an omnipresent #2 pop radio staple in 1986, made most people I know very, very ill.
I hope that Warner/Elektra/Asylum(?) issues a "Best of Volume 2," as they did with Rod Stewart (here, anyway). I'd still like to see a compilation of the remaining hits, even "Tumbling Dice," on disc, as well as the Nelson Riddle I-am-too-mature-for-rock-and-so-what-if-I-gain-a-few-pounds era songs "What's New" and "I've Got A Crush On You," and the gorgeous "Heartbeats Accelerating" from "Winter Light." In addition to "Get Closer," other fine singles from Ronstadt wanting to be anthologized include "I Knew You When," "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me," "Easy For You To Say," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," "Alison" (yep, the Elvis Costello song, from "Back in the U.S.A."), "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," and "I Can't Let Go." O.K., one more: the non-single duet with James Taylor, "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine" from "Get Closer."
Regardless, this is the best collection ever likely to be assembled on one CD. Even a fussy completist like me recommends it highly.
Slightly different track selection.......2003-10-15
Linda Ronstadt began her career in the sixties and continued making great music into the new millennium. Perhaps there is more to come - who knows? However, this collection mostly focuses on her period of greatest commercial success - the seventies.
During the seventies, Linda established her reputation mainly with exquisite covers of classic pop songs such as When Will I Be Loved (Everly brothers), It's so easy, That'll Be The Day (both Buddy Holly), Back In The U.S.A. (Chuck Berry), Hurt so bad (Little Anthony'), Blue bayou (Roy Orbison), Ooh baby baby (Smokey Robinson), Desperado (Eagles) and Heat wave (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas), all of which are included here. She also had success with a cover of Poor poor pitiful me (Warren Zevon), though it is Linda who is normally associated with this song. Indeed, Warren Zevon owes his reputation to Linda, who recorded several of his songs.
A few songs from other periods are included. Different drum and Long long time represent her folk-country music of the sixties. Two duets with Aaron Neville and one with James Ingram represent the eighties. Winter light and After the goldrush represent the nineties. Linda's Great American Songbook recordings with Nelson Riddle, her Spanish music and her Trio work with Dolly and Emmylou are conspicuous by their absence. They are readily available elsewhere for those who want them.
If you want a single CD of Linda's pop and rock recordings, this (or the standard USA edition) is the one to go for. To do justice to her whole career would take a boxed set (and one is indeed available) but this will satisfy most people.
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Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
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ASIN: B00007JSD0 Release Date: 2003-09-30 |
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Import edition of this all encompassing compilation features two more tracks than the domestic, including four exclusive tracks, 'After The Gold Rush' (with Valerie Carter & Emmylou Harris), 'The Blue Train', 'How Do I Make You', & 'Desperado'. This is Linda's first and only career-spanning single-disc hits collection gathering tracks released on Capitol and Elektra/Asylum between 1967 and 1993. Features the #1 pop smash 'You're No Good', plus Top-10 classics 'When Will I Be Loved', 'Blue Bayou', and 'It's So Easy'. Warner.|
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Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
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ASIN: B0002547Z2 Release Date: 2003-09-30 |
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UK edition of 2003 compilation features two more tracks than the domestic, including four exclusive tracks, 'After The Gold Rush' (with Valerie Carter & Emmylou Harris), 'The Blue Train', 'How Do I Make You', & 'Desperado'. 23 tracks with a slipcase. Elektra/WSM.|
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Sweet Love (Mystic Music)
Paul Young , Wilson Phillips , Dream Academy , Howard Jones , The Bangles , Fleetwood Mac , Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville , Huey Lewis and The News , Belinda Carlisle , and Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians Manufacturer: Mystic Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000N71JVY |
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MYSTIC MUSIC Presents SWEET LOVE, a 2 CD set w/ 36 of the best romantic pop hits from the 80s and early 90s. AS SEEN ON T.V. Disc 1 01. EVERYTIME YOU GO AWAY PAUL YOUNG 4:25 02. RELEASE ME WILSON PHILLIPS 3:49 03. LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN DREAM ACADEMY 4:16 04. SEASONS CHANGE EXPOSE 4:53 05. EVERLASTING LOVE HOWARD JONES 4:17 06. TOGETHER FOREVER RICK ASTLEY 3:24 07. NEVER TEAR US APART INXS 3:03 08. KYRIE MR. MISTER 4:15 09. I DON'T WANT TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU FOREIGNER 3:55 10. DON'T WANNA FALL IN LOVE JANE CHILD 4:04 11. IN YOUR ROOM THE BANGLES 3:28 12. ALWAYS ATLANTIC STAR 4:46 13. LITTLE LIES FLEETWOOD MAC 3:36 14. RHYTHM OF LOVE YES 4:43 15. I LIKE THE WAY (THE KISSING GAME) HI-FIVE 3:54 16. REALLY WANNA KNOW YOU GARY WRIGHT 4:15 17. MAD ABOUT YOU BELINDA CARLISLE 3:35 18. WHEN I'M WITH YOU SHERIFF 3:50 Disc 2 01. AT THIS MOMENT BILLY VERA AND THE BEATERS 4:14 02. Medley: BABY, I LOVE YOUR WAY / FREE BIRD (FREE BABY) WILL TO POWER 4:07 03. STUCK WITH YOU HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS 4:20 04. ALL MY LIFE LINDA RONSTADT AND AARON NEVILLE 3:26 05. WITH EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART TAYLOR DAYNE 4:22 06. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW JESUS JONES 3:08 07. ALL AROUND THE WORLD LISA STANSFIELD 4:27 08. SLOW HAND THE POINTER SISTERS 3:51 09. ANGEL EYES JEFF HEALEY 4:22 10. I DON'T HAVE THE HEART JAMES INGRAM 4:13 11. I'LL BE YOUR EVERYTHING TOMMY PAGE 4:07 12. DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY BOBBY MCFERRIN 3:49 13. (IT'S JUST) THE WAY THAT YOU LOVE ME PAULA ABDUL 4:00 14. SEND ME AN ANGEL REAL LIFE 3:55 15. WHAT I AM EDIE BRICKELL & NEW BOHEMIANS 4:55 16. BECAUSE I LOVE YOU STEVIE B 3:45 17. IF WISHES CAME TRUE SWEET SENSATION 5:12 18. WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD LOUIS ARMSTRONG 2:17|
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Folk Favorites of the '60s and '70s (Reader's Digest Music)
Harry Chapin , Jim Croce , Carly Simon , Melanie , James Taylor , The New Seekers , Trini Lopez , The Mamas and the Papas , Burl Ives , and Sailcat Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MEUUFO |
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4 CD set released by Reader's Digest Music in 1996. Contains 80 of the greatest folk songs from the 1960s and 1970s! 1. Taxi - Harry Chapin 2. I Got A Name - Jim Croce 3. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon 4. Brand New Key - Melanie 5. Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt 6. Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac 7. You've Got A Friend - James Taylor 8. I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - The New Seekers 9. Reuben James - Kenny Rogers And The First Edition 10. Catch The Wind Donovan 11. Reverend Mr. Black - The Kingston Trio 12. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell 13. If I Had A Hammer - Trini Lopez 14. Rain On The Roof - The Lovin' Spoonful 15. I Got You Babe - Sonny And Cher 16. Ebony Eyes - The Everly Brothers 17. Windy - The Association 18. Turn Around - Jimmie Rodgers 19. I Saw Her Again Last Night - The Mamas And The Papas 1. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins 2. Everything That Touches You - The Association 3. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre 4. Time - The Pozo-Seco Singers 5. Lemon Tree - Trini Lopez 6. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 7. Lazy Day - Spanky And Our Gang 8. A Little Bitty Tear Burl Ives 9. Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers 10. Sweet Memories - Mickey Newbury 11. Never My Love - The Association 12. Creeque Alley - The Mamas And The Papas 13. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind - The Lovin' Spoonful 14. Galveston Glen Campbell 15. Leaving On A Jet Plane - The Mitchell Trio Featuring John Denver 16. Greenback Dollar - The Kingston Trio 17. All I Really Want To Do - The Byrds 18. Alice's Rock & Roll Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie 19. Long Time Gone - Crosby, Stills & Nash 20. The Beat Goes On - Sonny And Cher 21. Child Of Clay - Jimmie Rogers ...and 40 more songs!Rap Music:
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