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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 4:46:26 GMT
In an interview from the 1970s Linda said that she had a tape recorder that she would carry around and listen to songs she was preparing to record over and over and over again. It helped her to get inside the song as she sang aloud repeatedly to the tape. I’m not sure she kept up with that particular process as technology involved. JD Souther was interviewed and said that she took such an exacting approach by finding every available version of a song and compare and contrast them. She said even now that she no longer sings she still does that with opera singers by looking up various versions on YouTube. She joked that her take on “when you wish upon a star” was a mash up of Jiminy Cricket’s “earnest” version and Donald Duck’s “sexy” one. We are very lucky to have the documentary “the return of Ruben Blades.” A bit of which was in Linda documentary which shows her learning how to sing in Spanish. And don’t forget Dolly saying what a perfectionist Linda was in the studio. Linda’s genius came in the fact that she would prepare so completely and in such a scholarly way but when she got in front of the microphone she let loose with emotion add necessary spontaneity. |
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 4:47:20 GMT
my buddy that got an interview with her for the Rancheria songs at the time they were first released, said that she worked very very hard to learn to pronounce and the meaning behind the spanish.....despite the fact she sang/spoke spanish all her life....work ethic plain and simple...I really do not thing she ever "winged" much of anything........on the stage...what she would approach....yeah...she winged that...but performance.......nada |
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 5:01:09 GMT
About the time the Bracero program was ending, Cesar Chavez was commencing his struggle to improve the lives of farm workers. I was a new lawyer in Soledad, California. One night, playing pool, a farm worker Sebastian Carmona told me he had a disabling back injury from stooping all day in the field with the cortito, a hoe with an eight-inch handle. At the urging of former farm worked Hector De La Rosa, I joined him in a field near Greenfield thinning sugar beets with the cortito. I left the field in such pain that I swore to abolish the short-handled hoe. De La Rosa reminded me that the short hoe was the symbol of growers' power and had replaced the masters' whip as the means of keeping workers stooped. A year later, the day after Cesar Chavez was released from jail in Salinas for struggling to nonviolently improve the lives of farm workers, he asked me to stop stoop labor. Over the years that followed, attorney Marty Glick and California Rural Legal Assistance with whom I was employed, obtained evidence describing the suffering stoop labor caused farm workers, doctors' statements explaining how stoop labor leads to permanent back disability, and evidence that the normal hoe is used in other parts of the country to do the same work done with the short hoe in California.
After five years of hearings across the state and argument before the California Supreme Court, Governor Jerry Brown outlawed the short handled hoe in California. When the Supreme Court ruled for the farm workers in Carmona's lawsuit, Carmona handed me his short-handled hoe and said "Gracias, Abogado. No necesito este, mas" (Thanks, lawyer. I don't need this anymore), I nearly cried.
On March 31, 2012, Cesar Chavez birthday, I fought back tears when Stockton Braceros unveiled the statue Spanos erected and Linda Ronstadt placed a dedication in Stockton rain that reads,
" In honor of the Braceros, soldiers of the field, who toiled in San Joaquin County. With profound gratitude for their indelible contribution to the living of our community. (Bracero Program 1942 - 1964.
With deepest appreciation to Maurice Jourdane who, as an attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance led a relentless and ultimately victorious legal battle to abolish the short-handled hoe. Carmona v. Division of Industrial Safety, 13 Cal2d 303 (California Supreme Court 1975)."
On this nineteenth anniversary of the death of Cesar Chavez, thank you Alex Spanos, thanks you Linda Ronstadt, thanks you Cesar, and thank you millions of farm workers who suffered stooped in the torrid fields to bring food to our table. |
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 5:14:43 GMT
wonder how many roller skates Linda helped sell back in the day ;D
from the larrivee.com guitar forum:
Linda Ronstadt
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I met Linda Ronstadt about 23 years ago when she played at my college. She was warming up for the show by roller skating in the halls with her friend, singer Kiki Dee (sp?). It was amazing.
My wife and I just saw her in concert with a full orchestra. She is touring with a playlist that includes some show tunes, but she still is a class act. She still has her voice. We enjoyed it.
--Fred
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 5:15:39 GMT
Patty Loveless on almost meeting Linda back in the late 80s:
"When I saw Linda coming down the hall, I told the friend who was going to introduce me to her, `Just forget it - you'd better not.' I was just too scared to meet her."
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 5:17:34 GMT
Hugh Jackman’s Wife Says He Doesn’t Yet Grasp How Big “Les Miz” Will Be12/11/12 1:28am Roger Friedman Monday night brought the very lavish, wild premiere for “Les Miserables” to New York’s Ziegfeld Theater. By the time we got a very crowded corner of the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art for the swanky after party, Hugh Jackman’s wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, surveyed the room. We saw Hugh about 20 feet away, swarmed by adoring fans. “Hugh doesn’t even realize how big this is going to be,” Furness said in her lilting Australian accent. “It’s only just dawned on me.” Indeed, Universal Pictures is pulling out all the stops for “Les Miz,” directed by Oscar winner Tom Hooper. There was a London premiere, and there will be one in Hollywood. Today, there’s a massive, elegant lunch for the cast and crew. Tonight, Jackman is honored by the Museum of the Moving Image. Anyone vaguely connected to the film will be there, too. Last night, I sat with the audience through my second screening. Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorothea were there–she’s a huge fan of the musical. “Raging Bull” star Cathy Moriarty couldn’t get enough of it. Richard Kind was over the top, as were Zach Brafman and a dozen or more celebs who braved the annoying rain. By the time the night was over I’d had long talks with ecstatic execs like Ron Meyer, Donna Langley, Adam Fogelson, and Eric Fellner. Plus, there was Hugh and Debora, Anne Hathaway, her family and husband Adam Schulman; Sacha Baron Cohen, who nearly steals the movie with Helena Bonham Carter; and the amazing Samantha Barks who’s only 22 and is poised to become a huge Broadway star. Next year, Cameron McKintosh told me, he’d like to bring Barks here in “Oliver!” She’s about to open it under his banner in Dublin. About three quarters of the way through the movie, I ran out to take a bathroom break. Coming from the opposite end of the theater was Barks, who was wearing a long gown. I’d never met her before. “I’m barefoot,” she cried and pulled up her satin dress. “What a way to meet someone!” She is absolutely a star in waiting. I told her she should play Linda Ronstadt in the famed singer’s story. “Who’s that?” she asked. She’s a Brit, remember, and she’s 22. By now she’s memorizing “Heart Like a Wheel.” “Les Miz” is the kind of Hollywood production audiences are hungry for–it’s massive, it’s romantic, it’s deep, and it’s never boring. You leave the theatre singing all the songs. Anne Hathaway takes your breath away when she sings “I Dreamed a Dream.” The audience started cheering almost before it was over. For Hugh Jackman, forget Wolverine or the Boy from Oz. This is performance of a lifetime. I asked him how he got the hollow cheeks in the beginning of the film. “It’s a horrible diet,” he admitted. “Don’t try it.” Deborra-Lee added: “It’s a lot of liquids.” And just in case you wondered: Jackman plays Jean Valjean, who sounds like he already got an Oscar this year. That was Jean Dujardin. Very similar, but not the same. Hugh Jackman is heading to the Oscar finalist list, with Daniel Day Lewis, Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington and, I think, either Christoph Waltz or Joaquin Phoenix.   |
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 5:21:11 GMT
Susanna Hoffs (she of the Bangles) interviewd in Gay.net magazine (August 8, 2009) re. her album with Matthew Sweet. The interview got around to Linda, and the fact that Susanna had recorded "Different Drum" and "Willing" for this album. Susanna's quotes are in bold.
Were there other songs by Linda Ronstadt you considered?
Well, to be honest, I would do a whole record of Linda Ronstadt songs! [Laughs]. If someone allowed me to do it, or if I had the chutzpah, to do it, I would. And maybe I should. I just loved her so much growing up. I just….I revered her. I actually met Linda a couple of times back in the 80's and she's so nice. She's just…I don't think it's possible for me to give her enough praise.
I completely agree with you and I find it baffling that she's not more celebrated now in 2009. Her body of work is amazing -- I hope she starts getting the kind of acknowledgment she deserves.
I'm with you on that and I don’t get it either. But I have to tell you that I've been hearing things and reading stuff from more and more people about her, which is great. Like, I know my niece told me about a local singer in Nashville who's totally obsessed with Linda Ronstadt, and also, I know Sheryl Crow just came out and said Linda was one her biggest influences.
I think it's one of those cyclical things where sometimes – and I don’t know why – but for some people it takes time for a slightly different generation to sort of remember how great someone is and was. She continues to sing beautifully and make great records but, I mean, I think she will gain more and more respect, and I think it's going to happen soon.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2020 6:37:38 GMT
Tribute to Linda, Glen and Winslow Arizona.
On becoming an American Girl – on the Corner of Winslow, Arizona18 Monday Jan 2016
Posted by Editor in American Dream, Being young, Belfast, Dispatch from the Diaspora, Glenn Frey, Take It Easy, The Eagles
Death of Glenn Frey, Linda Ronstadt, Lowell George, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Take It Easy
When I was young, I wanted to be Linda Ronstadt. I knew by heart the lyrics of every song she covered, and in my teenage bedroom, I sang along with her, having deluded myself that I was within her range. Bored and adolescent, I just wanted to be far away from grey skies and Margaret Thatcher and from Northern Ireland – its politics and parades, its flags and fighting. I wanted to be an American girl. I wanted to hang out with long-haired rockers who sometimes sounded a little too country. I wanted to drive down an American highway with the top down and the radio up. Forever.
I loved everything about Linda Ronstadt. I wanted to appear as confident, to stride onstage in a mini-skirt, one hand on my hip, the other holding a tambourine. I wanted to belt out Poor, Poor Pitiful Me. With authority. “Well I met a man out in Hollywood/Now I ain’t naming names.” I would never have imagined the woman behind that heartsome voice could know vulnerability or inadequacy. I know better now. Moving through the world to the beat of a different drum is not always easy.
Because Linda Ronstadt covered every genre – Motown, soul, country, folk, rock – she exposed me to dozens of American musicians who would score the soundtrack of my life. Buddy Holly. Roy Orbison. Smokey Robinson. Jackson Browne. Lowell George. Neil Young. Warren Zevon. Bob Seger. The Eagles. The Eagles. Glenn Frey and Don Henley – The Eagles.
At first, I only liked the Eagles because I knew they had been Linda Ronstadt’s backing vocalists. That’s right. The Eagles were her backing vocalists. She had lived my dream, hanging out and harmonizing with long-haired rockers:
In 1971, she had hired Glenn Frey and a singing drummer, Don Henley, to be her back-up vocalists, and later, when they decided to form their own band, she helped them. In 2014, when Linda Ronstadt was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but unable to attend due to illness, it was her long-time friend, her former back-up singer, Glenn Frey, who paid tribute to her. He made a point of saying that it was a long time coming, and he reminded everyone of what she would later reveal in Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir about why she sang:
Glenn Frey knew this delight. He knew why people sing. He knew how to give voice to our heartaches and hangovers, to lying eyes and life in the fast lane, to Desperados, and to James Dean. He knew how to sing to the girl who might slow down in a flat bed Ford just to take a look at him, in Winslow, Arizona, where I drove one day in 1987. I was 24 years old without a care in the world and a tank full of gas. It was 110 degrees, and I was wearing a shirt tied at the waist and cut-off denim shorts. I was Linda Ronstadt, and I had the radio on.
When I pulled over, the sky was on fire. It didn’t matter that it was late in the afternoon. It was close enough to a tequila sunrise. I turned up the music, got out of my car, and I stood on the corner. Of Winslow Arizona. Because I could.
I was an American Girl.
For that, I am forever in your debt, Glenn Frey. Rest easy, now.
Glenn Frey, November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2020 7:00:09 GMT
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