TopPop 15 January 1983 (Recorded in Toppop studio on 6 January 1983) • Get Closer
Leo Sayer Show (UK) 17 January 1983 • I Knew You When • Tumblin Dice
Russell Harty Show (UK) 18 January 1983 Live from London's Greenwood Theatre • I Knew You When • Interview
Popcorn - Italian TV (Canale 5) Italian tv show in whirlwind tour of Europe in 1983 • Get Closer - No Video available • Interview - No Video available
Disco Ring - Italian TV 27 January 1983 • Get Closer Entertainment Tonight 1 February 1983 • Pirates Movie...
Plantine 45 2 February 1983 • Lies...
The Pirates of Penzance 18 February 1983 • Pirates of Penzance (Movie)
Solid Gold 19 February 1983 • I knew You When (Music Video)
Grammy Awards 23 February 1983 • Get Closer • In audience during Nominations
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Show 2877 3 March 1983 • Blue Bayou • Get Closer • Interview • Easy for You to Say
Katu2 ABC Portland March 1983 • Stuart Rosenthal interview for the release of The Pirates of Penzance with Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, and Rex Smith
Bananas German TV 29 March 1983 • Tell Him (Drive-in version)
Motown 25 Years 16 May 1983 • Ooh Baby Baby Linda & Smokey Robinson • Tracks of my Tears Linda & Smokey Robinson
WSB News Atlanta 4 July 1983 • Footage of Ronstadt in concert at the Willie Nelson Picnic at the Atlanta Raceway
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Show 2965 9 September 1983 • I've Got a Crush on You • What's New • Interview - No Video available • Crazy He Calls Me
Cinemax Album Flash 13 September 1983 The Making Of Whats New Includes conversations with Linda and Nelson Riddle and 4, full length, studio videos. • Chat #1 • What's New (Music Video) • I've Got A Crush On You (Music Video) • Chat #2 I • Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Music Video) • Chat #3 • Goodbye (MusicVideo)
Movie Channel 19 September 1983 • interview - Linda, Kevin Kline, and Rex Smith
Late Night with David Letterman Season 2 EEntertainmepisode 110 21 September 1983 Guest: Linda Ronstadt • Linda's first appearance with Letterman.
Live And In Person 28 September 1983 • What's New" live with Nelson Riddle
Don Lane Show Australian television 27 October 1983 • Satellite interview
Entertainment Tonight Season 3 Episode 40 4 November 1983 • A visit with singer Linda Ronstadt talks about her new album. (Part).
20/20 24 November 1983 • Linda Ronstadt talks about her new album.
Randy Newman Live at the Odeon, New York, NY Showtime 9 December 1983 • Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father (with Linda Ronstadt) • Linda • Real Emotional Girl (with Linda Ronstadt) • Rider in the Rain (Linda Ronstadt and Ry Cooder)
Entertainment This Week 31 December 1983 • Linda Ronstadt discusses her music
The Russell Harty Show (1974– ) Episode #3.19 Talk-Show | Episode aired 18 January 1983
Linda Ronstadt / intro (TV - 1983)
mrp's archives 93 subscribers Linda Ronstadt gets welcomed by host Michel Drucker at the start of a French TV show where she sang "Lies" in 1983.
That performance of "Lies" can be found there but it seems to be blocked in some countries for copyright reasons unfortunately.
Linda Ronstadt / Lies (TV - 1983)
mrp's archives 93 subscribers Linda Ronstadt performs "Lies" on French TV in 1983. Written by Buddy Randell and Beau Charles.
Veronica House (1983) met Anita Meyer, Dianne Marchal, Linda Ronstadt, Lori Spee & Margriet Eshuijs Linda's appearance starts at 18:00
nederpoparchief 435 subscribers TV-special van Veronica uit 1983 met een showcase van de laatste nummers van een paar van de Nederlandse zangeressen van dat moment en speciale buitenlandse gast Linda Ronstadt.
Anita Meyer - Benjamin Lori Spee - I wanna believe Margriet Eshuijs - Joe & Jerry Dianne Marchal - It's my time now Linda Ronstadt - Get closer Anita Meyer - Break away
LINDA RONSTADT-RARE-GET CLOSER -ITALY TV (1/27/1983) HD 1080/60fps
Jul 14, 2022 13:07:56 GMT -5 ukfan said:
Great find Rick.If you look carefully about 1.12 into video you can see the name of the programme Discoring in the top right. Discoring was the Italian equivalent of U.K.’s Top of the Pops & ran from 1977 to 1989 & usually aired on Sundays.This particular episode was part of Linda’s short tour of Europe in 1983 to promote the album.I know she also performed in Italy on the Popcorn tv show but don’t have exact date for either show but she performed on several shows in U.K.,France & Holland during January & February that year.Surprisingly the only European country I haven’t located any performances on tv.shows for is Germany apart from the show Bananas where she appears in the video in the car park in the snow singing Tell Him but I think that was prerecorded elsewhere.Because of her popular concert appearance in 1976 I would have presumed she would have appeared there but I haven’t found anything yet but will keep looking.
The following photo is from this Italian performance
“Ooh, I'm just like a Dutch milkmaid,” says Linda Ronstadt cooing, standing in front of the mirror with the peasant's lace cap she just received as a gift. “Almost no one knows that I am partly of Dutch descent. My mother's surname is Copeman, which is derived from Koopman. And my father's ancestors are from Germany. So I'm kind of at home here. But come on, let's have a nice interview. I've ordered tea, so don't hesitate to pour me a cup.” The American singer settles down on the sofa of her suite in the metropolitan Amstel Hotel, chatting tirelessly. After TV recordings were made for Toppop and Veronica House yesterday , she will perform as a musical guest tonight inSonja On Friday , but first the national press is allowed to have an audience with her this afternoon.
It has been more than seven years since Linda Ronstadt last visited the Netherlands. At the time, she had found her way to the general public in the footsteps of the Eagles, who were also on stage together for the first time as her accompanists, with the heart-warming country rock of Heart Like A Wheel , Prisoner In Disguise and Hasten Down The Wind . Partly responsible for the commercial breakthrough was Peter Asher, the former half of the British beat duo Peter & Gordon, who, as producer and manager, was able to map out the right approach for the gifted singer. After the impeccable successor Simple Dreams with the melancholy world hit Blue Bayoushe appeared to have passed her commercial peak, although the forced new wave-like Mad Love with no less than three songs by Elvis Costello did not do so badly.
With her eleventh solo album Get Closer now, Linda Ronstadt wants to offer something for everyone, which has resulted in an incoherent and mannerist whole that comes across as downright perfunctory. Well over thirty-five she appears to have largely outgrown pop music. The short American tour at the end of last year in support of Get Closer , for example, has been particularly bad for her. “I've always hated going from city to city, but now I'm really tired of having to perform somewhere different every night,” she sighs. “In that respect, my heart goes out more to theater than to pop music these days. That can be just as exciting and also has the advantage that it involves more regularity and discipline.”
Linda Ronstadt will soon make her film star debut in The Pirates Of Penzance , the cinema version of the Gilbert & Sullivan musical of the same name, in which she played one of the five leading roles for several months. “It was possibly the best time I've ever had in my life,” he enthuses. “We first played in a small open-air theater in New York, where everyone could just go for free. The performance was part of the annual Shakespeare In The Park festival. If a piece proves to be successful, it will be extended on a commercial basis after the summer months. That happened with The Pirates Of Penzanceand so suddenly I was on Broadway. It was in one word fantastic. The people I played with were so nice to me too, they just couldn't have been nicer. I'd heard stories about how difficult theater people can get at times and I'm sure they must have heard terrible things about pop stars in their turn, but I'm happy to say we got along just fine from the start."
Linda Ronstadt is currently planning a television show with work by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht with the producer of Shakespeare In The Park. “Initially we wanted to turn it into a theatrical performance, but that ran into practical objections. The Kurt Weill Foundation has the right to determine the musical arrangements. For example, it appears that they prescribed the number of orchestra members, while we wanted to work with a small ensemble, because otherwise there is hardly any room left for an audience in the Public Theater. Hence, we came up with the form of a television show. We're supposed to ask Lindsay Kemp, a truly fantastic mime artist and ballet choreographer. But who knows, we may not get it off the ground.”
For the time being, Linda Ronstadt will be busy recording a new album with interpretations of jazz standards by, among others, her two great idols Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Led by the famous producer Jerry Wexler, who made records with greats from Ray Charles to Bob Dylan, she already tried it about a year and a half ago, but the end result was not able to satisfy her. “More than anything, it was an experiment,” she claims. “It was a learning process, I was trying to figure out exactly how I wanted to do it. All in all, I suddenly realized that I didn't want to do it the way that East Coast producer had done it. For example, I felt that some pieces should be orchestrated by Nelson Riddle, whom I admire so much for his work for Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, but the man didn't want to hear about that. In fact all I had to do was show up and sing my parts. But I am not used to working that way, I demand full participation in the entire process. The problem was that Peter didn't want to produce that record in the first place, because he hardly feels an affinity with that kind ofmiddle class jazz . After he had seen me try out some things in the studio with Nelson, he finally gave in. Peter and I have a very good relationship, in the sense that he helps me shape my ideas instead of doing everything for me.”
Opinions about Linda Ronstadt's upcoming album will undoubtedly be strongly divided again. Because while for some she is regarded as the uncrowned Queen Of The Cover , for most others she is a meaningless interpreter, who achieves cheap success with classics from rock, soul and country in combination with painful ballads by singer-songwriter friends such as her former lover. John David Souther. “People have the most idiosyncratic ideas about why I do certain things. Why shouldn't I be allowed to sing those jazz standards? They are beautiful pieces and I canthey sing. I don't understand all that criticism and that's why I don't care anymore. If I did, it wouldn't even have crossed my mind to try to sing opera. But I'm just doing it and I'm firmly convinced that I can do it well within two years," she responds in a surprisingly laconic tone. “I don't consider myself an inferior artist at all, because I lack the talent to write my own repertoire. Singing and composing are two separate disciplines. Until well into the sixties, people generally only knew good vocalists who brought material from good songwriters. Well, I happen to be a singer.”
Since her breakthrough in the United States, Linda Ronstadt has been part of the jet set, especially after she entered into an amorous liaison with California governor Jerry Brown. The First Lady Of Rock only has to stick her nose out the door or the tabloid press will report extensively. No wonder, then, that she has a healthy mistrust of journalists. Contrary to the encouraging title Get CloserWith an apparently disarming charm, she is careful to keep the necessary distance, even when questions are only asked about her artistic pursuits. “Well, after all these years I'm well trained in talking to reporters. It's hard to get the truth in an article when someone else is interpreting your words. And something once printed is quickly regarded as gospel. I get angry when I read something that isn't right. And sometimes I even get angry when I read the truth.”
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This original Toppop recording was recorded in the Toppop studio on January 6, 1983 and first broadcast on 15 January 1983.
Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer • TopPop
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Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 10 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded he Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. Ronstadt was among the five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements at the annual event on December 8, 2019, in Washington, D.C., at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Her success did not translate to the UK, with only the single "Blue Bayou" reaching the UK Top 40. Ronstadt's duet with Aaron Neville, "Don't Know Much", peaked at number 2 in December 1989. She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart. Since releasing her previous album, Mad Love, in 1980, Ronstadt's career had taken turns away from the country-rock field she'd engaged in for more than a decade. In 1980-81, she moved into light opera on Broadway (The Pirates of Penzance), and during production of the play had expressed a desire to record an album of standards. In 1981, under producer Jerry Wexler, she recorded the album Keeping Out of Mischief, but dissatisfied with its quality, she had cancelled its release.[1] Although she would later revisit the concept (and most of the attempted songs) for a trilogy of albums with Nelson Riddle, Get Closer was recorded to satisfy her obligations to her label, and found Ronstadt returning to the genres that had resulted in her commercial and critical success throughout the 1970s, and working again with British musician and producer Peter Asher.
This original Toppop recording was recorded in the Toppop studio on January 6, 1983 and first broadcast on 15 January 1983.
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Cinemax Album Flash 13 September 1983 The Making Of Whats New Includes conversations with Linda and Nelson Riddle and 4, full length, studio videos. • Chat #1 • What's New (Music Video) • I've Got A Crush On You (Music Video) • Chat #2 • I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Music Video) • Chat #3 • Goodbye (MusicVideo)
Linda Ronstadt had it all – the voice, the beauty, the personality – to conquer the rock and probably, the music industry as well. The Arizona rockstar plowed through her contemporaries and peers with no discrimination – male and female icons stood aside as Ronstadt made her way over to various genres, not allowing herself to be contained in the exclusivity of rock.
Ronstadt was a curious figure – she was meek and giggly when spoken to, but a behemoth when she showed the world her magnificent set of pipes. It was this endearing set of quirks and talents that put the spotlight on her, as you couldn’t just let her pass without gravitating towards her.
This was showcased in a performance on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson on March 3, 1983, . Ronstadt performed three songs: “Blue Bayou”, Get Closer” and “Easy For You To Say”, and lets Carson interview her in between her songs. Click on the video below to enjoy this performance.
