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Post by the Scribe on Apr 6, 2020 9:31:29 GMT
LONG LONG TIMEIn 1970, Linda Ronstadt released the song as a single and on the album Silk Purse. The single spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 25, while reaching No. 15 on Canada's "RPM 100", No. 8 on Canada's CHUM 30 chart, and No. 20 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart.
In 1971, Linda Ronstadt was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance for her rendition of "Long, Long Time".ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/4840/recording-session-long-time
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 12, 2020 12:00:28 GMT
Paul Ingles / Norbert Putnam The Story Behind Recording Long Long TimeLISTEN: s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_files/20877/NorbertPutnamOnLongLongTime2.mp3Long Long TimeFrom Album Linda Ronstadt Silk Purse
Silk Purse is the second studio album by Linda Ronstadt, released in March 1970, a year after the release of her solo debut, Hand Sown ... Home Grown. It was recorded at Cinderella Sound Studio in Nashville – the only Ronstadt album recorded in the country music capital – and was produced by Elliot Mazer, who had previously worked with Richie Havens, Gordon Lightfoot, James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Chubby Checker and Frank Sinatra.Mazer was recommended to Linda by Janis Joplin, who she knew from the local night clubs.exchange.prx.org/pieces/213919?m=false
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 10, 2021 1:30:12 GMT
FEBRUARY 9, 2021 5:00PM ET Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elliot-mazer-engineer-producer-dead-1125570/
Producer behind Young’s Harvest and Time Fades Away also worked with Janis Joplin and Gordon Lightfoot
By ANGIE MARTOCCIO
Elliot Mazer, the longtime producer and engineer who helped craft albums for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, among others, died at his San Francisco home on Sunday. He was 79. Mazer’s daughter Alison confirmed the producer’s death, adding that the cause was a heart attack after years of battling with dementia.
Elliot Mazer, the longtime producer and engineer who helped craft albums for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, among others, died at his San Francisco home on Sunday. He was 79. Mazer’s daughter Alison confirmed the producer’s death, adding that the cause was a heart attack after years of battling with dementia.
“Elliot loved music,” his sister, Bonnie Murray, tells Rolling Stone. “He loved what he did; he was a perfectionist. Everybody has so much respect for him, and he’s been suffering for a couple years.”
Mazer is best known for producing multiple albums by Young, beginning with 1972’s Harvest. He’d go on to produce the 1973 live LP Time Fades Away, his lost 1975 album Homegrown — which Young finally released last year — as well as 1983’s Everybody’s Rockin’ and 1985’s Old Ways. He also introduced Young to digital recording. “Elliot Mazer was in the right place at the right time,” Young told Jimmy McDonough in his biography, Shakey. “He let me do my music and recorded it.”
Through the late Sixties and early Seventies, Mazer took his love of pop and began working on albums like Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills and Ronstadt’s 1970 LP Silk Purse. “He was a mysterious guy to me,” Ronstadt tells Rolling Stone. “But I didn’t know what I was doing at the time; I didn’t know how to sing yet. I recorded that song at ten o’clock in the morning, when we could get into the studio, and he got me really good players and introduced me to the people who arranged it.” (“What you hear is Linda’s second take on the song,” Mazer later recalled in the liner notes to 2006’s The Best of Linda Ronstadt: The Capitol Years. “She was so tired afterwards, she came into the control room and fell asleep.”)
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 3, 2021 12:34:07 GMT
 americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-linda-ronstadt-long-long-time/Written by Gary B. White
Going solo wasn’t so easy for Linda Ronstadt. Coming off her debut record, Hand Sown.. Home Grown, Ronstadt felt she “was floundering as a singer,” as she writes in her 2013 memoir, “Simple Dreams.” Her luck would change with her second album, 1970’s Silk Purse. “Long, Long Time” became her breakout hit – spending 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaking at No. 25.
In 1969, Ronstadt was opening shows for Jerry Jeff Walker at New York’s Bitter End. Songwriter and guitar player David Bromberg once asked her after a show to accompany him to the nearby Cafe Au Go-Go, where Gary White was playing backup guitar for singer-songwriter Paul Siebel. “He said White had written some good songs, and there was one in particular that he felt would be perfect for me,” Ronstadt writes in Chapter 3, “Going Solo.”
“I was prepared to be disappointed. I thought it difficult for someone to know what I looked for in a song,” she adds.
“We saw the last part of his very impressive show made rich with his cowboy falsetto and a song about a poignant, sad girl of a certain reputation named Louise, and then went backstage to meet Gary,” she writes of the first moment she heard the song. “He had already packed up his guitar, so he took it back out of its case, sat down, and began to sing [this song]. I told Gary I wanted to record it immediately.”
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Later, in an October 1985 interview with Esquire, Ronstadt recalled the day of recording. “I can remember the day I recorded ‘Long, Long Time.’ It was 10:30 in the morning, but I was really into this kind of achy feeling, because the music – it’s in these chords. I think my phrasing was horrible,” she said. “I think I kind of butchered it, but it is definitely in those chords. And it happened to the musicians, who are jaded session players. As soon as the fiddle player and Weldon Myrick, who’s the steel guitar [player], began to play those chords, they got real into that and became personally involved.”
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Producer Elliot Mazer (Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot) pulled together a group of Nashville session musicians called Area Code 615, which also included violinist Buddy Spicher and bass player Norbert Putnam. “…it sounded like a gritty orchestra string section. It was an unusual sound for the time, with a touching emotional quality,” she writes in “Simple Dreams.” She later adds, “I learned to sing it better. It was a big hit for me in 1970, and it bought me some time.”
“Long, Long Time” also charted in the Top 20 in Canada and earned Ronstadt a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance. She was nominated alongside Bobbie Gentry (“Fancy”), Anne Murray (“Snowbird”), and Diana Ross (“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”).
In the 2019 documentary, “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” helmed by filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, “Long, Long Time” is one of many Ronstadt songs to take centerstage.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 10, 2021 6:17:30 GMT
Truly an oddity, Linda Ronstadt singing, and someone recording her on tape while talking to Gram Parsons. At the Palomino in Hollywood, Rare and Unissued
Linda Ronstadt - Long Long TIme ; Feat Gram Parsons
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Post by the Scribe on May 14, 2021 23:49:37 GMT
 Still in operation, it is Nashville's ( actually Madison ) oldest functioning studio.
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So far, The Last of Us has spent a lot of time introducing us to Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey). But they’re far from the only noteworthy survivors in this story. Ever since the HBO series announced that Nick Offerman would be playing Bill, fans have been desperate to see how the beloved Parks and Recreation star captured this survivalist. And true to everything he does, Offerman did not disappoint. Spoilers for The Last of Us on HBO past this point.
“Long Long Time” picks up directly after the events of “Infected.” In the wake of Tess’ (Anna Torv) death, Joel and Ellie decide to continue on in their quest to bring Ellie to the Fireflies. And that means gathering supplies from Joel’s old friends, Bill and Frank (Murray Bartlett).
In a way, Bill and Frank have already appeared in this series. At the end of “When You’re Lost in the Darkness”, Joel’s radio played an ’80s song (Depeche Mode’s “Never Let Me Down Again”). As Ellie correctly deduced, that’s the signal for danger, and the person on the other side of that signal was none other than Bill, the duo’s smuggling connection. As they hike to Bill and Frank’s town, Joel tries to hide a pile of burnt skeletons from his young companion, but it’s too late. Ellie sees the horrible proof of the first days of the outbreak. Joel is forced to tell her the truth: After the initial infection, the military rounded up people from smaller towns, claiming they would take them to quarantine zones. That was a lie. Many people were shot on sight, and most weren’t infected (yet).
Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Bill (Nick Offerman) in The Last of Us
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The camera then zooms in on a blanket with rainbows, which triggers a flashback. As a woman cuddles her baby wrapped in that same blanket, soldiers force her to get into their truck, and Bill (Offerman) watches the scene from his bunker. This transition from the mass grave is more than just an interesting segue. It speaks to the care with which series co-creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin approached every element of this show.
“It gives a little bit of added resonance later when we see Ellie walking around. We were with those people. We saw the genesis of it. It means something more to us,” Druckmann told Decider on the scene. “She has that luxury of being a 14-year-old kid and never knowing a world that was not like this. It’s a strange idea to describe it as a luxury, but she’s not carrying that pain and nostalgia and loss because she’s never known any of those things.”
Thus begins one of the biggest departures from The Last of Us game, as well as one of the best performances of Nick Offerman’s career. Instead of a story about a crazed survivalist, Bill’s tale becomes a love story.
Thanks to his bunker, Bill managed to avoid the military. It isn’t long before he turns Lincoln, Mass., into his own little paradise, complete with electricity and lavish meals. Bill seems happy enough to face the end of the world alone. At least that’s the case until Frank falls into one of his traps. The Last of Us answers a lot of Bill-related questions that were raised in the game. We get to see how Bill met Frank, a trespasser who eventually became his romantic partner. We see them fight, laugh, bicker, and worry about each other. We learn that Frank almost lost Bill in a raider attack gone wrong. We even see how Joel and Tess (Anna Torv) met Bill and Frank. It’s all very sweet. And you know what that means: life is about to get bleak. No one is allowed to be happy in this show.
Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) in The Last of Us
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As “Long Long Time” skips through Bill and Frank’s lives, it becomes clear that Frank is terminally ill. Rather than waiting out his death, Frank decides to die on his own terms. He tells Bill he’s going to take a lethal amount of pills that night with his wine.
“I’m not gonna give you the everyday was a wonderful gift from God speech — I’ve had a lot of bad days. I’ve had bad days with you, too,” Frank says. “But I’ve had more good days with you than I’ve had with anyone else. So give me one more good day.”
After arguing for a moment, Bill relents, but not before making one small change to Frank’s plan. Bill slips a lethal dosage into his own wine. Bill and Frank die off camera in their beds, joined in death as they were in life.
Do Bill and Frank Die in The Last of Us Game?
As beautiful as Frank and Bill’s deaths are, that’s not how things played out in the original game. While it’s true that Bill and Frank were a couple, they didn’t die together. Instead, Frank left Bill after getting fed up with his partner’s refusal to leave Lincoln.
After leaving Bill behind, Joel later finds an absolutely devastating note from Frank. Presumably written after Frank became infected, the note includes such gems as “I want you to know I always hated your guts” and “Trying to leave this town will kill me. Still better than spending another day with you.” It’s the ultimate form of rejection, a man happily embracing his own death rather than spending another moment with his former lover. But instead of copying this bleak ending, The Last of Us‘ showrunners took Episode 3 as an opportunity to try understand more about Bill.
“[Bill] created a safe oasis. So for a moment, we remove the threat of these things we’ve been fearing for the first two episodes — oppression and the world ending. Here’s this little thing that is perfect and fine,” Craig Mazin told Decider. “It just became this opportunity to both tell a story of the passage of time — what happens between the outbreak and now — and also to explore the themes that are baked into The Last of Us going back to the game, which are themes about love and the different ways we love and how love can be both beautiful and dangerous and dark.”
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Druckmann noted that Bill’s storyline was Mazin’s “baby.” “In some ways, it deviates quite a bit from the game. But in other ways, it’s extremely faithful to the game,” Druckmann said. “Bill comes in and saves you, and that’s how you’re connecting with him in the game, which makes for compelling gameplay and wouldn’t work as much for a show. In the game, there’s also a philosophical question of what does it mean to survive? What does it mean to survive if you don’t have anything left?”
The episode is meant to be a push and pull between Bill and Frank: Bill as someone dedicated to survival above all else, and Frank as someone who actually sees the beauty of life. “The brilliant thing that Craig did with the story is say what if eventually Bill changed in a way that he didn’t in the game? That has a lot of beauty to it because so much of the story is the contrast of ‘Here’s the wonderful things that love can lead to, and here’s sometimes the horrific loss or the horrific violence that can emerge out of love,'” Druckmann said.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 16, 2021 21:59:21 GMT
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October 1985
Let’s get sad.
Let’s get very, very sad. Let’s get profoundly sad. Let’s talk about the saddest songs ever sung.
In fact, let’s not just talk about them. Let’s get inside them. Let’s crawl inside the very chord structure of romantic sadness. And let’s get Linda Ronstadt to take us there.
After all, when you want to talk about yearning and longing and hopeless aching romantic sorrow and pain, you seek out Linda Ronstadt: she was the one who taught the baby-boomers how to cry like, well, babies. And let’s begin by talking to her about what some consider the Ultimate Sad Song: “Long, Long Time.”
Do you remember “Long, Long Time”? If you haven’t heard it, you’re lucky. Because from the opening weeping steel-guitar hook, the song is paralyzingly sad. By the time she reaches the final refrain—
I’ve done everything I know
To try and make you mine
And I think it’s gonna hurt me
For a long, long time . . .
—it has managed to reopen every aching wound of romantic loss you’ve ever experienced, and some you haven’t yet. A legendary classic killer sad song.
There’s almost a kind of superstitious cult around the lethal tear-jerking power of this song. Like the one that grew up in previous generations around “Gloomy Sunday.” People would talk about that song in hushed and superstitious tones and refer to rumors that because it was the cause of so many suicides, it had been banned from the airwaves; it was just too lethally sad. I knew several women who swore they’d worn the grooves thin in “Long, Long Time” jags, playing it over and over again addictively to exorcise their hearts of sorrow.
So I’m having dinner with Linda Ronstadt in a Greenwich Village restaurant, and we’re talking about the nature of romantic sadness, about Linda’s theory of the sadness at the heart of sexual excitement, about the tear-jerking power of the key of D, the heart of sadness in Anna Karenina, and other such ultimate sad questions, when I ask Linda if she’s aware of the cult status “Long, Long Time” has achieved as the Ultimate Sad Song.
“Actors have told me that,” Linda Ronstadt tells me. “A lot of people have told me that, but actors particularly, that they play that for their big crying movie scene. For me it’s a song called ‘Talk to Me of Mendocino,’ which I did finally record myself, but actually when the Endearables sing it, I could cry every time. I cannot not cry. And I didn’t record it for years because I couldn’t not cry trying to sing it.”
What was it about “Long, Long Time”? There were two main theories I wanted to check out with Linda. First, the Unrequitedness Theory. According to one woman I know, the woman who’s singing it never had the guy she’s pining over. It’s pure unrequited longing.
“Is the love in that song unconsummated?” I ask Linda. “Does she ever actually sleep with him?”
“Who knows,” she says, sounding a bit annoyed at the question.
“Well, you sang it.”
“I slept with him on several occasions,” she declares. “And he was married, too.”
Oh. Okay. Let’s set aside the Unrequited Theory.
“I can remember the day I recorded ‘Long, Long Time,’ ” Linda is telling me. “It was 10:30 in the morning, but I was really into this kind of achy feeling, because the music—it’s in these chords. I think my phrasing was horrible, I think I kind of butchered it, but it is definitely in those chords. And it happened to the musicians, who are jaded session players. As soon as the fiddle player and Weldon Myrick, who’s the steel guitar, began to play those chords, they got real into that and became personally involved ….”
“What is it about the steel guitar that makes it so weepy—it sounds like a teardrop, doesn’t it?”
“I don’t know, but like the Irish pipes and like the shakuhachi, you can temper it by moving up a semitone or down a semitone in a smooth line. You don’t go [she sings a jumpy transition], you go—”
She sends her voice sliding up and down in the sad whine of the steel guitar. It’s a very convincing imitation.
“It sighs and weeps,” Linda says.
She sounds a bit wistful singing that line and recalling that “Long, Long Time” session. She hasn’t sung with a steel guitar on an album for, well, a long, long time.
She’s gone on to ostensibly more sophisticated forms of sadness since her steel-guitar period, which neared its end with that heartbreakingly sad Simple Dreams album, the one that featured her biggest-selling hit, “Blue Bayou.”
Yes, she’s gone on to the world-weary weltschmerz of her two Nelson Riddle albums, What’s New and Lush Life. She’s explored the operatic mode of sadness in her recent La Bohème production.
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 1, 2023 19:53:42 GMT
It’s not just Bill and Frank: ‘Long Long Time’ is still one of Linda Ronstadt’s favorites, too
www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-02-01/linda-ronstadt-the-last-of-us-hbo-long-long-time
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Frank (Murray Bartlett), right, and Bill (Nick Offerman) bond over the perfect Linda Ronstadt song in Episode 3 of “The Last of Us.” (Liane Hentscher / HBO)
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This story contains some spoilers for the third episode of HBO’s “The Last of Us.”
Linda Ronstadt has a simple and earnest message for the folks discovering her music after the latest episode of “The Last of Us”: She hopes you enjoy it.
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The third installment of HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama, aptly titled “Long, Long Time” for the pivotal role that Ronstadt’s hit ballad plays in the episode, tells the story of Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) and the life they lived together. Their relationship, according to “The Last of Us” co-creator and executive producer Craig Mazin, is “ultimately … the skeleton key to unlock all of this show.”
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After the episode aired on Sunday, Spotify announced that streams of Ronstadt’s “Long Long Time” increased by over 4,900% from the week before. The Grammy-winning Mexican American singer was also trending on Twitter as viewers responded to the episode on social media. Google searches for Ronstadt and the song also spiked shortly after the episode aired.
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Ronstadt, who admits she doesn’t “follow social media very much, or the streaming services,” told The Times in an email that she didn’t hear about the role her song played in the series until her manager, John Boylan, called to tell her about it.
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“My first reaction was that I was really glad for Gary White, who will get a windfall from this,” said Ronstadt, referring to the “Long Long Time” songwriter.
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Linda Ronstadt at her home in 2019. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
“Long Long Time” is featured on Ronstadt’s second album, “Silk Purse,” which was released in 1970. The song led to her first Grammy Award nomination, for a category then known as female contemporary vocal performance, in 1971.
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The song “means a lot,” said Ronstadt. It’s “still one of my favorites.”
Her earliest memory of the song is of White playing it for her in the late 1960s after a Paul Siebel show at the Café Au Go-Go in Greenwich Village, which she attended on an invitation from fellow musician David Bromberg.
“Gary White was playing guitar with Paul,” said Ronstadt. “Afterwards, Gary played me ‘Long Long Time’ and I instantly wanted to record it.”
“That same night I also heard Siebel’s great song ‘Louise,’ which I also recorded,” she added, referring to another track on “Silk Purse.” “Eliot Mazur produced them both in Nashville with musicians from the Area Code 615 band. I sang the vocal live with the track at 10 o’clock in the morning, not an ideal time of day for singing!”
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In “The Last of Us” episode, Bill and Frank meet four years after a mysterious mutant cordyceps outbreak decimates humanity — not necessarily the ideal time for a meet-cute. A gun-toting, paranoid, self-described survivalist, Bill ignored the government’s attempt to evacuate the residents of his town and stayed behind to fortify his home on his own. One day, his blissfully solitary life is interrupted by Frank, who has fallen into one of Bill’s traps.
Against his better judgment, Bill lets the weary traveler into his compound. When Frank notices the piano in Bill’s home, he shuffles through the available sheet music until he comes across a book of Ronstadt’s songs. But Frank’s attempt to play “Long Long Time” — his favorite — is interrupted by Bill, who then sits down to perform his own heartbreaking rendition of the tune, baring a bit of his soul in the process.
The episode goes on to detail how the pair fall in love and, against all odds, live a happy life together. It’s a departure from the more tragic Bill and Frank story depicted in “The Last of Us” video game.
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Bill (Nick Offerman), left, performs “Long Long Time” for Frank (Murray Bartlett) in “The Last of Us.” (Liane Hentscher / HBO)
For Mazin, the episode was “a chance to show the kind of love that we don’t often see on television.”
“I’m not speaking, actually, specifically of two gay men in a committed relationship,” said Mazin. “I’m speaking of two human beings who have been in a committed relationship for a really long time. That’s a different kind of love than we usually see.
“I’ve been married for over 25 years and there’s this other thing that happens, there’s a very different kind of love,” Mazin continued. “I wanted to show that through the lens of Frank, who loves one way, and Bill, who loves another way. ... I thought it was important to show how a relationship could endure, and then conclude in a natural way. Because death is a perfectly natural thing to do.”
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Post by goldie on Feb 2, 2023 11:24:04 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 2, 2023 13:25:56 GMT
LINDA RONSTADT'S “VERY GLAD” ABOUT HER HIT SONG'S 'THE LAST OF US' BOOST, BUT WON'T SEE ANY MONEY FROM IT
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After the HBO series The Last of Us used Linda Ronstadt‘s 1970 hit “Long, Long Time” in its third episode Sunday night, streams of the track jumped by 4,900%. While Ronstadt hasn’t seen the episode, she’s happy about the renewed interest in the song — even though she won’t make any money from it.
That’s because, as Billboard notes, “Long, Long Time” was written by Gary White and in 2021, Linda sold the rights to the royalties from her master recordings to legendary music manager Irving Azoff‘s Iconic Artists Group. Consequently, they’ll get the money, not Linda.
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“I still love the song and I’m very glad that Gary will get a windfall,” she tells Billboard via email. In fact, she only found out that the song was in the episode when her manager told her, and he only knew about it because a friend told him about it. “I don’t follow social media or streaming services very closely,” Ronstadt notes.
Linda’s manager, John Boylan, tells Billboard that she’s not “unhappy” about missing out on the cash, noting that it’ll help draw attention to the singer’s upcoming projects, including a biopic. Linda doesn’t perform anymore due to a brain disorder that resembles Parkinson’s disease.
She tells Billboard that she first heard “Long, Long Time” in 1969, when White performed it for her after a show in New York City. “I immediately wanted to record it,” she says. “It wasn’t a country song, wasn’t a folk song, or a rock song, but I thought it was a really good song.”
In The Last of Us, the song is used several times, both the original and a version performed by the episode’s characters. No spoilers, but let’s just say you should have a box of Kleenex handy when you watch it.
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Post by heatwavedave on Feb 9, 2023 22:18:34 GMT
That is quite a bit of history behind Long Long Time. Often in the music business what's old is often what's new.
CHART BEATTOMORROW X TOGETHER & Morgan Wallen See Big Hot Trending Songs Chart Debutswww.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/linda-ronstadt-long-long-time-the-last-of-us-billboard-charts-1235250935/The K-pop group occupies three spots in the top five, while the country star takes two.By Kevin Rutherford02/7/2023New music from TOMORROW X TOGETHER and Morgan Wallen occupy the top five of Billboard’s Hot Trending Songs chart dated Feb. 11.Billboard’s Hot Trending charts, powered by Twitter, track global music-related trends and conversations in real-time across Twitter, viewable over either the last 24 hours or past seven days. A weekly, 20-position version of the chart, covering activity from Friday through Thursday of each week, posts alongside Billboard’s other weekly charts on Billboard.com each Tuesday, with the latest tracking period running Jan. 27-Feb. 2.“Tinnitus (Wanna Be a Rock),” from TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s new five-song EP The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION (released Jan. 27), starts at No. 1. It’s followed by fellow entries from the EP “Devil By the Window” (No. 3), the Coi LeRay-featuring “Happy Fools” (No. 5), “Farewell, Neverland” (No. 7) and “Sugar Rush Ride” (No. 15).Concurrently, TEMPTATION bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as previously reported, with 161,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Luminate. Each of the songs also reach the World Digital Song Sales tally, led by “Ride” at No. 1 (3,000 downloads).Wallen’s “Everything I Love,” “Last Night” and “One Thing at a Time” appear on the ranking at Nos. 2, 4 and 16, respectively. The former two were released Jan. 31 ahead of the country singer’s new album, One Thing at a Time, due March 3, while the latter premiered in 2022.“Night” and “Love” concurrently debut at Nos. 27 and 61, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100, while “Time” jumps 73-54.Linda Ronstadt’s “Long Long Time,” released in 1970, also sees a No. 6 debut thanks to its appearance in the Jan. 29 episode of HBO’s The Last of Us.www.billboard.com/artist/linda-ronstadt/Keep visiting Billboard.com for the constantly evolving Hot Trending Songs rankings, and check in each Tuesday for the latest weekly chart.
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 10, 2023 0:00:22 GMT
The Last of Us Episode 3 | Bill and Frank Interviews | NIck Offerman and Murray Bartlett
TVLine
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Nick Offerman (Bill) and Murray Bartlett (Frank), along with co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, take us inside Episode 1x03, "Long Long Time.
Nick Offerman on His Episode of The Last Of Us, Reactions to His Performance & Being Spoiled on Tour
(song reference to Linda 8:40)
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 10, 2023 4:16:39 GMT
this video incorporates Linda's version along with memorable scenes from the film
BILL & FRANK (THE LAST OF US)
Miguel Delphineand a therapist reacts
The Last of Us HBO EP3: A Tale of Love and Loss — Therapist Reacts!
Georgia Dow
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Join psychotherapist Georgia Dow as they delve into the beautiful relationship between Frank and Bill in HBO's "The Last Of Us." Despite the tragedy surrounding them, the duo finds joy in each other's company. Explore the psychological aspects of their bond and see how their love story is worth it all.
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 10, 2023 7:15:44 GMT
CHART BEAT
Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Long Long Time’ Rules Multiple Billboard Charts Thanks to ‘The Last of Us’
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/linda-ronstadt-long-long-time-the-last-of-us-billboard-charts-1235250935/
The 1970 track leads Rock Digital Song Sales and the LyricFind lists.
By Kevin Rutherford
02/9/2023
Linda Ronstadt’s “Long Long Time” tops multiple Billboard charts more than 50 years after its release, thanks to its inclusion in a recent episode of HBO’s The Last of Us.
www.billboard.com/music/linda-ronstadt
“Time,” originally released on Ronstadt’s 1970 album Silk Purse, bows at No. 1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales, LyricFind U.S. and LyricFind Global rankings dated Feb. 11.
www.billboard.com/charts/rock-digital-song-sales
www.billboard.com/charts/lyricfind-us
www.billboard.com/charts/lyricfind-global
The LyricFind Global and LyricFind U.S. charts rank the fastest momentum-gaining tracks in lyric-search queries and usages globally and in the U.S., respectively, provided by LyricFind. The Global chart includes queries from all countries, including the U.S. The company is the world’s leader in licensed lyrics, with data provided by more than 5,000 publishers and utilized by more than 100 services, including Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Microsoft, SoundHound and iHeartRadio.
After its synch in the Jan. 29 episode of the show, “Time” garnered lyric search and usage increases of 3,013% in the U.S and 2,074% globally in the Jan. 30-Feb. 5 tracking week, according to LyricFind.
Additionally, in the tracking period running Jan. 27-Feb. 2, the song earned 6,000 downloads in the U.S., according to Luminate, enough to place it atop the Rock Digital Song Sales ranking. Its jump was 11,181% from a negligible amount the prior week.
www.billboard.com/t/rock/
“Linda Ronstadt is one of the greatest singers of all time and a groundbreaking artist,” comments Jimmy Edwards, president of Iconic Artists, in a statement to Billboard.
“We are thrilled that ‘Long Long Time”‘ has re-entered the charts. The team is working hard to make sure her timeless music reaches as wide an audience as possible. We thank the Last of Us team for recognizing the value of this incredible song and using it in such a meaningful way.”
As previously reported, “Time” also appears at No. 6 on the Hot Trending Songs chart, powered by Twitter, for Feb. 11.
www.billboard.com/charts/twitter-hot-trending-songs/
Its gains weren’t limited to sales, social media chatter and lyric usages. In the U.S., “Time” saw a 1,042% lift in official streams in the Jan. 27-Feb. 2 frame, to 903,000 streams from 79,000 the previous period.
The No. 1s mark the first rule on a Billboard chart for “Time,” which peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1970.
www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100
Its parent album, Silk Purse, also peaked at No. 103 on the Billboard 200 in November of that year.
www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200
It’s the second synch success for The Last of Us on the Billboard charts, following Depeche Mode‘s “Never Let Me Down Again,” which returned to multiple rankings after being heard in the series premiere two weeks prior.
www.billboard.com/music/depeche-mode
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/depeche-mode-tops-lyricfind-charts-after-the-last-of-us-synch-1235206115/
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 10, 2023 8:29:12 GMT
CHART BEAT
02/2/2023
Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Long, Long Time’ Streams and Sales Both Skyrocket Following ‘Last of Us’ Appearance
www.billboard.com/pro/linda-ronstadt-long-long-time-last-of-us-sales-streams-gains/
The heartbreaking 1970 ballad is featured multiple times in the HBO series' acclaimed third episode.
BY ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Linda Ronstadt Michael Ochs Archives/GI
TThough it’s only January, the third episode of HBO’s post-apocalyptic survival series The Last of Us is already certain to end 2023 as one of the most acclaimed TV episodes of the year. The tearjerking episode, which focused on a decades-spanning love story between two new characters, has been rapturously received in nearly all corners of the media and the internet — and has also led to another streaming success story, this time for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt.
www.billboard.com/artist/linda-ronstadt
Ronstadt’s devastating ballad “Long, Long Time,” which served as her breakout solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when it reached No. 25 in Oct. 1970, is showcased multiple times in the episode. It appears first in renditions by actors Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman, when they find the sheet music with an old piano owned by Offerman’s character, then as Ronstadt’s original version at the end of the episode, when the show’s main characters (played by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey) find a cassette with the song in a car formerly belonging to Offerman’s character.
www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100
Unsurprisingly, the success of the show (and of the episode in particular, also titled “Long, Long Time”) has led to the song taking off in both streaming and sales. From Jan. 28 (the day before the episode) to Jan. 30 (the day after), the song jumped from under 8,000 daily official on-demand U.S. streams to nearly 149,000, and from a negligible number of daily sales to over 1,500 — spikes of 1,776% and 13,782%, respectively, according to Luminate. It’s still a ways from re-charting on the Hot 100, but with its sales and streams still looking to be rising days after the episode’s premiere, it should be in contention for debuts on a couple of Billboard charts next week.
It’s not the first time The Last of Us has resulted in big gains for an older track: After Depeche Mode’s “Never Let Me Down Again” was featured as an ominous radio transmission at the end of the show’s first episode, the song rose 220.5% in daily streams. With “Long, Long Time” now experiencing even greater gains, it seems that The Last of Us is gonna be the show to watch for 2023 when it comes to generating high-profile synch moments with lucrative payoffs for the artists (or writers) involved.
www.billboard.com/pro/depeche-mode-never-let-me-down-again-last-of-us
www.billboard.com/pro/linda-ronstadt-last-of-us-sync-wont-make-money-very-glad/
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