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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2021 6:54:42 GMT
Released: September 1982 Label: Asylum Recorded: August 1981-August 1982 Produced by: Peter Asher Currently available: No
Side 1: 1.Get Closer (Jon Carroll) (2:29) 2.The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (Jimmy Webb) (3:03) 3.I Knew You When (Joe South) (2:53) 4.Easy For You To Say (Jimmy Webb) (4:03) 5.People Gonna Talk (William Wheeler/Lee Dorsey/Morris Levy/Clarence L Lewis) (2:38) 6.Talk To Me Of Mendocino (Kate McGarrigle) (2:57)
Side 2 7.I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine (Rose Marie McCoy/Sylvia McKinney) (4:01) 8.Mr. Radio (Roderick Taylor) (4:07) 9.Lies (Buddy Randell/Beau Charles) (2:35) 10.Tell Him (Bert Berns) (2:35) 11.Sometimes You Just Can't Win (Smokey Stover) (2:30) 12.My Blue Tears (Dolly Parton) (2:40)
Linda Ronstadt: Vocals Emmylou Harris: Vocals Dolly Parton: Vocals James Taylor: Guitar, Background vocals Peter Asher: Guitar, Background vocals Dan Dugmore: Electric guitar, Pedal steel Andrew Gold: Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Keyboards, Background vocals Waddy Wachtel: Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Background Vocals Danny Kortchmar: Electric Guitar Bill Payne: Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer Don Grolnick: Organ, Prophet 5 Kenny Edwards: Bass Guitar, Background Vocals Bob Glaub: Bass Guitar Russ Kunkel: Drums Rick Marotta: Drums Rick Shlosser: Drums Jim Horn: Baritone saxophone Jerry Peterson: Saxophone Lindsey Buckingham: Accordion David Grisman: Mandolin Dennis Karmazyn: Cello J.D. Souther: Vocals Patti Austin: Background Vocals Rosemary Butler: Background Vocals Edie Lehmann: Background Vocals Debbie Pearl: Background Vocals
full album:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbTMLLvGypIHfIykfCZgqrPYr90OAEOCA
disappeared from youtube but I think it reappeared as this one below:
LINDA RONSTADT-RARE-GET CLOSER -ITALY TV (1/27/1983) HD 1080/60fps 23 views Premiered 8 hours ago LINDA RONSTADT-GET CLOSER On ITALY TV (1/27/1983) HD 1080/60fps. RARE.
ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/3089/lindas-rarest-single
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 6, 2022 22:04:02 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 7, 2022 5:26:03 GMT
HBO Video Jukebox with bumpers and commercials | 1982 Mone Media
1,666 views Nov 4, 2022 #hbo #hbomax #videojukebox Video Jukebox was an American television program which aired from 1981 to 1986 on HBO. It was a monthly series that showcased music videos from the popular recording artists of the time such as Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Prince, Culture Club, Linda Ronstadt, David Bowie, Bow Wow Wow, Kim Wilde, Hall & Oates, Madonna, Blondie, Rush, and The Human League. A typical episode of Video Jukebox consisted of seven or eight music videos and lasted roughly 30 minutes, and the lineup changed in the middle of each month.
During the late 1970s (and before the MTV network debuted), HBO was already airing one or two music videos (or "promotional clips" as they were known at the time) as filler in between their feature films and other series. These short clips also carried the Video Jukebox moniker. When Video Jukebox premiered as a half-hour series in December 1981, HBO was reaching more households than MTV (which had been launched only four months earlier), so for about a year until MTV caught up to HBO's subscriber count, a video that aired on Video Jukebox may have received more exposure there than it would on MTV.
#hbo #hbomax #videojukebox
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 7, 2022 5:31:18 GMT
TOPPOP: Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer
23,549 views Aug 21, 2013 Artist: Linda Ronstadt Title: Get Closer Broadcast date: 29-1-1983 TV program: TopPop Video rights: AVRO
www.avro.tv gives you easy access to unique footage. .
TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 7, 2022 6:29:51 GMT
Linda Ronstadt - Price Of Love (unreleased 1982 track) 8,107 views Jan 9, 2017 Unreleased outtake from the 1982 Get Closer sessions.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 7, 2022 6:31:50 GMT
Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer (extended version, unreleased) retrofan 9,076 views Jan 9, 2017 Unreleased extended version from the 1982 Get Closer sessions.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 7, 2022 6:39:10 GMT
Jan 24, 2017 7:03:00 GMT -5 rick said:
Eddie, and RonstadtfanAZ, and Erik --
I know you have all been around here and previous incarnations of the Forum for a long time. This person on YouTube posting a still photo of Linda for a video, that I have not seen before. However, this extended (and, IMHO, rough cut) version of "Get Closer" has been presented here over the years. In fact, there are TWO (2) Unreleased Takes. The one featured in the video and then a different and shorter take of "Get Closer." Both are different from the released version.
I guess the Peter Allen song applies. "Everything Old Is New Again."
Jan 25, 2017 19:35:27 GMT -5 rick said:
I know I forget things, too.
Anyway, here is a link for anyone who would like to download the two alternate takes of "Get Closer." I threw in as a bonus the "dance remix" of "It's So Easy" (this dates to the time of the release of the film "Brokeback Mountain" ) --
www.dropbox.com/s/g94nj7wau04y4dc/Get%20Closer%20%28Alternate%20Take%201%29.mp3?dl=0
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 7, 2022 6:44:46 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 7, 2022 6:45:44 GMT
LINDA RONSTADT Get Closer Rare Extended & The Price Of Love daveinprogress3
599 views Jul 14, 2022 A double dose of the legendary Linda Ronstadt and a 40 year old pair of tracks from the sessions the singer memorialised for her 1982 opus 'Get Closer'. First up is the title song with an extra verse which was not the version that was finalised for the single or album. My thanks to Retrofan01 who posted the audio of this excellent new wave fusion of pop/rock that earned Linda another Grammy nomination. I re-edited the original clip a couple of times, it is still not perfect as the concept video and the longer mp3 didn't always match where I expected it to! The combination of Linda's sexy growl in that powerful vocal and the exemplary set of guitarists on the track gave it real edge and although the original was only 2 and a half minutes, this longer one does more justice to Jon Carroll's composition as well as the kick ass band of musicians in the studio with Linda.
'The Price Of Love' originally recorded by The Everly Brothers and covered famously by Bryan Ferry was incredulously not included on Linda's 1982 opus, but again my thanks to the youtuber who posted this rare gem. Once again the tight musicianship of the band and the brilliance of the famed British producer Peter Asher who Linda Ronstadt worked with a lot, makes 'The Price Of Love' another fabulous piece of pop/rock by this most versatile of singers. My clip is a pastiche of bits from the 'Get Closer' video and album and single art work from the 1982 recordings.
Happy 76th Birthday to Linda Ronstadt today (15th July, 2022). A singer par excellence and a discography that defies every rule and expectation of a contemporary singer. But Linda's talent knew no bounds....
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 15, 2023 0:16:23 GMT
rockandrollglobe.com/pop/easy-for-her-to-say-linda-ronstadts-get-closer-at-40/
Easy For Her to Say: Linda Ronstadt’s Get Closer at 40 The final mainstream pop album the iconic singer would make for seven years is a gleefully mixed bag
September 25, 2022 Thomas Inskeep
Linda Ronstadt Get Closer, Asylum Records 1982
At a time when such things mattered (more) in popular music, Get Closer is very much of, and out of its time.
Linda Ronstadt, the pop/rock queen of the ‘70s, was coming off of throwing quite a curveball: starring in a revival of Gilbert & Sullivan’s opera The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway, and earning a Tony Award nomination for it. As she told Steve Bloom in this 1985 interview for Down Beat, what she really wanted to do next was an album of jazz/standards. It didn’t quite come together in that moment (but boy, would it ever the next year: What’s New, her first collaboration with Nelson Riddle, was a surprise #3 smash, spending an astounding 81 weeks on the Billboard album chart and going triple platinum) so, Ronstadt said, “Then I went to England to do the movie of Pirates and then I came back and cut Get Closer, because I was really overdue for an album and we had all these tunes ready. But while I was doing it I was eating my heart out for the songs that were on What’s New.”
VIDEO: Linda Ronstadt performing “Poor Wandering One” from The Pirates of Penzance
Where 1980’s Mad Love leaned in to the sounds of the day – chiefly, new wave/power pop – Get Closer’s returns to her ‘70s tack of “One from column A, etc.,” only perhaps in an even more pronounced way than normal. “Get Closer” (check out that synth flourish going into its bridge!) is firmly in Ronstadt’s pop chart hit making pocket, though, a tough, guitar-riffed song, and definitely of its moment.
VIDEO: Linda Ronstadt “Get Closer”
But that’s about the only song to which that description applies. It was one thing in the ‘70s, but to be covering the likes of the Exciters’ “Tell Him” and (with an assist from James Taylor) Ike & Tina Turner’s “I Think It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” on an ostensibly pop album in 1982 was perhaps a bit of a head-scratcher. Somehow, her take on Billy Joe Royal’s 1965 hit “I Knew You When” (the album’s second single) is more successful, and doesn’t sound quite so, well, dissonant. It’s very much of a piece with many of her classic ‘70s covers.
VIDEO: Linda Ronstadt “I Knew You When”
There’s a couple of great country cuts as well, in “Sometimes You Just Can’t Win” and “My Blue Tears.” The 1977 recording of “Win,” made with a vocal assist from J.D. Souther, climbed to #20 on Billboard’s country singles chart, while “Tears,” a Dolly Parton song originally on her 1973 album Coat of Many Colors, was recorded during the original sessions for what would become Ronstadt, Parton, and Emmylou Harris’s Trio project – so of course it sounds gorgeous. (I mean, those harmonies.)
And I’ve not even mentioned my two favorites on the album. First there’s the Kate McGarrigle song “Talk to Me of Mendocino,” which Ronstadt gives an artful, precise reading (with accordion, I kid you not, by Lindsey Buckingham), and then – then! – there’s Jimmy Webb’s “Easy for You to Say,” a pop flop (#54) but surprise top 10 A/C hit (#7) that’s one of the most brutal break-up songs I’ve ever heard in my life. Ronstadt’s vocal is strong, powerful, yet still mannered. It’s a bravura performance of a brilliant song, produced expertly by (who else?) Peter Asher. The last lines of the song’s final verse are just – wow.
VIDEO: Linda Ronstadt performing “It’s Easy for You to Say” on The Tonight Show
Get Closer is, ultimately, a crazy-quilt cross-section of Ronstadt’s entire career nicely tied up in a single album, and even considering some of my (minor) criticisms, I love and recommend it.
There’s a lot to like here, and frankly Linda Ronstadt never, ever sounds bad, whatever she’s singing.
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Thomas Inskeep Rock and Roll Globe contributor Thomas Inskeep tweets @thomasinskeep1, and has previously written for The Singles Jukebox, SPIN, Seattle Weekly, and Stylus. He lives in Indianapolis, IN.
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