The uniqueness and level of distinct talent of Old Blue Eye’s partners and Listen to Frank Sinatra tracks and easily distinguish the individual arrangerįor each song - be it Riddle, Billy May, Gordon Jenkins or Don Costa – such was There was a time when a friend and I could Sinatra collaborator, the incomparable, Nelson Riddle. She did so with great successĪnd class, as she teamed with the eminent arranger of such music, frequent McCartney and Rod Stewart, and many lesser talents like Bobby Darin wannabe –Ĭanadian, karaoke-level, crooner Michael Buble. Great American songbook, paving the way for Carly Simon, Cyndy Lauper, Paul Make the now common cross-over to exploring and recording classics from the Linda Ronstadt was the first of the rock-era warblers to Sound of needle on vinyl, it’s far beyond the time to rectify this aural And although there is a certain satisfaction in the warm and imperfect Technical transition from platter to CD, and needless to say, MP3 downloads remain unexplored assets, as Time and of a particular musical age, and although owner of 8 of her uber-successfulģ3 1/3 LPs, from “Don’t Cry Now” to “Mad Love,” my collection never made the Shirts – I got a bit untraditional for a while) she seems in some ways stuck in John and before Grace Slick and Annie Golden of the New Wave and Zydeco) and fluctuating infantile infatuations (she was afterīarbara Eden and Jill St. Musical tastes (Linda fell in after British Invasion and Protest Music and before To nycityman and his uninteresting memories of meandering Institutes of higher learning, or as you refer to these establishments ofĪcademia, “Elitist Communist Indoctrination Camps.” My teenage bedroom wall would attest to.) For any readers who may be Tea PartyĪffiliated, or are potential GOP Presidential Candidates, colleges are Her carefully placed, Spencer Gifts purchased poster, Scotch-taped just so, on Parkinson’s Disease, and the heartbreaking, resulting loss of her once pristineĬitizen, seems almost unimaginable, as for many of us baby-boomers, she remainsĪn indelible icon of our youthful bygone days of high school and college. Year old songstress, Linda Ronstadt, discusses her on-going battle with New 100, so give up – enjoy the free hemlock with every paid subscription,” 67 The World’s Most Depressing Periodical” whose editorial philosophy is “50 is the In an interview in the current issue of “AARP Magazine: Or anonymity (We are all Number 6 – “I am not a number, I’m a free man!”) One, no matter how renowned or obscure, is afforded any true measure of privacy She has recently explained the reason for her absence from the publicĮye, in this era of TMZ, Facebook, blogs, Twitter and even the NSA, when no Recording artist as she, with broad appeal across generations and musical Not all that long ago, when there was no more popular or successful international Invisibility of Ronstadt in recent years. Linda Ronstadt and the song, “You’re No Good,” we wondered about the relative In a previous Saturday Song Selection featuring
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