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sonyzzz
Not a so called Pop Super Star today could hold a candle to her at the height of her powers. She was amazing, so sad. Her version of crazy is better than Pasty Cline's.
Go ahead check it out unbelievable.
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sonyzzz
Not a so called Pop Super Star today could hold a candle to her at the height of her powers. She was amazing, so sad. Her version of crazy is better than Pasty Cline's.
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Aquamarine
The under-rated Mike Nesmith of the much-maligned Monkees posted this about her on Facebook__
The awful news about Linda losing her voice to Parkinson's is terrible but it can never diminish the legacy she has created for us in the songs she has sung for all of us.
Because of her these songs will live as long as people listen to songs and these songs will always sing with the same power and beauty that she was and is.
Like all great gifts, these songs now sing to her as they once sang with her.
Listen to them. You will hear what she has done. What she has given us.
Her voice is far from stilled. It lives and sings forever down the halls of time.
Linda did more for Different Drum than I ever did -- or ever could have.
She breathed eternal life into it.
[Of course, he was talking about her singing voice. She can still talk, and I'm sure has many more contributions to make and years to live.]
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Jah Paul
When I saw the Monkees two weeks ago, Different Drum (Linda's version) was played during the pre-show music.
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Jah Paul
When I saw the Monkees two weeks ago, Different Drum (Linda's version) was played during the pre-show music.
Were you at the Long Beach show?
I heard that as I was coming into the building. By the time I got to my seat, they were running rare Monkees videos, and I wondered how many I missed, and if they ran a video of the Stone Poneys doing that song.
I'm reading Neil Young's book and yesterday I came to a part where he talks about Linda, and he wrote the same thing that I had to say about her when I posted earlier in the day: Why isn't she in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame??
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Dreamer
She always was a honey and still is. Fabulous voice. Very nice personality. She was having fun and she did what she wanted to do.
She once said "I never had a romance with Mick Jagger. You know what I mean? He's a friend of mine; we used to play music together sometimes." But there is also this anecdote: ...when Jagger breezed through L.A., he called and asked her to meet him in Mexico. "That's the sort of thing I couldn't do if I was married to Jerry," she mused...
Mick liked her a lot and still does...I know that for sure.
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Jah Paul
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Yes, it was Long Beach. They didn't show any Stone Poneys footage during the song...I think it was played before any video was on the screen. What a great show...had 10th row seats and really enjoyed it.
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Bellajane
I heard about this on the news yesterday. A very talented and beautiful woman. I wish her all the best.
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hbwriter
From today: "Sam Tanenhaus knocked on the door of Linda Ronstadt's home in San Francisco and she answered. They talked about her upcoming memoir — written to make money as her savings dwindle — and about her revelation last week that she has Parkinson's disease and can't sing."
"WRITTEN TO MAKE MONEY AS HER SAVING DWINDLE"?? What is going on here? This woman is one of the most successful and popular vocalists in modern history. There is more to this story.
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hbwriter
LOTS - her catalog still sells very well - plus she made many fortunes back in the 70s and 80s - this has to be a bad investment story or something -
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hbwriter
LOTS - her catalog still sells very well - plus she made many fortunes back in the 70s and 80s - this has to be a bad investment story or something -
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hbwriter
true she doesn't get publishing - but she gets a mechanical cut for the songs being played over the years - it just strikes me as weird. again, it feels like there is more to it
i may be interviewing her soon - it may be a discussion point
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hbwriter
true she doesn't get publishing - but she gets a mechanical cut for the songs being played over the years - it just strikes me as weird. again, it feels like there is more to it
i may be interviewing her soon - it may be a discussion point
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hbwriter
interesting note about her new book
"A highlight of the book is her account of an all-night jam with Mr. Parsons and Mr. Richards, Mr. Parsons disappearing at intervals to ingest more drugs. At one point, Mr. Richards played “Wild Horses,” a new song he had written with Mick Jagger for the next Stones album. Mr. Parsons begged to record it ahead of them. To her astonishment, Mr. Richards complied."
so this has to be about '69 - had no clue she knew Keith at that point