It's hard to explain how much of an impact Linda Ronstadt had on the music industry in the 70's. Not only was she massively talented, but extremely popular in every musical genre. She was the first woman artist to fill stadiums and every song she covered became her own. It's easy to see why!
Linda has such a powerful but soul-touching voice. What a truly top-shelf talent and person. Thanks, CR, for the Linda Ronstadt music. No autotune, no backing track, dancers, or twerking. Just singing and musicians.
I got to see her live 56 times from 1976 to 2009 when she couldn’t sing anymore we couldn’t wait for her to sing desperado that voice was 1000 times stronger and better than the recordings and she sang every hit better than what was on the radio they recorded it and wrote it and their record studio didn’t know what to do with it and they said to Linda like what can you do with it and then she turned it into a massive hit
I have only a few regrets in my life; one of them is that I only got to see Miss Linda live in concert once. Truly a great singer if there ever was one! 💔
The live version of 'La Charreada' is an absolute must listen! Every big Linda fan loves that one. Also her live version of The Stones 'Tumbling Dice' is next level.
You definitely found the right version. Like I always say, this is the most beautiful voice on the planet. She’s simply stunning. The perfect blend of sweetness and power. She can sing anything and make it better than it was. It’s very sad that she is no longer able to do what she loves to do and what we all delight in. Fortunately we have audio and video to enjoy what she shared with us. A magnificent talent. The “Blue Bayou” video is another wonderful live performance from the same concert. It is not dubbed and, obviously, she was never autotuned. Great reaction. 🌺✌️
Man your looking and listening to perfection with this one. How beautiful a voice and she's not hard to look at either. Iv'e always loved that woman !!!!!
Great review. I always loved this song. Her version was my favorite by far. Since it was the first version I ever heard, it was the original to me. I always loved Linda Ronstadt since I was 9 years old in 1975. Always loved Crystal Gayle too. I'd like to see you react to "When I Dream" if you haven't already. How about "I Never Gave Up On You", Or "The Woman In Me". However, there are great highly underrated vocalists that you might not be so familiar with that I am desperately trying to get allot more people to listen and react too. Holly Dunn, My Beloved Lari White. Kelly Willis, Mandy Barnett, Shelby Lynne, her sister Allison Moorer among others. These are some of the finest voices of the past 40 years in Country Music or any genre. I personally think that Lari White and Mandy Barnett could hang with Linda Ronstadt, Patsy Cline or anybody else vocally. You would be hard pressed to find two better or more versatile voices. To get you curious, here is footage of Mandy Barnett in 1994 still a Teenager at the time. She had just won "the national New Miss Patsy Cline" contest. Mandy comes out on the Stage of the Grand Ole Opry as Patsy singing "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". It's just incredible as she looks and sounds almost exactly like Patsy did. Mandy was just inducted into the Opry as an official member a couple 3 years ago. Certainly, well deserved. ua-cam.com/video/IqUiCL7N8gw/v-deo.html
The first time I saw Linda it was free. I was in 5th grade in Tombstone AZ, her high school choir was touring the state doing concerts at schools. I think it was Catalina High from Tucson. She was the reason they were touring, she sang 3 or 4 solos, she was amazing back in her school days. I saw 2 of her concerts in later years.
The combination of Linda Ronstadt’s heritage: the passion and heartfelt Latina Mexican with her German strength and earthy grit and grace makes her voice a phenomenal force of nature beyond our human plain. I’ve taken my wife to see her a few times because Linda is soo special.
Ronstadt had the best voice of her generation. She’s part Latina, and did an album of mariachi standards called Canciones de mi Padre. I was totally unfamiliar with this kind of music till Linda Ronstadt opened me up to it. Ronstadt’s voice is the perfect vehicle, tender as a kiss and powerful as a thunderclap.
The first time I saw Linda Ronstadt, was at a small venue in L.A. She was performing as a trio with the Stone Poneys (probably mid 1960's) and she came out on stage barefoot and in a dress, looking like a little country girl. She is an outstanding singer and I was never disappointed at any of her shows. Sadly, she now has Parkinson's disease and is no longer able to sing. I love this song and when I was younger, too many a soon to be ex-boyfriend told me I should really listen to this song and take it to heart.
Here is another side of Linda Ronstadt singing in spanish in concert." Linda Ronstadt - La Cigarra, Conciones De Mi Padre Concert with Mariachi Vargas " ua-cam.com/video/rn3SeUTuyEY/v-deo.html. Her father offered to pay her brother if he would learn these songs in spanish , he didn't do it but Linda did instead.
Linda's voice and a piano are all you need for a transcendental experience. Her vocals are just so pure and satisfying. The Eagle's version was on the album and just loved their version too. I noticed that there are many reactors who react to Eagles' live performances without getting blocked! (Probably not able to block like the recorded version!) There are many live Eagles reactions on UA-cam, one of favorite live song of theirs is the live performance of "Take It To The Limit" the 1977 version with the late Randy Meisner on lead vocals.
I'll have to check and see their uploaded dates. Seems like some of the things I try to react to that get blocked, others have been able to upload, But those upload dates are sometimes 1-2 years ago
@@ShawnSalvadori I thought that could be possible that they haven't gotten to recent uploads. However, I Googled this: "youtube take it to the limit reaction video" and see several one from Aug 2022. Two other reactor, HarriBest and NZ Boy, have Eagle songs up perhaps these particular recordings are safe? Or its random how they enforce and don't want you to get a strike so proceed with caution.
Fantastic! A deep cut "White Rhythm and Blues" from her Living in the USA album is really special. Just FYI - it is Glenn Frey (pronounced FRY). Love the channel!
Another great memory from the 70's. So many things going on in music then. Styles branching off Rock and Roll. At a party you might hear Smoke on the Water followed by a Linda Ronstadt song. Then some Blondie or Willy Nelson. Wouldn't want to have grown up at any other time. Love watching these reactions!
This is a couple of years before I met Linda at a political event for her boyfriend at the time, California Governor Jerry Brown. A truly gracious and charming person, she is even nicer than her reputation, and her talent, which is spectacular. She is special in so many ways.
I too prefer an artist that writes their own songs. However, there are certain musicians that know what lane to drive their car in. Linda is an interpreter of song. And that worked very well for her. Her voice re-wrote the songs she sang.
Glen Frey & Don Henley were members of her backup band before they decided to form The Eagles. Linda did everything she could to help them get started. This was their song but their version was very different. As you read, Don Henley said, truthfully, that it wasn't a hit until Linda sang it.
Yes she was appreciative of her accolades. No ego,no attitude,that’s why I can’t stomach the mediocre female singers of today . Could TS do this-don’t think so.
@@evanhughes1510Linda said in her book her voice was at its best between the ages of 40-50, which is well into her 1990's work. Take some time to listen to it.
@@evanhughes1510 because she has many stellar songs in the 1990's. Why not mix it up. I am getting tired of UA-camrs reacting to the same handful of Linda songs...Desperado, Blue Bayou, Long, Long Time, Different Drum, You're No Good, etc.....
Neither the Eagles' or Linda's version were released as singles. Don Henley claims Linda's version made Desperado a classic and Glen Frey said Linda's rendition made Desperado the Eagles signature song. Whenever Linda appeared on stage with the Eagles she sang lead on Desperado.
If you want t really hear what her voice can do....listen to ADIOS, La Cigarra, What's New live with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra..big band...Poor Wandering One from her year on broadway singing coloratua soprano
We're all entitled to our opinions. I love Linda Ronstadt a lot, but I actually prefer The Eagles version sung by Don Henley. He cowrote the song with bandmate Glenn Frey.
It's impossible to NOT fall in love with her. She's a sniper. Her voice will get you. You can't hide. Keep going. There's so much more.
It's hard to explain how much of an impact Linda Ronstadt had on the music industry in the 70's. Not only was she massively talented, but extremely popular in every musical genre. She was the first woman artist to fill stadiums and every song she covered became her own. It's easy to see why!
You had to be there
And I'm so glad I was!@@mikedineen7857
A part of the very fabric of my dna. I was born in 1971 and the radio was always on. Or records were playing. It was a time. ❤❤❤
I graduated from high school in '71, what a great time to be experiencing music!@@destinyreelly2974
She was the one. I was blessed to hear her in concert in 1978 (I was 18). The 1970s was my adolescence and I wouldn’t trade if for the world. ❤
Linda has such a powerful but soul-touching voice. What a truly top-shelf talent and person. Thanks, CR, for the Linda Ronstadt music.
No autotune, no backing track, dancers, or twerking. Just singing and musicians.
She truly was special!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘👍👍👍👍
The song, a piano and that voice. That's all you need.
I got to see her live 56 times from 1976 to 2009 when she couldn’t sing anymore we couldn’t wait for her to sing desperado that voice was 1000 times stronger and better than the recordings and she sang every hit better than what was on the radio they recorded it and wrote it and their record studio didn’t know what to do with it
and they said to Linda like what can you do with it and then she turned it into a massive hit
I have only a few regrets in my life; one of them is that I only got to see Miss Linda live in concert once. Truly a great singer if there ever was one! 💔
The live version of 'La Charreada' is an absolute must listen! Every big Linda fan loves that one. Also her live version of The Stones 'Tumbling Dice' is next level.
Truth!
Yes to both!!!
I co-sign on La Charreada. You gotta.
Yes. Blue Bayou.
Blue Bayou is a must from that video. she sings to the rafters.
You should listen to "La Cigarra" live by Linda Ronstadt...it is very amazing and sung in Spanish as a tribute to her father!!
You definitely found the right version. Like I always say, this is the most beautiful voice on the planet. She’s simply stunning. The perfect blend of sweetness and power. She can sing anything and make it better than it was. It’s very sad that she is no longer able to do what she loves to do and what we all delight in. Fortunately we have audio and video to enjoy what she shared with us. A magnificent talent. The “Blue Bayou” video is another wonderful live performance from the same concert. It is not dubbed and, obviously, she was never autotuned. Great reaction. 🌺✌️
That is Bruce Hornsby on piano. Great! Sorry, Don Grolnick not Bruce.
@@Tillersweep
Actually, that’s Don Grolnick. He toured with Linda and her band for several years. 💐
She is still my dream girl after 50 some years...my favorite female artist ever! 😎❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Love Linda's version
A Beautiful Woman who was Blessed with a Beautiful Voice!
Man your looking and listening to perfection with this one. How beautiful a voice and she's not hard to look at either. Iv'e always loved that woman !!!!!
There’s a great live recording of her singing it and they’re backing her up. It’s amazing.
Great review. I always loved this song. Her version was my favorite by far. Since it was the first version I ever heard, it was the original to me. I always loved Linda Ronstadt since I was 9 years old in 1975. Always loved Crystal Gayle too. I'd like to see you react to "When I Dream" if you haven't already. How about "I Never Gave Up On You", Or "The Woman In Me". However, there are great highly underrated vocalists that you might not be so familiar with that I am desperately trying to get allot more people to listen and react too. Holly Dunn, My Beloved Lari White. Kelly Willis, Mandy Barnett, Shelby Lynne, her sister Allison Moorer among others. These are some of the finest voices of the past 40 years in Country Music or any genre. I personally think that Lari White and Mandy Barnett could hang with Linda Ronstadt, Patsy Cline or anybody else vocally. You would be hard pressed to find two better or more versatile voices. To get you curious, here is footage of Mandy Barnett in 1994 still a Teenager at the time. She had just won "the national New Miss Patsy Cline" contest. Mandy comes out on the Stage of the Grand Ole Opry as Patsy singing "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". It's just incredible as she looks and sounds almost exactly like Patsy did. Mandy was just inducted into the Opry as an official member a couple 3 years ago. Certainly, well deserved. ua-cam.com/video/IqUiCL7N8gw/v-deo.html
The first time I saw Linda it was free. I was in 5th grade in Tombstone AZ, her high school choir was touring the state doing concerts at schools. I think it was Catalina High from Tucson. She was the reason they were touring, she sang 3 or 4 solos, she was amazing back in her school days. I saw 2 of her concerts in later years.
One of the all time voices in music!
The combination of Linda Ronstadt’s heritage: the passion and heartfelt Latina Mexican with her German strength and earthy grit and grace makes her voice a phenomenal force of nature beyond our human plain. I’ve taken my wife to see her a few times because Linda is soo special.
This song was played at my friends' funeral. He died on my Daughters' Birthday after summiting Mt Everest in 1996. RIP Doug.
It 's amazing to me how little the younger generation knows about musicians and singers who were some of the greatest in history
Ronstadt had the best voice of her generation. She’s part Latina, and did an album of mariachi standards called Canciones de mi Padre. I was totally unfamiliar with this kind of music till Linda Ronstadt opened me up to it. Ronstadt’s voice is the perfect vehicle, tender as a kiss and powerful as a thunderclap.
Ahhhh Linda - to know her is to love her...
No other artist can touch your soul in this way.
Whew, that note was worth waiting for! Now I know why this has so many views. I gotta watch it again.
A member of the eagles said novody paid any attention to this song until linda sang it.
The first time I saw Linda Ronstadt, was at a small venue in L.A. She was performing as a trio with the Stone Poneys (probably mid 1960's) and she came out on stage barefoot and in a dress, looking like a little country girl. She is an outstanding singer and I was never disappointed at any of her shows. Sadly, she now has Parkinson's disease and is no longer able to sing. I love this song and when I was younger, too many a soon to be ex-boyfriend told me I should really listen to this song and take it to heart.
She was wrongly diagnosed and actually has progressive supranuclear palsy
Linda is definitely in my top 3 favorite female singers EVER
I saw her sing this live August/78...for 8 dollars and 50 cents.
Life is better today because of Linda's music. ❤ Thank you for doing this.
gotta hit that Blue Bayou video
I see you're checking out Ms Ronstadt again...haha...a truly amazing talent who could sing anything....incredible vocal range and control...peace
She's the best
Here is another side of Linda Ronstadt singing in spanish in concert." Linda Ronstadt - La Cigarra, Conciones De Mi Padre Concert with Mariachi Vargas " ua-cam.com/video/rn3SeUTuyEY/v-deo.html. Her father offered to pay her brother if he would learn these songs in spanish , he didn't do it but Linda did instead.
Linda's voice and a piano are all you need for a transcendental experience. Her vocals are just so pure and satisfying. The Eagle's version was on the album and just loved their version too. I noticed that there are many reactors who react to Eagles' live performances without getting blocked! (Probably not able to block like the recorded version!) There are many live Eagles reactions on UA-cam, one of favorite live song of theirs is the live performance of "Take It To The Limit" the 1977 version with the late Randy Meisner on lead vocals.
I'll have to check and see their uploaded dates. Seems like some of the things I try to react to that get blocked, others have been able to upload, But those upload dates are sometimes 1-2 years ago
@@ShawnSalvadori I thought that could be possible that they haven't gotten to recent uploads. However, I Googled this: "youtube take it to the limit reaction video" and see several one from Aug 2022. Two other reactor, HarriBest and NZ Boy, have Eagle songs up perhaps these particular recordings are safe? Or its random how they enforce and don't want you to get a strike so proceed with caution.
Full body shivers and goosebumps.....every....single.....time. So moving. This is the best version of this song ever.
I saw Linda in concert in 1977 for the outrageous price of $7.50!! I’ve been listening to her for decades. Thanks for the reaction 🌻👵🏼✌🏼💜
Fantastic! A deep cut "White Rhythm and Blues" from her Living in the USA album is really special. Just FYI - it is Glenn Frey (pronounced FRY). Love the channel!
Love this. Check out her Trio albums with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. The beautifulest singing ever.
Another great memory from the 70's. So many things going on in music then. Styles branching off Rock and Roll. At a party you might hear Smoke on the Water followed by a Linda Ronstadt song. Then some Blondie or Willy Nelson. Wouldn't want to have grown up at any other time. Love watching these reactions!
Imagine seeing her in person in the 1970s.
The greatest voice of her generation and maybe ever...
This is a couple of years before I met Linda at a political event for her boyfriend at the time, California Governor Jerry Brown. A truly gracious and charming person, she is even nicer than her reputation, and her talent, which is spectacular. She is special in so many ways.
I too prefer an artist that writes their own songs. However, there are certain musicians that know what lane to drive their car in. Linda is an interpreter of song. And that worked very well for her. Her voice re-wrote the songs she sang.
Thanks for diving into more Linda! Listen to "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me" from the same show! ua-cam.com/video/hBkk3H_5Kpo/v-deo.html
Absolutely. Great song
😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤
She was magnificent
Don Henley on piano. He co wrote it.
Another song from this same Atlanta concert that I dig is "Willin'" by Little Feat.
React to Carpenters Desperado, karen voice is amazing😮😮
I always think of my brothers band when I hear this song. They used to play a lot of Eagles songs.
Her version of Tumbling Dice is better than The Stones, and that version is great!
Glen Frey & Don Henley were members of her backup band before they decided to form The Eagles. Linda did everything she could to help them get started. This was their song but their version was very different. As you read, Don Henley said, truthfully, that it wasn't a hit until Linda sang it.
Can not think of any other singer like this
Yes she was appreciative of her accolades. No ego,no attitude,that’s why I can’t stomach the mediocre female singers of today . Could TS do this-don’t think so.
More emotional songs by Linda - "The Blue Train" and "After The Gold Rush," both from her 1995 ‘Feels Like Home’ album.
One of her best albums.
@@evanhughes1510Linda said in her book her voice was at its best between the ages of 40-50, which is well into her 1990's work. Take some time to listen to it.
@@evanhughes1510 because she has many stellar songs in the 1990's. Why not mix it up. I am getting tired of UA-camrs reacting to the same handful of Linda songs...Desperado, Blue Bayou, Long, Long Time, Different Drum, You're No Good, etc.....
Just Linda and a piano.
Yeah, that Linda was really somethin'
Neither the Eagles' or Linda's version were released as singles. Don Henley claims Linda's version made Desperado a classic and Glen Frey said Linda's rendition made Desperado the Eagles signature song. Whenever Linda appeared on stage with the Eagles she sang lead on Desperado.
Goes to show how big of a stud she was in the industry. The respect they have for her to give her the credit is quite the tip of the cap.
You should react to her Spanish songs, if you have not yet!
I love that you appreciate all this music. You definitely grew up in the wrong era.
If you want t really hear what her voice can do....listen to ADIOS, La Cigarra, What's New live with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra..big band...Poor Wandering One from her year on broadway singing coloratua soprano
Linda es una diosa ese. La Charreada por favor, paz.
Blue Bayou performance not voiced over
BTW, Glen Frey pronounces his last name FRY, Like French Fry.
Blue Bayou official music video is live 😊
Words and music
The original version by The Eagles was a bit different. They adopted Linda’s version.
I think her version is better than the Eagles. Now you have to listen to Down so Low live awesome.
We're all entitled to our opinions. I love Linda Ronstadt a lot, but I actually prefer The Eagles version sung by Don Henley. He cowrote the song with bandmate Glenn Frey.