It's is a beautifully arranged song with Linda's deeply felt interpretation assisted by Maria Muldaur's lovely backup vocal blending it all into a deeply moving whole.
Yes, a favorite. Then I let FAITHLESS LOVE play... sigh... the audacity to take JD's guitar strumming into a plucked banjo... like being reminded there is no smooth strumming... just start a note and pluck it, then it's gone... poof. Over. sigh
This song and Faithless Love are probably my 2 favorites of hers. Her voice is just so pure and velvety. And the harmonies...OMG. She can just break your heart or make it soar.
Always been one of my favorite songs by Linda, if not my favorite. Her voice is so emotional and beautiful on this one. The arrangement is wonderful also.
That is her signature album and much like Tapestry by Carole King. There is not a bad cut on that album by Linda. You could play it from beginning to end and not find fault with a single song.
Considered her breakthrough yes, but she she had so many albums with fantastic songs through the rest of the 70s, and into the 80s too. So many of her signature/essential songs are spread through all her various albums. This is a great album though.
You are preaching to the choir I own everything she’s ever done, and they’re all great albums in my opinion, but I think this album is a cut above almost everything else
The writer of the song was Anna McGarrigle a Canadian folk singer and part of a duo with her sister Kate, Kate was once married to Louden Wainwright III famous for the songs " Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" and "Suicide is Painless" the theme song for both the TV series and Movie MASH. Kate is the mother of singers Martha Wainwright and her brother Rufus; Rufus is a Gay Icon. This Album was produced by the famous music producer Peter Asher who was part of " Peter and Gordon" a sixties duo, when Peter was a teenager, he shared the top floor of his parent's house with Paul McCarthy, Paul's long-time girlfriend at the time was Peter's sister, Jane Asher a famous Model and TV star. Paul wrote several hit songs for Peter and Gordon.
Linda is one of my all time favorites. I’ve been listening to her for years and have never found a bad song from her. Along with Dolly Parton and EmmyLou Harris they put out two albums, Trio and Trio II. They contain a lot of old country classics and the most exquisite harmonies. My favorite is “High Sierra” with Linda singing lead! 💜👵🏼✌🏼
Why are you listening to Linda Rostadt, knowing that she is one of those artists that makes you emotional???😮😮😮 okay...here we go again....makes a great reaction. 😊😊😊
There's another beautiful song that I have rarely heard anyone react to by Linda Ronstadt>"The Dolphins"..it's such an incredible song and her voice...ooooohh.
@@Richard-xo2gm Yes, I have ALL of her albums. I used to see Linda at stores and other places on Topanga canyon where I grew up in the valley in Los Angeles county, driving my sea blue vw bug down the canyon. She was always bare footed and even on tv shows she was often bare footed, with her big hoop earrings. Her voice is like heaven, she sings with such emotion and feeling.
@@Rhiannon011 I can tell you admire her as much as me. Lol. I've loved her since childhood. Got all her albums too and have seen her in concert 34 unforgettable times. Love hearing about the early days in that whole wonderful Los Angeles era of country-rock-folk music you got to experience, by the way. You lucked out. And I love watching all the clips of Linda on the various television shows she appeared on in the beginning of her career. Like you said most often with her hoop earrings and barefoot. Thank God for UA-cam, huh? A good evening to you. 😊
Anna and Kate McGarrigle, French-Canadian sisters and singers/songwriters were well known musicians in their own rights. Sadly, Kate passed in 2010. 😢RIP. This was one of their better known songs and Anna sings back up here (I had to check to be sure it was her I was hearing).
This song was written by The McGarrigle Sisters (Kate and Anna) from Montreal, Quebec. Here they are performing this song: ua-cam.com/video/2Enc8KEzdYY/v-deo.htmlsi=it28JzDbnvZ18iP2 (RIP Kate, Rufus and Martha Wainwright's mum.)
Kate and Anna McGarrigle wrote some great songs. I love their "Log Drivers Waltz". Kate and Anna and Linda and Maria all perform live, in a bar in Rochester. A brilliant set of music.
Thank you so much for doing Linda’s lesser known songs. I have always said that her best material was never played on the radio. This is one of her gems that never got any airplay. This was a great choice. She has that beautiful blend of power and sweetness that makes her music so heavenly. I believe it is Emmylou Harris singing her backup vocals in this. Thanks again for your excellent commentary. Please do a reaction to her amazing performance of “Down So Low” ua-cam.com/video/D7gCtCWxTYo/v-deo.htmlsi=iJkra9QZcXyuU1JX It will leave you speechless! 🌺✌️
No, it is not Emmylou Harris dear Debbie Chang! It is Maria Muldaur, one of Linda's best friend in the early seventies !! Maria Muldaur is a Jazz, folk and blues singer !
Warning - now that you have Heart Like a Wheel and the songwriting of the McGarrigle sisters, you risk falling into the vortex if their work, and Kate’s offspring Rufus and Martha. I’d suggest starting with Love Over and Over. Or, check out the version of Heart Like a Wheel Kate and Anna did live with Linda. Resistance is futile… 😊
One of my nominees for the saddest line in broken hearted songs: "And my love for you is like a sinking ship / and my heart is on that ship out in the ocean."
Linda was at the top of fan-lists for years when this album arrived, it was like super-charging. In those years (1975 on), arenas were finally being outfitted with great sound-systems. Mixboards, microphones, PA systems and speakers, even cabling - all had take giant leaps forward and when performers WANTED to do drop-dead perfect performances that matching their studio efforts, they could.
Also worth noting - pay attention to the studio musicians (as well as videos listing performers), and you'll end up with about 4-5 handfuls of names that would rotate in and out of different artists' work, always producing The Best Quality. Quite a few are still around... like Leland Sklar... Waddy Wachtel... Russ Kunkel... many have moved to that more final stage, though.
Would love to see your reaction to “Different Drum” by The Stone Poneys - Linda’s first hit song, a cover of Mike (The Monkees) Nesmith's "Different Drum"
This is a great performance by Linda. But you need to hear Kate & Anna McGarrigle's first album. Their original version is even better. And it's not even the best tune on a simply beautiful and under appreciated album from the duo. Nice reaction, BTW.
Glad you do reactions outside the box. Most just do the usual hits. Linda Ronstadt is the greatest, most diverse female vocalist of her generation.
Linda would often end her concerts with this song. You'd leave the theater in a trance.
It's is a beautifully arranged song with Linda's deeply felt interpretation assisted by Maria Muldaur's lovely backup vocal blending it all into a deeply moving whole.
Her vibrato is so good when she carries out the word “meeee” , in the line ‘why it had to happen to me’
Agree that this is a standout tune -- perhaps my favorite Linda song. She is an absolute master at conveying the emotion of a song in her vocals.
Yes, a favorite. Then I let FAITHLESS LOVE play... sigh... the audacity to take JD's guitar strumming into a plucked banjo... like being reminded there is no smooth strumming... just start a note and pluck it, then it's gone... poof. Over. sigh
This song and Faithless Love are probably my 2 favorites of hers. Her voice is just so pure and velvety. And the harmonies...OMG. She can just break your heart or make it soar.
I love Faithless Love and her singing with J. D. Souther
You know they were lovers nesting together at the time.@@Noelle0026
I love Faithless Loves
We love the sadness. No one did sorrow as authentically as Linda Ronstadt. There were " tears" in her gorgeous powerful pipes.
Linda Ronstadt. What the Universe creates when it is showing off. Real, Rare and Remarkable.
Always been one of my favorite songs by Linda, if not my favorite. Her voice is so emotional and beautiful on this one. The arrangement is wonderful also.
That is her signature album and much like Tapestry by Carole King. There is not a bad cut on that album by Linda. You could play it from beginning to end and not find fault with a single song.
Considered her breakthrough yes, but she she had so many albums with fantastic songs through the rest of the 70s, and into the 80s too. So many of her signature/essential songs are spread through all her various albums. This is a great album though.
You are preaching to the choir I own everything she’s ever done, and they’re all great albums in my opinion, but I think this album is a cut above almost everything else
Same for "Hasten Down The Wind"
Yeah, I'd add HASTEN although I tend to prefer Karla Bonoff's albums for those hits.
LOVE HAS NO PRIDE and FAITHLESS LOVE are two of my favorite Ronstadt songs, although there isn’t one song of hers that I dislike! Her catalog is huge!
Yes so many genres and ways she uses her voice
Faithless Love is one of my favorites!
The writer of the song was Anna McGarrigle a Canadian folk singer and part of a duo with her sister Kate, Kate was once married to Louden Wainwright III famous for the songs " Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" and "Suicide is Painless" the theme song for both the TV series and Movie MASH. Kate is the mother of singers Martha Wainwright and her brother Rufus; Rufus is a Gay Icon. This Album was produced by the famous music producer Peter Asher who was part of " Peter and Gordon" a sixties duo, when Peter was a teenager, he shared the top floor of his parent's house with Paul McCarthy, Paul's long-time girlfriend at the time was Peter's sister, Jane Asher a famous Model and TV star. Paul wrote several hit songs for Peter and Gordon.
When Loudon was young, he used to have play dates with the little girl next door, Liza Minnelli
Thanks, that nicely sums it all up!
This a ballad, Linda's favourite type of song.
Awesome review..and every single song on that amazing album is perfection
Heart Like a Wheel pretty much sampled all of Ronstadt's rock/folk/country kind of music. Loved it when it came out and still love it.
Linda is one of my all time favorites. I’ve been listening to her for years and have never found a bad song from her. Along with Dolly Parton and EmmyLou Harris they put out two albums, Trio and Trio II. They contain a lot of old country classics and the most exquisite harmonies. My favorite is “High Sierra” with Linda singing lead! 💜👵🏼✌🏼
That whole album is great!
One of Linda's personal favorites
After years of listening Faithless Love has stood up against time. As has Heart Like A Wheel.
Linda is my all-time favorite. In songs like this, you can hear her voice almost crying. I love that so much.
Happy 2024 SG and channel denizens!
your channel was one of my highlights of 2023 - looking forward to more in '24!
I wish to correct an error from a previous comment. I had said it sounded like Emmylou Harris singing backup but it is actually Maria Muldaur. 🌺
Faithless Love live is a must, also Down so Low also live amazing.
Why are you listening to Linda Rostadt, knowing that she is one of those artists that makes you emotional???😮😮😮 okay...here we go again....makes a great reaction. 😊😊😊
Love her voice!!
There's another beautiful song that I have rarely heard anyone react to by Linda Ronstadt>"The Dolphins"..it's such an incredible song and her voice...ooooohh.
Isn't that a beautiful tune, though? Off her 1969 solo debut album "Hand Sown...Home Grown." Always have loved it.
@@Richard-xo2gm Yes, I have ALL of her albums. I used to see Linda at stores and other places on Topanga canyon where I grew up in the valley in Los Angeles county, driving my sea blue vw bug down the canyon. She was always bare footed and even on tv shows she was often bare footed, with her big hoop earrings. Her voice is like heaven, she sings with such emotion and feeling.
@@Rhiannon011 I can tell you admire her as much as me. Lol. I've loved her since childhood. Got all her albums too and have seen her in concert 34 unforgettable times. Love hearing about the early days in that whole wonderful Los Angeles era of country-rock-folk music you got to experience, by the way. You lucked out. And I love watching all the clips of Linda on the various television shows she appeared on in the beginning of her career. Like you said most often with her hoop earrings and barefoot. Thank God for UA-cam, huh? A good evening to you. 😊
@@Richard-xo2gmhe’ll be reacting to her documentary The Sound of My Voice in a week or so, on his Patreon, so stay tuned for that.
Anna and Kate McGarrigle, French-Canadian sisters and singers/songwriters were well known musicians in their own rights. Sadly, Kate passed in 2010. 😢RIP. This was one of their better known songs and Anna sings back up here (I had to check to be sure it was her I was hearing).
Good reaction 😊😊😊
I thought in 1975, when I first heard it, and I still think that this is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded.
This song was written by The McGarrigle Sisters (Kate and Anna) from Montreal, Quebec. Here they are performing this song:
ua-cam.com/video/2Enc8KEzdYY/v-deo.htmlsi=it28JzDbnvZ18iP2
(RIP Kate, Rufus and Martha Wainwright's mum.)
On her next album ‘prisoner in disguise’ she did another great McGarigle song called “You Tell Me That I’m Falling Down”
You really need to check out the McGarrigles on their own - unique.
I've had Kate & Anna McGarrigle's version on my radar for years. Give their original a reaction. It's pretty good.
That whole album is great! I’ve loved this music for 50 years I think!
Kate and Anna McGarrigle wrote some great songs. I love their "Log Drivers Waltz". Kate and Anna and Linda and Maria all perform live, in a bar in Rochester. A brilliant set of music.
Kate McGarrigle is the mother of Rufus Wainwright. The McGarrigle sisters are extremely talented and have beautiful voices
I would love you to listen to Sorrow lives Here from Prisoner in Disguise. No one but Linda Ronstadt could have sung that song
Sorrow lives here is not on ‘Prisoner’, it’s on Simple Dreams. And yes, would be great if he did that one.
@@evanhughes1510 I guess I screwed up. But that's one of the songs that really showcases Linda's voice
Also "Down So Low" and "Try Me Again" from 'Hasten Down The Wind"
@@deadandburied7626 I also love someone to lay down beside me from that album
Linda is definitely one of America's National Treasures. Her, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris.
Thank you so much for doing Linda’s lesser known songs. I have always said that her best material was never played on the radio. This is one of her gems that never got any airplay. This was a great choice. She has that beautiful blend of power and sweetness that makes her music so heavenly. I believe it is Emmylou Harris singing her backup vocals in this. Thanks again for your excellent commentary. Please do a reaction to her amazing performance of “Down So Low” ua-cam.com/video/D7gCtCWxTYo/v-deo.htmlsi=iJkra9QZcXyuU1JX It will leave you speechless! 🌺✌️
He did the entire album.
No, it is not Emmylou Harris dear Debbie Chang! It is Maria Muldaur, one of Linda's best friend in the early seventies !! Maria Muldaur is a Jazz, folk and blues singer !
Tucson's Barefoot Princess. Linda sounds even better singing in Spanish.
One of her best, but their all great to me
Warning - now that you have Heart Like a Wheel and the songwriting of the McGarrigle sisters, you risk falling into the vortex if their work, and Kate’s offspring Rufus and Martha. I’d suggest starting with Love Over and Over. Or, check out the version of Heart Like a Wheel Kate and Anna did live with Linda. Resistance is futile… 😊
On her next album ‘prisoner in disguise’ she did another great McGarigle song called “You Tell Me That I’m Falling Down”
Been a fan of the McGarrigle sisters since I bought this album in the late 70's - an amazing album.
Love Over & Over is a big thumbs up!
"Talk to Me of Mendocino" is a great McGarrigle song Linda sang.
One of my nominees for the saddest line in broken hearted songs: "And my love for you is like a sinking ship / and my heart is on that ship out in the ocean."
Linda was at the top of fan-lists for years when this album arrived, it was like super-charging. In those years (1975 on), arenas were finally being outfitted with great sound-systems. Mixboards, microphones, PA systems and speakers, even cabling - all had take giant leaps forward and when performers WANTED to do drop-dead perfect performances that matching their studio efforts, they could.
Also worth noting - pay attention to the studio musicians (as well as videos listing performers), and you'll end up with about 4-5 handfuls of names that would rotate in and out of different artists' work, always producing The Best Quality. Quite a few are still around... like Leland Sklar... Waddy Wachtel... Russ Kunkel... many have moved to that more final stage, though.
Definitely listen to the McGarrigle sisters sometime. My favorite album of theirs is "French Record".
Would love to see your reaction to “Different Drum” by The Stone Poneys - Linda’s first hit song, a cover of Mike (The Monkees) Nesmith's "Different Drum"
He did a reaction to the Linda ronstadt documentary on his patreon
You might want to listen to down so low. She shows off singing that one
Prisoner in Disguise is one of her best.
check out "faithless love"
He did
Maybe beat of a different drum?
Maybe what?
This is a great performance by Linda. But you need to hear Kate & Anna McGarrigle's first album. Their original version is even better. And it's not even the best tune on a simply beautiful and under appreciated album from the duo. Nice reaction, BTW.
Song sucks listen to Black Sabbath’s version