Didn't start using RU-vid till last October after seeing the documentary on Ms. Ronstadt. I wanted to track down the clips I saw in the film. Only now are clips that were posted over 10 years ago showing up in my recommendations. Last night, I revised the video of her singing Different Drum at the Bitter End in NYC in the late 60's, and this morning I find a video of her singing this magnificent song the year she turned 60! She felt the difference in her voice as that insidious disease began its onslaught, but my untrained ears only hear that beautiful, textured, and tender voice that is now as familiar to me as my own mediocre one. Yes, God blessed her with a sublime vocal instrument at birth, but she worked tirelessly and endlessly to use it to perfection. This video was my "joy fix" for the day!
Ah Linda...my lovely Linda. I'm sure you may at times feel badly that you can't do this anymore, but you are I'm sure thrilled that you have done it unlike the rest of us who can only dream.
I wish I could have attended one of her concerts during her classic standard ballad era. I’m glad she quietly still is with us. Linda Ronstadt is a genuine gift of vocal magic in the annals of music history - much missed and never forgotten!!!
What an unbelievable talent. Linda Ronstadt is my idol and a great influence on my music today. From country to jazz to pop to motown; from original songs to remakes-an absolute unrivaled star that is still one of the best selling singers of all time. Jodie Rocco
im just 22 yrs old and i really really love this song..my boyfriend gave me a cd compilation of his songs for me and he include this one.just so sweet...
does she have perfect pitch?? I have never ever heard her hit a wrong note...i mean live.. regardless of the band.. she kills me and bewitches me also.. sublime... simple and pure.. even with a cell phone video like this.. she is just fantastic.. damn parkinson's ...
The raw talent is unbelievable. And nobody talks about her anymore....probably because she doesn’t prance around the stage half naked singing with auto tune, or even worse, lip syncing. How times change.
It's The Talent! Strong when needed,Soft when called for.A great singer in more than one style.Americans need too get off physical appearance and just listen .Singing with pathos wonderful intonation aways in key ,no weak notes ever.Wonderful presentation.
Fantastic....The Stones, Ms. Ronstadt, Rod Stewart, and even some cats in their 90's here in NYC more than hold their own. Sixty is YOUNG and gets younger every year, no?
Incredible, i love it, i love it, and love linda with all my heart!!!!! Long live this Beautifull Country, of the Brave and Free. USA!!!! Viva Mexico!!!!!!! aahhhua!!!!!! She sings Old Mexican Classics Greater then anyone else aswell!!! Its sad to see all the greed and corruption plagueing Mexico.:( All my best wishes to her, the fans as well. And may God bless us all!!!!
I saw Linda in concert in Las Vegas the infamous night and she did NOT say those things she was accused of saying. She said OTHER things that The Aladdin may not have seen 100% eye to eye with (think I know what it was--and trust me, it was an insignificant deal, but an executive's ego (!) likely got bruised over it). I LOVE her pop/rock work AND her jazz work!!! ;-)
she is always gorgeous to me, audio sounds if recorded of a "wild sound mike" in the room, but can not lessen the clarity of her voice, a female Sinatra if there can be such a thing..
Her voice is as good today as it was when she did Different Drum 41 years ago! She was the sexiest woman alive in the seventies, but like all of us, age did a number on her. But not that voice!!!! I have every album she recorded from 1969 up to 1982. If ever anyone deserved to be in the R&R Hall of Fame AND the Country Music Hall of Fame, it is Linda Ronstadt! Feel free to disagree but those are the facts!
I love Linda, she's damn good. But the cigar goes to Barbra on this one. Some people need to understand that there are a number of Linda's, but only one BARBRA!!!!!
I would rather see Linda with weight on her compared to the trash they call singers today that roll around naked who COULDN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO MS. RONSTADT
Wrong. Linda got Hashimoto's, a thyroid condition, in the mid 1990s, when she was 50, and that stayed with her until she wasted down due to Parkinson's PSP as the disease progressed. Linda is now a fragile, thin, elderly lady in her late 70s.
