I Saw Linda Ronstadt in concert at the forum in Los Angeles in 1981. She brought out Smokey Robinson and they sang this song as a duet together. It was absolutely fantastic!
I'll never forget the first time i heard this, in '78. I was in a gorgeous apt in Redondo Beach, just getting used to Southern California after spending 17 yrs in Brooklyn. My cousin Rich and his girlfriend Mary had a great stereo and it could not have sounded better.I'd come up from San Diego. The this song played on vinyl, nobody made a sound, it just took over... And it still does just that...
I respect your opinion. But I love, Ms. Linda Ronstadt better. I can't explain why, but it just sooth and touches my heart a little more. Like I can feel her singing, her voices and what's she's trying to tell us through this song's and her performing.
In this moments of conflict and suffering just lower the lights play this song and close your eyes. There was and always be something about her voice that moved your soul
I still remember the first time I heard this gorgeous song. It was late one night on a small crackly portable radio in a foxhole when I was on manuvers in Camp Pendleton, California. I was mesmerized then, and, more than 40 years later, I still am. Thank you Linda, for some of the best musical memories....
A life well lived giving us timeless classics for us to relive and enjoy, even though she was quite controversial with her extreme leftist views, she never sat on the fence, much like her music when she put her mind to it and gifted an incredible God given talent.
Tan versátil como Meryll Streep en la actuación es Linda Ronstadt para el canto... Es hasta difícil enumerar todo lo que ha grabado: Opereta, Broadway, Standards, Rancheras de lo que me acuerdo 🙃. Empezó en el Country Rock y su primera banda de acompañamiento fueron los futuros Eagles. Eso al inicio de la década del 70'... Aquí cantando Soul (el saxo parece David Sanborn), composición de Smokey Robinson, o sea que es mega canción Soul... También lo hizo aquí.... Parece experta en este estilo de canto... Es de no creer por que tiene todos los 'geites' ananais o detallitos, que solo alguien que se dedica al Género puede transmitir a través del micrófono... Botemos la toalla no más... Linda Ronstadt no tiene explicación posible ,💃🎶🎶🎶🎶♾️
This a tremendous version of this great Smokey Robinson hit. Linda could sing anything, so versatile and just a true talent. One of the greatest singers of all time.
Thank you Linda for all the songs. My wife and I can not dance any more to your music because of Arthrits but we still enjoy your sounds in the car on trips. Take care we miss your singing.
The production on this is amazing and David Sandborn's sax riff is right up there in the top 5 of all time and makes the song I think. Oh yea and Linda's voice but that goes without saying
Linda, is so uniquely gifted possibley making her the best all around female vocalist..Whitney has her things and a handful of others have their things , but you can't talk about a female vocalist without her near the top and that is because she can let her voice shine through in any category of music she sings, PERIOD.
My mother couldnt stand this classic i liked it shede say go outside sing it then this song i read was dedicated to then ca governor Jerry Brown her romance with him
Wow, takes me back to my high school days and my first love. What a beautiful voice and song. Better than Smokey on this one!!! I will miss her voice.....
Only one other female singer could do someone else's song and have that song become their own. That other singer?: Patsy Cline. Case in point: "Faded Love" was a hit written and performed by Bob Wills. Once Patsy did her version, "Faded Love" became, and is today, considered a Patsy Cline song. For Linda, case in point, "Ooo Baby Baby" and "Blue Bayou". Even though these three songs were done by other artists, Patsy's and Linda's versions are so strong, they have become Patsy's and Linda's songs. Thank you Bob Wills, Smoky Robinson, and Roy Orbison for writing such beautiful songs and thank you Patsy and Linda for singing them.
It's definitely not better than the original but it did it justice. Linda's rendition was more smouldering/sexy but The Miracles' original was more elegant and timeless!
I agree with smokeyfan. Linda did a marvelous version of Smokey’s song, it was sexier and lovely, but no one has ever topped SR and The Miracles on their classic tune. I’m so sad for her and for us, to be unable to sing again. An angel’s voice just disappeared. Life is far from being fair.
Not so rare. She covered Tracks of My Tears, That'll Be the Day, Crazy, Tumbling Dice, Desperado, Heat Wave, I Can't Help It If I'm still In Love With You, amongst others, all of which were previously done by other artists. Her versions were at least as good as their's.
She said in an interview she didn't like performing .And that she rather sing in her own living room . So hard to believe with all those nuances. She reached heavenly notes .
@@lindalarsson1436 The best way to listen is with a open heart. When life is getting me down it will be beautiful sounds that elevate the soul to its rightful place. We are blessed to be in the presence of such.
Imagine I just learned on here that it's David Sanborn on the Saxophone and I know he's one of the greatest of all time but never realized that this masterpiece was him until I was reading the comments right here, guess we're never to old to learn something new are we lol
This is the very FIRST song I sang @ karaoke, I was on a cruise in the middle of (I forgot) the name of the ocean. I can't recall where I was @ the time, but I had a GREAT time!! I LOVE going on cruises & singing karaoke!!❤❤❤
She's my favorite singer. She had a way to mske any song hers. I have all of vinyl record albums in my collection. I hope my grandchildren will be able happy to inherit this collection going back to the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80,s and so on. I love music!!!❤
Never thought someone else could top Smokey Robinson version. I was wrong! Don't think she got the recognition she should have. Love her!
I Saw Linda Ronstadt in concert at the forum in Los Angeles in 1981. She brought out Smokey Robinson and they sang this song as a duet together. It was absolutely fantastic!
RIP David Sanborn, who passed yesterday. Probably the best sax alto ever, as we can hear in this amazing record by Linda singing Smokey s song.
So true. Amazing sax player. Try listening to his rendition of Neither One of Us. Original by the great Gladys Knight
He's incredible in this song, he's a jazz Legend...
@@JamesJMcGuirkohh I got to hear that, Thank you James I'm going to look that one up right now
I'll never forget the first time i heard this, in '78. I was in a gorgeous apt in Redondo Beach, just getting used to Southern California after spending 17 yrs in Brooklyn. My cousin Rich and his girlfriend Mary had a great stereo and it could not have sounded better.I'd come up from San Diego. The this song played on vinyl, nobody made a sound, it just took over... And it still does just that...
She sounds so soulful to me, I know it's definitely Smokie's song but she really does a beautiful job with it don't you think?
Yes. Incredible.
It’s hard to top Smoky but Linda’s rendition is simply beautiful.
I respect your opinion. But I love, Ms. Linda Ronstadt better. I can't explain why, but it just sooth and touches my heart a little more. Like I can feel her singing, her voices and what's she's trying to tell us through this song's and her performing.
It's worth hearing Todd Rundgren's cover too
@@dannyberry3211 Same here Linda absolutely nails this tune and i also think she edges out by a tad Smokey!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@tigerslear, No edge....Linda owns this one. Pure perfection ❤
It certainly is, nice call, nice share
Linda's amazing voice with David Sanborn's awesome Sax is the perfect combination. Love this!
I actually had no idea that is David Sanborn, that's a great share and Thank you Joe
Who doesn't love Linda Ronstadt. THE BEST ever.
Reminds me of me and a friend going to Clearwater beach . Good old days
Linda Ronstadt, Ooh Ooh BABY BABY. Sublime. Totally BRILLIANT ❤.
Loved her singing, beautiful woman, she seemed shy in some of her interviews
My favourite Linda song.
One of Linda's most beautifully sung songs. ❤x
In this moments of conflict and suffering just lower the lights play this song and close your eyes. There was and always be something about her voice that moved your soul
Double Wow Wow. I,m crying and melting at the same time. Linda Ronstadt IS total Class. Ooh Ooh baby baby ❤
Ooh Baby Baby bloody brilliant. But it's Linda Ronstadt after all. What do you expect. Class.
Beautiful rendition and love the sax
Every time I listen to Linda sing, I fall in love with her.
That voice is MAGIC, one of a kind.
You ain't the only one dude! That woman just turns me into a ball of mush.
Such a beautiful voice and woman .
One of the best pipes in the business...and those EYES! They slay me.
Gorgeous heartbreaking voice.
I still remember the first time I heard this gorgeous song. It was late one night on a small crackly portable radio in a foxhole when I was on manuvers in Camp Pendleton, California. I was mesmerized then, and, more than 40 years later, I still am. Thank you Linda, for some of the best musical memories....
i had been home from the Army for a couple yrs..the divorce and other shit i was dealing with this song gave me peace......
OO rah she refined it with her femininsm
Can't say it enough just love hearing her sing this song. What a beautiful woman and voice.
A life well lived giving us timeless classics for us to relive and enjoy, even though she was quite controversial with her extreme leftist views, she never sat on the fence, much like her music when she put her mind to it and gifted an incredible God given talent.
40 years later and I still say WOW!
I love you, Linda ❤
One of the most gifted vocalist of all time, Thank you Linda for all the pleasure you've brought me with your music.
Both of them are unbeatable.Just love them.
Agree
What an amazing voice!
Tan versátil como Meryll Streep en la actuación es Linda Ronstadt para el canto... Es hasta difícil enumerar todo lo que ha grabado: Opereta, Broadway, Standards, Rancheras de lo que me acuerdo 🙃. Empezó en el Country Rock y su primera banda de acompañamiento fueron los futuros Eagles. Eso al inicio de la década del 70'... Aquí cantando Soul (el saxo parece David Sanborn), composición de Smokey Robinson, o sea que es mega canción Soul... También lo hizo aquí.... Parece experta en este estilo de canto... Es de no creer por que tiene todos los 'geites' ananais o detallitos, que solo alguien que se dedica al Género puede transmitir a través del micrófono... Botemos la toalla no más... Linda Ronstadt no tiene explicación posible ,💃🎶🎶🎶🎶♾️
Algunos: Linda Ronstadt canta Soul cual ave primorosa...
Otros: Espera a que la escuches con Mariachi y en Spanish ❤
Heavenly voice. A beautiful, talented woman.
what a class act she is
Linda sweetie, what ever happens, you sure did it your way.
No one can sing ,this beautiful song ,like her . Sorry no one else. Whoever think 🤔could . Can,t touch this . What a voice . 🙏
1977-This was my first slow dance. I will always love Linda Ronstadt, this song and that boy for asking me.
Beautiful story.
Thank you for sharing that.
This a tremendous version of this great Smokey Robinson hit. Linda could sing anything, so versatile and just a true talent. One of the greatest singers of all time.
It was actually a hit by *THE MIRACLES* ....not Robinson alone.
Such a beautiful voice💙👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Loveliest rocker EVER, whose equally beautiful voice is silenced. A thousand curses on you Parkinson's!!😠😠😠
Good things come in small packages.
She is the best
Linda Ronstadt a True Legend. Total Class.
Thank you Linda for all the songs. My wife and I can not dance any more to your music because of Arthrits but we still enjoy your sounds in the car on trips. Take care we miss your singing.
Heard it a few days ago on the local nostalgia station, so I had to look for it on their archive and thankfully found it. What an amazing song!
I'm old now..but this old song hit's me in the feels...yup i still miss her.....
Sublime, the music equivalent to chocolate. Gorgeous. It just melts❤.
She's still got serious pipes doesn't she
One of the most beautiful voices ever she made this song her own
I agree I love the Miracles version but Linda owns that song
Sing it girl!!!
I live her music.
This was released 1978. .
I was an older. tune.
Jusy heavenly 😍
that lovely face
The picture of Mick and Linda is priceless. Bet, just out of bed.
I tripped on that pic too! Nice pic, I bet Mick has a lot of respect & admiration for Linda.
The production on this is amazing and David Sandborn's sax riff is right up there in the top 5 of all time and makes the song I think. Oh yea and Linda's voice but that goes without saying
Linda is my favorite singer and Sanborn my favorite Sax player (seen him play 31 times!) so this recording is heaven!
Best voice ever!
Thank you.
Man how I just love your sweet voice, man you make my whole day feeling love for others in my life thank you sweetheart. 🤗🤗😆😉
Linda, is so uniquely gifted possibley making her the best all around female vocalist..Whitney has her things and a handful of others have their things , but you can't talk about a female vocalist without her near the top and that is because she can let her voice shine through in any category of music she sings, PERIOD.
well said vlade kotevski.
well said vlade kotevski!!!
Never mind near the top she flies
so high she looks down on the top, keep flying high linda 🫶🌹
I loved her singing..Timeless..So sorry she now Parkinson's..I remember back in the day, all the boys wanted to be with her.
Girl i love this jam. Takes me back to good days. Love it!!!
Same here
clarity with purity, a flame whose voice burned the shortest was undeniably the brightest in all regards.
ernie wantanabe, that was beautiful
Another one of my childhood crushes- her voice is just so soothing.
I used to have that poster!
Linda Ronstadt certainly one of the finest vocalists of all time.
An American classic!
beautiful ! i was in the 11th grade and i love with a beautiful girl name Lisa . hahah !
My mother couldnt stand this classic i liked it shede say go outside sing it then this song i read was dedicated to then ca governor Jerry Brown her romance with him
Linda Ronstadt gave respect to smokys song ohh baby baby when she sang it.
Oh my... Your beautiful voice get into my nerve... So soothing
other then smokey singing this song linda song this song with feelings from the hart!!!!
Wow, takes me back to my high school days and my first love. What a beautiful voice and song. Better than Smokey on this one!!! I will miss her voice.....
what a beautiful voice and lady
I fell in love with this Women's face and beautiful voice over 45 years ago this song is one of her best and makes my soul ache
Very Well Put Together.....Showing Her With Some of the All Time Greats
One of the best rock and roll songs ever!
Only one other female singer could do someone else's song and have that song become their own. That other singer?: Patsy Cline. Case in point: "Faded Love" was a hit written and performed by Bob Wills. Once Patsy did her version, "Faded Love" became, and is today, considered a Patsy Cline song. For Linda, case in point, "Ooo Baby Baby" and "Blue Bayou". Even though these three songs were done by other artists, Patsy's and Linda's versions are so strong, they have become Patsy's and Linda's songs. Thank you Bob Wills, Smoky Robinson, and Roy Orbison for writing such beautiful songs and thank you Patsy and Linda for singing them.
PS: Anne Murray almost did it with the Kenny Loggins song "Danny's Song".
jimmyb1 she nailed it
Best comment I ever read about Linda was "she sings like a dream". Her cover is better than the original and that is very rare!
It's definitely not better than the original but it did it justice. Linda's rendition was more smouldering/sexy but The Miracles' original was more elegant and timeless!
I agree with smokeyfan. Linda did a marvelous version of Smokey’s song, it was sexier and lovely, but no one has ever topped SR and The Miracles on their classic tune. I’m so sad for her and for us, to be unable to sing again. An angel’s voice just disappeared. Life is far from being fair.
Well smokey thought it was better.
Not so rare. She covered Tracks of My Tears, That'll Be the Day, Crazy, Tumbling Dice, Desperado, Heat Wave, I Can't Help It If I'm still In Love With You, amongst others, all of which were previously done by other artists. Her versions were at least as good as their's.
I definitely agree with you. This multi talented lady had a way of making every song she sang her own. There is no comparison.
Classic Linda Just Beautiful!
Everytime I hear her sing it takes me to the 70"s and my parents when they were so in love...
I do love this song ❤❤so much great job Linda
linda wins this hands down of a great smoky robison version
Our Tucson Girl! 🌺💗🌺
So beautiful! Love you Linda ❤
other then smokey singing this song linda sang it with love in her hart.....
After all the years she still makes this 70-year-old man come to tears. O-BABY-BABY.
Oooo. .Oooo. ❤
She said in an interview she didn't like performing .And that she rather sing in her own living room .
So hard to believe with all those nuances. She reached heavenly notes .
@@lindalarsson1436 The best way to listen is with a open heart. When life is getting me down it will be beautiful sounds that elevate the soul to its rightful place.
We are blessed to be in the presence of such.
Smokey Robinson did it best but this is cool 😎
Imagine I just learned on here that it's David Sanborn on the Saxophone and I know he's one of the greatest of all time but never realized that this masterpiece was him until I was reading the comments right here, guess we're never to old to learn something new are we lol
Thank you. Of course, the voice, but some rare and beautiful photos of Ms. Ronstadt and the amazing cast of characters that flocked to her.
she smoked smokey's version of this song..ooops pardon the pun..
Never in a million years it was good but never did she out sing Smokey that comment it is almost laughable but she was good
I loved your singing from the beginning. Doing two of Smokey’s classics sealed the deal. Your voice is heavenly. Thank you Linda.
I adore Linda on you tube you can see her doing a duet with Smokey
I really love Linda singing this song .
memories of my youth🌹
This was the first song that i heard Linda singing. For sure that was such a great impression ever!
This is the very FIRST song I sang @ karaoke, I was on a cruise in the middle of (I forgot) the name of the ocean.
I can't recall where I was @ the time, but I had a GREAT time!! I LOVE going on cruises & singing karaoke!!❤❤❤
Beauty and sweet voice, as she is,..., a song listened to me in 1978 aprxmtly.
Killer version, Linda owns ♥
Ooo baby baby, Linda Ronstadt you're killing me. Absolutely GORGEOUS ❤.
She's my favorite singer. She had a way to mske any song hers. I have all of vinyl record albums in my collection. I hope my grandchildren will be able happy to inherit this collection going back to the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80,s and so on. I love music!!!❤
So heartfelt. Beautiful. One of ouroviest female singers of all time. Also prettiest too.
LOVELIEST
Tina Marie can sing ooh baby , baby.
If anyone could cover this song like Smoky, it's Linda. Great version
Someone once said Linda Ronstadt had the most beautiful eyes hair ever❤❤
Great rendition !...
More sax 🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷. 🥺
Great pipes.
smokey and linda two artist who are not from this world there voices devine
well said!!!
Absolutely gorgeous woman with a voice of love and definition. One if the greatest of all time!!🦄