There're also many opinions that Joe Walsh let Eagles not be Eagles. You better know there're many fans like Bernie era but dislike Joe era. It's just your opinion.Just like Tom Johnston era and Michael McDonald era Doobies were the perfectly different band under the same name.
As a "man of a certain age" I really appreciate this video. The Eagles really did the anthems of my youth. We lived many of their songs. Then there is Linda Ronstadt! Wow, any young man who wasn't in love with her had no eyes or ears. She is a total package. Not only beautiful, could sing ANY song from ANY genre but she was instrumental in helping tons of other influential musicians of the 70s and 80s made it. Who else could excel at hard rocking, country, folk, Spanish language and even opera! There were a lot of bad things about my generation (baby boomer) but I feel very luck to have lived in an era with such exceptional music such as this.
And New Wave and jazz standards! She was one of my early influences. When I was 14, I started working as a writers’ demo singer and got work in all genres of music all throughout my life. I’m 58 now. One of the reasons I was able to do that was because there was so much to learn from her and her remarkable versatility. Just an amazing artist and so, so lovely inside and out.
I hope you got to see her live; I did in 1970 and what a voice! carried perfectly well with electric guitars etc. not to mention every guy in the place looked to be falling for her hard! get her memoir; it’s really excellent and no ghost writer. she’s an intelligent woman as well.
so glad my brother enjoyed Linda’s voice as well as her “presence” (I knew he had a poster of her on the back of his door 😉) since his stereo dictated what music was heard in both our rooms - am so glad he played her albums often - playing “the bands” (sixties / seventies) when I was out or when he was alone with his headphones on - legend doesn’t seem a big enough description - but it’ll have to do
Southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s...they made magic. Country Rock was born. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, Poco, Pure Prairie League to name a few...magic.
Don’t knock synths. These complaints make you sound old. Your parents aren’t supposed to like your music, just like you’re not supposed to like your kids... it’s not my cup of tea but I’m not going shit on it. Go listen to any of your “rock” records from 1975-76 onward and most of them are loaded with synth; ever listen to Van Halen? You don’t like the Cars, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Yes, Can, Robert Wyatt, Suicide, Bowie, Roxy Music/Eno?
Dolly Parton once said that Linda Ronstadt was the only vocalist she ever met who could sing any song from any genre and make it sound beautiful. Dolly was right.
countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 - have you listened to Linda in different styles? You certainly mention some big stars, many if whom I like, but the versatility of Linda was amazing. I think Dolly nailed this 100%.
@countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have been friends since the 1970s and recorded two "Trio" albums together. Each of them was amazed by the abilities of the others. There's a documentary of their collaboration here on TH-cam. th-cam.com/video/uQ7StOs2xY0/w-d-xo.html
There are two kinds of men in the world ----- those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who have never heard of her. ----- Willie Nelson -----
I saw Linda way back in the dark ages. Before she was a household name. And her opening act, × back--up band was what became The Eaglrs. Still on of the best concerts I ever attended!
Don't know if this is already cited/answered in another posting here.....but....after this 1974 collaboration (on the ROCK CONCERT TV show) did Linda ever perform again (whether at a concert or on another TV show) with any subsequent version of the Eagles?
The loss of Linda’s voice must be unbelievably sad for her but also for the rest of the world. Thank you Linda for leaving so much wonderful material for us . Life can be so cruel. I find it difficult to believe in any forgiving higher entity when so many people succumb to such horrible diseases, having said that her voice is that of an angel. So pure.
When the 1970s rock and roll playing Eagles sounded more country than 95% of the shit that passes for country music on the radio today. Love both Eagles and Ronstadt.
Linda Ronstadt was the vocal gift that just kept giving. Cool , creative, deep musical chops. This is the easy stuff yet her voice is so honest, clear and unadorned. She lifted the best to their highest.
What an amazing rock moment frozen in time, thanks Don Kirshner and Rock Concert. The start is underwhelming: Glenn Frey wins the award for literally the most disinterested and backhanded rock artist introduction I've ever heard. Scratching his chin, mumbling and condescending. "Our favorite girl singer"? Talk about damning with faint praise. Later we'd find out that Glenn wanted to date Linda, but as he said, "...JD Souther got there first." I guess that means that if Glenn had gotten there first he'd have surely landed Linda. Nonetheless, after Glenn's sleepy welcoming, on breezes Linda and the energy instantly changes. The band launches into the intro as she adjusts the microphone. By the song's second line, Linda's strong, deep and twangy vocal drives a great and very personal country rock interpretation of a 1956 C&W standard. Like with so many of her covers (ask Keith Richards: "Mick and I wrote Tumbling Dice but it's Linda Ronstadt's song"), once she delivers it, "Silver Threads" is no longer Wanda Jackson's or Dusty Springfield's or Skeeter Davis's or Jody Miller's or The Cowsills' song. It's Linda's. She's called this driving rock arrangement "MY Silver Threads," and it sure is. Lead guitarist Bernie Leadon, Eagles lead guitarist and Linda's longtime friend, connects with her on stage. He draws a smile from her with his exaggerated axe while soloing. Linda grabs a tambourine and keeps the energy high. Her octave lift at the post-solo "... cause I ne-ver was that kind..." is powerful, effortless and transcendent. Song closes with a Bernie flourish and a mind-blowing Linda smile. Great arrangement, tight band and the most expressive country rock voice of all time. Not just anybody's "favorite girl singer." A little under three minutes of 1970s rock heaven.
@@purplerain2314 I got to see them at one Don Kirshner’s Day On The Green concerts in Oakland in the mid 70s. I thought music would always be that good. Man was I wrong.
I was stationed Naples Italy when this came out. This brings back memories of the summer on Capri with this song playing from the open air shops. At 70 years old I long to return to those days.
Linda helped the Eagles even thou many have passed. Anybody will tell me she's old but Linda made an impact and not many can attest to that, singing and crooning, in tune as Linda Ronstadt did. Her music will live until the real end of time. BRAVO LINDA for your voice and time you have spent with all of us. My hat and a graceful bow to you-👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Seeing Linda like this with The Eagles brings so many great memories when I was young and smitten with her already in the early 60's and been in love with her ever since. There will never be another Linda but we will always have her music to sooth the savage beast~!! Thanks for this video of HER HIGHNESS~!!
I still love Linda Ronstadt, it's so tragic that fate took away her iconic singing voice. Linda went out and rounded up a group of musicians whose playing she liked and made them her backup band. They became the Eagles.
@@anthonyfoutch3152 I saw an Eagles documentary(3 hrs). Roger & Glen didn't feel confident releasing Desperado or playing on their own. They signed on as Linda's backup group. Both Jackson Browne & Linda convinced them that they were great & to go on your own. They released their version of Desperado that yr. PS: Roger rented$ Jackson's spare bedroom & Glen lived in the basement for free. He taught them how to write music.
@@keithhatch56 Fuck the social justice warriors. Us babyboomers don't give a damn! We say how we feel and if it upsets someone, they can kiss my saggy white ass!!!!!
Members of The Eagles were in her band before they were Eagles and they wrote "Desperado1" and she asked permission to sing it and made it a Monster Hit~!!!
@@1calvinfunny1 Don Henley said they recorded the song in England, and he was rushed, and thought if he could have tried a few more takes he could have sang it better. I think its perfect though.
I just hope the forthcoming biopic of Linda Ronstadt is lip-synced by the actress portraying her, because nobody could be Ronstadts voice to have the tone that swoops from tenderness to muscular richness.
@@MitchellWilkinson-m8n Practice is all it takes. People use to say 'no one can sing like Steve Perry,' then when Journey finds a singer who did, nailed that great voice, fans were saying he was using backtrack or other enhancements when he never did and so he was let go. It can be done.
Linda was truly electrifying, but to say she was she best of the 20th century, well, we’ve had had our share of kick-ass female singers. Linda herself told a story of meeting Beverly Sills in a grocery store and she said Oh Ms. Sills, I must sing Mimi” (La Boheme.) And Sills said back “You and every mezzo soprano in the world my dear.” Repeating the story shows Linda’s heart and modesty, and it also shows she knew she wasn’t the absolute best. Listen to (and let yourself hear) some coloratura arias. The 20th Century had some totally stunning female singers. th-cam.com/video/4FwZKjFJ-qo/w-d-xo.html
@@themotiondoctor Ronstadt was clearly the greatest popular singer - in Concert she and that voice were mesmerizing. Surely some Opera and Jazz vocalists had it going on as well. A long long time ago I was in a fine restaurant in NYC - and Linda was there in the back with a couple of newspaper journalist guys and Beverly Sills. No one bothered them - they seemed to be giggling up a storm. When they left Sills and Linda were still laughing about something. Two very special songbirds from different ends of the musical forest.
@@h.walkermaan8857 That must have been fun, you lucky guy you. Evidently after that grocery store meeting, they decided they had a lot in common, which tells us a lot about that musical forest.
So, the greatest was Kate Bush. Huge body of work as a singer, composer and producer. And a voice that was without equal. Linda had style, taste in music, personality, she almost had it all, but she wasn't quite the complete package that Kate was.
There is no Eagles without Linda Ronstadt. I listened to Linda & Stone Poney's long before Eagles. She's our beloved Arizona hometown girl. Who took California by storm. Love you girl. ❤
Have you seen the clip on TH-cam of Linda singing the classic"Skylark" with the Nelson riddle orchestra? It really showcases how gorgeous her voice was and it was her at the top of her form.
Fielder, who is playing pedal steel, was not an original Eagle. I know because their first few albums and I saw the early band with Don, Glennn Randy, and Bernie. No Don.
@@artprince9163 - Yes, the Eagles formed in 1971 and Felder didn't join them until 1974. But all the original forming members are there with Linda is I guess I was alluding to.
Linda Ronstadt and Karen Carpenter could sing me the tax code laws and I would never ever tire of the gift that God gave them.. truly the best female vocalists of the modern pop era
Yikes are you kidding?. Carpenter was a sour pop singer(who sang love songs with her creepy brother) dreadful material and schlocky arrangements. Ronstadt possessed one of the greatest instruments in American music history surrounded by the best players. Not even in the same universe.
@@WARDMAN3 We certainly agree on Linda. I should try and be more diplomatic. But comparing Ronstadt with pop singers simply because they are women or recorded during the same era drives us Linda advocates nuts. Peace ✌
@@skyewilliams2247 Believe me I do not get offended...Music is personal... While I disagree with you on Karen, as you see we both agree with Linda! Does not make me right... you right! That;s the beauty! But we are on same playing field if we agree on Linda
Just to better understand where I come from, I started piano at 3...I live and breathe music... So my opinion is coming from a huge well of knowledge and appreciation and studying... It is not based on just being from the same era! Curious. what other singers do you like and appreciate from 60s 70s or 80s... To see if we are in concurence!
I saw her live when the Eagles were her back up band, before the Eagles hit it big on their own. One of the best concerts I ever saw with probably the best collection of musicians ever for a live show.
Those were the goddamn days and those were the damnest musicians our world ever known and now they all gone, gone, gone, like some kind of rock and roll fantasy.
About once in a generation or so you see someone like Linda who can sing anything in any genre. One of a kind and people my age got to grow up listening to her and grow old listening to her.
@@loditx7706 The late and much missed Judith Durham. She sang with three very decent singers in the Seekers but soared above them when she cut loose. Originally a jazz singer, which may explain some of it but a great voice as you say.
@@lindsayolh TY for response. ❤️. I don’t keep up with individual news, so was unaware of her death.I am sorry for her loss to family and friends. I am lucky to be able to hear her whenever I want. She was a great talent and I wii miss her.
I'd add Anita Carter to both Linda & Judith Durham when it comes to vocal purity that can just soar above other voices, no matter how talented. A lot of the material she sang in her early years with the Carter Family would be considered "hokey" by today's standards but some of her performances with Johnny Cash and/or her sisters were extraordinary.
Back then, Linda's SMILE would knock a man down to his knees, IMO... So BEAUTIFUL and TALENTED-!!! LOVE HER (even to this day)-!!!!!!! Huge fan, of lovely Linda-!!! 🙂😊👍✌
There can't be many videos where you can switch off either the sound or vision and still enjoy what is left. She has the most beautiful voice and a joy in her performance that just makes me smile. Both together are wonderful. (Bands not bad either!)
@@lindaronstadt7426 I have seen that smile at the end of many of your songs & it just adds to the performance. The grin in the middle of Blowing Away with Bonnie Raitt is the best.
I had one too. She was wearing short shorts and roller skates. I don't remember ever having another poster of a woman or singer. I did have one of Mercury Morris, but I digress. lol
I have always loved Linda Ronstadt. Her voice is so beautiful and you can tell her heart is in the music. She is truly a great music icon and she always will be. Let's give it up for lovely Linda Ronstadt. Her magnificent voice will live forever.
She was really something. I saw the Eagles at their millenium concert in L.A. and she opened for them. My goodness, she was huge. I felt really bad for her. Had pretty much lost her singing voice as well.
Growing up as a teenage girl in a small town Tennessee I had dreams of being the next Linda Ronstadt. I just loved everything about her and still do. What an amazing talent and soul.
I had dreams of being the next Elvis. 💕 Love Linda Ronstadt. Some people listen to her Spanish album and don’t know what a big star she was in rock and roll, and some people know her for her rock and roll and don’t know what a big star she was in Spanish. Not. To mention her work with Nelson Riddle and her albums with Dolly Parton and Emmy Lou Harris. A great singing star, God bless you Linda. Check out Mary Lou by The Creative Force, Amazing!
I hear you man, everybody matters. Homeless people matter, addicted people matter, everybody on this earth matters. So different back then. Everybody liked everybody, now fuck, I don't wanna say anything to cause an uproar. It was just a lot better time then. We are in deep trouble right now.
@@paulbrunelle3597 you're my new faverate friend Paul! What's funny is my best friend passed away about 5 years ago and i miss him terribly! He would have said what you just said and his name is "PAUL!" so thanks brother
Yes ! It could be a FREE concert. Like, way out in a farm field somewhere. Like the one when we were way younger but different. With more bathrooms and wheelchair accessible. We could call it... WOODSTICK !!!
Glad I was lucky enough to see Linda's live shows many times in my younger days. For those young folks that will no longer have that opportunity, you don't know what you're missing. No theatrics, no pyrotechnnics, no troupe of gay backup dancers, no lip synchng...just a beautiful babe with an incredible voice, backed up by some of the best musicians in the business. It didn't get any better than that.
Thank you but todays generation cannot comprehend your words, it doesn't compute in their world, just be so happy that you (and me) saw and appreciated REAL talent, talent I really doubt we will witness in this earth world ever again!
There're also many opinions that Joe Walsh let Eagles not be Eagles. You better know there're many fans like Bernie era but dislike Joe era. It's just your opinion.Just like Tom Johnston era and Michael McDonald era Doobies were the perfectly different band under the same name.
Amen
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Bernie era All the Way !
Without Joe Walsh i wouldn't have gotten to hear Hotel California about 10,000 times.
Joe Walsh is slumming it being with the Eagles, IMO.
As a "man of a certain age" I really appreciate this video. The Eagles really did the anthems of my youth. We lived many of their songs. Then there is Linda Ronstadt! Wow, any young man who wasn't in love with her had no eyes or ears. She is a total package. Not only beautiful, could sing ANY song from ANY genre but she was instrumental in helping tons of other influential musicians of the 70s and 80s made it.
Who else could excel at hard rocking, country, folk, Spanish language and even opera! There were a lot of bad things about my generation (baby boomer) but I feel very luck to have lived in an era with such exceptional music such as this.
Linda Ronstadt a rare and remarkable songbird indeed.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
You and me both, brother!
WELL SAID SIR
And New Wave and jazz standards! She was one of my early influences. When I was 14, I started working as a writers’ demo singer and got work in all genres of music all throughout my life. I’m 58 now. One of the reasons I was able to do that was because there was so much to learn from her and her remarkable versatility. Just an amazing artist and so, so lovely inside and out.
Used to listen to Linda for hours...this song takes me back to youth. What a time for great music. Linda is a legend.
I hope you got to see her live; I did in 1970 and what a voice! carried perfectly well with electric guitars etc. not to mention every guy in the place looked to be falling for her hard! get her memoir; it’s really excellent and no ghost writer. she’s an intelligent woman as well.
so glad my brother enjoyed Linda’s voice as well as her “presence” (I knew he had a poster of her on the back of his door 😉) since his stereo dictated what music was heard in both our rooms - am so glad he played her albums often - playing “the bands” (sixties / seventies) when I was out or when he was alone with his headphones on - legend doesn’t seem a big enough description - but it’ll have to do
I’ve been obsessed with Linda since I was a teenager. I just turned 67 and still listen to her CDs in my car. No one will ever replace her Talent
Amen! Best female vocalist of all time!
I’m right behind you in age and I still think Heart Like A Wheel is one of the best albums released in the 1970’s.
@@Melissa-y2u Absolutely! One of my all time favorite albums and in the top of all Linda's albums.
Her version of I STILL MISS SOMEONE, makes me weep.
Johnny Cash’s song
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Her name is spelled LINDA RONSTADT.
@@johndavidwolf4239shit happens
Willie Nelson once said, "There are two types of men in the world: those that love Linda Ronstadt, and those that never heard of her". I agree.
Triple Ditto
Jeff Campbell .It was about Emmylou Harris he said that
Whether he said it or not…it’s true!
Absolutely from Australia
I STILL love her.
At 67 I am grateful for You Tube for increasing my quality of life...
YEP . LOVE YER . DARLING .
Yep. Darn near every concert you missed back in the day is out there to be expertises.
I fell in love with her voice in the mid 70's. I had no idea what she looked like. Then... those eyes!
Linda is by far one of the best singers ever. She could do everything!!
And then some
She knew how to pick top musicians to play in the recording studio and on tour, and she sure could pick songs.
I agree!
Still now, and forever, Linda Ronstadt's voice is timeless, totally fabulous!.
You forget how good she. She was one of the best with a voice as big as a house! Brilliant!
I love how she did “ Willin” by Lowell George & Little Feat
Yes!
Best female rock ‘n’ roll star of all time. Hands-down. Second place goes to Stevie Nicks
I was in love with that beautiful lady when I was 17 I'm 73 and still in love with that wonderful lady today
Southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s...they made magic. Country Rock was born. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, Poco, Pure Prairie League to name a few...magic.
Can't forget Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band.
Gram Parsons
Marshal Tucker, Lynyrd Skynyrd...
Jackson Browne
One of the best voices of the classic country rock era. One of the best voices of any era, period!
No synthesizers, no auto-tune, just real instruments, real lyrics, true talent and real music.
Such a shame how she could not sing anymore. We lost 2 GREAT female voices of all times with her and Julie Andrews.
Something sadly lacking in the shit they call music today!
Darn right you are
Don’t knock synths. These complaints make you sound old. Your parents aren’t supposed to like your music, just like you’re not supposed to like your kids... it’s not my cup of tea but I’m not going shit on it. Go listen to any of your “rock” records from 1975-76 onward and most of them are loaded with synth; ever listen to Van Halen? You don’t like the Cars, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Yes, Can, Robert Wyatt, Suicide, Bowie, Roxy Music/Eno?
Yes and the gorgeous voice of lovely Linda
What makes Linda so unique is she could sing any kind of song . Now she is bearing her illness with great dignity God bless her
She did, rock, Mexican, country.
God bless her is ironic. You sure you even have a clue about her actual thoughts on God?
@@jamesgroce3125 No just just giving my own views if that's ok with you
@charliekavanagh1217 love that response. Everyone wants to have something to say even when it's not warranted 😂
Amen.
Dolly Parton once said that Linda Ronstadt was the only vocalist she ever met who could sing any song from any genre and make it sound beautiful. Dolly was right.
my jury is still out on the matter of whether or not rap is actually music.......
Dolly is right. One of the best voices in the world.
countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 - have you listened to Linda in different styles? You certainly mention some big stars, many if whom I like, but the versatility of Linda was amazing. I think Dolly nailed this 100%.
countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 it’s Dolly who can sing and harmonised even with Led Zeppelin 😍
@countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have been friends since the 1970s and recorded two "Trio" albums together. Each of them was amazed by the abilities of the others. There's a documentary of their collaboration here on TH-cam.
th-cam.com/video/uQ7StOs2xY0/w-d-xo.html
Our Miss Linda always steps back when the guitar solo comes up. Total class.❤️
There are two kinds of men in the world ----- those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who have never heard of her.
----- Willie Nelson -----
Ben M ..........Such wisdom Ben, such wisdom!
Amen
+Ben M He really said that? Huh, wasn't aware of that quote.
@Ben Was that said before or after her tete-a-tete with Gov Moonbeam; something that would decidedly warrant a reevaluation.
those who "HAD" a crush ....to have one now is a reach
I Love her.. She was undoubtedly the most versatile female vocalist.
The Eagles and Ronstadt, it doesn't get any better than that.
I saw Linda way back in the dark ages. Before she was a household name. And her opening act, × back--up band was what became The Eaglrs. Still on of the best concerts I ever attended!
I could listen to that band all day.
Don't know if this is already cited/answered in another posting here.....but....after this 1974 collaboration (on the ROCK CONCERT TV show) did Linda ever perform again (whether at a concert or on another TV show) with any subsequent version of the Eagles?
Technical sound engineer All sound cloud stream.
Yes it does. They are very good. Lots of fun. But to say it doesn't get better than that is silly.
The loss of Linda’s voice must be unbelievably sad for her but also for the rest of the world. Thank you Linda for leaving so much wonderful material for us . Life can be so cruel. I find it difficult to believe in any forgiving higher entity when so many people succumb to such horrible diseases, having said that her voice is that of an angel. So pure.
VERY well said. And yes, a belief in a god seems to be universal but is the evidence sufficient to keep believing?
@@bumpkin-dc9gv The challenges of life are the reason we are here.
What happened to her voice?
@@laheart1957 Linda suffers from a nervous system illness and can no longer sing.
When the 1970s rock and roll playing Eagles sounded more country than 95% of the shit that passes for country music on the radio today. Love both Eagles and Ronstadt.
Poco was my favorite country rock band. Too me, the Eagles were a Poco knock-off.
@@theswagler5648 Someone said Poco was the farm team for th eEagles
@Mike The Bike - Didn't know that. I like the Eagles, especially Desperado album, early stuff. But I'd rather seen Joe Walsh keep James Gang together.
@@theswagler5648 Roger that. James Gang -w- Walsh was kick azz!
Most of our once great American culture went down the toilet several decades ago. I blame "liberalism" for a large part of that decline.
Linda Ronstadt was the vocal gift that just kept giving. Cool , creative, deep musical chops. This is the easy stuff yet her voice is so honest, clear and unadorned. She lifted the best to their highest.
👍 yes! Check out Mary Lou by The Creative Force, Amazing
She is just so special. Other women singers bore me after one tune. Grabs the microphone and sings her heart out.
She sang the 2nd best version of “Ride An Old Paint” I ever heard.
Thank you.
Then she had to go and get religious ☹️
Just walked up to the mic and belted it out. That’s talent!
What an amazing rock moment frozen in time, thanks Don Kirshner and Rock Concert.
The start is underwhelming: Glenn Frey wins the award for literally the most disinterested and backhanded rock artist introduction I've ever heard. Scratching his chin, mumbling and condescending. "Our favorite girl singer"? Talk about damning with faint praise. Later we'd find out that Glenn wanted to date Linda, but as he said, "...JD Souther got there first." I guess that means that if Glenn had gotten there first he'd have surely landed Linda.
Nonetheless, after Glenn's sleepy welcoming, on breezes Linda and the energy instantly changes. The band launches into the intro as she adjusts the microphone. By the song's second line, Linda's strong, deep and twangy vocal drives a great and very personal country rock interpretation of a 1956 C&W standard. Like with so many of her covers (ask Keith Richards: "Mick and I wrote Tumbling Dice but it's Linda Ronstadt's song"), once she delivers it, "Silver Threads" is no longer Wanda Jackson's or Dusty Springfield's or Skeeter Davis's or Jody Miller's or The Cowsills' song. It's Linda's. She's called this driving rock arrangement "MY Silver Threads," and it sure is.
Lead guitarist Bernie Leadon, Eagles lead guitarist and Linda's longtime friend, connects with her on stage. He draws a smile from her with his exaggerated axe while soloing. Linda grabs a tambourine and keeps the energy high. Her octave lift at the post-solo "... cause I ne-ver was that kind..." is powerful, effortless and transcendent.
Song closes with a Bernie flourish and a mind-blowing Linda smile. Great arrangement, tight band and the most expressive country rock voice of all time. Not just anybody's "favorite girl singer." A little under three minutes of 1970s rock heaven.
Living through this we just never understood how magical it really was.
I think we did, I know I did, but what we didn't know is that that now magical era wouldn't last.
When music was music.
Linda was amazing
We lived it..
@@purplerain2314 I got to see them at one Don Kirshner’s Day On The Green concerts in Oakland in the mid 70s. I thought music would always be that good. Man was I wrong.
That's couse we can't remember most of it.
Linda is absolutely drop dead gorgeous. Period.
There will be no one like Linda Ronstadt. Did Rock and Roll, Gilbert And Sullivan, Country and Mexican. All amazingly. One of a kind!
Not to mention the American Songbook with Nelson Riddle. She could do it all - effortlessly.
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She’s so amazing!!! It’s sad she can’t sing anymore☹️
Mexican!! Hahaha!! Spanish is the correct word.
Agreed!!! And she is still beautiful. What a set of lungs!
I was stationed Naples Italy when this came out. This brings back memories of the summer on Capri with this song playing from the open air shops. At 70 years old I long to return to those days.
Linda helped the Eagles even thou many have passed. Anybody will tell me she's old but Linda made an impact and not many can attest to that, singing and crooning, in tune as Linda Ronstadt did. Her music will live until the real end of time. BRAVO LINDA for your voice and time you have spent with all of us. My hat and a graceful bow to you-👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nobody, and I mean nobody could belt 'em out like Linda Ronstadt.
And she did it without ANY warmup.
Ann Wilson. Listen to her do Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Center.
It gives me happiness to see that, even today, people know how wonderful she was.
Seeing Linda like this with The Eagles brings so many great memories when I was young and smitten with her already in the early 60's and been in love with her ever since. There will never be another Linda but we will always have her music to sooth the savage beast~!! Thanks for this video of HER HIGHNESS~!!
Gifted voice, is just heart breaking to see that time gets to all of us, family, love ones and our valued artists.😢
She just came right on out there & killed it! ❤️
60s and 70s music was the best!!!
To see Linda Ronstadt sing this with the original Eagles is amazing! Glen Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon. Randy Meisner and Don Felder!
For men, real men, it's quite impossible not to admire the beauty of Linda. Wew!
Please, do tell us the difference between men and ‘real men.’ I can’t wait.
I still love Linda Ronstadt, it's so tragic that fate took away her iconic singing voice. Linda went out and rounded up a group of musicians whose playing she liked and made them her backup band. They became the Eagles.
Plus she saved their band recording Desperado and album that was flopping for The Eagles.
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@@DonLicuala more special than u
That’s bcs most of them live in Laurel Canyon where all the most of the musicians live at the time there’s even a documentary about Laurel Canyon
@@anthonyfoutch3152 I saw an Eagles documentary(3 hrs). Roger & Glen didn't feel confident releasing Desperado or playing on their own. They signed on as Linda's backup group. Both Jackson Browne & Linda convinced them that they were great & to go on your own. They released their version of Desperado that yr. PS: Roger rented$ Jackson's spare bedroom & Glen lived in the basement for free. He taught them how to write music.
Glenn Frey is so cute and shy when he introduces her. "favorite girl singer," I love it. Linda Ronstadt was adorable and fun, too.
That would be sexist today.
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Fuck the social justice warriors.
Us babyboomers don't give a damn! We say how we feel and if it upsets someone, they can kiss my saggy white ass!!!!!
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How can a man not love Linda Ronstadt? One of the most gorgeous women of country rock ever.
It's like a musical law......you hear Linda once and you have to hear again.
One of the best female rock/pop vocalists ever!
monsterguitar1 the best, bar none!
She did not require amplification.
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@@gordiemitchell4321 Exactly!!!
@@mwduck Saw her at DAR Constitution Hall in WDC in 1976, and yes, she did not need amplification. Great voice.
Linda Ronstadt very beautiful all around. Amazing voice and talent.
A computer will never come close
To the beauty of the human voice like this .....thats why we keep coming back here
I love how effortlessly she can transition from a purr to a growl, and to do it so beautifully.
Beautiful woman and beautiful voice.
You have to appreciate this video for the historical value. Amazing.
Thanks, Ms. Rohnstadt, for your contributions to great music. And, that beautiful smile. God bless you and yours now and forever. Amen
It doesn't get any better than this Linda and the Eagles.
Members of The Eagles were in her band before they were Eagles and they wrote "Desperado1" and she asked permission to sing it and made it a Monster Hit~!!!
@@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys I don't know which version I like better..
@@1calvinfunny1 Don Henley said they recorded the song in England, and he was rushed, and thought if he could have tried a few more takes he could have sang it better. I think its perfect though.
I’m 70 and have had a crush on Linda since 1970. What an amazing singer!
Yeah I loved her too until she got political.
@@DouglasTaylor69 You sound like a conservative dickwad.
@@jeffhodge7333 and you sound like a liberaturd!!!!!
Haha! Me too
Bernie and Linda enjoyed playing together... she kept looking at him and smiling. The whole song it's like "Glenn who?".
Linda was Bernie’s friend who then hired the others for her backing band
There’s a video on Rock Essentials with Tim’s channel that delves into Linda and Bernie, some of the places they lived, etc..
@@melodymakermark Both of them friends of Gram Parsons.
She was probably my first crush before Charlie Angles,I see her on roller skates wearing shorts on one of her albums …Im 59 now..
I am so very excited they are finally going to make a film on Linda. Amazing.
Long awaited.
I just hope the forthcoming biopic of Linda Ronstadt is lip-synced by the actress portraying her, because nobody could be Ronstadts voice to have the tone that swoops from tenderness to muscular richness.
@@MitchellWilkinson-m8n Practice is all it takes. People use to say 'no one can sing like Steve Perry,' then when Journey finds a singer who did, nailed that great voice, fans were saying he was using backtrack or other enhancements when he never did and so he was let go. It can be done.
The seventies was a time when music was accepted for itself, did not matter the brand,good music was good music.
No matter how many times I hear the Lady sing, I always get chills up and down my spine. She had some big league pipes.
She sure did. Never heard a rock & roll or country singer belt out a song like she did.
Being from Tucson for 32 years what an awesome music 🎵 🎵 🎵 artist!
Prettiest smile of the 70's
Amen
Greatest female singer of the twentieth century. She sang the songs that helped me get through my darkest times. I will love her always.
Linda was truly electrifying, but to say she was she best of the 20th century, well, we’ve had had our share of kick-ass female singers. Linda herself told a story of meeting Beverly Sills in a grocery store and she said Oh Ms. Sills, I must sing Mimi” (La Boheme.) And Sills said back “You and every mezzo soprano in the world my dear.” Repeating the story shows Linda’s heart and modesty, and it also shows she knew she wasn’t the absolute best. Listen to (and let yourself hear) some coloratura arias. The 20th Century had some totally stunning female singers.
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@@themotiondoctor Ronstadt was clearly the greatest popular singer - in Concert she and that voice were mesmerizing. Surely some Opera and Jazz vocalists had it going on as well. A long long time ago I was in a fine restaurant in NYC - and Linda was there in the back with a couple of newspaper journalist guys and Beverly Sills. No one bothered them - they seemed to be giggling up a storm. When they left Sills and Linda were still laughing about something. Two very special songbirds from different ends of the musical forest.
@@h.walkermaan8857 That must have been fun, you lucky guy you. Evidently after that grocery store meeting, they decided they had a lot in common, which tells us a lot about that musical forest.
So, the greatest was Kate Bush. Huge body of work as a singer, composer and producer. And a voice that was without equal. Linda had style, taste in music, personality, she almost had it all, but she wasn't quite the complete package that Kate was.
She was awesome but there’s also Emmy Lou, Nancy Griffin, Dolly Parton and Patty Loveless….I can’t pick the best🤷♂
There is no Eagles without Linda Ronstadt. I listened to Linda & Stone Poney's long before Eagles. She's our beloved Arizona hometown girl. Who took California by storm. Love you girl. ❤
id have to agree . being as she gave them first big break . so actually she was their first singer ..kinda sort of
Linda you bring tears to my eyes❤️
Linda was in a vocal universe all her own. This was the simple stuff - she could sing it all - and so she did.
Have you seen the clip on TH-cam of Linda singing the classic"Skylark" with the Nelson riddle orchestra? It really showcases how gorgeous her voice was and it was her at the top of her form.
@@jessemackinnon5433 Thanks 4 that reference.
I'll check it out
Indeed. Great Singer. Gorgeous voice. Beloved by rockers and pickers, roadies, DJs and all of us. No comparisons - she was in her own Spectrum.
Wow!! Doesn't get any better than this. The lovely Linda Ronstadt and the original eagles.
Fielder, who is playing pedal steel, was not an original Eagle. I know because their first few albums and I saw the early band with Don, Glennn Randy, and Bernie. No Don.
@@artprince9163 - Yes, the Eagles formed in 1971 and Felder didn't join them until 1974. But all the original forming members are there with Linda is I guess I was alluding to.
@@artprince9163 Ooh a person who knows the Eagles history good for you,I remember that also
I’m 19 and I just discovered this , Love her voice
I'm so glad you dig it!
Have fun following the amazing Linda journey! She’s great in any genre.
Welcome.
Love this as a kid , still love this at 66❤
Linda Ronstadt and Karen Carpenter could sing me the tax code laws and I would never ever tire of the gift that God gave them.. truly the best female vocalists of the modern pop era
Yikes are you kidding?. Carpenter was a sour pop singer(who sang love songs with her creepy brother) dreadful material and schlocky arrangements. Ronstadt possessed one of the greatest instruments in American music history surrounded by the best players. Not even in the same universe.
@@skyewilliams2247 I am not kidding! However I respect and understand your opinion! And we certainly agree about Linda!
@@WARDMAN3 We certainly agree on Linda. I should try and be more diplomatic. But comparing Ronstadt with pop singers simply because they are women or recorded during the same era drives us Linda advocates nuts. Peace ✌
@@skyewilliams2247 Believe me I do not get offended...Music is personal... While I disagree with you on Karen, as you see we both agree with Linda! Does not make me right... you right! That;s the beauty! But we are on same playing field if we agree on Linda
Just to better understand where I come from, I started piano at 3...I live and breathe music... So my opinion is coming from a huge well of knowledge and appreciation and studying... It is not based on just being from the same era! Curious. what other singers do you like and appreciate from 60s 70s or 80s... To see if we are in concurence!
The Queen of Hearts is always your best bet. She was so unadorned and with that clear gorgeous voice. Powerful and warm.
Well said, my friend.
I'm a year late on my comment, totally agree I fell in love with those gorgeous eyes WOW!!! I was in high school when I 1st saw her major crush!!!!
A very special rare songbird.
I saw her live when the Eagles were her back up band, before the Eagles hit it big on their own. One of the best concerts I ever saw with probably the best collection of musicians ever for a live show.
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You're so lucky!
The live cut of BIRDS by Neil Young has Linda and the "pre-Eagles" performing it !
Those were the goddamn days and those were the damnest musicians our world ever known and now they all gone, gone, gone, like some kind of rock and roll fantasy.
You have been blessed to see Linda Ronstadt and the background band the Eagles , wonderful performers memories 💖🙏🇦🇺
I love hearing her voice! This brings good memories to me. Great performance!
The singer with the greatest range of our generation.
She was THE voice of a generation. No one could touch her range
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Eh, hello! Ever heard of Ann Wilson of Heart?
Yes Ann Wilson is marvelous and she was beautiful.
those were the good old days of great music
Now that's a kick ass voice, and a band. Love it.
About once in a generation or so you see someone like Linda who can sing anything in any genre. One of a kind and people my age got to grow up listening to her and grow old listening to her.
@Paul B. Graham: Like the female singer in The Seekers, I have never heard a voice as clear and pure as hers and her range is fantastic.
@@loditx7706 The late and much missed Judith Durham. She sang with three very decent singers in the Seekers but soared above them when she cut loose. Originally a jazz singer, which may explain some of it but a great voice as you say.
@@lindsayolh TY for response. ❤️. I don’t keep up with individual news, so was unaware of her death.I am sorry for her loss to family and friends. I am lucky to be able to hear her whenever I want. She was a great talent and I wii miss her.
I'd add Anita Carter to both Linda & Judith Durham when it comes to vocal purity that can just soar above other voices, no matter how talented. A lot of the material she sang in her early years with the Carter Family would be considered "hokey" by today's standards but some of her performances with Johnny Cash and/or her sisters were extraordinary.
One of my favorite "girls singers" too. Have been in love with Linda since the 60's.
The best
Back then, Linda's SMILE would knock a man down to his knees, IMO... So BEAUTIFUL and TALENTED-!!! LOVE HER (even to this day)-!!!!!!! Huge fan, of lovely Linda-!!! 🙂😊👍✌
Totally agree. Her smile, and the way she filled out those tight pants. And no plastic boobs, just natural as God made them.
There can't be many videos where you can switch off either the sound or vision and still enjoy what is left. She has the most beautiful voice and a joy in her performance that just makes me smile. Both together are wonderful. (Bands not bad either!)
I saw her in Boulder in the early seventies. Fell in love!
That smile at the end, she was America's girl next door, with great pipes! Not many left like her
Thanks for your comment and for being a fan, God bless you.. I text you on here because you're a big fan and you seems to be a very nice person 😍
@@lindaronstadt7426 I have seen that smile at the end of many of your songs & it just adds to the performance. The grin in the middle of Blowing Away with Bonnie Raitt is the best.
We get old and forget how great she was. Thanks for reminding me.
Thanks for your comment and for being a fan, God bless you.. I text you on here because you're a big fan and you seems to be a very nice person 😍
The first poster of a girl that I ever had in my bedroom was of LINDA RONSTADT!! I loved her then, and I still love her now!!
Ahhh, William, loving Linda Ronstadt was so easy for me! Back in the day tickets didnl't cost as much as do today! Loved the 70's!
Hey,I remember that poster. It hung proudly in many a sailors barracks room in Norfolk Virginia . 1975!
I had one too. She was wearing short shorts and roller skates. I don't remember ever having another poster of a woman or singer. I did have one of Mercury Morris, but I digress. lol
@@arcburn3364 I remember that one but that was later. The album cover of Heart Like A Wheel ... she was gorgeous!
I have always loved Linda Ronstadt. Her voice is so beautiful and you can tell her heart is in the music. She is truly a great music icon and she always will be. Let's give it up for lovely Linda Ronstadt. Her magnificent voice will live forever.
I never get tired of Linda Ronstadt
Who does? (Not to steal from Monty Python)
Queen of hi-fidelity vinyl and even more mesmerizing in person. The boys here backing up their former boss. Love her still.
I still love Linda Rinstadt! She was one fine-lookin' woman. And what a voice!
She was really something. I saw the Eagles at their millenium concert in L.A. and she opened for them. My goodness, she was huge. I felt really bad for her. Had pretty much lost her singing voice as well.
We had her picture hanging on our walk next to Cheryl Tiegs during my college years. And what a voice.
Hello Mary
How are you doing today?
Linda's voice, so much energy, vocal well placed, and the Eagles all top notch players!
Linda had a powerful, passionate voice.
Everyone wanted to do a duet with her.
"A voice as BIG as a house!"
I was actually thinking of something else😊
Check out Mary Lou by the Creative Force , amazing
Hi Kathryn
@@packingten Well it's kind of a duet.
Growing up as a teenage girl in a small town Tennessee I had dreams of being the next Linda Ronstadt. I just loved everything about her and still do. What an amazing talent and soul.
You couldn't have had a better role model!
Did you perform?
I had dreams of being the next Elvis. 💕 Love Linda Ronstadt. Some people listen to her Spanish album and don’t know what a big star she was in rock and roll, and some people know her for her rock and roll and don’t know what a big star she was in Spanish. Not. To mention her work with Nelson Riddle and her albums with Dolly Parton and Emmy Lou Harris. A great singing star, God bless you Linda. Check out Mary Lou by The Creative Force, Amazing!
Dang i miss those day's! What a mess we have now! Let's all just go to a concert where everyone matters!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hear you man, everybody matters. Homeless people matter, addicted people matter, everybody on this earth matters. So different back then. Everybody liked everybody, now fuck, I don't wanna say anything to cause an uproar. It was just a lot better time then. We are in deep trouble right now.
@@paulbrunelle3597 you're my new faverate friend Paul! What's funny is my best friend passed away about 5 years ago and i miss him terribly! He would have said what you just said and his name is "PAUL!" so thanks brother
Dog and Paul, you are both correct. However time waits for no person - everything changes, nothing stays the same. Unfortunately......
@@vectorm4 true story my friend,true story!
Yes ! It could be a FREE concert. Like, way out in a farm field somewhere. Like the one when we were way younger but different. With more bathrooms and wheelchair accessible. We could call it... WOODSTICK !!!
Having Bernie Leadon next to her looks awesome. That's some great music. Linda has the best vocals of all time. IMHO.
Her voice is magical. Rest in peace Glenn
She's so beautiful ! Such a stellar voice, she's magical and wish her the very best.
Oh what a time that was. Love this so much!
Loved Her went 2 California in 76 2 meet her. Came so Close anyway some 40 yrs later got 2 see her on my phone lol
Hi kay
What an incredible concentration of talent!
Name one thing to have come from Tucson AZ that's better than Linda Ronstadt. I'll wait right here...so much love and appreciation for her.
Not possible
Geronimo...
@@PeitouBob Sure.....he had more talent and got more love than Linda. Uh huh.
Not only the lady 'who gave us the Eagles', but one of the finest voices in the biz.... She just nails it !
Such a naturally beautiful voice. Damn I miss vocals without auto tune!
Boy....you ain't kidding! Today's music is CRAP!
You don't even know what auto tune is...
How could you not love Linda a her talent?
Glad I was lucky enough to see Linda's live shows many times in my younger days. For those young folks that will no longer have that opportunity, you don't know what you're missing. No theatrics, no pyrotechnnics, no troupe of gay backup dancers, no lip synchng...just a beautiful babe with an incredible voice, backed up by some of the best musicians in the business. It didn't get any better than that.
Love it !
Amen to that brother.
Thank you but todays generation cannot comprehend your words, it doesn't compute in their world, just be so happy that you (and me) saw and appreciated REAL talent, talent I really doubt we will witness in this earth world ever again!
So was I! At a small venue in MI called Pine Knob! Fantastic! One of the greatest of all times!
Gay backup dancers? WTF is that? There have been dancers in music since it began. Some artists were singer and dancers. What a stupid comment.
when I listen to Linda sing Blue Bayou, it just put me in a World of tranquility
Linda wore her fame so lightly - very rare. That remarkable, clear voice would deliver us to some glorious music.