Remembering Kate McGarrigle born on February 6, 1946. She was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle. She is the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, which ended in divorce. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McGarrigle
Tell you what I respect about Linda Ronstadt. She sang this song on this night the way Kate & Anna McGarrigle would sing it, not as she performed it on her own album. Either way, Ronstadt is undoubtedly the most majestic voice in women's music. I've seen her live 40 times in my lifetime. I miss it. A lot.
@@lnl3237 I actually traveled to the L.A. Forum from Boston for the 'Living in The USA' tour on Christmas Eve and came home Christmas Day for dinner. That was amazing. The Show in Boston at the Orpehum when she was touring with Emmylou Harris on the 'Western Wall' tour was fabulous; and every single show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in NY was great. There were so many. My friends and I were traveling Linda Ronstadt junkies. Also saw her in NY with Nelson Riddle.
@@DebDellaPiana If I could go back in time, I would beg you and your friends to let me tag along! I was an odd teen who was obsessed with old movies back in the 70's; I pretty much just spun my vinyls of all the Laurel Canyon crowd up in my room when I could've been watching Ms. Ronstadt countless times literally performing within an hour of where I lived. Love that you and your pals went to such lengths to be companions for Ms. Ronstadt's musical journey. Bet you're still talking about your Christmas adventure! Emmylou. Nelson Riddle, not to mention all the incredible musicians in her bands-you saw them all. Have read a ton of wonderful comments on TH-cam by devoted fans, but yours takes the cake. You have to be the most rabid Ronstadt fan living today! Thanks so much for taking the time to flesh out your memories for me. Hope and pray there will be concerts in Heaven.
As a guy, I used to feel a little guilty loving this song so much. haha Loved Maria singing harmony on the album. The lyrics are so touching. I used to secretly listen to this & Carole King's 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?' from Tapestry. haha
So exquisite, such an honor that these moments were recorded so we all could hear such beauty. Such beauty. Thank you Linda and Kate and Anna and everyone. God bless you forever.
RIP McGarrigle sisters, I love Heart Like A Wheel, I remember getting that album of Linda’s as a teenager, I wish I could have been there…but I saw Linda at several small venues as a teenager and I consider myself SO Lucky ❤
@@patrickjerome9169 Ha, ha, yup - LR is great. The McGarrigles are on a whole other level - relatively unknown partly 'cause they weren't "cute" like LR, along with having less conventionally popular types of voices...
Linda Ronstadt had the ability to pick amazing songs from lesser know artists such as Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Thanks Linda for expanding my musical world.
Yes, David, yes. She introduced me not only to the McGarrigle sisters, but also to Warren Zevon and Karla Bonhoff. Excited about the announcement of an upcoming biopic based on Linda's musical memoir with Selena Gomez cast as our beloved songstress. Pretty sure they're going to use original recordings. My hope is that the film will introduce new generations to the magnificence of Linda.
@@johntoohey2354 Yes, John. Great video online with them singing "Lion in Winter" and an audio of "When Morning Comes." Was just listening to Trio today.
In addition to the gorgeous Lina Ronstadt, credit also must be given to the very unique, and the very beautiful voices of the Montreal sisters Kate and Ana McGarrigle. Sadly we lost Kate a couple of years ago long before her time. RIP Kate.
I must say that the essential, ultimate version of this song is the one done by the McGarrigles. This was a treat though and I really do appreciate Linda Ronstadt. For me the ultimate ultimate voices for this kind of music is Kate & Anna, Linda Thompson & Norma Waterson. But fate has it that they all know each other, and most of them are friends w Linda Ronstadt. As Linda Thompson said: Those damn Roches
Some say a heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean They say that death is a tragedy It comes once, and it's over But my only wish is for that deep dark abyss For what's the use of living with no true lover When harm is done, no love can be won I know it happens frequently What I can't understand, oh please god hold my hand Is why it should have happened to me And it's only love and it's only love That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out Some say a heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean And it's only love and it's only love And it's only love and it's only love And it's only love and it's only love And it's only love and it's only love
Kate McGarrigle - with short dark hair and at the piano - was the mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Her sister and singing partner, Anna McGarrigle, introduced Linda Ronstadt, wrote the song, and came in at 1:01. Anna’s husband is Dane Lanken - bass voice in this performance - and together, they are the parents of Lily Lanken and Sylvan Lanken, who also have been known to sing in public. Jane McGarrigle, the oldest sister, also participated in this performance. Kate died of sarcoma in 2010. I was privileged to meet Anna in Montreal in May, 2019, at a fundraiser for URSA, Martha Wainwright’s new community center/performance venue.
The perfect venue for the perfect song for these perfect voices. Our mortal beings age and pass on, but the voices of our souls reverberate forever. I pray in Heaven, this performance can be replicated and I can get a table right up front!
To liz Brian really appreciate your detail into history of the artists and song . I listened to this song in 1975 because my flat mate’s husband cheated on her.She played it over and over again in the university Student radio.Then The lyric were so touching and real.After 34 years I recently found out they are together again. He left UK to come back home.Love can be a goof boomerang!
Kate and Anna McGarrigle create a very special and distinctive kind of harmonies, beautiful and heart touching. Although quite different, It reminds me the harmonies by Peter, Paul & Mary.
I'm so glad to see this clip. Thank you for posting it, rrgomes. I was in the audience that night in Rochester in 1984 for this concert. The entire concert was exquisite, and this clip is especially poignant now after the death of Kate McGarrigle and the loss of Linda Ronstadt's wonderful voice to the cruel effects of Parkinson's disease.
1401minstrel wow- lucky you! I’m thankful this was recorded and was posted here! I really appreciate it! This is the most beautiful version I’ve ever heard.
Ms. Ronstadt will be 74 on July 15th. The fulfillment of her "simple dream" to become a professional singer brought her satisfaction and us profound joy. If I had ever seen her live, I would've loved to have seen her in an intimate venue like this with women who meant so much to her. For what was probably her last public appearance, it was Maria Muldaur who presented her with an AARP Award in January for the documentary based on Ms. Ronstadt's musical memoir. It was quite a poignant and memorable moment when Ms. Muldaur supported her friend as they walked off the stage...an end of an era.
these ladies amazing sat in car listening to this and the fella in next car asked me who it was hes asked me to write down so he can get it somehow a new convert
This was a beautiful rendition of that song with all of the additional vocals. She performed with so many artists and I've yet to hear a bad word about her
I m might be wrong, but in an interview Linda said Texas Troubadour, Jerry Jeff Walker first told Linda about this song, while sharing a taxi, and that Linda might want to check it out. And of course the rest was history.
Such a heartbreaking beautiful song. Ronstadt’s voice is just superb, but I was struck by the physical likeness now between Martha Wainright and Kate McGarrigle.
Oh I’m so grateful to you for saying that! This amazing song (the version just sung by Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle) helped me stay alive during one of the hardest periods of my life which was a very long experience of the deep dark abyss spoken of in the song. I was able to grieve the loss of something so huge and complex that manifested as romantic love but was much more than that, deeper than that.
Ronstadt reading the lyrics? In 1984? It can't be. "Heart like a wheel" is also the name of the fifth solo album of Linda Ronstadt, released on 1974. From then on, she sang this beautiful melody hundreds of times on her concerts and tours. As a very high quality (and very self demanding) professional, it's impossible that she needed read the lyrics of a song very well known by her. Most probably she looked something or someone in the room. And this presentation, looking the results, surely was well rehearsed.
@@jorgea.rodriguez1952 - It’s not a slur to say she is reading “something”. It may be the order of who sings. But as a performer, I know that look - it’s merely a glance at a crib sheet probably placed on the floor or a low music stand. The McGarrigles were famously under-rehearsed which gave rise to their spontaneity. It’s a lovely rendition.
I wouldn't disagree. I think she might hate being inducted. There is a lot of bull-shit attached. She would not have wanted any of it, I am guessing She was the interpreter par excellence of any song. Most songs are really diminished by other people's interpretations". Not hers: she had an instinct for a song.
Remembering Kate McGarrigle born on February 6, 1946. She was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle. She is the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, which ended in divorce. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McGarrigle
Wow! Anna, Kate, and Linda together? Keep still my beating heart!
Tell you what I respect about Linda Ronstadt. She sang this song on this night the way Kate & Anna McGarrigle would sing it, not as she performed it on her own album. Either way, Ronstadt is undoubtedly the most majestic voice in women's music. I've seen her live 40 times in my lifetime. I miss it. A lot.
40 times! Extraordinary. Which performances stand out?
@@lnl3237 I actually traveled to the L.A. Forum from Boston for the 'Living in The USA' tour on Christmas Eve and came home Christmas Day for dinner. That was amazing. The Show in Boston at the Orpehum when she was touring with Emmylou Harris on the 'Western Wall' tour was fabulous; and every single show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in NY was great. There were so many. My friends and I were traveling Linda Ronstadt junkies. Also saw her in NY with Nelson Riddle.
@@DebDellaPiana If I could go back in time, I would beg you and your friends to let me tag along! I was an odd teen who was obsessed with old movies back in the 70's; I pretty much just spun my vinyls of all the Laurel Canyon crowd up in my room when I could've been watching Ms. Ronstadt countless times literally performing within an hour of where I lived. Love that you and your pals went to such lengths to be companions for Ms. Ronstadt's musical journey. Bet you're still talking about your Christmas adventure! Emmylou. Nelson Riddle, not to mention all the incredible musicians in her bands-you saw them all. Have read a ton of wonderful comments on TH-cam by devoted fans, but yours takes the cake. You have to be the most rabid Ronstadt fan living today! Thanks so much for taking the time to flesh out your memories for me. Hope and pray there will be concerts in Heaven.
As a guy, I used to feel a little guilty loving this song so much. haha Loved Maria singing harmony on the album. The lyrics are so touching. I used to secretly listen to this & Carole King's 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?' from Tapestry. haha
I saw her once, back in the '70s. I have a lot of good memories from the '70s! 😊
One of the most beautiful performances of this song I’ve heard. Perfect in every way
Little did we know that we were seeing and hearing the most exquisite angelic broken hearts beating together in one voice... sublime & timeless.
Such a huge fan of these women for 4 decades of my life. My heart still hurts that Kate died so young from cancer.
Kate and Anna are so lovable songwriters.
Wow, Wow, and Wow, Kate, Anna, Linda, Maria, together! When will we ever see so much talent gathered together in one small venue! Never.
So exquisite, such an honor that these moments were recorded so we all could hear such beauty. Such beauty. Thank you Linda and Kate and Anna and everyone. God bless you forever.
I was there at the Redcreek. Just incredible! A voice so pure and strong. Long live linda.
Proud to say I owned both Kate and Anna's and Linda's version of this song on the Original Vinyl LP
RIP McGarrigle sisters, I love Heart Like A Wheel, I remember getting that album of Linda’s as a teenager, I wish I could have been there…but I saw Linda at several small venues as a teenager and I consider myself SO Lucky ❤
May I ask where you saw her? Savor those memories. Thank you.
Linda's voice is so majestic and her face so divine here.
SHE IS AMAZING!!!! HER VOICE IS PURE ANGELIC!!!!!
Linda's OK, but I'll take Anna.
@@patrickjerome9169 Ha, ha, yup - LR is great. The McGarrigles are on a whole other level - relatively unknown partly 'cause they weren't "cute" like LR, along with having less conventionally popular types of voices...
Nice to be alive to savour this. Thank you, giants.
A great song. Really fine singing. Linda showing that her skills as a singer were beyond belief.
A gem. Grateful for the technology that captures and preserves these exceptional moments.
Linda Ronstadt had the ability to pick amazing songs from lesser know artists such as Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Thanks Linda for expanding my musical world.
Yes, David, yes. She introduced me not only to the McGarrigle sisters, but also to Warren Zevon and Karla Bonhoff.
Excited about the announcement of an upcoming biopic based on Linda's musical memoir with Selena Gomez cast as our beloved songstress. Pretty sure they're going to use original recordings. My hope is that the film will introduce new generations to the magnificence of Linda.
@@lnl3237 Yes she a knack for great songs and songwriters, from Hoyt Axton to Warren Zevon
@@johntoohey2354 Yes, John. Great video online with them singing "Lion in Winter" and an audio of "When Morning Comes." Was just listening to Trio today.
In addition to the gorgeous Lina Ronstadt, credit also must be given to the very unique, and the very beautiful voices of the Montreal sisters Kate and Ana McGarrigle. Sadly we lost Kate a couple of years ago long before her time. RIP Kate.
too true like eva cassidy gone too soon thankfully we have the memories and music
Love how Linda's voice is like a train that pushes the song along.....wow. jealous of everyone who saw this live...
Amazing ❤ I miss when vocalists and true songwriters were at the forefront
Why did I only discover this today?
How lucky you people were at this small Rochester bar to have all this talent on stage!
I must say that the essential, ultimate version of this song is the one done by the McGarrigles. This was a treat though and I really do appreciate Linda Ronstadt.
For me the ultimate ultimate voices for this kind of music is Kate & Anna, Linda Thompson & Norma Waterson. But fate has it that they all know each other, and most of them are friends w Linda Ronstadt. As Linda Thompson said: Those damn Roches
Wow! Wow! and Wow!!! Just came across this thank you so much to whomever posted it
Some say a heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it, you can't mend it
And my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean
They say that death is a tragedy
It comes once, and it's over
But my only wish is for that deep dark abyss
For what's the use of living with no true lover
When harm is done, no love can be won
I know it happens frequently
What I can't understand, oh please god hold my hand
Is why it should have happened to me
And it's only love and it's only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out
Some say a heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it, you can't mend it
And my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean
And it's only love and it's only love
And it's only love and it's only love
And it's only love and it's only love
And it's only love and it's only love
This is one of those songs you just put on repeat till it drives all your friends crazy
Let 'em go crazy. This song will save your life.😊
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great to see girls singing in harmony
LINDA RONSTADT IS THEE ABSOLUTE BEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME. NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE COMES CLOSE IMO... PURE BEAUTY, TALENT ALL MIXED IN ONE... WOW! 🤗
Kate McGarrigle - with short dark hair and at the piano - was the mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Her sister and singing partner, Anna McGarrigle, introduced Linda Ronstadt, wrote the song, and came in at 1:01. Anna’s husband is Dane Lanken - bass voice in this performance - and together, they are the parents of Lily Lanken and Sylvan Lanken, who also have been known to sing in public. Jane McGarrigle, the oldest sister, also participated in this performance.
Kate died of sarcoma in 2010. I was privileged to meet Anna in Montreal in May, 2019, at a fundraiser for URSA, Martha Wainwright’s new community center/performance venue.
Thank you for providing Jane McGarrigle's first name! I was in the audience that night, and I was viewing this clip and blanking out on her name.
The perfect venue for the perfect song for these perfect voices. Our mortal beings age and pass on, but the voices of our souls reverberate forever. I pray in Heaven, this performance can be replicated and I can get a table right up front!
And remember, Rufus is a tit man!
To liz Brian really appreciate your detail into history of the artists and song . I listened to this song in 1975 because my flat mate’s husband cheated on her.She played it over and over again in the university Student radio.Then The lyric were so touching and real.After 34 years I recently found out they are together again. He left UK to come back home.Love can be a goof boomerang!
Another story of the Wainwright family, more amusing: www.thisamericanlife.org/690/too-close-to-home/act-two-15
Breathtaking .
singing is art
Kate and Anna McGarrigle create a very special and distinctive kind of harmonies, beautiful and heart touching. Although quite different, It reminds me the harmonies by Peter, Paul & Mary.
And it's only love and it's only love .... utterly lovely!
Wow! 🥰
Always delightful to hear Ms. Ronstadt singing with other singers.
let us note that one additional singer on the right, Maria Muldaur
Linda was a gift from God to to us.
I'm so glad to see this clip. Thank you for posting it, rrgomes. I was in the audience that night in Rochester in 1984 for this concert. The entire concert was exquisite, and this clip is especially poignant now after the death of Kate McGarrigle and the loss of Linda Ronstadt's wonderful voice to the cruel effects of Parkinson's disease.
1401minstrel wow- lucky you! I’m thankful this was recorded and was posted here! I really appreciate it! This is the most beautiful version I’ve ever heard.
1401 minstrel: What an unforgettable experience.
@@peppersander2457 It sure was.
Ms. Ronstadt will be 74 on July 15th. The fulfillment of her "simple dream" to become a professional singer brought her satisfaction and us profound joy. If I had ever seen her live, I would've loved to have seen her in an intimate venue like this with women who meant so much to her.
For what was probably her last public appearance, it was Maria Muldaur who presented her with an AARP Award in January for the documentary based on Ms. Ronstadt's musical memoir. It was quite a poignant and memorable moment when Ms. Muldaur supported her friend as they walked off the stage...an end of an era.
One of the best tunes every written!
Oh, my, so beautiful!
A stunning version!!
Just exquisite 💎💎💎
Beautiful.
Sadness so gloriously sang.
these ladies amazing
sat in car listening to this and the fella in next car asked me who it was hes asked me to write down so he can get it somehow a new convert
20 years single after divorce. Finally found someone to love and I will never break her heart.
What a treasure this is, a precious gift.
Wow!
wow
Wow! What Girl power !
One credit that was missed. That's Maria Muldaur on the right, adding another lovely harmony voice.
stunningly beautiful!!
This is just an utterly gorgeous rendition! Thanks for post!
I live in Rochester, and which I could have seen you there.
First Night, Portland Maine. Didn't know that I was seeing the McGarrigle Sisters. Maybe two years later.
Love
This was a beautiful rendition of that song with all of the additional vocals. She performed with so many artists and I've yet to hear a bad word about her
I m might be wrong, but in an interview Linda said Texas Troubadour, Jerry Jeff Walker first told Linda about this song, while sharing a taxi, and that Linda might want to check it out. And of course the rest was history.
I think this is the saddest song I know. Also best 3-part harmony.
Linda's Lay Down Beside Me is sad and poignant, too. She had phenomenal gift in picking songs.
I believe that to be objectively true. It is everybodie's saddest song- if they only knew it.
Faithless Love is sad, too.
Wow.
Such a heartbreaking beautiful song. Ronstadt’s voice is just superb, but I was struck by the physical likeness now between Martha Wainright and Kate McGarrigle.
My goodness wonder what their next song was ? How could you ever top that.
Talk to me of Mendocino perhaps. Or Kitty come home.
I loved Linda's cool teeth ☺
Otherworldly.
Sadly I never got to meet them, probably because i live in London. They are distant cousins of mine.
Ian McGarrigle
It's too bad they never traveled to London to perform so then you could have seen them.
♥
Pretty
The saddest song in the world.
Oh I’m so grateful to you for saying that! This amazing song (the version just sung by Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle) helped me stay alive during one of the hardest periods of my life which was a very long experience of the deep dark abyss spoken of in the song.
I was able to grieve the loss of something so huge and complex that manifested as romantic love but was much more than that, deeper than that.
This is SO the McGarrigle’s; not totally rehearsed (Linda Ronstadt is clearly reading the lyrics) and charmingly spontaneous.
Ronstadt reading the lyrics? In 1984? It can't be. "Heart like a wheel" is also the name of the fifth solo album of Linda Ronstadt, released on 1974. From then on, she sang this beautiful melody hundreds of times on her concerts and tours. As a very high quality (and very self demanding) professional, it's impossible that she needed read the lyrics of a song very well known by her. Most probably she looked something or someone in the room. And this presentation, looking the results, surely was well rehearsed.
@@jorgea.rodriguez1952 - It’s not a slur to say she is reading “something”. It may be the order of who sings. But as a performer, I know that look - it’s merely a glance at a crib sheet probably placed on the floor or a low music stand. The McGarrigles were famously under-rehearsed which gave rise to their spontaneity. It’s a lovely rendition.
Kate looks so much like Rufus here.
She sure does.
I wouldn't disagree. I think she might hate being inducted. There is a lot of bull-shit attached. She would not have wanted any of it, I am guessing She was the interpreter par excellence of any song. Most songs are really diminished by other people's interpretations". Not hers: she had an instinct for a song.
Agree. Lets include songs by Warren Zevon.
...and Karla Bonhoff.
I guess I mean 4-part
I really like this but.... does anyone else feel that it was sung too fast and that Kate and Anna weren't entirely comfortable? I prefer the original.
So...not "I got a heart like a wheel, baby i got to roll."
The sisters version done on their first album is so much better.
Who came from Ben Howard hmm?
I love this song but prefer the down-tempo version