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Linda Ronstadt Goes to Congress

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:12:00 PM EST
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How could you pick just one Linda Ronstadt song to showcase her incredible talent and career?

Yesterday, she and other performers testified before a Congressional Committee on funding for the arts. Rep. Mike Simpson gave it a royal try: [More...]

“When I heard that Linda Ronstadt would be appearing before our subcommittee, I was tempted to make my opening statement a compilation of all of my favorite Linda Ronstadt lyrics,” said Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho, the senior Republican on the panel. “I was going to open my remarks by saying, ‘people say I am the life of the party because I tell a joke or two.’ ” (See note below.)

As a member of the minority party, Mr. Simpson joked that “I have been cheated. “I have been mistreated.” And he asked the committee chairman, Norm Dicks of Washington, “When will I be loved?” And he added, “I know a thing or two about ‘crying like a rain storm and howling like the wind.’ ”

“In closing, let me say this,” Mr. Simpson added. “I don’t know much. But I know I love the arts and that may be all I need to know.”

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    Oh, oh my... (5.00 / 0) (#2)
    by sj on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:22:42 PM EST
    Love is Rose

    I'd forgotten all about that song.  Thank you.

    it's one of about three songs (none / 0) (#5)
    by Jeralyn on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:31:31 PM EST
    I can play on the guitar while singing at the same time. (the others are the Rolling Stones' Dead Flowers and Johnny Cash's Cocaine Blues).

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    'Course, we could go 'way back (5.00 / 0) (#3)
    by Cream City on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:22:49 PM EST
    to her first hit, with the Stone Poneys -- when she first won my heart.

    But it's still suitable for singing to this Congress, too:

    You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
    . . . Oh, can't you tell by the way I run
    Every time you make eyes at me.
    You cry and moan and say it will work out
    But honey child, I've got my doubts
    You can't see the forest for the trees. . . .
    not apropos for Congress like Different Drum (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Bemused on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 05:10:40 PM EST
     but Long, Long Time is a real showcase for that pure voice.

      I actually met her  back in the 70s when I used to work a concert security gig. She was not only every bit as beautiful as she looked on TV, she was really nice to the grunts which is more than I can say about some of the others I met.

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    Different Drum (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by MKS on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:33:56 PM EST
    Poor, poor pitiful me....

    You're no good.

    Perhaps my favorite artist.  Beautiful voice....I had most of her albums....From New Mexico...

    Jeralyn, thanks for finding the Youtube clips...I tried once before and came up with barely more than bupkis....

     

    Well, then how about one album? (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 04:54:35 PM EST
    Jeralyn: "How could you pick just one Linda Ronstadt song to showcase her incredible talent and career?"

    If anyone unfamiliar with Linda Ronstadt's career wish to know how the lady sounded at the very top of her game, I highly recommend her 1976 tour de force, Hasten Down the Wind.  Her vocals were never in better form.

    Backed by the likes Andrew Gold, Don Henley, Peter Asher and Karla Bonhoff, Ms. Ronstadt took home a much-deserved Grammy that year for Best Female Vocalist, not just for a particular song (as is usually the case), but for her entire body of work on that album.

    Heart like a wheel! (5.00 / 0) (#16)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 06:15:42 PM EST
    Some say the heart, is just like a wheel
    When you bend it, it can't be mended.

    etc. etc.

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    Delighted to see my pick (none / 0) (#1)
    by Cream City on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:17:04 PM EST
    for singing to Congress already on the list:

    Desperado, why dont you come to your senses?
    . . .  Oh, you're a hard one
    But I know you got your reasons.
    These things that are pleasin' you
    Can hurt you somehow. . . .
    And freedom, oh freedom --
    Well, thats just some people talkin'. . . .
    Thought this might deal (none / 0) (#4)
    by oculus on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:29:45 PM EST
    W/legalizing MJ or sentencimg reform. !yt this a cause dear to my heart especially after a week og saturation in the cultural offerings of Manhattan: wonderful concerts, museums, and theatre.


    CA AG Jerry Brown (none / 0) (#7)
    by oculus on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:35:52 PM EST
    Made the mistake of taking questions from his troopd. First question was allegedly re 3
    Ronstadt.

    may favorite stuff (none / 0) (#8)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 03:36:06 PM EST
    is the trio days with Dolly and Emmy Lou.
    Yes! Trio is fantastic. (none / 0) (#11)
    by Cream City on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 04:15:22 PM EST


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    Ditto that! (none / 0) (#19)
    by shoephone on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 01:33:24 AM EST
    Especially the songs on Trio II.

    I'm riding the blue train
    over the miles yet to cover
    A ghost in a hurry to fade...

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    How about (none / 0) (#9)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 04:10:46 PM EST
    as a request for me, as a little individual, to get some of the 1T donated to the banks:

    I've been cheated, been mis-treated, when will I-hi be loved!
    And BTW, I can sing (5.00 / 2) (#10)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 04:11:22 PM EST
    just about anything she performed, ever...I can't sing it well, but I know the words and can sing it! ;-).

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    The classic Nelson Riddle (none / 0) (#17)
    by oldpro on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 08:18:17 PM EST
    arrangements too?  Really?

    "What's New?"

    Fabulous.

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    Not to (none / 0) (#14)
    by call me Ishmael on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 05:37:06 PM EST
    be pedantic but Mike Simpson isn't a senator and Alan hasn't been for a while.

    thanks for the correction (none / 0) (#15)
    by Jeralyn on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 05:52:51 PM EST
    Sometimes I fill in the blanks with whatever is in my head after I leave the link. Guess I was in too big a hurry to get to you tube. It's now corrected.

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    Different Drum w/ Stone Ponys n/t (none / 0) (#18)
    by kaleidescope on Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 11:26:01 PM EST


    "Faithless Love" (none / 0) (#20)
    by shoephone on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 01:35:03 AM EST
    Another one of her best.

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