Name: Linda Ronstadt: Platinum Collection
Brand: Warner Music UK
SKU: 358569
Price: 5.39 USD
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Linda Ronstadt

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Album: Linda Ronstadt: Platinum Collection
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Desperado	More Info...	0:03
2)	Heat Wave	More Info...	0:02
3)	Tracks of My Tears	More Info...	0:03
4)	Love Is a Rose	More Info...	0:02
5)	That'll Be the Day	More Info...	0:02
6)	Someone to Lay Down Beside Me	More Info...	0:04
7)	Blue Bayou	More Info...	0:04
8)	It's So Easy	More Info...	0:02
9)	Poor Poor Pitiful Me	More Info...	0:03
10)	Tumbling Dice	More Info...	0:03
11)	Back in the USA	More Info...	0:03
12)	Just One Look	More Info...	0:03
13)	Ooh Baby Baby	More Info...	0:03
14)	Hurt So Bad	More Info...	0:03
15)	How Do I Make You?	More Info...	0:02
16)	I Can't Let Go	More Info...	0:02

Album: Linda Ronstadt: Platinum Collection
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Desperado	More Info...	0:03
2)	Heat Wave	More Info...	0:02
3)	Tracks of My Tears	More Info...	0:03
4)	Love Is a Rose	More Info...	0:02
5)	That'll Be the Day	More Info...	0:02
6)	Someone to Lay Down Beside Me	More Info...	0:04
7)	Blue Bayou	More Info...	0:04
8)	It's So Easy	More Info...	0:02
9)	Poor Poor Pitiful Me	More Info...	0:03
10)	Tumbling Dice	More Info...	0:03
11)	Back in the USA	More Info...	0:03
12)	Just One Look	More Info...	0:03
13)	Ooh Baby Baby	More Info...	0:03
14)	Hurt So Bad	More Info...	0:03
15)	How Do I Make You?	More Info...	0:02
16)	I Can't Let Go	More Info...	0:02

Performer Notes

It's hard to consider a Linda Ronstadt best-of without the inclusion of her first single with the Stone Poneys back in 1968, "Different Drum," written by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees, but, since it's not here, we'll have to. This Warner Platinum collection does have plenty for both the novice and the seasoned listener, including her covers of the Eagles "Desperado," and Warren Zevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," and of course, Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou." There are other things missing as well, but that has more to do with an individual's preference more than with a well-rounded portrait of the diversity and range of hits in Ronstadt's career. These exist simply in a wide range of tracks from Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day," to the glorious Motown nugget "Heat Wave" (Martha Reeves & the Vandellas struck gold with it back in 1966), or the lilting "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me." The simple fact that Ronstadt could take songs that were bona fide hits with supposedly definitive versions and make them her own is a testament written in stone to her wide-ranging abilities as an interpretive vocalist. Recommended. ~ Thom Jurek