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Linda Ronstadt
Linda’s storied career was launched in the mid-1960s in Los Angeles, where she and two friends formed the Stone Poneys. Within a short time, they hopped on the Billboard charts with the 1967 hit “Different Drum,” and that song title has aptly described her musical journey. Linda Ronstadt was warned about torpedoing her career in 1980 when she’d had enough of life as “the Queen of Rock” of the 1970s and headed to New York to sing the dazzlingly constructed 19th century pop-operatic songs of Gilbert & Sullivan for theater impresario Joseph Papp. A few years later when she shifted her focus to pre-rock pop standards of the Great American Songbook, and told yet again when she insisted on recording traditional songs of Mexico she grew up loving in her Mexican American family in Tucson, Arizona. Ronstadt moved effortlessly from the folk-rock of the Stone Poneys through Southern California country rock as a solo artist to a hit-after-hit decade in the ’70s during which she became arguably the most important female singer in rock. She was virtually untouchable through a streak of five platinum and multi-platinum albums in the second half of that decade: “Heart Like a Wheel” (1974), “Prisoner in Disguise” (1975), “Hasten Down the Wind” (1976), “Simple Dreams (1977), “Living in the USA” (1978), and “Mad Love (1980), providing the basis for her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, the same year that President Barack Obama presented her the National Medal of Arts.

Songs

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Don't Know Much (with Aaron Neville)
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Blue Bayou
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Long Long Time
Linda Ronstadt
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Somewhere Out There (From "An American Tail" Soundtrack)
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Los Laureles (The Laurels)
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Albums

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Linda Ronstadt – As Heard On TV

2023
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Adieu False Heart

2006
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Trio II

1999
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Hiding In Shadows

2021
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Dedicated to the One I Love

2005
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We Ran

1998
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For Sentimental Reasons

2009
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Hummin' To Myself

2004
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Western Wall: The Tuscon Sessions

2008
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A Merry Little Christmas

2000

Singles & EPs

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Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (Dolly Lead - Alternate Take 1994)

Single • 2016
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Just One Look (Live at Television Center Studios, Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)

Single • 2018
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Heat Wave (Live at Television Center Studios, Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)

Single • 2024
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Blue Bayou (Live)

Single • 2017
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Silver Threads and Golden Needles (Live at Television Center Studios, Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)

Single • 2024
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I AM WOMAN

EP • 2022
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You're No Good (Live at Television Center Studios, Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)

Single • 2019

Videos

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Mad Love (Live at Television Center Studios, Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)

Linda Ronstadt • 14K views
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Desperado (Live at Television Center Studios, Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)

Linda Ronstadt • 48K views
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Look Out for My Love (Live at Television Center Studios, Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)

Linda Ronstadt • 30K views
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Don't Know Much feat. Aaron Neville (Official Music Video) (feat. Aaron Neville)

Linda Ronstadt • 1.2M views
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Linda Ronstadt – Blue Bayou (Visualizer)

Linda Ronstadt • 147K views
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Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou (Official Music Video)

Linda Ronstadt • 32M views

Featured on

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Sweet Lullabies

Playlist • YouTube Music
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'70s Slow Dance

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Classic Rock Run

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Presenting Dolly Parton

Playlist • YouTube Music
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¡Viva México!

Playlist • YouTube Music
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'80s Soft Pop

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Almost Paradise: '80s Love Ballads

Playlist • YouTube Music
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'70s Lite Hits

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Tapestry: '70s Queens

Playlist • YouTube Music
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'70s Mellow Gold

Playlist • YouTube Music

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