In 1984 Ronstadt was cast in the role at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre.
Nonetheless, Ronstadt had to somehow convince her reticent record company, Elektra Records, to greenlight this type of album under her contract.By 1983 Ronstadt had enlisted the help of 62-year-old conductor and master of jazz/traditional pop orchestration, Nelson Riddle. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, What's New "isn't the first album by a rock singer to pay tribute to the golden age of the pop, but is … the best and most serious attempt to rehabilitate an idea of pop that Beatlemania and the mass marketing of rock LPs for teenagers undid in the mid-60s…. Although many of her hits were criticized for being cover songs, they were the songs the record companies elected to cull and release off the albums.
It sold over 3½ million copies in less than a year in the U.S. alone. On November 25, 1982, Linda's 'Happy Thanksgiving Day' concert was held at the Reunion Arena in Dallas and broadcast live via satellite on radio stations across the United States.Ronstadt has remarked that in the beginning of her career "(she) … was so focused on folk, rock and country that..(she) got a bit bored and started to branch out, and … (has) been doing that ever since."
She's an extremely determined woman, in every area. She was the first female in music history to score three Platinum albums and ultimately racked up a total of eight consecutive platinum albums between 1974 and 1980.
It was climbing the Pop and Country charts but Heat Wave, a rockified version of the 1963 hit by Martha and the Vandellas, was receiving considerable airplay.
More importantly, Linda Ronstadt became a highly successful "Albums Artist", some of which contain material written by her. PBS Great Performances aired the celebrated stage show during its annual fund drives and the show was a hit with audiences, earning Ronstadt an Emmy Award for Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program.Linda later recorded two additional discs of Latin music in the early 1990s. The project continued her streak of Top 10 hits with "How Do I Make You?
""Rock is the thumping heart of Linda's music, and the rock world is dominated by males. Linda also filmed several music videos for this album which became popular on the fledgling MTV cable channel. Female rock artists like her and Janis Joplin, whom she described as lovely, shy and very literate in real life and the antithesis of the "red hot mamma" routine she was artificially encouraged to project, went through an identity crisis.Eventually, Ronstadt's Rock & Roll image became just as famous as her music by the mid 1970s. "Sometimes You Just Can't Win" was released to country radio, and made it to #27 on that listing. 5 It also included an interpretation of Willie Nelson's classic "Crazy", which became a Top 10 Country hit for Ronstadt in early 1977.At the end of 1977, Ronstadt surpassed the success of Heart Like A Wheel with her album Simple Dreams, which held the #1 position for five consecutive weeks on the Billboard Album Chart. It was written and directed by Luis Valdez. "The (Mariachi music) was my father's side of the soul", she was quoted as saying in a 1998 interview she gave at her Tucson home. It included her as the featured artist with a full photo layout and an article by Ben Fong-Torres, discussing Ronstadt's many struggling years in rock n roll, as well as her home life and what it was like to be a woman on tour in a decidedly all-male environment.In September 1975, Linda's album Prisoner In Disguise was released. We (recorded the vocals) as individual parts, because we didn't have the luxury of spending a lot of time together on a tour bus … and knowing each other's (vocal) moves … takes years. 3 It quickly climbed into the Top Five on the Billboard Album Chart and sold over a million copies. Being one of music's most versatile and commercially successful female singers in U.S. history, she is recognized for her many public stages of self-reinvention and incarnations.With a one-time standing as the Queen of Rock, where she was bestowed the title of "highest paid woman in rock", and known as the First Lady of Rock, she has more recently emerged as music matriarch, international arts advocate and Human Rights advocate.Ronstadt has collaborated with artists from a diverse spectrum of genres—including Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, The Chieftains, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton and has lent her voice to over 120 albums around the world.
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