LINDA RONSTADT - Lovesick Blues (1970)

[RhythmUniverse]

Did anyone notice the couple dancing at about :35 to :40? The man with the dark tan jacket with the woman in front of him? Check it out. Also on the couch to the right at 1:44. Hugh Hefner and Barbi Benton from 1970! THAT's what he looked like back in the day. :)

Also, search for Patsy Cline 1960 doing this same song. I LOVE Linda and she's great but check out the yodel on Patsy Cline! Make sure to get the actual video of her in front of the railroad car. This one was before her car accident.

[MrRazorblade999]

Damn! So sexy

[hankwilliams1000]

Hank Williams was the best.....

[windstorm1000]

Gorgeous. One of the best voices ever. Its not fair!  (whine, cry)

[adcan45]

@windstorm1000 Don't Cry Now. (get it?) We will always have YouTube to turn to...

[palow1]

Check out Hugh Hefner and his girlfriend Barbie Benton @ 0:36 and 37!!

[Maquiladora95]

She really is sensationally attractive.

[kkll02]

interesting way of singing and i love it, she does rock this song very well!

[Drillin4Oil]

That could very well be Farrah Fawcett at 1:34. That was definitely her look in 1969/70.

[adcan45]

@Drillin4Oil Wow!! What great eagle eyes you have! I'm convinced it's Farrah...

[MrRazorblade999]

Who's the guitarist to her right?

[hfelton]

Yep, that's Bernie. All the Eagles played on various Romstadt records and/or live appearances. They were in-demand LA session musicians and that's how they met.

[37919KJ]

A Tin Pan Alley classic written in 1922 by by composer Cliff Friend and co-lyricist & producer Irving Mills.

Most famous as the first #1 hit for Hank Williams in1949.

[Huldra11]

The story says that four of Lindas musicians formed their own band and became famous as the Eagles two years later. At the end of this video I think I saw one of them, Bernie Leadon.

[R0MOTZ]

@iceCantata you know that is true.



[bluejay55118]

Excellent song. she is so hot!!!

[IceCantata]

The best female voice ever...

[Likeadiamondsnake]

DARLING!! DARLING!! DARLING!! i just wanna walk down the aisle with her and look into those big, brown eyes everyday for the rest of my life!! this is a fantastic post!! what a sweetheart she is!! ahhh, the lovely linda!! even with all those other babes surrounding her, all my eyes do, is zoom in right on her!!

[pigboy0069]

id hit it right now

[arlichar11]

hef was trying to hit that im sure...

[jerlan23]

Unbeatable.

[MrRazorblade999]

Hot chick at 01:43

[Lightner445555555555]

Anyone else forget their name while looking at her?

[hankwilliams1000]

This is a number of the great HANK WILLIAMS. He wrote and sing this song in 1944................... So he had nothing with Linda. Foolish talk. Learn your lessons before you write something stupid 56Rickster.

[TOMISPO]

@hankwilliams1000  He wrote ''He would have loved Linda :)'. Focus. ''WOULD HAVE LOVED''. Focus. ''WOULD''. Your argument is invalid.

[BlackMonk66]

@hankwilliams1000 He recorded it and his version is probably the best known one, but it was written in the 20s.

[janessa70]

this is great ..... LOL

[bookguitarguy]

Love her, a great performance, but her voice broke on the very last note :O). She covered it well-and look at that adorable/embarrased smile right after (I don't think the audience noticed as much as she did)... Had a big crush on her, and a "Linda Ronstadt wall" (in my bedroom) in the 70s.. Guess I still have a crush on her now. :O)

[Drillin4Oil]

@bookguitarguy Her voice didn't break at all on the last note. It's a yodel type of singing and is used very often in country singing. I know what you mean, though. I thought the same thing at first, but then I listened to it again and again and I believe it wasn't a flub.

[Harbarder]

@bookguitarguy Perfect voices are boring anyways.

[Johngalt43]

This is from one of Playboy's short-lived TV shows, I believe "Playboy After Dark". Note Hugh Hefner with his ever-present pipe.

[Onry1]

early Playboy channel? Hugh & Barbie

[viclagoon]

Her voice is spectacular here and love the barefoot presentation of her stage presence of the song.She knew she could do those rock songs really good cause it really brought out her sensational talent for rock.She had charisma and uniqueness when performing in front of the camera.Today in 2011,we dont have anyone special unique voice that does rock like her and do it good with taste and pisazz,not one.Where is our talent of female rock singers at ?All but gone,sad.

[thedayxyz]

@viclagoon VERY true, very true

[MrTswinburn]

@viclagoon ---not only rock, but country too. The new stuff just doesn't do it for me. With all the production, I think ANYBODY could do what the new crop does. Give Linda a guitar, set her down in a small room & everybody would be enthralled. Same with Hoyt Axton, or many other performers of the time. I'm not sure most of the current crop can carry a tune. Everything goes through electronic magic now.

[StopBleedingOnMe]

i kept expecting Austin Powers to make an appearance.

[iw32]

The dancing is foolish but Linda's great.

[WiccansEatShit]

Linda Ronstadt didnt wear underwear back than.This is which is why the people in the front row of her concerts all covered their noses when Ronstadt would queef loudly and Jerry Browns cum would splash in their eyes.

[thedayxyz]

@WiccansEatShit DUDE that is GROSS!!!

[scotswanderer]

@WiccansEatShit That is not in any way amusing. You are a sad, sick individual. Billy-No-Mates, as they say in the U.K.

[nicoleakalilqueenie]

lol....those ppl in the background crack me up!

[DailyBrusher]

Pride of Tucson!

[denidowi]

Rather foolish inferences there at the end of your comment: don't you think??

What's with this "cold, cold heart drivel"?

You don't know the heart of anyone else on this lineLOL!



[kennyembry]

Thanks to Linda for showing what a huge crossover song Hank's old classic was. Lovesick blues made him a super star over night and he lived his music. He's right up there with Lennon and McCartney of the beatles as singer/song writers. He was the first to show people you can have fun with music with this song about universal heartbreak. Lovesick Blues is the all time greatest Popular song because it started it all!

[denidowi]

@kennyembry Well, LOL,,, I don't know about that, but the Biggest, internationally best-selling, chart version of this song was by Frank Ifield lol! of Australia

[kennyembry]

@denidowi Hank's version was the best and just full of different styles with blues and Jazz, country and here Linda shows how to rock it. Yeah, like you say, it's alot about sales nowdays but most know what an incredible songwriter he was and none compare to his work filled with heartfelt verse and he performed it that way. If you feel different that's your opinion but "I saw the light" in Hank's version and won't try to "ease your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart".

[denidowi]

@kennyembry BTW, I think you've misunderstood part of my reference; it was to this claim you made:

"He [Hank] was the first to show people you can have fun with music with this song "

Again ... some HUGE, Wild, sweeping statement that could not Possibly be the caseLOL

Music and song have been around since Adam - literally ;)

[kennyembry]

@denidowi As far as the beginning of music you were off some a few years since the first historical reference to music was a song Moses' wife sang about his victory over Pharoh and his chariots in the Red Sea. I took my folks to a Hank Jr. concert a while back and it got so rowdy at the beginning I had to get them out of there after the first song. I think the excitement at the concert was more his father's Legacy then Jr. Listen to Cash's song about Hank. He/Lovesick's a music FIRST IN FUN!

[denidowi]

@kennyembry Adam was possibly the most ibntelligent being to hit earth other than our Dear Lord HimselfLOL

He also lived over 900 years!! I am absolutely certain he sang brilliantly to his wife and no doubt, being the pleasant young lady she was, she sang ditties to him.

Our prob is we live our lives very situated and think we know it all and are superiorLOL

[kennyembry]

@denidowi Oh, YES, Eve gave him alot to sing about after the quick bite out of the apple and their being cast out of the Garden and into a life of sweat and misery to make a living. He probably sang to her song's like that big out of Eden hit, "My Own Rib, Done Me Wrong" or "My baby listened to a no good snake!"

[denidowi]

@kennyembry Well I understand, of course, that you are doing your level best to verify the validity of my final sentence, but I do believe you could well be on the right track for the local hit parade at the time.

I'm betting, very heavily, that that last track you offered was just the hugest hit at the time among family members ;) ... #1 for sure!

[Zebbogon]

Linda is a great, wonderful singer.

[dbd1353]

Hugh sure was a playerr back in the day..Barbi Benton, Linda Ronstadt, Playboy After Dark, man, what a time trip, w/two of my all-time favorite ladies on tape right here..They sure were pretty..

[rnaa47]

Looks like a pre-Superman Christopher Reeves bopping along behind her.

[RaymondFRevalee]

she looked better than she ever sounded unfortunately.

[dbrinkm1]

Hefner is still up to his old tricks...engaged to a 24 year old playmate ...He is a spry 84 year old Viagra popping "Hipster"....Anyone for some gold digging?

[k3304]

@dbrinkm1 , do you believe everything you read ? Ever think it's a media set-up ?

[LastTree]

it's hugh heffner and bobbi. 0:38

[LastTree]

incredible powerful voice! Dig those background singers.

[alan4sure]

Wow, what a groovy bunch of cats! Farout!!!

[MorganHillChristine]

My friend and I watched this every time it was on. We could only guess what was really happ'nin at The Manse! Good old 'Hef'.

[lanceand]

Great performance, but the setting is a scream. From the days when Hugh Hefner was hip (yes, there was such a time), and Barbi Benton was his First Lady.

[guraday]

@lanceand and now she has linebacker shoulders and lives not far from where medical radiation waste is released in san francisco

[rickram1961]

I love the look of this era... the awesome music and the style of that time!

[74191neto]

she reminds me of a older wennie cooper from the wonder years!

[brad04970]

@74191neto I was just thinking the samething

[RussX5Z]

I don't mean to say this but she looks a little bit like Snooki from Jersey Shore in this video ( a little bit), I think it might be the hair. Although I hate Snooki =) Linda still rocks by the way!!

[peteykkk]

she won't keep Leann awake at night. Linda ia singing the wrong song.

[dawnahblue]

Funky sixties.

[theoriginalbadbob]

That's probably the only time that Linda has ever hit the wrong note. Screech!

[MIXERPILOT1]

Playboy "After Hours"

[Hutzjohn]

Linda has an awesome voice but this is country song that she tried to make into pop or rock, sorry she didn't get the job done, but she did look so cute here.

[jimmydeanpartee]

WOW!!!! that was Barbie Benton in front of HUGH..... did you ever see her on THE SONNY AND CHER SHOW???? where she sings "Nights on Broadway" with Son, Cher and Engelbert Humpedinker??? one of her lines in the song refers to the fact that she knew E.B did not want to follow her.... she even looks at him with innocence when she sings it.... OF COURSE, cher is singing louder and better than anyone.... should have let her EB do the song BUT, that is what i love about variety shows.

[dsfddsgh]

Hahaha Groovy.

[pjcdrummer]

this was from playboy after dark tv show What a great singer Yes & verry "cute"

[bertskoi]

Hefner w/ his pipe @ 0:40, lol. Linda's marvelous, as usual. This is wonderful; Was it from a Playboy Club video? & or show? THANKS!

[Informed104]

@ 26 she is the epitome of Hot. I was 12 when this came out. So whaddayathink? I can't help but dream of dark-haired, barefoot women, in wiglets, and hoop earrings as the ideal woman. Goodness knows, there were plenty of girls doing her look.

Growing up in the 60's/70's she was my hearthrob, and right up there as my favorite woman to listen to and look at. Even today, I have her "Blue Bayou" picture on my desktop. Every co-worker that passes my desk stops and stares...and remembers.

[bon1042]

@Informed104 ... Nice thoughts... in 1980 as my older brother picked up the album with Blue Bayou on it and stared.... I told him it was her own label and sweet struggling sexist that he was (how's that for alliteration), he cldn't believe it, and when I said I had read she was worth $40,000,000.... well.....

[cj7849]

@bon1042 Linda has never owned her own label. At that time she was signed to Asylum Records.

[bon1042]

@cj7849 Whoops, am trying to think back to 1980. I had brought the Simple Dreams album to my brother's house. Can't remember, maybe it was that she PRODUCED that one all herself?? There was something at the time or else my recall is totally off, which is entirely possible, senior moments more and more.

[LewisTheLad]

i was born in 1976 but that has to be me in a past life at 0.26 in the red suit giving it my all.How can you not love Her.Oh Linda I want to be there

[babyrebbel]

I really have no idea how (being a true Hank Williams/Country/Rockabilly fan), but i kinda like this version? hahahaha

[blueberries4ever]

Barbie Benton is in the crowd, too.

[blummedia]

@blueberries4ever Standing next to Hef.

[texalina1]

That's HUGH HEFNER in this video. Could this be from his short lived TV show?

[AllenChanThree]

I have always liked Linda, but this video is the bomb! She's keepin' it real for me.

[gman114]

wow is she ever hot! :)

[babyrebbel]

Hahahahahahahaha! So funny...

[kimbreballin]

70's XD

[ThayinJai]

Terrible.

[halbie71]

Playboy After Dark: You Couldn't Get More Plastic Than That Show. Linda Is Awesome!!!!!!!!!!

[spooninspoon]

And with no underwear she never wore underwear when she played live. FACT

[ffrench100]

you just made my day! fact

[Gapples007]

No underwear ? did a certain member of the band like the smell of fish or something ?

Seriously though, great looking girl back then & great singer

[colfair]

Obviously not a chef then? fresh fish doesn't smell, neither does fresh pussy !!!

[56Rickster]

I know the kind of fellow Hank was, He would have loved Linda :)

..kind of reminds me of an old Laugh-in (tv show) jig...

Thanks for Sharing :) 5 *****'s

[rts100x5]

looks like country night at Hugh Hefner's pad circa 1970....

the guy doin the hoola in the back corner kills me LMAO

OMFG it is HUGH's pad  just noticed it watching it a second time the last second

[ancientsoul86]

a pretty good one, but it lacks that something (to me, anyway) without the yodel!

[MARIOlS23]

Even though I didn't grow up with this music, I sure do love it. Linda has a great voice!

[MARIOlS23]

Linda is American period!

[flabdabit]

Bad choice of songs!

[eyencyst]

not a bad song.bad version,IF ANYTHING.Hank Williams DID NOT write bad songs.

[ForeverAnalog]

@eyencyst  Amen, I agree with you. Although, actually Hank did not write the song. Its an old tin pan alley song, but he made if famous. Incidently, Patsy Cline could give this 'singer" a run for her money.

[eyencyst]

yr right.i was wrong.i think it was irving mills and cliff friend thru mills publishing.

[pjhirsch]

Well yeah re Patsy: Who couldn't she give a run to ...? I doubt LR would disagree ;-)

[luvmyrecords]

This is one hit of his that Hank didn't write. It actually dates back to the 1920s, unless I'm totally wrong in which case I'll shut up now.

[richstout]

Groovy!

[marksmail2]

I love this song. Thanks for posting!

[lndac02]

has mr Heffner ever been young? he looks like one of the kids funky parents in the video with that pipe in his chops

[vaughnsalem]

envention is spelled invention ,bamberg335

[bamberg335]

so I misspelled a word. You made a mistake saying she was Tex Mex. At least I don't give out wrong information.

[likesspice73]

from Playboy after Dark...I remember it well

[vaughnsalem]

Linda is a Tex Mex beautiful women ,love her always

[bamberg335]

Linda, is not Tex Mex. She is from Arizona. Her grandmother is Mexican. Her grandfather is German. He also envented the greasegun.

[vaughnsalem]

Hugh Hefner at 0:38 haha,great

[Aviatrix23]

HA, YES! Hef and Barbi Benton of Hee Haw. She also posed in his magazine!

[xennady]

How can you NOT be a fan of such a fabulous voice- and such a beautiful woman as well?

[gregorvonkallahann]

Always like it when Linda puts a bit of grit in her vocals.

[CathyFromPensacola]

First time I saw Linda was at a small club in Hollywood in the late 60's - she came running on stage barefooted with her tambourine in hand and belted out her songs - wow!! I've been a fan ever since.

[Renitamac]

Linda usually sounds GREAT, and she sounds just barely so-so here. And this band BUTCHERED this song.

[tutumaShell]

Must agree, this just isn't a Linda Ronstadt song.

[Terranova0]

Hubby sez this is from the Playboy After Dark series that ran from 69-70 down in LA.

And these folks seem to be mostly 'swingers', baby. Hollywood Hippies, lol.

Most hippie chicks wouldn't be caught dead in a stiff, starchy bouffant hairstyle.

Again, Great Video- had to share it with hubby when he got home.

[Terranova0]

Love her dress in this, too. My mom made me one almost exactly like in back in 1970.

[Terranova0]

Love these rare finds. Thanks for the video. Linda has an amazingly versatile voice. The arrangement is entertaining- rock and roll Hank- it worked. Loved the dancers in the background, too.

[themadmanbreen]

This is a awesome take on the Williams/Cline Country song with a outta sight 70's twist with out the yodeling....I LOVE yodeling still its REALLY COOL!!! LOVE Linda Ronstadt!!

[rowlffffff]

Barbi Benton probably wishing Hef would buy her a voice like that.

[Avatarblackwolf]

1970, she had a nice bush.

[davidseawa]

lol

[geruladacul]

Patsy Cline's song

[noodler696]

ur kidding..right?

[resoblues]

She sure was a pretty little vixen....

[redmoonray74]

linda doesn't always chose the right song to sing according to my taste. however she is one of the best woman voice i've ever heard.

[cob4128]

Hippi dancin

[bjacko688]

cute cute cute..what a cute girl..

[LewisTheLad]

Omg is that me in the background getting Down ..it has to be me in a past life.oh God i want to be there.Oh Linda

[jdmans]

Amazing voice, face, dress

[mondo78]

I was only 10 years old in 1970 and I was already falling in love with her and her music. Still love her.

[mistereveready]

what isnt there to like? :P

[nothwind]

Wow

[NonStopRocker]

I WANT HER!

[StephenUS99]

The set reminds me of the house from the TV show "The Facts of Life."

[PaulinaRena]

I love Linda but not doing this wonderful old Hank Williams classic. Her band is all right but they don't do country it sounds like. Linda does her best on songs like "Blue Bayou" which is wonderful by her. -Paula

[Madrocker1954]

Linda's recorded version of this song definitely was country. But, as for the rock version heard here, well, I think it's great. The best thing about any artist's music is that it can transcend the genre in which it was made originally. Hank Williams's music transcended the country genre. However, even Hank's version of this song was a cover.Btw, he didn't write the song; think it dated back to the early 40s or the late 30s and was originally a pop song.

[RealBigR]

Hey Madrocker, Thanks for the info. I always thought Hank wrote this. You made me do a little investigating. Either way, it's a great song.

[andyinoregon]

Sadly, I'm old enough to recognize this as a performance on Hugh Hefner's late-night variety show "Playboy After Dark," if memory serves. Always a treat to hear a great singer have a go at a Hank Williams classic. That guy was rockin' and rollin' years before Elvis.

[cuchulain9]

Yes, I recognized the set immediately myself.

Ironically, Barbi Benton is on screen dancing with 'Hef'. I always thought that Linda and Ms Benton looked much alike and I had a crush on both.

[Madrocker1954]

Was PAD shown on TV in 1969-70, which is where this performance dates from? If it was, must've been a syndicated show as I don't remember the show being on any of the four local tv stations or any of the other stations that were further away that we could pick up. But, Hef a rock and roller before Elvis? Not sure about that one. I think he would've been into jazz, Sinatra and Martin.

[andyinoregon]

Yep, I saw the show in syndication while living in northwest Ohio back in 1969. It didn't last long though, but I don't recall if it was public pressure against Playboy or low ratings that ended its run. And the pre-Elvis rock 'n' roller I was referring to was Hank Sr. not Hef. Songs like "Move It On Over" and "Honky Tonk Blues" had a real rockabilly feel to them years before Elvis and Carl Perkins hit the charts.

[jayodd]

Much funkier than the LP version, and strangley enough the band behind her on this show is loosely related to the Corvettes-Chris Darrow-Kaleidoscope family of bands from the west coast.

[jayodd]

Much funkier than the LP version, and strangley enough the band behind her on this show is loosely related to the Corvettes-Chris Darrow-Kaleidoscope family of bands from the west coast.