Linda Ronstadt - Tracks Of My Tears (live, 1976)

[garyjagels1]

I see Waddy & Andy, but who's playing bass & drums?

[garyjagels1]

I see Waddy & Andy, but who's playing bass & drums?

[jondavwal13]

The only reason she isn't in the Hall of Fame is because Jann Wenner (steaming pile of dung that he is) has something against her. Rolling Stone listed its 100 greatest singers of all time and she didn't even make the list. She's top 5 if anything. I would put her at 1 or 2. Her omission from the HoF makes them look ridiculous.

[jake1052003]

@jondavwal13 I couldn't agree more. He is a steaming pile. I won't give him or the magazine any recognition.

[garyjagels1]

@jake1052003 R. S. is washed up!

[MrRNG77]

wow i can't get over how much Selena Gomez Looks like her...!

[garyjagels1]

@MrRNG77  Well, they're both Hispanic.

[probrojeffro]

My first love as a teenager. I remember staring at the picture of her on the album cover. A beauty. And that voice! Well, says it all. Great stuff.

[littlebluedaewoo]

Thank you So Much for sharing this. ..

[animascat]

killer.

[HippiePalace]

heavenly

[1957user]

Totally agee! There was no deception or distractions in the old concerts. A mic, an amp, and a gifted voice. That's it. Perhaps the music industry never inducted her because she was more of a cover performer and was not a big song writer however her following say it all. Should'a been in the hall of fame!

[MOSKII58]

@1957user that is hogwash elvis never wrote any of his tunes and he was among the first to be inducted, so not being a writing has little or nothing to do w/ being inducted, its a bunch of politics that never made sense to me.

Grand funk railroad (who wrote most of their songs),the Doobie Bros, & Chicago are some others all not in the RRHOF..Linda should def be in, in fact she should have been way way ahead of Madonna (barf).

[1957user]

@MOSKII58 Yep, You may be right on that. I don't know anything about the procedure but, like you say, I would imagine that there is a fair amount of politics involved in it. Too bad. She was worthy of the RRHOF as well as other that you mentioned! I am 54 and it is cool how most of the younger generation prefers the classic rock of my generation as opposed to the music of today.

[MOSKII58]

@1957user yes i am w/ you we didn't realize how lucky we were to have been a part of the great music of the 60's & 70's, some 80's too, after that i am not sure what happened, it seems after about 1985-86 thgs started to progressively get worse in the music industry.. i was lucky to also be in a band from 1982-1990 and after that here and there we had a blast performing alot of this great stuff, then in the mid 90's i switched to country because nothing else was happening..

[jake1052003]

@MOSKII58 FAME is the operative word. Not talent.

[MsLindaKaren]

I miss those good old days too! I saw LInds in Buffalo/ny and the place went nuts over her! Even when she would just talk in the most unique voice they wanted to not miss a single wordk to the point you could hear apin drop. Just beautiful form te inside out! A born singer! God gifted for sure and I agree that she should have been inducted into the music hall of fame a long, long time ago! SHAME on the music industry as she made them big big bucks ! Platinum after platinum and gold albums sold!

[99DMC]

@MsLindaKaren

All true. Interesting point about "you could hear a pin drop." I've been in places where you know a video production company is shooting the band's video and still no one will shut up. Not just chattering away between sets, or between songs, but nonstop blabbering and cell phones going off during the song. Talk about pissing away both the price of a ticket and a chance to have been part of something cool.

[MsLindaKaren]

@99DMC Yeah, it's too bad how ignorant people can be now a days! I sing and I would be so upset if that took place! It takes away the mood of what is taking place emotionally to a singer! IGNORANT!!!!

[MsLindaKaren]

@99DMC Yeah, it's too bad how ignorant people can be now a days! I sing and I would be so upset if that took place! It takes away the mood of what is taking place emotionally to a singer! IGNORANT!!!!

Also the view point ( as you sadi about yourself)of an audience that pay much money to see the concerts and hear clearly are p'd off rightfully; - who just want to suck it all in! It is so very disturbbing to them!

[ghstark]

Very nicely done. Linda is great as always, excellent DoBro in there too.

[chachalarue22]

my usual karaoke song.. knew the writer of the song..back in 1976.. in la..pete moore and his lovely wife ,, tina..who looked just like lola falana. took us to unity church .. where EVERY ONE COULD SANNG?? now my daughter looks just like linda.. six degrees of linda ..

[TheCarlNMarge]

I very much agree, EtzEchad!

[roseofcimarron]

Great! Thanks for this video of Linda's greatest years!

Is this show available on DVD?

[pmgl616]

like!!

[rbruce007]

@CosmicTruthify Actually she visits my hometown occasionally, Fredericksburg, VA Loves a local coffee shop

[kocean1]

She has one of the most recognizable voices in all of popular music.

[rbruce007]

I must have been to 10 of her concerts...huge crush...woops, mean FAN

[nitemoovs]

I love her lil' slut top....back in the day if the dance floor was dark and if you were discreet and danced real close you could slide it down a bit and cop a feel.

[patdevitto]

swoon

[TheFishMiester]

Her and Johnny Rivers should have done Duet on this tune !!!

[ravnmad1958]

this Germany concert was the best i have ever seen her do

[digenovafilm]

I think her genius was in her rendition.

[jeffberk]

That would be Dan Dugmore on the steel guitar.

[EddieAlda]

I always wondered why Linda sang so many covers., She loved doing Jimmy Webb stuff too. Her early years were particularly drowned in covers.

[TheVagolfer]

@EddieAlda

Linda stated in Rolling Stone magazine years ago she considered herself an" interpreter" of songs.

[kperk014]

Is that Randy Meisner on steel guitar???

[fairman1952]

Linda always was a rose. She is ignored because she doesn't play the games that the current crop of talentless "artists" bow to. . Just listen to the Justin Bieber CRAP! Only listen to him once or your ears will be tainted.

[cj3sixty08]

she did a good job trying to sing smokey song, but smokey is the best!!!!!!! nuff said.

[destanationunknown]

Who didn't have a crush on Linda.

[ldavis8]

Memories!

[cdmitt2]

I see three people wearing mittens hit the dislike button by mistake..

What a voice , what beauty, what strength..the best singer ever, period.

[kindanice101]

My gawd...how this woman has not been entered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a mystery to me...a travesty more like it. Her pipes are amazing!!

[N8tivequeen8]

My dad listened to this. I like it.Now thats SINGING! without all that background nonsense.Either u pull it off LIVE or call it a day.Please save my poor ears from all this nonsense thats supposed to be entertainment now days...even hear it in the stores, I dont even listen to radio anymore.Im looking for CD's that were out b4 the year 2000.

[kindanice101]

@N8tivequeen8 ...you are SOOOOO right!  THAT IS SOME SINGING!!

[bergerfry]

@N8tivequeen8 I have them all. The new stuff makes me puke.

[totalyconfused52]

HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG RELATE TO IT IN A LOT OF WAYS

[VTjenny]

Wow Linda Ronstadt's music takes me back to great days. Just Wonderful!

[waynemoores]

Rockinred: actually the record companies do not employ songwriters. Back in the day (LInda and back into the 50's the song publishing companies which were concentrated in a NY area know as tin pan alley employed song writers, published their songs and brought them to the record companies which suggested them to singers they had under contract. Publisher and writer recieved royalties if an artist made it a hit. Bob Dylan changed that and ushered in the era of the singer songwriter. 

[timmacadocious]

Total babe.

[chevanty1]

NICE TO HEAR THE GOOD OLDIES AGAIN, LUV IT

[joshwelljonesfirst]

10/10 for the beautiful Linda to have survived the 70's..marathon runners stumble one by one over the finish line more dead than alive" Ha ha hee' he.

[ADenny12]

I used to sing this song while listening to the album all the time...

[newyorkeastside]

she does look Mexican....but she is.....doesn't matter what she is, she is a living doll

[ADenny12]

@newyorkeastside Linda is from Arizona, and is of Mexican and German descent.

[newyorkeastside]

linda is 63 years old

[chasb2u]

what a babe

[kocean1]

She is one of my favorite singers period!

[politicoochie09]

One of the reasons given for her NOT getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is that "she didn't write a lot of songs." That is a specious argument since it's supposed to be about FAME not songwriting. (DUH!) She's definitely famous--and for a very LONG time she's been famous. If the morons at the RRHOF want to make songwriting a criteria for entering why don't they start a R&R SONGWRITING Hall of Fame. Truth is, they don't like her personal stance on political issues.

[rockinredneck57]

@politicoochie09 That's why record companies employ songwriters. Most big stars do not write their own material anyway so that argument won't hold water. Hell even Madonna is in the HoF. On her best day she couldn't come close to Linda, not in vocal abilities nor looks. Linda does deserve to be in BOTH Halls of Fame!

[politicoochie09]

@rockinredneck57 I guess you have to blow the owners of the Hall of Fame in order to get in, something Linda would never do.

.....which is exactly why Madonna IS in the Hall of Fame!

[Crowsfan55]

@politicoochie09 Madonna would blow my dog to get into the HOF...hell she would blow him for a happy meal...unfortunately he is not on the board of the HOF....although he thinks he is...he's a very discerning dog...and likes good music

[kindanice101]

@Crowsfan55 ...well...I love Madonna...BUT...Linda is simply amazing...always has been. THIS is an example of some real singing. How she has not been entered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is simply beyond me....

[pearly5292]

@politicoochie09 ...haha

[Crowsfan55]

@rockinredneck57 this song was written by Smokey Robinson..done by him and the Miracles...and I agree with everyone here...why she isn't in the hall of fame is ABSOLUTELY beyond me...

[dsfddsgh]

Damn Linda looks so sexy in that white frilly top. What Lucious shoulders she has here.

[mzzh]

Boy she had white teeth way back before crest white strips...i love that. Plus, she just rocks!!!

[RobertRintoul]

My favorite Linda song. Have seen her in concert twelve times since 1977, but have never heard her sing this song live. Great Job...Great Singer!

[GlassofMusic]

She also wrote Lo Siento mi Vida on Hasten Down the Wind...

[robinspillman]

sounds like she has a hole in her heart! but she is making it!

[andyb2707]

Boy this brings back memories for me. Love the crying steel guitar and the sob in Linda's voice.

[Malrom]

And this is from which concert in Germany? Maybe Offenbach?

[Elcabong100]

Damn that lady can sing

[MultiBaldEagle]

The top three female voices of all time.....Linda Ronstadt, Diana Ross and Patsy Cline!!

[whitebitchnigga]

@MultiBaldEagle you forgot Britney Spears

[DaveWollenberg]

Hit #4 AC, #11 country, #25 pop in Billboard. God bless!

[samk1101]

Smokey did a duet with Linda. WOW!

[MrSugarharp]

No one can sing this like Smokey. But a great version none the less.

[nyrichiek]

The Great Mike Botts on drums.

[MultiBaldEagle]

She performed this song live at a concert in Tucson AZ. and brought a group of her former band members on stage to do the background with her......Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meissner, and Bernie Leadon.

[thequeenofhartz]

I too like Smokeys version better, actually this is a cover and it was 34 YEARS AGO. LINDA HAS CHANGED ALOT, BUT STILL LOVE HER SONGS.

This was back in her hay day.

She is alot different now. Google her for current pics.

[LisergicoRojo]

how bout aretha´s?

[adcan45]

@thequeenofhartz its called getting older...

[manelk8]

Chaim...can I have your autograph? Did Linda ever sing with KISS?

[GeneSimmons49]

"I hadn't heard of Linda Ronstadt before"

Are you kidding me? Been living under a rock?

Very doable Linda here!

[Cuddleschonkles]

Yeah but she's hotter than smokey. Seriously, she's like one of the hottest chicks I've ever seen, add to that her excellent skills as a musician and you've got yourself the greatest woman of all time

[blueberries4ever]

@Cuddleschonkles Smokie is pretty darn hot, even in his older years. Both versions of this old song are cool.

[orangebelt55]

Johnny Rivers did a decent job with this song too, but not even Linda outdoes Smokey in this instance.

[rsacode]

This version works really well- but no one can beat Smokey :)

[gratis99]

I can understand that statement for this song. But I like Linda's Ooo Baby Baby better. However, in this world, there is room for both.

[rsacode]

Yeah sure- the song can be covered by as many people as you want. I prefer Smokey's version- but thats my choice.

I hadn't heard of Linda Ronstadt before looking for the song on Youtube.

[dlevita]

dan dugmore is the bomb! hell make you cry with that steel......

[Drillin4Oil]

@agreed. one of the best and most diverse musicians ever.

[sescob22]

I totally agree!

[pgamba]

I will always love LR!

[EtzEchad]

It is interesting to watch these old concerts where they entertained the audiance with music instead of lip synching, dancing and fireworks.

[Nessus07]

Good point. Nowadays, young people have singers/musicians that are in my opinion, of less talent but more "theatrics" and nonsense. Not to mentio the electronics today which make lesser musicians appear more talented than they really are.

[1011mn]

About 3 years ago I saw Iris DeMent at an outdoor venue. She did not wear an outlandish costume, did not tell crummy jokes, no dog and pony act. Using talent alone she held that crowd in the palm of her hand for an hour.

[BKellyS]

@EtzEchad Agreed, I like my musicians and singers to concentrate on the music rather than on prancing around, lol... personal opinion.

[elephantinrm]

@EtzEchad Could you come up with some new material. Putting down your children is really getting old.

[athenabellydancer]

I love this!

[NonStopRocker]

That is not an easy song to pull off in a big arena....and Linda and her band kicked some major ass right there....damn I miss the old days when music was real.

[CaBisonFan]

The pioneer of melding rock & country for female singers...or for any singers for that matter. She's the real deal. The rest are copies.

[adcan45]

@NonStopRocker Me too!!

[elephantinrm]

@NonStopRocker Sounds like an old timer. I think our parents said the same about our music.

[yodavalentine]

does ms promote inflamation, fAce? does ms promote quick weight gain?

[coachpill]

Linda's version of this song went to #11 on the Country Singles chart in early 1976! As far as I know it's the only "Motown"  song to hit the country charts.

[missdiamondmine]

great great voice awesome!!!!!

[GooglelyTube]

Waddy on guitar and Andrew Gold on keys?

[soulfanatiko]

very nice version, she recorded this song in her album in 1975

[bjacko688]

wow very pretty girl...

[bhart2408]

I love Linda but did she ever white a song?

[ckovertime]

Not too many, but She wrote some songs, for instance "Try Me Again" for her album "Hasten Down The WInd". It's a very good song.

[leesagrrl]

I've been looking for Linda Vids for years. I've got all the officially released stuff... and a few decent boots... but I don't know this.

Is it around as a boot somewhere?

[marty6161]

@ckovertime don't know if she ever "white" a song but she sure can sing!! LOL

[adcan45]

@marty6161 funny! I thought of the same thing..

[NonStopRocker]

yeah man ...shes not black!

[GlassofMusic]

@bhart2408 Yes, she also wrote Lo Siento mi Vida...

[dannys2222]

@bhart2408 YES A FEW AND ONE WAS OFF THE SIMPLE DREAM ALBUM !!!! THE SONG WAS CALLED OLD PAINT!!!!!!

[grenztruppen3]

@bhart2408

I don't know any song whiters.

[Zedul]

@bhart2408 She wrote a few but that wasn't her gig: like Sinatra, Elvis, Ella, et. She just sang the crap out of songs other people wrote. :)

[atrayu90602]

@bhart2408: Whats your point?

[patdevitto]

@bhart2408 Why that that matter? She is a SINGER!

[georgebur]

@bhart2408 She did not need to write songs being such a superb interpreter of songs of others. On the other hand someone like Jimmy Webb can write them but not sing them very well! Fair's fair. Linda Ronstadt maintained high quality and diversity through choice of strong material and strong musicians.

[deerejohn1953]

I always like Smokey's original version of this song, but I love the steel guitar in Linda's version. She added a lot of steel guitar to her 70s songs...a nice touch you'd NEVER hear on pop radio today. They edit out the steel guitar on every crossover from Taylor Swift to Faith Hill...but like they're REAL country anyway!!! Enough ranting...for now!!!

[manelk8]

She's got some good opening moves you rarely see...kind of an interrupted step...wish the lights were up earlier to capture.

[WUDI2]

I'm glad to see so many people discussing this 'cover artist' stuff.

How about going classical... Cover artists would include Vladimir Horowitz, Maria Callas, Pavarotti...

[hulaalice]

When all is said and done, Linda Ronstadt may be regarded as one of the top ten singers of all time. Multi-talented, she has won grammy awards in several different categories. She was a Rock superstar in the 1970s, so much so that the Eagles were her opening act, and she sang great standards with Nelson Riddle in the 1980s and she sang great Spanish language songs in the 1990s. Voice quality wise, she compares with anyone of the greats, refined, soulful and super powerful...

[thequeenofhartz]

Love Linda's version on this song, but more partial to Smokey Robinsons' version.

[brineyybabe]

Linda Ronstadt and Rory Emerald look gorgeous.

[robertaxel]

You are a racist fool

[BETWyan]

Ah, out of debating points, eh?

[queenbee345622]

Let the detractors ramble on, for the world knows they are pathetic. :)

Great song!! Thanks!!

[Branner]

Christ, what nonsense. Dylan, Webb, Bacharach--they'd all give their left ball to sing like Ronstadt. Ella, Sarah Vaughan--some of the greatest talents of the last century. Also, Cry Like A Rainstorm is a perfect album--the Webb songs alone are worth the price of admission. The Mexican songs, the standards, the roots music--this is what made Ronstadt a great artist. Yeah, "adult" contemporary--music for adults, not pseudo-angst ridden perennial teenagers who can't grow up. Ronstadt grew up.

[BETWyan]

Let me get this straight, you are comparing Ronstadt to Ella, Sara? Are you sure you wanna do that? Then how come there are really no music critics that agree with you? They are all stupid but you are enlightened, huh?

"Cry Like.." is crap. Rock-n-roll isn't necessarily kid stuff. Compare "Cry" with "We Ran" which is good and the kind of stuff she should have been doing instead of pandering to the illegal aliens from Mexico and making inane comments like "there shouldn't be a border".

[Branner]

Cry Like a Rainstorm is one of the greatest pop albums ever made (and speaking of critics, go read the Rolling Stone review--now who's stupid?). Sarah and Ella--like Ronstadt--didn't write their own music. That's my point. But, like Ronstadt, they are considered some of the greatest musicians of the past century. So, you can eat that too. We Ran is one side of Ronstadt's diverse talents. Why complain because someone is multi-faceted?

Like a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

[zasu858]

So basically, Pavarotti & Caruso can't be considered artists, but more like "Rich Littles" of opera?

[BETWyan]

If you don't know the difference between classical and pop, should you really be discussing this?

[thequeenofhartz]

*****!

[jhar26]

Following that logic there is no such thing as a great artist in classical music because they all sing/play music that others have written. Neither are Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley and a very long list of other greats legitimate artists because they didn't write their own material either. And covering is not mimicking if it's done well. It's putting your own identity on a song that's been done before.

[TheJeffmeister]

Music critics are, by and large, morons.

[queenbee345622]

You are right. Just because a person doesn't like it, it does not mean others cannot like it. It's personal preference.

[brineyybabe]

According to a Rolling Stone (magazine) interview, Linda Ronstadt was thinking of Rory Emerald when she recorded this song.

[Mystica245]

GREAT TALENT NO DOUBT

[BETWyan]

This is a fine performance, no doubt.

[ronstadtfanaz]

Then I hope you feel the same way about Aretha Franklin who did more covers than Linda Ronstadt. Covers are harder to make hits because they are forever compared to the original. If an artist can succeed with a cover it will be with good reason. With Linda and Aretha it is sheer talent. Linda didn't pick the oldies for single release, the record company did. She would have preferred the non-oldies be released. Either way her version is typically the best version we are left with.

[mthivier]

I remember in an interview, she said she desperately wanted the title song to HEART LIKE A WHEEL to be the single, but the record company insisted on 'You're no Good" (which she said she herself wasn't that crazy about) and "When Will I Be Loved".

[dembo9988]

I love the first few seconds of this video, Linda looks so sexy and sultry as she approaches the mike, unfortunately the camera cuts away too soon. Linda was blessed with an incredible voice and her ability to vocalize so powerfully over a broad range is what set her apart from the rest.

[chriscas292929]

Does anyone have more recordings from this live 1976 performance in Germany? This one and "Down so low" are two of the best I've seen of Linda's. She was really on that night.

[gratis99]

"Got Stale and Faded quickly" 1970 - 1st Grammy Nomination 1975 - 1st Grammy 1977 - Nomination for Blue Bayou 1987 - Grammy for Trio (w/ Emmy & Dolly) 1989 - Grammy for Don't Know Much w/ Aaron 1992- Grammy for Frenesi (all covers) 1996 - Grammy for Dedicated (all covers) 1999 - Grammy for After the Gold Rush (cover) w/ Emmy & Dolly 2006 - Grammy nomination for Traditional Folk w/ Ann Savoy Plus Emmy for Broadway. Yeah. Faded Quickly.

[gratis99]

"Predictable"

1981 Gilbert & Sullivan Pirates of Penzance Broadway Tony Nom

1983+The Nelson Riddle albums,8 mil sod, Grammy Nom '83,'85

1988 Grammy for Best Mex/American Performance

1989 "Cry like a Rainstorm... "3 mil sold US

1996 Grammy for Children's Album - "Dedicated"

Emmy for Outstanding individual Performance for Canciones

Yeah. Predictable. And Faded. Quickly.

A Tony Nomination, an Emmy, a Golden Globe Nomination and 11 Grammys from 1975 to 1999.

The critics really hate her.

[DietrichHamilton]

good reply gratis99, these "babyboomer" critics and their "cover" arguments are the only things that are fading quickly.

[pbridge1300]

Dude knows his stuff.  The match goes to Gratis.

[WUDI2]

I think Nessus07 probably doesn't like Linda Ronstadt, and probably shouldn't listen to her. Fine! But to set the record straight. She didn't fade fast. Lots of critics like her. It's not easy to make a big career on covers. Thousands of bands do covers, how many get rich?

When she did fade, after many years at the top, it was because she left the country/rock/whatever scene to do less popular standards and Mexican folk songs, and even a Broadway play. Check it out, see if I'm wrong.

[gratis99]

The reason she "faded" is she got bored, has money, and so she does the music she likes, which is not so "popular".

Her show in Phoenix in Sept 2008 is a reprise of her Mexican music. AND she likes the smaller venues, where it is more personal. She hates the arenas.

She is also sick with Hashimoto's disease and is now 61.

[keyodie]

I can't believe Nessun07 thinks it's easy to get a hit by covering other people's records. Three cheers for performance art, and Linda's astonishing voice, and her ability to get into songs and make them her own.

[adcan45]

Thanks for the great vid!!! Linda is THE singer; she can sing any song, in english, spanish, french, and her beauty always shines through...

[Azorka82]

It's really quite enjoyable.

[mthivier]

One of the few songs I can think of where a cover surpasses the original. I love Smokey Robinson, but in this case, I think Ronstadt nailed this song.

[ronstadtfanaz]

Another great German performance by Linda. Thanks so much for posting it.