"Silver Blue" Linda Ronstadt

[Paulsdottir]

Incredible song sung perfectly. Have always loved her version.

[Gordon102554]

Happy birthday, Linda.

[Likeadiamondsnake]

i hear her voice and everything's going to be okay. linda ronstadt you are so special to all of us who love you so!!

[pilgrim561]

the finest female voice i had ever heard back in the 70's and now it's hard to find someone that is so gifted

[Poontangible]

Without a doubt, the most beautiful Linda Ronstadt song EVER recorded. I completely "played out" this vinyl album when I got it in 75.

[CatsGalore4]

Last heard this on a jukebox in autumn of 1975--so good finding it again :)

[Dayniac4324]

Such a great album ! I've loved it since 1975....thank you for this !!

[MrGreywhistletest]

Hi me again. I have been doing too much geometry. Sorry Linda it should have been the voice of an angel not angle!

[MrGreywhistletest]

Could listen to this till the cows come home. The voice of an angle and Steel Guitar superbly played by Dan Dugmore. Brings tears to the eyes. But great stuff!

[jokerwildest]

I can't thank you enough for posting this song, one of my all time favorite songs.

[americanqueer]

hey get over it. we're all americans.

[guyluvsbeauty]

This woman is a Goddess of music and a legend, with one of the best voices of all time.

[bon1042]

Linda is 64 BD July 14, 4 yrs younger than me, I'll be 68 Oct 13. She is half German, family history amazing. Info says father was Gilbert Ronstadt, so does anyone have evidence that she "changed her name" to one "American name"? Her mother was German, English Dutch. Father has Mexican heritage somewhere, maybe his mother?

LP Hasten Down The Wind came out in 1976, "early in her career." It's considered one of her best. She wrote "lo siento mi vida" for it, a Spanish lyric.

[bon1042]

@bon1042 I'm answering my own question. Her great great grandfather married a woman of Mexican descent. He wld be Linda's father's grandfather. So Gilbert Ronstadt's grandmother was of Mexican descent and he married a woman of German English Dutch descent. So some of us here have our facts off. I said she was half Mexican, half German, not true. So L seems to be 1/8th Mexican and rest European. My paternal grandmother was French Canadian, that makes me 1/4 FC, typical American mongrel.

[harddisk55]

@bon1042 Beatiful answer, thank you !!!

[bon1042]

(Linda's bio cont.) Her mother, Ruthmary, was of German, English, and Dutch descent. Ruthmary was the daughter of Lloyd Groff Copeman (one of America's prominent prolific patent making inventors) and was raised in the Flint, Michigan area where the family owned a farm on Sashabaw Road. Coincidentally, it was down the road from Pine Knob where Linda would perform nearly every summer throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

[bon1042]

Here's Linda's family info: Linda's father, Gilbert, came from a leading and pioneering Arizona ranching family and was of Mexican descent (with some German ancestry), that has contributed much to arts and culture in the Southwest. Linda Ronstadt's great grandfather, engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by the name Federico Augusto Ronstadt) immigrated to the West (then a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from Hanover, Germany, and married a Mexican citizen. (cont)

[harddisk55]

@bon1042 Almost correct, but I missing the Dutch history story.

No doubt about it, where the American Family History starts, the libarries in The Netherlands shows the bridge between the both genealogical worlds and their roots.

[MrBrad711]

you tell 'em, bon 1042!!!

[devdeanndyl]

What a load of beans and tortillas. She has been virtually forgotten to recent generations because of her misguided political activism. Just shut up and sing. Remember the Alamo.

[bon1042]

@devdeanndyl she isn't forgotten because of her political activism. If that were true a lot of others would be "forgotten" as you put it. Your prejudices are showing. There's no good music now, it's noise, they all look and sound alike, half can't really sing. Linda also has health problems, but she lives in SF has one or two adopted children. By 1980 she was worth $40,000,000 so if you hate her she can laugh all the way to the bank.

[devdeanndyl]

What a load of beans and tortillas. She has been virtually forgotten to recent generations because of her misguided political activism. Just shut up and sing. Remember the Alamo.

[bon1042]

@devdeanndyl she's also half German, last name... Ronstadt, her father. I have an album where she sings in spanish.

[solameencuentro]

Linda is a fine singer,but she always hide the fact that she is mexican and changed her name to one " american name" (in the 70s) that's why she never gonna be accepted as the first latina to be a star in the US...

u got to be true to your heritage no matter what..

I dont see her as a latina,sorry for the fans...

[catman916]

@solameencuentro

She certainly is proud of her Mexican heritage and has recorded albums of Mexican music. Recently she has spoken out against the new anti illegal immigrant law in her native Arizona.

[solameencuentro]

@catman916 yes, she is proud NOW, not when she was young and famous, in the 70s.after all the criticism she had from the latin community,now she accept the fact that she is mexican.u got to be true all the way ,not when u are a "has been" and 60 years old.

[bon1042]

@solameencuentro Linda Ronstadt is no "has been" and never will be. You're showing you have no class sir. This woman is an icon, the best singing voice in the past 40 yrs in this country. She is brilliant in discussing the technical aspect of music and music composition. Her Hasten Down The Wind album in the mid 70's has a spanish language song on it, sung beautifully.

[solameencuentro]

@bon1042 first of all im NOT sir its Ma'am,ok?

and second,I wasnt talking to you,ok?

i dont care about u or ur opinion...thank u.

[bon1042]

@solameencuentro why you're very welcome... I'm not surprised at your nasty response to me, given that you think Ms. Ronstadt is 60 and a has been. Or do you also think she's a "has been" BECAUSE she is 60?? I would think you wld want to present a more positive image of yourself since you are waving the flag for people of Mexican heritage.... Ma'am.

your's respectfully, Ms. Bonita

[solameencuentro]

@bon1042 ok thanks!!

[bon1042]

@catman916 that's right. She has an album, Las Canciones (sp)? and has a spanish language song on Hasten Down The Wind, I have the LP. She speaks out all the time for latina (o) issues. She has 2 adopted children, Mary and Carlos.

[bon1042]

@catman916 just saw a video here Linda Ronstadt & Her Father's songs. Jimmy Smits narrates I think. At End he says, Canciones de mi Padre, became the best selling non-English album to date in U.S. history. So there solameencuentro.

[harddisk55]

@catman916 Illegal is a political opinion. In normal common sense: there no illegal people on earth. People are born by lthe cause of nature, and the dna circumstances included.

[harddisk55]

@solameencuentro Let's go to the common sense: What does it matter about nationality; look a human being what it gives. Many people all over the world accept love, understanding and respect. Not less and no more. And about her music; she brings the best of both worlds. Which worlds? You'll find the answers, anytime !!!

[auntbea57]

@solameencuentro She did not change her name. Her father was Gilbert Ronstadt his family was from Mexico. If you knew your history you would see that many Germans settled in Mexico. Her Paternal grandfather was of German decent and her grandmother of Mexican. You should know your facts before you make a stand...

[edsels58]

Isn't it funny how, not having heard a song for many, many years, the lyrics come back to you just hearing it?

Thank you for uploading this one!!

[septip123]

thanks, man. I love this version better than J.D.'s

[pcmerano]

Thank you for uploading this catman916!

The Prisoner In Disguise album was gifted to me at Christmas 1975 and I fell in love with Linda! What a terrific song from a terrific album from a wonderfully talented and versatile artist.