I think Willie said that about Ronstadt's good friend, Emmylou Harris. Emmylou Harris is the true queen of this category of female singers.

Nope... Linda was the number 1 singer during her time. Her friend is not even a fourth of Linda's popularity at those times...​@@tomc8617

​@tomc8617 I think you are right, seems I have heard that sometime in the past.

Amen brother

no disrespect intended to Emmylou but Linda is my dream girl. @@tomc8617

Exactly, no autotune in those days.

She was great, wasn't she?! Fabulous voice.

She was awesome and beautiful too

Although I think Dusty and Tom did a better job!

Damn right!!!!

I've been watching and listening to quite a few myself lately. I'm rather saddened about what happened to her health-wise but we can still have the memories thanks to modern technology. I'll just add a Willie Nelson song line: I'll always love you in my own peculiar way 😢

Add a few names to the list and it'll be quite right. Without YT, I would have never seen her when she was this young and beautiful.

Second that!

Funny!!!!

Yeahhh.. Agree with you. I love her soooo much

... Which "Generation" would that be Then... Probably The Same 'Gen' as Mne I Expect. Tee! Hee! Hee! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✌️

Boomers!@@TS-1267

Well, that's beyond question. She could and did sing songs covering all genres. No auto-tuning, tattoos, just natural singing.

Well yes, but let's say Linda AND Karen Carpenter.

Linda Ronstadt did not need a microphone or being a fony to get a unworthy reputation.she needed no sexual propaganda just her voice

AMEN !!!!

And she had Jerry Brown.

@@Jerry-rf8bn :- Her private life is her affair ( pardon the pun ) we should appreciate her talent as a singer & nothing else

@@johnhirst4137 Ronstadt's romantic involvement with Jerry Brown and several other high-profile Hollywood celebrities was hardly private so, she is fair game and I do appreciate her talent as a singer.

Prayers for her a great voice with class

Same here...

We all had to share her,,

Bacon’s burning, coffee’s on

My gf in the late 80s coulda been Linda's twin.

LOL

Even grandpas❤❤❤😂😂😂

⁠@@raulgut4030even me from England

I know i was!

Grandpas too❤😂😂😂

And Britain.❤

Brilliant

It was. I so loved Linda. There is no pop singer, past or present who can compare and she was so modest. She makes the histrionics of our Beyonces and Lady Gagas look like a joke. She just put on a pretty dress or blouse and sang.

she stayed strong all the ways through to the 90's. Check out her performance of 'don't know much' at like the 90 oscars.

She was pretty damn easy to look at also

I miss this beautiful human !!

One more time! Wow!

I loved Judith Durham. Linda was a jerk!

I’m 76 also and agree,Merry Christmas.

You obviously lived a very sheltered life. I am 82 years old and there have been dozens of great female singers through the years. To say Ronstadt and Durham are without peers, is a joke!

To B L. Everyone can have an opinion. Even you are allowed one.

@@slowhypno Gee, thanks! It's a shame that you are so narrow minded with your opinion though.

Hi how’re you doing?

That is God's honest truth and I know for sure there's no one else I'd rather hear to sing anything except for Linda

Her, followed by Dusty Springfield and Carol King

Ann Wilson says hello.

hands UP

Your not on your own

Indeed... a close 2nd was Stevie Nicks

Yeah!!!

Scorching!!

Lucky kid george!

@@oliviervece6121 Linda in tour

In a way. This concert here is in a prison. She wasn't the main act, that was a Johnny Cash prison concert and she performed like 2 songs during an intermission. She was locked in a big room with all these men, many of whom hadn't even seen a woman in months or years.

And those 2 little rabbit teeth... oh yeah...

Or piercings

So right! That tattoo shit is for losers.

And those legs !!

I’m afraid you have all this wrong. It has been proven by clinical studies at the University of Dispepsia that the act of piercing releases hidden negative energies within the body thus allowing the positive energies to exert their dominance and thereby enhancing the person’ natural abilities. In the same vein, it has been established through a widespread and independently verified survey of over 10 people that the application of a tattoo dynamically changes the personality of the wearer. Apparently, this effect is not seen with servicemen and servicewomen who largely remain unaltered. However, with everyone else, and only a rare few exceptions, the act of the tattoo plus the design of the design does seem to turn losers into winners; outsiders into insiders; the weak into the strong and the mentally challenged into experts on any subject. At least, all this is achieved into their own minds. We mustn’t also forget the very important benefit for parents of having their children’s names tattooed on them. For instance, they may have so many, with so many different partners, that they need to keep a handy record of all their names. Or, they might be, how shall we say, register low on the Dumbo Scale that they have to have a visible reminder of names in front of their eyes. However, despite all of this, the most important benefit of a person with more than a couple of tattoos is that they act as a signal for the rest of us of people who we should not waste our breath on. Here endeth the lesson.

And she is still hot today.

she is only 1/4 Mexican descent 😂

@@tomterrif8503 That’s enough for me, Mr. Seaver…

🥱 yeah yeah yeah we've been reading that Willie Nelson quip in this comment section for years 🙄

If you can ignore her aesthetic advantages, you're a stronger man than I.

@@mollysurey6058 Yes, difficult indeed!

what happened to the World if I can't say that I like a girl?

@@serjones3365 The thought police are coming for us all.

Beyoncé who?? Miley? never heard of her? Linda Ronstadt! Absolutely!!!

That's just about my favourite - but she's recorded so many, many beautiful ones.

I was 17 in 1967. I still love her.

The one lpi regret not still having is the stone pony’s with her on the cover.

and it would get on your nerves and make you go home to your wife!!

@@malcolmwhite6588 It wouldn't get on my nerves. I'd get up at four in the morning to farm the land and on Saturdays to fish the oceans. I'd want to feed her voice and keep it hidden in the home. Of course, in time, there would be a divorce as I'm just a typical no good typical guy.

@@WilliamJones-sf5pt ha ha me too. I don’t know whereabouts in the world you are but I think most blokes are pretty much the same LOL

Thank you.

Amen Brother, I am right there with you. Back in the good old days before autotune and bubblegum pop.

George Creek and; lol yeah me as well, but at least BACK THAN, we had a very good variety of DECENT WOMAN with.morals and integrities, UN-LIKE today!! Smh 😕 Sagging tattoos, body pearsings, fowl moths, crowd off purple hair, with pierced lips & noses ect. A lot of females TRAPPED in mens bodies is what I see!! So very sad that some woman and men, are doing their uttmost too try and look like the total OPPOSITE of what God almighty made them!! I feel so bad & sad for these young men & woman of today for their selection is extremely minute!!! Smh

Great! I enjoyed her much. Cute girl. great voice too

Were not old.

Amen to that !

As I learn more about that band - with names like Andrew Gold, Waddy, Kenny Edwards....it’s clear to see (to listen to, in this case) that it’s a win win ensemble.

Women these days will never understand why this woman was sexier than any woman today. She just had it all.

So lucky to see her perform in Providence, RI back in the mid-'70's.....😍😍😮...just so awesome

@@red152mm I’ve got a cd set of her 1978 stop at Providence. Was that the gig you were at??

Hi how are you doing?

perv...@!!

Hi how are you doing?

I saw her summer of '69 at Disneyland - she and the Stone Ponys had a gig there - they shared our break area - OMG

You probably drink too much johnny walker.🍻

🤣

I’m 69 and still have a crush on her. Like no one else. She was something special.

You sure they weren't 8-tracks?

@@atatterson6992 This was in the early seventies and they were definitely cassettes.

Afraid not, she has progressive supranuclear palsy

Hello 👋 Sharon. How are you doing? Hope you are fine, I'm Mark Clifford am from Denver Colorado. Where you are from? You seem like a real country girl

Remember she knew Gram Parsons (rip) way back when. He cannot get official recognition for his contributions to Country or to Rock. The country problem is when he started the movement had had pot leaves on his Nudie suits and was known to do drugs to the Nashville crowd. He was never accepted. But Linda knew him before she knew Emmylou.

Love Linda but she’s not the only one from the 60s and 70s who was doing country rock and gave it longevity. CSNY, The Eagles, The Byrds, the list is too long to type out. She was very influential on a lot of female singers, and I saw her sing live a number of times. I liked everything she did. Saw her sing on Broadway in Pirates of Penzance too! Broke my heart when she got Parkinson’s.

@@justintime42000 Members of The Eagles we’re her back up band & she helped them get started, so she came before them, but you’re right about the others.✌️🤘👍

@@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw Yes, I knew that. The longevity of country rock artists from the time was the subject being discussed, not who came first. Mike Nesmith is an often overlooked name in this genre but he wrote Linda’s first hit two years before she recorded it and did other country rock songs before The Eagles played with Linda (“Joanne” is probably the most famous) if you want to talk about who came first.

@@justintime42000 Damn, I’m not looking to get in a pissin’ contest with ya. I just mentioned that Linda came before the Eagles, that’s all. But I am an old country rock musician, I’ve been in several country rock bands back in the day, so to play that kind of music I had to to my research & I got pretty good at it. So if you want to get into a screaming’ country rock trivia match, you’ll lose!! My level of sarcasm depends on your level of stupidity!🤪

I'm not looking at her feet!

You got that right!!!

Hello So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song.

So true !

It still is. It’s just called Americana now. Try Outlaw Country on XM. So many great new artists ✌🏽