[ applause ] feeling better, down and withdrew feeling better cuz im over you learned my lesson, it left a scar now i see how you really are youre no good, youre no good, youre no good baby youre no good im going to say it again youre no good, youre no good, youre no good baby youre no good heres a gal who really sings great. We had her on the show and she was sensational. My current guest, one of the greatest talents in Country Music. Welcome, please, Linda Ronstadt. Ladies and gentlemen, miss Linda Ronstadt. Baby, im going my way, forgot about you, baby because im in it to stay linda could literally sing anything. I dont think anybody has tried more different styles and nailed it than linda has. Theres not that many people that can pull off new wave music and rock and those beautiful country ballads. Her range is huge. She decided what she wanted to do. More important, what she was authentic at doing. And they always told her, no, you cant do this. Youll ruin your career. She did it anyway. [ applause ] someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. They sing so the subsequent generations wont forget what the current generations endured or dreamed or delighted in. There are a lot of really good singers out in the world, a lot of better singers than i am. What i did that was different from other singers, i did a whole lot of different kinds of material. People would think that i was trying to reinvent myself but i never invented myself to start with. I just kind of popped out into the world. My mom grew up in michigan. Her dad was an inventor. He was the third to Thomas Edison in number of useful inventions in the 50s. He invented the electric stove, the electric toaster, the thermostat for westinghouse. But my grandmother had parkinsons disease, and he spent all his money trying to find a cure, and thats what i have now. My mom was really smart, too. She wanted to study math and physics and the university of arizona was really good for that. So she came out to tucson where she met my father. My greatgrandfather, friedrich ronstadt came from germany to mexico in 1839. My fathers father moved to tucson when he was 14 to work as a wagon maker, but his true passion was music. So he started the club philharmonico. He was the one who wrote the arrangements and taught everybody how to play their instruments. He was like the music man. If you wanted to serenade your sweetheart, youd give my grandfathers band a go. And if you wanted them for a wedding or a funeral, theyd show up for that. The first time my mother ever saw my dad, he was riding his horse up the steps of her sorority house. My dad had a lovely bariton, tenor voice. He serenaded my mother underneath her balcony and she fell big for him. Im a rambler, im a gambler, im a long way from home if you people dont like me, you can leave me alone i grew up in tucson on the last ten acres of my grandfathers cattle ranch. We were very isolated. So if you wanted entertainment, you kind of had to make your own. There was a lot of music going on in that house. Some of it came in through the radio. That was my best friend in the world. We had an amazing radio in tucson because it was really close to the border. We could get the louisiana hayride. American standards. Cant help loving that man of mine but my grandmother and grandfather were Classical Music devotees. So i would go over to their house on saturday morning and listen to a live broadcast from the metropolitan opera and come home, and my dad would be playing mexican songs on the piano. My mom would be playing some gilbert and sullivan piece. My sister loved hank williams. She loved Country Music. I cant help it if im still in love with you my brother would be singing really high soprano. He was in a world class voice choir, and he was their soloist. She wanted to know how to sing that way so i taught her. So she learned about vibrato and all that stuff when she was like 5, 6 years old. We learned so much about singing from each other. It was completely incorporated into what we did. We sang at the dinner table, we sang in the car, we sang with our hands in the dishwater. I thought spanish was this magical, musical language. When i was growing up, i thought people sang in spanish and spoke in english. If you spoke spanish on the playground, youd be punished. You werent allowed to do it. My sister and brother and i eventually formed a little group. We called ourselves the new union ramblers. We thought that sounded folky. Bobby kimmel was a guitar player that i met in tucson. He wrote songs about his own life. I remember them being one of the best vocal groups id ever heard. Bobby joined our family group, and then he and i used to play as a duet sometimes. We played little clubs in tucson, but there wasnt very much opportunity for us there. At some point reality stepped in. My sister had they kids. And then my brother went to work for the police department. Bobby wanted to earn some money playing music, so he went off to california. And i was the last man standing. All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray i went to l. A. With the intention of forming a band. When i saw the quality of the singers that were out there, i started writing to linda saying if you come out, we could form a band and get a record deal. If i was in l. A. I knew they had more clubs to play in los angeles. California dreaming i was telling her, this is kind of an iffy thing. You might starve to death or find yourself washing dishes and waiting tables before you ever get discovered. She said, im willing to take the chance. I was 18 years old. We had a house on the beach for 80 a month in santa monica. We split the rent three ways. It was just great. It was right on the beach. Once she got there, we got to work right away. We used to practice every day. Bobby introduced me to a really good guitar player named Kenny Edwards and we formed a little band. We called ourselves the stone poneys. Look out your window, the rain is turning into snow we started playing beatnik dives and strange pizza parlors wherever we could get a job. There was a trip where i heard this band called the birds. It had a light show and a lot of acid tripping kind of stuff going on. The whiskey a go go is very rock and roll. I heard the doors there, and i thought theyd be really a hit band if theyd get rid of their singer. Open up the door there was the ashgrove. That was where you go for authentic folk music. Thats where i first heard rye cooter. He was then and now the most amazing guitar player id ever heard. I knew they had good musicians in los angeles, but this guy was really something. I said, im staying here. Im not going back to tucson to live. She came to los angeles at a time when the l. A. Rock n roll scene was in gear and was going. See, after the birds did their thing with mr. Tambourine man, then the whole damn thing broke loose, and all the Record Companies went scurrying around like headless chickens trying to figure out what to do, who can sing folk rock and how can we define what this thing is going to be . Hey, mr. Tamborine man, play a song for me there was a lot of cross pollination that started happening in the mid 60s, Country Music and folk music and rock music started commingling and blending. You would get all these hybrids. The troubadour just a few blocks from hollywood boulevard is known as an avantgarde cafe. Its the favorite of hollywoods young and young in heart. The troubadour was where everybody went to hang out and be noticed. If you wanted to make yourself known to the Record Community at large, you would go to the troubadour and play at open mic night. I cant even name all the great songwriters that went there. Joni mitchell, chrkris kristofferson, elton john. Every week, gamechanging songwriters. Some of them were dreamers and some of them were fools who were making plans and thinking of the future you tried to get a gig at the troubadour. You wanted to play the troubadour. All kinds of industry people hung around in the bar. It was the place to play like in the Minor Leagues in baseball. This was your chance. This was your great chance. The troubadour was a bustling place. You know, they had a hootenanny night where new artists would come and sing a few songs. I used to go to every hootenanny might to see if there was anybody really talented. The open mic hootenanny where youd wait and get on the list and go up there and sing your new song. Get a head of steam on shoveling the coal whats that i hear now ringing in my ear you got two or three songs. If you were no good, you probably didnt last the second song because people were, hey, get off. And maybe not even the first song. You and i travel to the beat of a different drum i heard this song called different drum by the greenbriar boys. It was written by mike nesmith who was eventually going to join the monkees. You say it would work out, but honey child, ive got my doubts you cant see the forest for the trees so dont get me wrong, its not that i knock it its just that i am not in the market for a boy who wants to love only me we got an Immediate Response from managers and people who were interested in our career. Herb cohen was managing frank zappa. We had heard that he had been a soldier of fortune. He may have killed somebody. He was a badass. But he was established, and he immediately said, i can get you a record deal. We recorded a few things, just the three of us. Then he took those to the people in power and said, i want to record these guys. Capital said okay. We signed papers, and we were off and running. If you live without me so we recorded it with a mandolin and a couple of acoustic guitars. And the Record Company didnt like it. So they said, well, come back. We want to recut the song. Suddenly everything changed in the studio. They had a bunch of strings in there, and it was an orchestra session. I said, wait a minute. This isnt the way i thought about the song. I said i dont want to put it on the record because that wasnt the way i originally envisioned it. You and i travel to the beat of a different drum oh, cant you tell by the way i run every time you make eyes at me it was a good thing they didnt listen to me because it was a huge hit. Im driving down the road in my car listening to ktkt radio and all of a sudden shes singing different drum. I said, wait a minute. I loved her voice from the first time i heard her. I was a freshman in college. Stone poneys, different drum dw dwgs, yeah, baby. It was just like to pull back the covering of a fully developed vocal stylist. Yes, and i aint saying you aint pretty all im saying is im not ready most of the time as a critic, youre saying, well give the artist a plus for this, a minus for this. This is kind of good, this is not so good. Bang, it was like a home run. We were out on this tour, and herbie cohen comes to my hotel room and says, i need to tell you that when we get back to l. A. , the band is breaking up. Everybody said, i dont know about you two guys, but we want the girl singer. The Record Company wanted to develop me as a solo artist. So kenny decided to go off to india and find a guru and learn to meditate. And bobby started a folk club in la called mccabes. And i was left with what in the world to sing. I was by myself, a harmony singer with no material. Announcer this cnn film, Linda Ronstadt the sound of my voice presented by volkswagen. E these are the ones who will reach for the stars these are my people by the light of the earth, you can tell they are ours a new step to take and a new day will break yes, these are my people for everything that i give, i get so much in return. Join our family of home instead caregivers and help make a world of difference. Home instead senior care. Apply today. They Work Together doing important stuff. The hitch . Like you, your cells get hungry. Feed them. With centrum® micronutrients. Restoring your awesome. Daily. Feed your cells with centrum® micronutrients today. Here, it all starts withello hi . With how can i help . A data plan for everyone. Everyone . Everyone. Lets send to everyone wifi up there . Uhh. Sure, why not . Howd he get out . a camera might figure it out. That was easy glad i could help. At xfinity, were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. So come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. Va v the remarkable thing about the stone poney days is she had the nerve to leave a male band after it had already had a hit and go on her own. Would you welcome, please, miss Linda Ronstadt. Ronstadt, ronstadt. Did anyone ever suggest that this isnt the most musical name in the world . Oh, yeah, Glen Campbell can you change it to Linda Marlowe or is there a Linda Marlowe . Once they learn how to pronounce my name. Glen campbell once called melinda bedstead. I remember you when you were nothing but a little stone poney. I dont have any idea what that means. I know you were part of a group, right . Let me see. How do i explain this on television and not get yelled at . Maybe you dont. I think i dont. It has an inside meaning . Love will abide, take things in stride sounds like good advice but theres no one at my side and time washes clean, loves holds unseen thats what someone told me, but i dont know what it means cuz ive done everything i know to try and make you mine and i think its going to hurt me for a long, long time cuz ive done everything i know to try and make you mine and i think im going to love you for a long, long time i met her in the troubadour and she had this hit called long, long time. Apparently she knew who i was based on a record i had made with ricky nelson. She said, i like that band you put together for rick nelson. Could you do that for me . Shes got everything she needs, shes an artist she dont look back herbie cohen was the manager when i met her. He gave me these tickets to hawaii for the Capital Records convention. Linda and i show up at San Francisco airport to fly to honolulu, and lo and behold there was the fbi to arrest us for receiving stolen property. Turns out herbie had bought the tickets in the lobby of the building from some guy, you know, probably for 25 cents on the dollar, they were hotter than a 2 pistol. So we spent the day in jail. She fired herbie and asked me to fill in. I dont want your lonely mansion i was walking through the troubadour on my way to the bathroom and this band shiloh got up and did my exact version of silver threads and golden needles. Silver threads and golden needles i just went what . I was appalled anyone would sit down with one of my records and learn the solo off like a led zeppelin record. And i heard the drummer, and i thought he was really good. The drummer was a guy named don henley. Lindas first solo album came out in 1969, and i moved to l. A. In 1970. So my timing was pretty good. She had a bunch of dates back east, and we needed to put the band together quickly. So i hired him for 250 a week. Rescue me, i want you in my arms rescue me, i need your tender charms because im lonely i knew who she was because i had her album. I listened to that album a hundred times. She could seem vulnerable and very feminine, but when she opened her mouth to sing, everything got different. You know, it was just incredible. You knew that there was a very solid core and a very determined woman. I just saw her walking past me in the trub adoor and she looked so cute. I just grabbed her hand and said, i think you should cook me dinner. She said, okay and gave me her phone number. I called and said are you going to cook me dinner. She said sure. I went over and she made me a Peanut Butter and jelly sandwich. I said come on, youre living with me. John david souther and Linda Ronstadt, they were a hot couple. J. D. Had a musical duo with a guy named glen frey. He was my best friend and first songwriting partner. We really did nothing but just listen to music and play guitars and try to write songs and then go to the troubadour. Glen frey played pretty good guitar. So i went and talked to glen, and said, do you want to do this tour with me . He said it would be really cool. Hed never been on the road before. Glen frey and i shared a 12 hotel room with two twin beds in it. It was a very modest tour. I remember being in station wago wagons. Rooming together. Don and glen each discovered that the other was a good singer and songwriter. And thats when they decided to get together and form a band. That band became the eagles. They wished us well. John was very supportive. Linda was supportive, and they basically said, just go for it. We didnt have much success with desperado. The Record Company didnt know what to do with it. And then linda made it into a classic. Desperado, why dont you come to your senses come down from your fences and open the gate it may be raining but theres a rainbow above you you better let somebody love you, let somebody love you let somebody love you let somebody love you before its too late [ applause ] i knew the neil young tour was coming, and i thought this will be perfect for linda because she had sung backup on his big hit heart of gold. So i called neils manager, and i said, listen, linda is the right opening act for this. Youve got to help me out. They said, well, neil is going to go out alone. I want to live, i want to give lo and behold a week later they called me and said neils done a few dates in canada and its getting him too tired. He now wants an opening act, and youre it. Lin da was quite reluctant at the time. She was so worried about playing a huge hockey arena tour at that point in her career. But we persuaded her this would be a good thing. Thank you. You would occasionally get somebody yell we want neil. You know, but by the time the tour got going, she was holding her own. Ive been cheated, been mistreated when will i be loved ive been put down, ive been pushed round when will i be loved when i find a new man that i want for life it always breaks my heart in two, it happens every time heres linda, who id never seen live before. Big stage, sold out, huge place. She comes out there and starts singing, and that voice filled this arena where i had seen concerts for a long time. Nobody filled this arena with a voice like Linda Ronstadt. And she just killed it. She slaughtered this crowd, who didnt come to see her, but they sure left knowing who she was. We did 78 dates in 90 days. We played before 18,000 to 20,000 people every night. We got to houston and there was this new girl singer. Her name was emmylou. It was 1973 during the one tour i did with gram. Children are calling, and ride on the merry go round emmy started singing and in three notes, the entire place was dead quiet. It was like they started mass or something. And she was beautiful, this girl with long hair and big brown eyes. And i thought, shes doing exactly what im doing, and shes doing it better. For a minute i thought, well, i can get jealous, and then i wont be able to enjoy her singing, or can i just become a slobbering drooling fan like the rest of the people in the club and hope that maybe i can get her to sing with me. So i chose the latter. It was one of the best decisions i ever made. And emmy and i became immediate music and social friends. Linda had a lot to do with lifting me up at a very, very low time in my life. I had been kind of on my way working with gram parsons. I thought i had found my voice. I had found something i loved to do, singing with him. Love hurts, love scars on the road to getting himself straight, he was dprink dpririnking a lot less. He was loving the work. We loved singing to together. We had a record we had just made and apparently someone showed up with heroin, which he hadnt done in a while, and it killed him. It was devastating to lose him like that. It was linda who stepped up as a friend and we had just met each other. She brought me out to l. A. , had me stay at her house, and she talked about me to everybody, said how great i was and genuinely loved my singing, genuinely made me feel like i had something to offer at a very low time in my life. Love hurts the sun is risin as the day begins time for reflectin on family and friends and hey, we got somethin just for you sniffing its a cup of your favoriiiite. loud splashing highpitched laughter dang woodchucks with geico, the savings keep on going. Just like this sequel. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. paul do you get confused byi dont blame you. Claims . The most reliable. The most awarded. 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They sang together. They shared music together. She was supportive of me. I was writing songs and hoping, you know, to make my own record. But of course linda was, you know, really coming into her own and starting to be really successful. And i know its insane i think a songwriter doing their songs is different than a singer doing their songs. Some people prefer the songwriter doing them. Some people prefer linda doing them. But this again she definitely made into a bigger song. It wasnt to save me because i couldnt sing it like that. I made up my mind i would leave today and linda came out and turned it into this power ballad. I know its insane but i love you, oh, i love you again back then there wasnt competition with women. So i think, you know, women, there werent that many of us either. So i think there was a certain amount of banding together to sort of share our woman part of it. Its a song off our new album. Its about a real special place called home. Its a carla bonoff song. I had made a demo of home and we sent it off to bonnie, a complete long shot. She decided to record it. Traveling at night, the headlights were bright and soon the sun came through the trees around the next bend, the flowers ascend the sweet smell of my home in the breeze linda and i are like sisters, around the same age. We were coming up and had the same mutual other musician friends and band members. You know, it was a community of artists. It wasnt sexually divided between the women and men. We werent thinking in terms of that. Linda and bonnie raitt were two of the first women i was able to see as a Young Journalist and stoi the way they operated in this community. Were going to move into this world where were running bands with guys in them, but we can also look after each other. I said if i can have it on my terms and you understand im not going to be told how to dress or what music to make, great. We were all throwing away all those conventions, you know . The rock n roll culture is dominated by hostility against women, that this sort of Sexual Identity that is sort of used as a weapon against the populace, you know, and women in particular. And then everyone identifies with it, and its sort of sad to me because what happens is that is that rock n roll stars tend to end up isolating themselves more and more and more, you know, thereby increasing their own feelings of alienation and anxiety, and they wonder why theyre so miserable, you know. Thats when they turn to drugs and destroy themselves, you know. And its just very silly. It just seems very silly. They lose they lose the ability to focus on themselves as a person, you know, rather than as an image, you know. And thats very dangerous, i think. And there are always a lot of people around them, managers and scene makers, groupies and whatever, that are willing to indulge them in anything they want, you know. It weakens them. It weakens them as penople and eventually weakens them as musicians. I can walk, im drunk and dirty, dont you know im still willing out on the road late last night, i seen my pretty eyes in every headlight i was in new york, and somebody said, you have to go see this girl. Shes amazing. Shes one of the best singers youll ever hear. Shes brilliant. Shes credibly great looking. She sings barefoot, and she will knock you out in every respect. And she did. And you show me a sign and ill be willing i was running the beatles record label apple when apple started to fall apart, and the beatles were breaking up and all of that. I went to america, and there i was being a manager. I wanted to go back to work as a record producer. So i suggested linda go and meet with peter, which we did, and he agreed to manage her. There was a high bar there. Peter asher had hung around with the beatles. He expected to make records that are huge successes. And he was poised to do that with linda, and geffen was, you know, ready to be their Record Company that would be there. I started Asylum Records and signed jackson browne, and then started signing other artists, and it turned into what it did. And i knew when i saw linda and the stone poneys that she was going to make it, and she was going to make it as a solo ar tifrt, and i knew she was going to be a big star. She didnt think so. She had very little confidence in those days. Linda was feeling like she wasnt good enough to be on Asylum Records. I said to her that that was crazy. Im never really satisfied with what i do. And lots of times i hear that i did something wrong and it bothers me. It can ruin my day really. Linda never thought she was as good as she was. That is an interesting paradox because shes confident about her ideas but not about herself and not about her singing. My involvement as a producer with linda came when she was having trouble finishing the album that became dont cry now and thats when we decided the next album i would produce was heart like a wheel. Some say a heart is just like a wheel when you bend it, you cant mend it these two canadian sisters, they were in an odd category. They didnt fit in pop music. They didnt fit in folk music. They didnt fit anywhere except in my heart. I heard heart like a wheel, and i went, i have to sing it. When harm is done, no love can be won, and it happens frequently linda has the ability to hear a song and claim it. You claim it as your own as a singer. If you love it like that, you get inside it. You become it. But my love for you is like a sinking ship and my heart is on that ship out in the ocean heart like a wheel, she discovered that song and brought it to me. I loved it. I thought it was beautiful. But i was also thinking in terms of we should make some hits. Feeling better now that were through feeling better cuz im over you im a ballad singer but we needed some uptempo songs for the record. As an afterthought, i had this idea wed close the show. Youre no good, youre no good, baby youre no good im going to say it again, youre no good, youre no good baby youre no good she knew and loved the song. I knew and loved the song. We decided to do a version of that song. Well, i broke the heart over someone like you i stayed up all night assembling this very complicated, layered guitar piece. We worked very long into like the next afternoon. And thats when linda turned up and didnt like it. She said, oh, i dont like it. It sounds like the beatles, which it did sound like the beatl beatles, but in the end she came around and said, i was wrong. Its great. Im telling you now baby and im going my way forget about you baby because im here to stay every song that i sing has a face that i sing it to, you know. So when something happens to me, its really funny. I know so many songs. When something happens to me, the song will occur at the same time. Ill think, oh, this song or that song, you know. And if its a song i can sing, then ill have to sing it. Ill just burn to sing it. I cant not sing it. I passed you on the street i cant help it if im still in love with you people would make the assumption that i was choosing the songs that we would do on these records, that i was wo working out the arrangements or this, that, and the other. And i would have to keep explaining it was linda and me, in that order. I cant help it if im still in love with you my sister used to play records and i thought i can do that. And i brushed you off, just so close to you linda knew a good song, and she knew why it was good. And better than that, she knew how to sing it better than you could sing it. When you become that sharp of a song stylist, you get authorship in a certain way. I consider her a she didnt write songs but she makes songs happen the way she wanted to hear them. I cant help it but to be in love with you on the country chart. I became the first artist to have a hit on all three charlts at the same time. [ applause ] the wheel was a huge turning foi point for her. A avalanche of success was hitting everywhere. She was the kind of forefront kind of stardom that had not happened at that point. People did not know the difficulty of being a woman, trailblazering and having a success of mick jagger. This is your home. The best home to be in is your own. Home instead offers personalized Inhome Services for your loved ones. Home instead senior care. To us, its personal. Okay, guys, the bus is down, but weve got a spot home instead senior care. Follow coach kevin. Lets go, guys. Sorry again that were fully booked. This is the best we could do on such short notice. This is amazing. 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We are on the road with linda and she was killing it every night. And feeling rock n roll and the idea you are working for the singer, it was not as cool as their own rock n roll band. It was just all the guys. There was not many of women musicians, it was a band of guys. Sometimes some of these guys were tough. I got a lot tougher and i used to talk about a truck driver. When i thinked of how i used t talk, i am shocked. We saw automatically, you start to imitate them. Linda was never comfortable being on the road. Obviously she did her job and part of her loved it. Who would not love it . There was another part of her that went you know this does not feel right. I love to sing and i love music so at some point you do whatever you have to do to do music. She could confess to me that she saw people in the front row and somebody leans over and says to her, she thought they were saying you know, shes the worse singer i dont like this. She really believed that. You get on the bus at night and card games gaoing on and everybody blasting the music and everybody drinking and a lot of drugs around and a lot of people would go on stage completely hammered. Everybody was up at night and when their gig ended, you dont go home and have milk. It was kind of the nighttime danger fun part of not having to go to bed. Key richards can do it so can i. Linda thing was diet pills. She went through a phase, not eating and being super skinny. It seems like it was so hard to be out there day after day and try to get up the energy to sort of do that when you are just rung out from the sense of being dislocated from place. I was with a bunch of people basically honest and the kind of paranoia that was introduced by drugs. It was so destructive and our ability to communicate with each other. It really saddens me. At some point we all just stopped. [ applause ] when Rolling Stone was ready to put ronstadt on the cover, that was her absolute peak until then. Generally it was a very male oriented denim clad warrior cover. Here comes Linda Ronstadt and she and Andy Liebermann put together this photo session that was like no other cover had been on the Rolling Stone before. She was honest. And hoped her heart. She says this gets lonely and i dont know where it is. It is an emotional journey and i am happy that i brought this kind of joy. When i am here alone in this malibu home that looks very cozy, it is lonely. A lot of show Business People down here, you know . It is not my style exactly. What did you do before . Nowhere, really . I was on the road for about ten dwre years and i didnt exactly have a home. Here at the dodger stadium. Miss Linda Ronstadt. I remember when dad was watching her at the game, she sang the national anthem. All of a sudden there she is, she would come to the limo straight to the restaurant from the game to have something to eat. My parents had a small restaurant on melrose avenue across the street. The Radio Station of the day. My dad was wearing a shirt that we called in mexico. It had four pockets and it was white. She said this was a good place. She was wearing the shirt that my dad wears. A lot of the people are also hated lucy. Lucy, shall we say loose with the checks right now. Our customers were not soon to be celebrities of the industry. They were the old guard of los angeles. You are talking about old school money. There was a big communal table that my father used to eat everybody at. You never had any idea who you would sit with. What happens was linda had to sign in that she wanted to change the age check. She wanted to hear something else. She had to step up on this little wine rack. At that moment, jerry brown comes in that room and he sees her and it was like wow. Whos she . So my father went and sat them together. And look, he fell in love with her, there was no question about that. He liked passionate music and passionate women. We had a really good time together. When you are with jerry brown, people expect you to have political views along the line of governor brown. Youre a singer and hes a politician our relationship is completely different. He did politics and i did music. It is easy to separate that. As far as i am concerned, it is a gig. If you disagree with the policy of the government, which i do disagree with the south african government. I dont think thats the reason to play music there. If i did that, i would not be able to play in the United States because i dont agree with their policies of Nuclear Power and warfare. We got this person that ran the country that i completely disagreed with. I certainly could not play austria or england or a lot of place s in the United States. South africa has a suppressive government. Why does anyone think i am controversial. Did you realize what you just talked about here . Received all your political views in one blow. I am just teasing. I dont think my political views are controversial. Who likes Nuclear Warfare . I remember her having a wall street journal in the 70s when she was dating jerry and i went, i thought she was really smart but she was well read and up on a lot of different things. Shes a wide ranging on her critical intellectual pursuit as she is in her musical pursuit. Jerry needed somebody can be fulltime there for him. You could not have two careers in that family. There is not enough time. I will never be married i will be no mans wife i intend to stay single for the rest of my life the same reason it is hard being a woman in the business, it is a different kind of lump. Well, you dont need to get married. We have our own income and you dont have to have the state verify that you love somebody and when that relationship is over, you leave. Either one of us were made for marriage or longterm relationships. Why did you blareak up . I cant remember. It is so easy to fall in love here i go breaking out out the moves it is so easy to fall in love you dont have to get married, there are alternatives. It is so easy to fall in love it is so easy to fall in love [ applause ] i have to confess i got a bad pressure on this guy. We had a little row mamance for while. He dumped me for this pig. Well, at least i got his picture. Does he love me i want to know, how can i tell if he loves me so is it in his eyes if you want to know if he loves me so it is in his kiss thats where it is. This cnns film, Linda Ronstadt the sound of my voice presented by volkswagon. Who will reach for the stars these are my people by the light of the earth, you can tell they are ours a new step to take and a new day will break yes, these are my people hey there im lonnie from lonnies lumber. If you need lumber wood, lonnies is better than good. We got oak, cherry, walnut, and more. And we also have the best selection of plywood clattering in the state. 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So while moving may still come with its share of headaches. No kidding. Were doing all we can to make moving simple, easy, awesome. Go to xfinity. Com moving to get started. To present the nominee of favorite female in rock and pop. The nominees are Linda Ronstadt. [ applause ] miss robert streisa miss Barbara Streisand and donna summers. You open it. I am too nervous. The winner is Linda Ronstadt. [ applause ] linda was the queen. She was like what beyonce is now. She was the first female rock n roll star. She was the only female artist to have five platinum albums in a row. And most of the platinum albums. Favorite female artist, linda ronsta ronstadt. The winner is Linda Ronstadt. The nature of being a pop musician is you have to sing it over and over again in your life. I didnt like singing in big arenas because you hear the guitar sound. I start looking for other things to do. There is this feeling she has of the music itself rather than the career itself. You know some people are just hard core careerists. Nothing is wrong with that. You know it is how your mind works that makes the difference. It is how you see yourself or how you see yourself in the world, you know . Not everybody is a pure art for art sake and not everybody is a career either. Musicians love music and they would not do it. She wanted to change. She got tired of doing arena rocks, she wanted to try different things. I picked up the phone and called my great friend who writes music criticism for the new york times. It is not good for the band. I want to see in the theater with a curtain. She sa he said the next time you come to new york, i will take you down to meet this fella, he does shakespeare and musical. He wanted to do t my mom love. And i actually learned all the soprano cards as a kid. I love singing but i never got a chance to in rock n roll. That was in her roots and in her upbringing, it was part of her authentic musical experience. Joe called me and said if i wanted to do the part, i can have it. No, i have to come and audition because i didnt know if i can sing it or not. She wanted to be certain that she can do it well. I was there for several rehearsal and she was fabulous. It is really hard and you cant learn it over night. You got to be in training. Yes. She had a great vision for herself, she didnt want to be singing rock n roll, she wanted to do everything. Just sitting in the circle on chairs, when i heard her voice, this soprano, gorgeous musical, pure. She made me cry. I just remember listening to that voice. And singing that stuff. Touching. A rock star who has the gut to go out there and do that kind of musical comedy. She didnt care. To her it was like a mountain to climb. Linda can bring herself to sing anything. She can sing oprah aera, she ca anything with her voice. We were nominated for the award for that show. Kevin did more than i did, all i did was walk around and sing. My mom died. I was not wither when she died. I just could not quite get it through my head that she was gone out of the world that i would never see her again. She had all these records. I thought i would like to sing some of those songs. Almost every evening, we listen to Frank Sinatra. People would tell linda you cant do this. I am guilty. When shes going to do the nels nelsons album. I didnt think it was a good idea. We that had this run going with the rock n roll records and country rock. I said i would like somebody to arrange it like Nelson Riddle. W he says why dont you just ask Nelson Riddle . I didnt know he was still alive. We are the only person that i know can do orchestration like this. I didnt know where you were or interested in working with me or heard of me or not. As soon as i started learning the song. It got inside me and i wanted to record them. I wanted to do more than anything than i wanted to do. I remember your phrase for this. These are songs i cant do. At some point it is like falling in love. Choice does not enter into it. I was thinking how can i sing these songs and Frank Sinatra has sung them. She studied every available version she can find of those songs. Shes a real student. Whats new, how did that romance come through she told me she wanted to kept those songs out of the elevator. She wanted to point out thats not where they belong. They were some of the best songs ever written. I would like to come to the record session. Sm when my sister was in high school, she got to wear the strapless dress and i wanted one of those dresses. By the time i got to high school, the styles have changed and i never get to have one. I said well put a show together and well all get to wear those dresses. Did you know how many times you have been nominated for a grammy between them . 45 times totaled. [ applause ] wow. And the albums were took them ten years to get it together. Made an album called trio, it was well worth the time. It is sensation. Would you welcome Linda Ronstadt. [ applause ] i meant dolly, i saw her singing. She was a wonder to be hold. She was one of the most beautiful girls. Shes just gorgeous. When she opened her mouth, and started to sing, i fell on the floor. Shes an amazing singer. Jolene, jolene i am begging you please dont take my man when i met my trip to natu nashville, she was making her record in the studio. It was unbelievablunbelievable. It was better than disney land. They found my music some where and wanted to meet me and thats how we all started. Emmy called me up, dolly parton is at my house, she has to come over. I was living like 40 minutes away and i got there in 20 minutes. She came over. The three of us, we were there with our idol, dolly. They had a big, old house, i was a bunch of hippies. It was free for all kinds of house, a dream for musicians. Somebody says well, sing something. When we heard her voices, it was injected in your vein. Well, this sounds pretty good. It was special. It was a sound of music of sisters. We learned so much from singing and you get to be there in a second. You get to have, it is like getting on the eagle and getting to see the world through the eagles experience. I get to sing through dollys voice or amys voice when i sing real close to them. Are we going to use audio harp. We want dolly to lead on everything. Well, dolly will sound great on that. No, you do. Linda is such a perfectionist. Shes a pain in the ass sometimes because shes such a perfectionist because she will not have it unless it is perfect. She used to make me sing the harmony over and over again. You are going to hit those one note. I dont know how all those intricate harmony like linda does. I just sing stuff raw from feeling, it is not always proper but it sounds good. [ applause ] dad, we need to talk about something important. You dont need to go anywhere dad, this is your home. The best home to be in is your own. 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I have been diagnoying to do th record years and years. I am getting around it this year, boy, i am going to do it. Our neighbor lives behind us, a great character, actor and a great singer of mexican folk song. We would hear him singing mexican songs. And linda knew all the songs. I dont think people thought of her as mexican. Certainly it never came up. I never heard her. The name ronstadt is not hernand hernandez. Shes certainly from mexican heritage but it was not the most apparent thing. When he asked me to harmonize, i was glad. There is a book that you can get. It is a dream of mine to make an album of these mexican songs that i learn from my father. He would get a guitar out and he would sing and i would fall asleep in somebodys lap listening to my dad singing the beautiful song. We always as a family, we always sing in spanish even though i didnt understand much of what i was singing. It was something that i learn to do, it was kind of lipreading, i kam to learn to sing that se as a singer, that took some time doing. Oh, i forget the beginning. Fighti, fight how do you do it . You do it the latin way. I am learning all these new things. My dad invited me to go to the conference. That way i got to meet the band. You are going to go to the sympat symphony and you are not going to find better musicians. I picked a couple of songs chltd these songs are traditional and difficult to do. I said well, it is the only songs i know so we better learn them. I made all these records for you. I am going to do it just for me. If i cant record this music, i am going to die. I dont understand any spanish. I didnt understand how popular those songs were but this was a lady who wanted to do it her way and whos not saying no. The Spanish Language album in the history of the emmy. Thats the whole Linda Ronstadts story right there in a nutshell. Linda decided to do something. 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But dont just take my word for it. Try out the network and see the savings for yourself. Switch and get both an unlimited plan and the Samsung Galaxy s10 plus included, for just 35 a month. For people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay. Com. I am seeing on tv, it is great. Shes a sweet humble person. I have been in new orleans for the worlds fair. And somebody says the nether brothers are playing. Lets go. Well get serious right now. Aaron was on stage singing the beautiful song. Usually i dont do anything like that because i like to rehearse everything first. I will sing with you any time and any place and anywhere. Look at this face the first morning i thought, well, i like singing with him. Everyone sounds good singing with aaron navel. We got to make a record together. I dont know much but i know i love you where can you be all i needed to know it was crazy stuff. Look at this dream i dont know know much but i know i love you that would be all there is to know [ applause ] i am too nervous. I want to say thank you to linda first and my wife joelle. Aaron and i won two records in for that record. But as time went on, there is something wrong with my voice. I lost a lot of different colors of my voice. There is a lot of things you do in singing, you turn your voice into different plaines to make different sounds and i could not do any of that. Turns out i had parkinsons disease. Seeing is really complex. I was made most aware of it by having it vanished. I still sing in my mind but i cant do it physically. I sang my last concert in november 7th, 2009, it was a mexican show. It must have been quite a reckoning to have this marvelous instrument that could always hit the notes and shape the s that could no longer hold the note. But, a lot of good record with her. I hear her laughing in my head a lot of time. We hear that cackle all the time. I cant imagine not being able to sing for linda is awful. I also know that nobody who can handle that kind of change or adjustment in a more logical and thoughtful and intelligent way than linda. I dont think she misses going on the road. I dont think she misses making records. I think she missed singing with her friends and singing in the living room with her family. There is no one on the planet that ever had or ever will have a voice like this. You know i am grateful for the time i had, i got to live a lot of my dreams and i feel lucky about it. At person with parkinsons, life after death is not the question. It is life before death. How are you going to do it . How are you going to live . The funny part there. I dont even have that note in my speaking range anymore. You said you couldnt sing anymore. This isnt really singing. Its not really singing. Are you enjoying it . I would enjoy it much more if i could sing it but i cant let them sing it without me. Its a family thing. We get to eat . Good. Ive been cheated and mistreated will i i be loved ive been put down ive been pushed around when will i i be loved when i find a new man that i want for mine ill take my word it happens every time ive been let loose ive been lied to when will i i be loved when i find a new man that i want for mine always breaks my heart in two it happens every time ive been cheated been mistreated when will i be loved when will i, i be loved tell me when will i be loved [ applause ] i declare before you all that my whole life shall be dedicated to your service. For over 100 years the royal family have cultivated this image of the perfect happy family. Royal lives have glorious moments. They have all these glamorous fairytale elements. There were 750 Million People around the world, all of their eyes on charles and dianna. For better, for worse. For better or worse