Linda Ronstadt Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: Tucson, Arizona
Father: Gilbert Ronstadt, hardware store owner
Mother: Ruth Mary (Copeman) Ronstadt, homemaker
Children: adopted: Carlos and Mary Clementine
Education: Attended University of Arizona, 1964
Other Facts
First female artist to have four consecutive albums go platinum.
Nominated for one Tony Award and one Emmy Award. She won the Emmy Award.
Explored many styles of music including folk, rock, country, opera, jazz and mariachi.
Played the character Mabel in the Broadway, television and film versions of “Pirates of Penzance.”
Her grandfather, Lloyd Groff Copeman, was an American inventor with hundreds of patents, including the first electric stove.
1981
Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley, who is credited with bringing reggae into popular pop music, died at the age of 36 in July 1977.
A devout Rastafarian, 2005 Marley reportedly passed away due to melanoma cancer a cancer which only affects white people. His father was a white Jamaican of English descent.
Even after his death his music has outsold any other reggae artist in history. In 2004, Irish singer Bono inducted Marely in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Earlier to that in 2001, he was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob Marley Image Credit: Supplied
Marley had numerous hit singers with perhaps 1981’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ being the song that he is most remembered for.
Thirty-nine years ago today (May 8, 1982), Willie Nelson probably only had one thing on his mind: celebrating his latest single, Always on My Mind. On that date, the song became Nelson s eighth No. 1 hit.
Written by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, Always on My Mind was the title track of and debut single from Nelson s 30th studio album. While the song has become one of the Texan s signature tunes, he is just one of several artists who found success with Always on My Mind; others include Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, John Wesley Ryles and the Pet Shop Boys. I wrote those two verses living in Springfield, Mo., Carson recalls. I’ll think of the melody or the chord structure or something I’ll come up with, and I’ll make I’ll see if that doesn’t fit the words or anything like that. If the melody is singable, the words are not far away. It’s only a story, you know.
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Top 10 Vince Gill Songs
Vince Gill songs are some of the best-written and most beloved of the last three-plus decades of popular music. The multi-talented singer, songwriter and guitarist has created a body of work that is nearly unmatched in the history of country music, in the process charting more than 40 singles and winning numerous CMA Awards and Grammys.
Gill s unique blend of exceptional song craft and instrumental ability, combined with one of the purest and most instantly identifiable voices in the genre, has helped him to consistently produce work that stands head and shoulders above that of most of his contemporaries in terms of sheer musical quality. Our list of the Top 10 Vince Gill Songs acknowledges the best of his many great songs from all facets of his career: