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This doesn't sound a thing like Buddy Holly's million-selling hit recording of the song, which topped the charts in Billboard and the U.

The Stone Poneys had planned to record an acoustic version of the song, but producer Nick Venet had other plans: the perfect chamber-pop arrangement — complete with a harpsichord solo! The CD reissue of the album was compiled with Ronstadt's second greatest hits collection and released by Rhino records in 2007 as Greatest Hits, Vol. Linda Ronstadt’s Greatest Hits will be reissued on black 180g vinyl with a special textured jacket for International Women’s History Month on March 4, 2022. Ronstadt's initial reaction to Peter Asher's guitar-driven production on her first chart-topping single, as revealed in the Grammy-winning documentary, "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice"? It's a stunning performance of a classic song that added new dimensions to her vocal range against the backdrop of Riddle's lush yet tasteful orchestration.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Released as the flip side of "Tumbling Dice," her cover of a Rolling Stones song, "I Never Will Marry" became a Top 10 country hit in the summer of '78.

Linda Ronstadt interview: From Tucson to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, her lifetime love affair with music 25. topped by Ronstadt vowing "All I'm sayin' is I'm not ready for any person, place or thing tryin' to pull the reins in on me" with total conviction. Ronstadt was among the biggest pop stars of the '70s, with three chart-topping albums and a string of Top 10 singles. A bold departure for a rock performer of the early '80s, Ronstadt's first album of standards hit the charts at No.The Everlys' record doesn't start with guitars sliding into a chord and just letting it ring at the top of each line. There's a reason Ronstadt chose this torch song first recorded by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra in 1939 as both the title track and lead single when she hit us with the first installment in a trilogy of albums exploring the Great American Songbook with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. She earned a Tony nomination for her starring role in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway, interpreted standards on a trilogy of albums tracked with famed arranger Nelson Riddle and honored the Mexican side of her heritage on mariachi albums sung in Spanish.

The two records showcase Ronstadt’s stylistic versatility, hopping across genres from new wave to country to pop and rock, covering some of the most popular standards of her heyday and making them completely her own. And the version on 1973's "Don't Cry Now" album, where the fiddle player and steel guitarist share a solo, went Top 20 on the country charts. The most subdued of Ronstadt's Buddy Holly covers (this one written by Paul Anka) takes its cue from the despair in Anka's lyrics, not the skip in Holly's step on the original recording.In a similar vein, she handled the Motown standard, "Heat Wave," like a pro, this time giving it the slightest hint of a country twang. This version on 1977's "Simple Dreams" feels much more hopeless — in a good way, especially when Parton chimes in on the mournful chorus. It includes material from both her Capitol Records and Asylum Records output, and goes back to 1967 for The Stone Poneys' hit " Different Drum.