{"id":735,"date":"2013-08-26T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=735"},"modified":"2013-08-26T15:26:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T22:26:21","slug":"linda-ronstadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Linda Ronstadt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cropped-Screen-Shot-2013-08-26-at-3.42.40-PM.jpg\"<\/a>Linda Ronstadt is not a regular pop diva.<\/p>\n

You might have thought so when you heard \u201cDifferent Drum<\/a>\u201d in the 1960s. Back then Ronstadt was the lead singer of the Stone Ponys. She had a good string of hits after that. I can still hear, \u201cyou\u2019re no good, you\u2019re no good\u201d in my mind\u2019s ear and my favorite, \u201cIt\u2019s So Easy,\u201d written by the immortal Charles Harden Holley<\/a> (cq).<\/p>\n

But she was not content with just pop and rock and roll. She ventured as few pop singers would. She sang Gilbert and Sullivan, old fashion American standards with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra and stood on stage to do duets with the magnificent Lola Beltran<\/a> at the Tucson Mariachi Conference (1986). Few, if any, pop singers have demonstrated such range. She not only recorded Mexican standards based on her father\u2019s favorites, but also albums with Dolly Parton and Emmy Lou Harris with amazing harmonies.<\/p>\n

She is 67, not ancient by today\u2019s standards. So it was a sad and melancholy moment to read that she has Parkinson\u2019s and will not sing again.<\/p>\n

She is Tucson born and bred, homegrown with a long family history to boot. It was fun over the years to watch her career develop because her roots are here. That made it doubly sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linda Ronstadt is not a regular pop diva. You might have thought so when you heard \u201cDifferent Drum\u201d in the 1960s. Back then Ronstadt was the lead singer of the Stone Ponys. She had a good string of hits after that. I can still hear, \u201cyou\u2019re no good, you\u2019re no good\u201d in my mind\u2019s ear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,18,21],"tags":[87,88,89,90],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-people-people","category-history-tucson-history","tag-buddy-holly","tag-linda-ronstadt","tag-lola-beltran","tag-tucson-mariachi-conference","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}