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In 1977, Linda Ronstadt covered the song "Tumbling Dice" for her Simple Dreams studio album. In an interview with Hit Parader magazine, she said that her band played "Tumbling Dice" for sound checks, but nobody knew the words. Jagger thought Ronstadt should sing more rock and roll songs, suggested "Tumbling Dice", and wrote out the lyrics for ...
Simple Dreams is the eighth studio album by the American singer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1977 by Asylum Records.It includes several of her best-known songs, including her cover of the Rolling Stones song "Tumbling Dice" (featured in the film FM) and her version of the Roy Orbison song "Blue Bayou", which earned her a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year.
Here are Linda Ronstadt's best songs ever, ranked. ... 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 ...
The film also showed Ronstadt performing the songs "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me", "Love Me Tender", and "Tumbling Dice". Ronstadt was persuaded to record "Tumbling Dice" after Mick Jagger came backstage when she was at a concert and said, "You do too many ballads, you should do more rock and roll songs." [109]
It was followed by the US and Canadian top ten song "It's So Easy". In 1978, "Back in the U.S.A." made the US and Australian top 20, while "Ooh Baby Baby" made the US and Canadian top ten. The same year, "I Never Will Marry" (the B-side to "Tumbling Dice") made the US country top ten.
A non-album track, Ronstadt's version of the traditional "Rambler Gambler", was the B-side of "How Do I Make You" and was serviced to C&W radio, charting on the Billboard C&W chart at number 42. "How Do I Make You" appeared in the U.S. Top 10 for several weeks during March and April 1980. [ 5 ]
"Good Time Women" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' songwriting partnership, it is an upbeat [1] song with a blues boogie-woogie rhythm. "Good Time Women" formed the basis of the band's later song, "Tumbling Dice", which was released as a single in 1972.
Greatest Hits is Linda Ronstadt's first major compilation album, released at the end of 1976 for the holiday shopping season.It includes material from both her Capitol Records and Asylum Records output, and goes back to 1967 for The Stone Poneys' hit "Different Drum."