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Linda Ronstadt recorded "It's So Easy" in 1977 for her album Simple Dreams, produced by Peter Asher. Her recording was released as a single by Asylum Records in the autumn of that year. It hit the Billboard Top Five simultaneously with her recording of "Blue Bayou". It also reached No. 9 in Canada and No. 11 in the United Kingdom.
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.
It's So Easy may refer to: "It's So Easy" (Guns N' Roses song), 1987 "It's So Easy!" (The Crickets song), 1958, with a cover version by Linda Ronstadt in 1977 "It's So Easy" (Andy Williams song), 1970 "It's So Easy", a song by Hawkwind from their 1974 album Hall of the Mountain Grill "It's So Easy", a song by Olivia Newton-John from Have You ...
Here are Linda Ronstadt's best songs ever, ranked. Yes, "Blue Bayou" and "When Will I Be Loved" are included. See what else made our list.
Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona on July 15, 1946, [27] the third of four children of Gilbert Ronstadt (1911–1995), a prosperous machinery merchant who ran the F. Ronstadt Co., [28] and Ruth Mary (née Copeman) Ronstadt (1914–1982), a homemaker.
In 1980, both of Ronstadt's singles made the US top ten: "How Do I Make You" and "Hurt So Bad". In 1982, both "Get Closer" and " I Knew You When " made the US top 40. Between 1983 and 1984, the singles "Easy for You to Say", " What's New " and " I've Got a Crush on You " made top ten positions on the US and Canadian adult contemporary charts.
"All My Life" is a hit song written by Karla Bonoff and originally performed by Bonoff on her album New World (1988). The following year, Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville performed the song as a duet on Ronstadt's triple platinum-certified album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989); this was the second global hit from Ronstadt and Neville.
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 ...