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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.
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]
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 same year, "I Never Will Marry" (the B-side to "Tumbling Dice") made the US country top ten. 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.
In 1970, Linda Ronstadt released the song as a single and on the album Silk Purse. [1] The single spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 25, [2] while reaching No. 15 on Canada's "RPM 100" (her first single there), [3] No. 8 on Canada's CHUM 30 chart, [4] and No. 20 on Billboard ' s Easy Listening chart.
Heart Like a Wheel is the fifth solo studio album by Linda Ronstadt, released in November 1974.It was Ronstadt's last album to be released by Capitol Records.At the time of its recording, Ronstadt had already moved to Asylum Records and released her first album there; due to contractual obligations, though, Heart Like a Wheel was released by Capitol.
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...