1 00:00:34,641 --> 00:00:38,542 [waves crashing] [seagull cawing] 2 00:00:40,820 --> 00:00:45,480 [bongos playing rhythmically] 3 00:00:47,930 --> 00:00:51,451 [audience applauds and cheers] 4 00:00:51,486 --> 00:00:54,592 JOHNNY CASH: Right now I'd like you to meet a young lady, 5 00:00:54,627 --> 00:00:56,249 a very lovely young lady, 6 00:00:56,284 --> 00:00:58,596 that I really think has what it takes to be around 7 00:00:58,631 --> 00:01:01,254 for a long, long time to come. 8 00:01:01,289 --> 00:01:04,119 I'd like you to meet Ms. Linda Ronstadt. 9 00:01:04,154 --> 00:01:05,396 [audience cheers] 10 00:01:05,431 --> 00:01:08,330 [You're No Good by Linda Ronstadt] 11 00:01:08,365 --> 00:01:10,505 ♪ Feelin' better ♪ 12 00:01:10,539 --> 00:01:12,645 ♪ Now that we're through ♪ 13 00:01:12,679 --> 00:01:14,509 ♪ Feelin' better ♪ 14 00:01:14,543 --> 00:01:17,167 ♪ 'Cause I'm over you ♪ 15 00:01:17,201 --> 00:01:19,134 ♪ I learned my lesson ♪ 16 00:01:19,169 --> 00:01:21,274 ♪ It left a scar ♪ 17 00:01:21,309 --> 00:01:24,864 ♪ Now I see How you really are ♪ 18 00:01:24,898 --> 00:01:27,211 ♪ You're no good You're no good ♪ 19 00:01:27,246 --> 00:01:31,353 ♪ You're no good Baby, you're no good ♪ 20 00:01:31,836 --> 00:01:33,873 ♪ I'm gonna say it again ♪ 21 00:01:33,907 --> 00:01:36,151 ♪ You're no good You're no good ♪ 22 00:01:36,186 --> 00:01:39,223 ♪ You're no good Baby, you're no good ♪ 23 00:01:39,258 --> 00:01:40,880 Here's a gal who really sings great. 24 00:01:40,914 --> 00:01:43,779 We had her on the show last year and she was sensational. 25 00:01:44,642 --> 00:01:46,817 DICK CAVETT: My first guest occupies a prominent place 26 00:01:46,851 --> 00:01:48,474 in the Top 40 record charts 27 00:01:48,508 --> 00:01:50,200 and she has a big one right now. 28 00:01:50,234 --> 00:01:52,512 HUGH HEFNER: Linda Ronstadt is one of the really great talents 29 00:01:52,547 --> 00:01:53,479 in country music. 30 00:01:53,513 --> 00:01:55,688 Would you welcome please Linda Ronstadt. 31 00:01:55,722 --> 00:01:57,448 Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Linda Ronstadt. 32 00:01:57,483 --> 00:02:00,969 ♪ Now baby and I'm going my way ♪ 33 00:02:01,003 --> 00:02:02,902 ♪ Forget about you, baby ♪ 34 00:02:02,936 --> 00:02:04,869 ♪ 'Cause I'm leavin' To stay ♪ 35 00:02:04,904 --> 00:02:06,216 ♪ You're no good... ♪ 36 00:02:06,250 --> 00:02:09,702 Linda could literally sing anything. 37 00:02:09,736 --> 00:02:11,221 ♪ No good [No good] ♪ 38 00:02:11,255 --> 00:02:13,913 BONNIE RAITT: I don't think anybody has tried more different styles 39 00:02:13,947 --> 00:02:15,915 and nailed it than Linda has. 40 00:02:16,709 --> 00:02:19,919 There's not that many people that can pull off new wave music 41 00:02:19,953 --> 00:02:22,611 and rock and the most beautiful country ballads. 42 00:02:22,646 --> 00:02:24,648 Her range is huge. 43 00:02:25,752 --> 00:02:28,376 JOHN BOYLAN: She decided what she wanted to do. 44 00:02:29,998 --> 00:02:33,519 More important what she was authentic at doing. 45 00:02:33,726 --> 00:02:35,831 And they always told her no, you can't do this, 46 00:02:35,866 --> 00:02:36,970 you'll ruin your career. 47 00:02:37,005 --> 00:02:38,489 She did it anyway. 48 00:02:38,524 --> 00:02:41,596 ♪ Good ♪ 49 00:02:46,428 --> 00:02:50,260 [applause] 50 00:02:55,851 --> 00:02:58,820 [guitar picking] 51 00:02:59,338 --> 00:03:01,719 LINDA RONSTADT: Someone once asked why people sing. 52 00:03:03,894 --> 00:03:06,276 I answered that they sing for any of the same reasons 53 00:03:06,310 --> 00:03:07,622 birds sing. 54 00:03:09,313 --> 00:03:10,763 They sing for a mate. 55 00:03:12,385 --> 00:03:13,938 To claim their territory. 56 00:03:15,664 --> 00:03:17,804 Or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive 57 00:03:17,839 --> 00:03:19,875 in the midst of a beautiful day. 58 00:03:22,326 --> 00:03:24,915 They sing so the subsequent generations won't forget what 59 00:03:24,949 --> 00:03:28,953 the current generations endured or dreamed or delighted in. 60 00:03:33,026 --> 00:03:35,443 There are a lot of really good singers out in the world. 61 00:03:35,891 --> 00:03:38,031 A lot of better singers than I am. 62 00:03:40,517 --> 00:03:42,967 What I did that was different from other singers, 63 00:03:43,002 --> 00:03:45,487 I did a whole lot of different kinds of material. 64 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,388 People would think that I was trying to reinvent myself 65 00:03:49,422 --> 00:03:51,044 but I never invented myself to start with. 66 00:03:51,079 --> 00:03:53,530 I just kind of popped out into the world. 67 00:03:56,395 --> 00:03:59,052 [gentle guitar picking] 68 00:04:00,709 --> 00:04:02,470 My mom grew up in Michigan. 69 00:04:04,092 --> 00:04:05,887 Her dad was an inventor. 70 00:04:07,026 --> 00:04:09,028 He was the third to Thomas Edison in the number 71 00:04:09,062 --> 00:04:11,651 of useful inventions in the 50s. 72 00:04:11,686 --> 00:04:16,035 He invented the electric stove, the electric toaster. 73 00:04:18,693 --> 00:04:20,764 The thermostat for Westinghouse. 74 00:04:24,043 --> 00:04:26,045 But my grandmother had Parkinson's disease 75 00:04:26,079 --> 00:04:28,910 and he spent all his money trying to find a cure. 76 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,982 And that's what I have now. 77 00:04:35,157 --> 00:04:37,090 My mom was really smart too. 78 00:04:37,436 --> 00:04:39,334 She wanted to study math and physics 79 00:04:39,369 --> 00:04:42,061 and the University of Arizona was really good for that. 80 00:04:42,095 --> 00:04:45,064 She came out to Tucson where she met my father. 81 00:04:46,479 --> 00:04:48,412 My great grandfather Frederick Ronstadt 82 00:04:48,447 --> 00:04:51,104 came from Germany to Mexico in 1839. 83 00:04:51,657 --> 00:04:55,626 My father's father, Frederico, moved to Tucson when he was 14 84 00:04:55,661 --> 00:04:57,421 to work as a wagon maker. 85 00:04:57,801 --> 00:04:59,768 But his true passion was music. 86 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:03,013 [mariachi music] 87 00:05:04,463 --> 00:05:07,914 So he started the Club Filharmonico Tucsonense. 88 00:05:08,984 --> 00:05:11,401 He was the one who wrote the arrangements 89 00:05:11,435 --> 00:05:13,713 and taught everybody how to play their instruments. 90 00:05:13,955 --> 00:05:15,646 He was like the Music Man. 91 00:05:16,095 --> 00:05:17,648 If you wanted to serenade your sweetheart, 92 00:05:17,683 --> 00:05:20,064 you'd get my grandfather's band to go. 93 00:05:20,444 --> 00:05:22,584 And if you had a wedding or a funeral, 94 00:05:22,619 --> 00:05:23,999 well, they'd show up for that. 95 00:05:27,209 --> 00:05:30,696 First time my mother ever saw my dad he was riding his horse 96 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:32,939 up the steps of her sorority house. 97 00:05:33,561 --> 00:05:35,183 [man singing romantically in Spanish] 98 00:05:35,217 --> 00:05:38,048 My dad had a lovely baritone tenor voice 99 00:05:38,082 --> 00:05:40,084 and knew a lot of beautiful Mexican love songs 100 00:05:40,119 --> 00:05:42,155 that were rooted in his childhood. 101 00:05:42,190 --> 00:05:44,848 [man singing romantically in Spanish] 102 00:05:44,882 --> 00:05:47,609 He serenaded my mother underneath her balcony. 103 00:05:47,644 --> 00:05:50,509 [man singing romantically in Spanish] 104 00:05:51,579 --> 00:05:53,684 And she fell big for him. 105 00:05:56,894 --> 00:05:59,483 ♪ I'm a rambler ♪ 106 00:06:00,173 --> 00:06:02,486 ♪ I'm a gambler ♪ 107 00:06:03,176 --> 00:06:09,113 ♪ I'm a long way from home ♪ 108 00:06:09,148 --> 00:06:11,150 ♪ If you people ♪ 109 00:06:12,220 --> 00:06:14,774 ♪ Don't like me ♪ 110 00:06:14,809 --> 00:06:20,849 ♪ You can leave me alone ♪ 111 00:06:21,816 --> 00:06:23,576 RONSTADT: I grew up in Tucson 112 00:06:23,611 --> 00:06:26,579 on the last ten acres of my grandfather's cattle ranch. 113 00:06:26,993 --> 00:06:30,480 We were very isolated so if you wanted entertainment 114 00:06:30,514 --> 00:06:32,482 you kind of had to make your own. 115 00:06:32,930 --> 00:06:34,725 [lively old-time music] 116 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,418 There was a lot of music going on in that house. 117 00:06:38,004 --> 00:06:39,696 Some of it came in through the radio. 118 00:06:39,730 --> 00:06:42,077 That was my best friend in the world. 119 00:06:42,699 --> 00:06:44,045 ♪ How's about cooking... ♪ 120 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:46,737 We had an amazing radio in Tucson 121 00:06:46,772 --> 00:06:48,912 because it was really close to the border. 122 00:06:49,740 --> 00:06:53,675 [woman singing in Spanish] 123 00:06:55,090 --> 00:06:56,782 We could get the Louisiana Hayride. 124 00:06:56,816 --> 00:06:59,647 ♪ Get goin' Louisiana Hayride ♪ 125 00:06:59,681 --> 00:07:02,857 ♪ No use for callin' de roll ♪ 126 00:07:02,891 --> 00:07:04,721 ♪ Can't help... ♪ 127 00:07:04,755 --> 00:07:05,998 RONSTADT: American standards. 128 00:07:06,032 --> 00:07:10,105 ♪ ...loving that man of mine ♪ 129 00:07:10,140 --> 00:07:11,659 RONSTADT: But my grandmother and grandfather 130 00:07:11,693 --> 00:07:13,695 were classical music devotees. 131 00:07:13,730 --> 00:07:16,871 [operatic vocalizing] 132 00:07:19,011 --> 00:07:21,254 So I would go over to their house on Saturday morning 133 00:07:21,289 --> 00:07:25,155 and listen to a live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera 134 00:07:25,845 --> 00:07:27,916 and come home and my dad would be playing Mexican songs 135 00:07:27,951 --> 00:07:29,884 on the piano. My mom would be playing 136 00:07:29,918 --> 00:07:31,886 some Gilbert and Sullivan piece. 137 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,889 ♪ True peace of mind ♪ 138 00:07:35,096 --> 00:07:36,684 RONSTADT: My sister loved Hank Williams. 139 00:07:36,718 --> 00:07:38,617 She loved country music. 140 00:07:38,824 --> 00:07:40,791 ♪ I can't help it ♪ 141 00:07:40,826 --> 00:07:44,899 ♪ If I'm still in love With you ♪ 142 00:07:44,933 --> 00:07:47,557 My brother would be singing really high soprano. 143 00:07:49,282 --> 00:07:53,528 He was in a world-class boys choir and he was their soloist. 144 00:07:53,873 --> 00:07:56,738 She wanted to know how to sing so I taught here. 145 00:07:56,773 --> 00:07:58,671 So she learned about vibrato and all that kind of stuff 146 00:07:58,706 --> 00:08:00,742 when she was like five, six years old. 147 00:08:01,191 --> 00:08:03,331 [multiple voices singing] 148 00:08:03,365 --> 00:08:06,058 LINDA RONSTADT: We learned so much about singing from each other. 149 00:08:06,817 --> 00:08:09,855 It was completely incorporated into what we did. 150 00:08:09,889 --> 00:08:12,651 We sang at the dinner table, we sang in the car, 151 00:08:12,685 --> 00:08:14,825 we sang with our hands in the dishwater. 152 00:08:15,654 --> 00:08:19,140 I thought Spanish was this magical musical language. 153 00:08:21,176 --> 00:08:23,593 When I was growing up I thought people sang in Spanish 154 00:08:23,627 --> 00:08:25,077 and spoke in English. 155 00:08:26,009 --> 00:08:28,287 If you spoke Spanish on the playground you'd be punished. 156 00:08:28,321 --> 00:08:30,151 You weren't allowed to do it. 157 00:08:31,808 --> 00:08:33,913 [folk music] 158 00:08:33,948 --> 00:08:35,570 My sister and brother and I eventually formed 159 00:08:35,605 --> 00:08:36,882 a little group. We called ourselves 160 00:08:36,916 --> 00:08:38,987 The New Union Ramblers. 161 00:08:39,022 --> 00:08:41,127 We thought that sounded folky. 162 00:08:42,128 --> 00:08:45,925 Bobby Kimmel was a guitar player that I met in Tucson. 163 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,169 He wrote songs about his own life. 164 00:08:48,825 --> 00:08:51,275 I remember them being one of the best vocal groups 165 00:08:51,310 --> 00:08:52,863 I had ever heard. 166 00:08:53,208 --> 00:08:56,108 [folk music] 167 00:08:56,142 --> 00:08:58,248 RONSTADT: Bobby joined our family group 168 00:08:58,282 --> 00:09:01,596 and then he and I used to play as a duet sometimes. 169 00:09:03,943 --> 00:09:06,221 We played little clubs in Tucson but there wasn't very much 170 00:09:06,256 --> 00:09:08,223 opportunity for us there. 171 00:09:10,812 --> 00:09:14,333 At some point reality stepped in and my sister had three kids. 172 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,268 And then my brother went to work for the police department. 173 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,342 Bobby wanted to earn some money playing music. 174 00:09:24,343 --> 00:09:26,379 So he went off to California. 175 00:09:27,864 --> 00:09:29,866 And I was the last man standing. 176 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:31,350 [California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas] 177 00:09:31,384 --> 00:09:35,250 ♪ All the leaves are brown [All the leaves are brown] ♪ 178 00:09:35,699 --> 00:09:39,185 KIMMEL: I went to LA with the intention of forming a band. 179 00:09:40,773 --> 00:09:44,915 When I saw the quality of the singers that were out there 180 00:09:44,950 --> 00:09:47,400 I started writing to Linda saying 181 00:09:47,435 --> 00:09:52,405 if you come out we could form a band and get a record deal. 182 00:09:54,235 --> 00:09:56,409 RONSTADT: I knew they had more clubs to play in Los Angeles. 183 00:09:56,444 --> 00:09:57,790 ♪ California dreaming [California dreaming] ♪ 184 00:10:00,655 --> 00:10:02,968 PETE RONSTADT: I was telling her this is kind of an iffy thing. 185 00:10:03,002 --> 00:10:04,763 You might starve to death or you might find yourself 186 00:10:04,797 --> 00:10:07,041 washing dishes and waiting tables 187 00:10:07,075 --> 00:10:08,836 before you ever get discovered. 188 00:10:08,870 --> 00:10:10,976 She says I'm willing to take the chance. 189 00:10:12,494 --> 00:10:14,358 LINDA RONSTADT: I was 18 years old. 190 00:10:15,739 --> 00:10:18,121 We had a house on the beach for 80 bucks a month 191 00:10:18,155 --> 00:10:19,432 in Santa Monica. 192 00:10:19,812 --> 00:10:21,780 We split the rent three ways. 193 00:10:21,814 --> 00:10:24,921 It was just great. It was right on the beach. 194 00:10:28,303 --> 00:10:31,341 KIMMEL: Once she got there we got to work right away 195 00:10:31,375 --> 00:10:33,688 and we used to practice every day. 196 00:10:33,930 --> 00:10:36,795 [guitar playing] 197 00:10:37,416 --> 00:10:39,452 RONSTADT: Bobby introduced me to a really good guitar player 198 00:10:39,487 --> 00:10:41,972 named Kenny Edwards and we formed a little band 199 00:10:42,007 --> 00:10:44,078 and we called ourselves The Stone Ponies. 200 00:10:44,112 --> 00:10:46,011 ♪ Look out your window ♪ 201 00:10:46,045 --> 00:10:49,048 ♪ The rain is turning Into snow ♪ 202 00:10:49,946 --> 00:10:51,844 We started playing little beatnik dives 203 00:10:51,879 --> 00:10:54,709 and strange pizza parlors, wherever we could get a job. 204 00:10:54,951 --> 00:10:56,849 ♪ Oh how you love me... ♪ 205 00:10:56,884 --> 00:11:00,266 There was the trip where I heard this band called The Byrds. 206 00:11:00,301 --> 00:11:01,958 They had a light show 207 00:11:01,992 --> 00:11:04,754 and a lot of acid tripping kind of stuff going on. 208 00:11:06,410 --> 00:11:08,309 The Whiskey A Go Go was very rock and roll. 209 00:11:08,343 --> 00:11:10,069 I heard the Doors there and I thought 210 00:11:10,104 --> 00:11:13,003 oh they're be a really hit band if they get rid of their singer. 211 00:11:13,555 --> 00:11:16,317 ♪ Go, love Open up the door... ♪ 212 00:11:17,214 --> 00:11:18,906 RONSTADT: There was the Ash Grove. 213 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:21,460 That was where you go for authentic folk music. 214 00:11:21,909 --> 00:11:23,427 It's where I first heard Ry Cooder. 215 00:11:23,462 --> 00:11:29,157 ♪ Have you seen that vigilante man? ♪ 216 00:11:31,228 --> 00:11:33,472 Ry Cooder was then and now the most amazing guitar player 217 00:11:33,506 --> 00:11:35,094 I've ever heard. 218 00:11:35,129 --> 00:11:37,027 I knew that had good musicians in Los Angeles 219 00:11:37,062 --> 00:11:38,788 but this guy is really something. 220 00:11:38,822 --> 00:11:40,099 I thought I'm staying here. 221 00:11:40,134 --> 00:11:41,998 I'm not going back to Tucson to live. 222 00:11:42,032 --> 00:11:44,759 ♪ All over the land ♪ 223 00:11:45,139 --> 00:11:47,762 [slide guitar playing] 224 00:11:49,868 --> 00:11:52,802 RY COODER: She came to Los Angeles at a time 225 00:11:52,836 --> 00:11:56,115 when the LA rock and roll scene was in gear and was going. 226 00:11:56,150 --> 00:11:58,842 Because, see, after The Byrds did their thing 227 00:11:58,877 --> 00:12:00,223 with Mr. Tambourine Man, 228 00:12:00,257 --> 00:12:02,328 then the whole damn thing broke loose 229 00:12:02,363 --> 00:12:04,848 and all the record companies when scurrying around 230 00:12:04,883 --> 00:12:08,852 like headless chickens trying to figure out what to do. 231 00:12:08,887 --> 00:12:10,785 Who can sing folk rock 232 00:12:10,820 --> 00:12:14,824 and how can we define what this thing is going to be? 233 00:12:15,825 --> 00:12:19,863 ♪ Hey Mr. Tambourine Man ♪ 234 00:12:19,898 --> 00:12:21,796 ♪ Play a song for me ♪ 235 00:12:21,831 --> 00:12:23,246 DON HENLEY: There was a lot of cross pollination 236 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,869 that started happening in the mid-60s, you know, 237 00:12:25,904 --> 00:12:28,941 country music and folk music and rock music started 238 00:12:28,976 --> 00:12:32,911 commingling and blending and you would get all these hybrids. 239 00:12:35,051 --> 00:12:38,226 TV ANCHOR: The Troubadour, just a few blocks from Hollywood Boulevard, 240 00:12:38,261 --> 00:12:40,988 is known as an avant garde cafe. 241 00:12:41,022 --> 00:12:44,301 It's the favorite of Hollywood's young and young at heart. 242 00:12:45,233 --> 00:12:47,304 RONSTADT: The Troubadour was where everybody went to hang out 243 00:12:47,339 --> 00:12:48,581 and to be noticed. 244 00:12:48,616 --> 00:12:50,929 You wanted to make yourself known to the record community at 245 00:12:50,963 --> 00:12:54,380 large, you go to the Troubadour, play an open mic night. 246 00:12:55,347 --> 00:12:57,211 JD SOUTHER: I can't even name all the great songwriters 247 00:12:57,245 --> 00:12:58,488 that came through there. 248 00:12:58,522 --> 00:13:01,249 I mean, Laura Nyro, Neil Young, 249 00:13:01,284 --> 00:13:03,251 Joni Mitchell, Tim Hardin, 250 00:13:03,286 --> 00:13:06,841 Kris Kristofferson, Rick Nelson, Elton John, 251 00:13:06,876 --> 00:13:08,291 Jackson Browne. 252 00:13:08,325 --> 00:13:10,465 It was just week after week of amazing, 253 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:12,467 game-changing songwriters. 254 00:13:12,916 --> 00:13:15,574 ♪ Some of them were dreamers ♪ 255 00:13:17,265 --> 00:13:20,234 ♪ Some of them were fools ♪ 256 00:13:20,993 --> 00:13:23,340 ♪ Who were making plans ♪ 257 00:13:23,375 --> 00:13:26,309 ♪ And thinking of the future ♪ 258 00:13:26,550 --> 00:13:28,898 I mean, you tried to get a gig at the Troubadour. 259 00:13:28,932 --> 00:13:30,900 You wanted to play the Troubadour. 260 00:13:30,934 --> 00:13:33,903 All kinds of industry people hung around in the bar. 261 00:13:34,213 --> 00:13:35,905 ROBERT HILBURN: The Troubadour is important because 262 00:13:35,939 --> 00:13:37,389 that's where you can get seen. 263 00:13:37,423 --> 00:13:39,046 It was the place to play. 264 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:40,564 Like the minor leagues in baseball. 265 00:13:40,599 --> 00:13:43,395 This was your chance, this was your great chance. 266 00:13:44,465 --> 00:13:46,916 DAVID GEFFEN: The Troubadour was a bustling place. 267 00:13:46,950 --> 00:13:50,229 They had a hootenanny night where new artists would come 268 00:13:50,264 --> 00:13:53,163 and sing a few songs and I used to go to every hootenanny night 269 00:13:53,198 --> 00:13:55,234 to see if there was anybody really talented. 270 00:13:55,441 --> 00:13:58,030 BROWNE: The Hoot, the Monday night open mic Hootenanny 271 00:13:58,065 --> 00:13:59,998 where you'd wait and get on the list 272 00:14:00,032 --> 00:14:01,654 and you go up there and sing your new song. 273 00:14:01,689 --> 00:14:02,966 [applause] 274 00:14:03,001 --> 00:14:09,214 [various folk music] 275 00:14:17,705 --> 00:14:18,948 SOUTHER: You got two or three songs. 276 00:14:18,982 --> 00:14:21,951 If you were no good you probably didn't last the second song 277 00:14:21,985 --> 00:14:24,954 because were, "Hey, get off!" 278 00:14:24,988 --> 00:14:27,128 And maybe not even the first song. 279 00:14:28,267 --> 00:14:34,929 ♪ Oh, you and I, travel to the Beat of a different drum... ♪ 280 00:14:34,964 --> 00:14:36,413 RONSTADT: I heard a song called Different Drum 281 00:14:36,448 --> 00:14:38,726 by this bluegrass group called The Greenbriar Boys. 282 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,004 ♪ Every time you make... ♪ 283 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:42,557 It was written by Mike Nesmith 284 00:14:42,592 --> 00:14:44,628 who was eventually going to join the Monkees. 285 00:14:44,663 --> 00:14:50,013 ♪ You cry and moan And say it will work out ♪ 286 00:14:50,358 --> 00:14:54,155 ♪ But honey child I've got my doubts ♪ 287 00:14:54,190 --> 00:14:57,918 ♪ You can't see the forest For the trees ♪ 288 00:14:59,436 --> 00:15:03,578 ♪ So don't get me wrong It's not that I knock it ♪ 289 00:15:03,613 --> 00:15:06,996 ♪ it's just that I am not In the market ♪ 290 00:15:07,030 --> 00:15:13,347 ♪ For a boy who wants To love only me ♪ 291 00:15:13,588 --> 00:15:15,728 RONSTADT: We got an immediate response from managers 292 00:15:15,763 --> 00:15:18,421 and people who were interested in our career. 293 00:15:19,215 --> 00:15:22,356 KIMMEL: Herb Cohen was managing Frank Zappa. 294 00:15:22,563 --> 00:15:25,428 We had head that he had been a soldier of fortune. 295 00:15:25,462 --> 00:15:27,464 He was have killed somebody. 296 00:15:27,499 --> 00:15:29,225 He was a badass. 297 00:15:29,259 --> 00:15:32,573 But he was established and he immediately said, 298 00:15:32,607 --> 00:15:34,609 "I can get you a record deal." 299 00:15:34,644 --> 00:15:40,029 ♪ I believe And I see no sense... ♪ 300 00:15:40,063 --> 00:15:43,584 We recorded a few things, just the tree of us. 301 00:15:43,618 --> 00:15:47,139 Then he took those to the people in power 302 00:15:47,174 --> 00:15:49,970 and said, "I want to record these guys." 303 00:15:51,523 --> 00:15:53,145 Capitol said okay. 304 00:15:53,180 --> 00:15:55,803 We signed papers and we were off and running. 305 00:15:55,837 --> 00:15:59,324 ♪ Live without me ♪ 306 00:16:01,326 --> 00:16:02,741 RONSTADT: So we recorded it with a mandolin 307 00:16:02,775 --> 00:16:05,226 and a couple of acoustic guitars 308 00:16:05,261 --> 00:16:07,159 and the record company didn't like it. 309 00:16:07,194 --> 00:16:10,231 And so they said well come back, we want to recut the song. 310 00:16:10,645 --> 00:16:14,132 KIMMEL: Certainly everything changed in the studio. 311 00:16:14,408 --> 00:16:16,030 RONSTADT: They had a bunch of strings in there 312 00:16:16,065 --> 00:16:18,136 and it was an orchestra session. I went wait a minute, 313 00:16:18,170 --> 00:16:19,654 this isn't the way I thought about the song. 314 00:16:19,689 --> 00:16:22,864 [Different Drum by the Stone Poneys] 315 00:16:22,899 --> 00:16:24,625 I said I don't want to put it on the record because 316 00:16:24,659 --> 00:16:26,834 that wasn't the way I'd originally envisioned it. 317 00:16:26,868 --> 00:16:32,253 ♪ You and I count to the beat Of a different drum ♪ 318 00:16:32,288 --> 00:16:36,568 ♪ Oh can't you tell By the way I run ♪ 319 00:16:36,602 --> 00:16:39,709 ♪ Every time You make eyes at me ♪ 320 00:16:39,743 --> 00:16:41,297 RONSTADT: It was a good thing they didn't listen to me 321 00:16:41,331 --> 00:16:43,333 because it was a huge hit. 322 00:16:43,368 --> 00:16:45,542 PETE RONSTADT: I'm driving down the road, you know, in my car 323 00:16:45,577 --> 00:16:48,373 listening to KTKT radio and all of a sudden 324 00:16:48,407 --> 00:16:50,409 she's singing Different Drum. 325 00:16:50,444 --> 00:16:52,239 I said wait a minute! 326 00:16:54,103 --> 00:16:56,139 BONNIE RAITT: I loved her voice from the first time I heard her. 327 00:16:56,174 --> 00:16:57,830 I was a freshman in college. 328 00:16:57,865 --> 00:16:59,798 The Stone Poneys, Different Drum. 329 00:16:59,832 --> 00:17:01,248 Yeah, baby! 330 00:17:01,282 --> 00:17:03,146 It was just like wow! 331 00:17:03,181 --> 00:17:07,357 It was just like to pull back the covering 332 00:17:07,392 --> 00:17:10,705 of a fully developed vocal stylist. 333 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:17,574 ♪ Yes and I ain't sayin' You ain't pretty ♪ 334 00:17:17,609 --> 00:17:21,406 ♪ All I'm sayin' I'm not ready ♪ 335 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,548 HILBURN: Most of the time as a critic you're sitting there saying, 336 00:17:25,582 --> 00:17:28,585 "We don't give the artist a plus for this and a minus for this. 337 00:17:28,620 --> 00:17:31,140 This is kind of good, that's not so good." 338 00:17:31,174 --> 00:17:33,418 Bang! It was like a home run. 339 00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:35,282 ♪ Goodbye! ♪ 340 00:17:35,316 --> 00:17:36,731 ♪ I believe in a... ♪ 341 00:17:36,766 --> 00:17:39,320 KIMMEL: We were out on this tour 342 00:17:39,355 --> 00:17:43,600 and Herby Cohen comes to my hotel room and says, 343 00:17:43,635 --> 00:17:47,466 "I need to tell you that when we get back to LA, 344 00:17:47,501 --> 00:17:49,468 the band is breaking up." 345 00:17:49,503 --> 00:17:52,402 Everybody said, "I don't know about you two guys 346 00:17:52,437 --> 00:17:54,542 but we want the girl singer." 347 00:17:55,888 --> 00:17:59,168 RONSTADT: The record company wanted to develop me as a solo artist. 348 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,379 Kenny decided to go off to India and find a guru and meditate. 349 00:18:03,413 --> 00:18:06,830 And Bobby started a folk club in LA called McCabe's. 350 00:18:07,486 --> 00:18:09,833 And I was left with what in the world to sing. 351 00:18:09,868 --> 00:18:11,318 I was by myself. 352 00:18:11,352 --> 00:18:13,665 A harmony singer with no material. 353 00:18:14,217 --> 00:18:16,944 HILBURN: The remarkable thing about the Stone Poney days was 354 00:18:16,978 --> 00:18:19,878 she had the nerve to leave a male band 355 00:18:19,912 --> 00:18:22,846 after it had already had a hit and go on her own. 356 00:18:22,881 --> 00:18:24,883 Will you welcome please Ms. Linda Ronstadt? 357 00:18:24,917 --> 00:18:26,816 [applause] 358 00:18:26,850 --> 00:18:29,439 Ronstadt, Ronstadt. 359 00:18:29,474 --> 00:18:32,304 Did anyone ever suggest that that isn't the most musical name 360 00:18:32,339 --> 00:18:33,478 in the world. 361 00:18:33,512 --> 00:18:36,929 That maybe you should change it to Linda Marlow or... 362 00:18:36,964 --> 00:18:37,965 Is there a Linda Marlow? 363 00:18:37,999 --> 00:18:41,382 And once they learn how to pronounce my name, 364 00:18:41,417 --> 00:18:43,695 that leads to free-for-all kinds of variations. 365 00:18:43,729 --> 00:18:46,456 Glenn Campbell once called me Linda Bedstead. 366 00:18:46,491 --> 00:18:48,493 You know, I remember you when you were nothing 367 00:18:48,527 --> 00:18:50,253 but a little Stone Poney. 368 00:18:50,288 --> 00:18:51,496 Oh yeah? 369 00:18:51,530 --> 00:18:52,980 I didn't have any idea what that means. 370 00:18:53,014 --> 00:18:56,363 I know that you were part of a group, right? 371 00:18:56,397 --> 00:18:58,192 Let's see, how do I explain this on television 372 00:18:58,227 --> 00:18:59,469 and not get yelled at. 373 00:18:59,504 --> 00:19:00,919 CAVETT: Oh, then maybe you don't. 374 00:19:00,953 --> 00:19:02,265 [laughter] 375 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:03,887 - I think I don't. - Oh, yeah? 376 00:19:03,922 --> 00:19:05,751 Oh, is it an inside meaning? 377 00:19:05,786 --> 00:19:08,547 Yeah, it has a lot of different... 378 00:19:08,582 --> 00:19:11,274 ♪ Love will abide ♪ 379 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,314 ♪ Take things in stride ♪ 380 00:19:18,937 --> 00:19:22,803 ♪ Sounds like good advice ♪ 381 00:19:22,837 --> 00:19:27,256 ♪ But there's no one At my side ♪ 382 00:19:27,290 --> 00:19:32,364 ♪ And time washes clean ♪ 383 00:19:34,539 --> 00:19:37,611 ♪ Love's wounds unseen ♪ 384 00:19:40,510 --> 00:19:44,238 ♪ That's what someone Told me ♪ 385 00:19:44,273 --> 00:19:48,484 ♪ But I don't know What it means ♪ 386 00:19:48,518 --> 00:19:51,728 ♪ 'Cause I've ♪ 387 00:19:51,763 --> 00:19:55,525 ♪ Done everything I know ♪ 388 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,253 ♪ To try to make you mine ♪ 389 00:19:59,943 --> 00:20:04,776 ♪ And I think it's gonna Hurt me ♪ 390 00:20:05,397 --> 00:20:10,022 ♪ For a long, long time ♪ 391 00:20:10,575 --> 00:20:15,787 ♪ But I've done Everything I know ♪ 392 00:20:16,512 --> 00:20:20,930 ♪ To try to make you mine ♪ 393 00:20:21,551 --> 00:20:25,831 ♪ Think I'm gonna Love you ♪ 394 00:20:26,522 --> 00:20:31,561 ♪ For a long, long time ♪ 395 00:20:32,562 --> 00:20:34,081 I met her in the Troubadour. 396 00:20:34,115 --> 00:20:36,946 She had this hit called Long, Long Time. 397 00:20:37,429 --> 00:20:39,500 [applause] 398 00:20:39,535 --> 00:20:41,053 Apparently she knew who I was 399 00:20:41,088 --> 00:20:43,918 based on a record I'd made with Ricky Nelson. 400 00:20:44,125 --> 00:20:46,921 [guitar playing] 401 00:20:46,956 --> 00:20:50,649 She said I like that band you put together for Rick Nelson. 402 00:20:50,684 --> 00:20:52,410 Could you do that for me? 403 00:20:52,755 --> 00:20:55,344 ♪ She's got everything She needs ♪ 404 00:20:55,378 --> 00:20:56,897 ♪ She's an artist ♪ 405 00:20:56,931 --> 00:20:59,658 ♪ She don't look back ♪ 406 00:21:00,521 --> 00:21:02,972 Herby Cohen was the manager when I met her. 407 00:21:03,006 --> 00:21:04,939 He gave me these tickets to Hawaii 408 00:21:04,974 --> 00:21:07,390 for the Capitol Records convention. 409 00:21:07,425 --> 00:21:09,772 Linda and I show up at San Francisco Airport 410 00:21:09,806 --> 00:21:13,776 to fly to Honolulu and lo and behold there was the FBI 411 00:21:13,810 --> 00:21:16,848 to arrest us for receiving stolen property. 412 00:21:16,882 --> 00:21:19,851 Turns out Herby had bought the tickets in the lobby 413 00:21:19,885 --> 00:21:21,956 of the building from some guy 414 00:21:21,991 --> 00:21:24,856 probably for 25 cents on the dollar 415 00:21:24,890 --> 00:21:26,927 and they were hotter than a two-dollar pistol. 416 00:21:26,961 --> 00:21:30,448 So we spent the day in jail. 417 00:21:30,655 --> 00:21:32,795 [Silver Threads And Golden Needles by Ronstadt] 418 00:21:32,829 --> 00:21:35,798 She fired Herbie and asked me to fill in. 419 00:21:35,832 --> 00:21:40,112 ♪ I don't want Your lonely mansion ♪ 420 00:21:40,147 --> 00:21:41,942 RONSTADT: I was walking through the Troubadour one night 421 00:21:41,976 --> 00:21:43,806 on my way to the bathroom. 422 00:21:45,394 --> 00:21:48,397 This band Shiloh got up and did my exact version 423 00:21:48,431 --> 00:21:50,157 of Silver Threads and Golden Needles. 424 00:21:50,191 --> 00:21:53,678 ♪ Silver Threads And Golden Needles ♪ 425 00:21:53,712 --> 00:21:54,886 I just went, "What?" 426 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,991 Does, you know, that solo, I thought, God! 427 00:21:57,026 --> 00:21:59,028 I was appalled that anyone would actually sit down 428 00:21:59,062 --> 00:22:02,963 with one of my records and learn the solo off it 429 00:22:02,997 --> 00:22:05,206 like a Led Zeppelin record. 430 00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:07,864 And I heard the drummer and I thought he was really good. 431 00:22:07,899 --> 00:22:10,419 HILBURN: The drummer was a guy named Don Henley. 432 00:22:10,798 --> 00:22:14,077 HENLEY: Linda's first solo album came out in '69 433 00:22:14,112 --> 00:22:17,598 and I moved to LA in June of 1970. 434 00:22:18,116 --> 00:22:20,739 So my timing was pretty good. 435 00:22:21,015 --> 00:22:23,086 HILBURN: She'd had a bunch of dates back East 436 00:22:23,121 --> 00:22:25,434 and we needed to put the band together quickly. 437 00:22:25,468 --> 00:22:28,368 So I hired him for $250 a week. 438 00:22:28,402 --> 00:22:29,369 [Rescue me by Linda Ronstadt] 439 00:22:35,582 --> 00:22:37,411 ♪ Rescue me ♪ 440 00:22:37,446 --> 00:22:39,033 ♪ I want you in my arms ♪ 441 00:22:39,068 --> 00:22:40,932 ♪ Rescue me ♪ 442 00:22:40,966 --> 00:22:42,796 ♪ I need your tender charm ♪ 443 00:22:42,830 --> 00:22:44,660 ♪ 'Cause I'm lonely ♪ 444 00:22:44,694 --> 00:22:46,800 HENLEY: I knew who she was because I had her album. 445 00:22:47,214 --> 00:22:49,665 I listened to that album a hundred times. 446 00:22:51,149 --> 00:22:54,670 She could seem vulnerable and very feminine 447 00:22:54,704 --> 00:22:58,743 but when she opened her mouth to sing everything got different. 448 00:22:58,777 --> 00:23:01,021 It was just incredible. 449 00:23:02,022 --> 00:23:05,232 You knew that there was a very solid core 450 00:23:05,266 --> 00:23:07,234 and a very determined woman. 451 00:23:07,268 --> 00:23:10,513 [♪♪♪] 452 00:23:15,104 --> 00:23:17,934 [applause] 453 00:23:17,969 --> 00:23:19,902 SOUTHER: Just saw her walking past me in the Troubadour 454 00:23:19,936 --> 00:23:21,006 and she looked so cute. 455 00:23:21,041 --> 00:23:22,491 I just grabbed her by the hand 456 00:23:22,525 --> 00:23:24,424 and I said I think you should cook me dinner. 457 00:23:25,252 --> 00:23:27,737 And she said okay and gave me her phone number. 458 00:23:28,082 --> 00:23:30,257 So I called her a couple days 459 00:23:30,291 --> 00:23:31,948 and I said, "Well, you gonna cook me dinner?" 460 00:23:31,983 --> 00:23:33,881 She goes, "Sure, come on over." I came on over 461 00:23:33,916 --> 00:23:36,574 and she made me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 462 00:23:37,506 --> 00:23:39,542 And I fell in love with her. 463 00:23:39,577 --> 00:23:41,579 Took her home and the next day I said, 464 00:23:41,613 --> 00:23:42,925 "Listen, let's go get your stuff. 465 00:23:42,959 --> 00:23:44,271 You can live here with me." 466 00:23:44,305 --> 00:23:47,619 ♪ I got a feeling called The blues, oh Lord ♪ 467 00:23:47,654 --> 00:23:50,277 ♪ Since my baby Said goodbye ♪ 468 00:23:50,311 --> 00:23:52,935 GEFFEN: John David Souther and Linda Ronstadt. 469 00:23:52,969 --> 00:23:54,177 They were a hot couple. 470 00:23:54,212 --> 00:23:57,111 ♪ All I do is sit and cry Oh Lord ♪ 471 00:23:57,146 --> 00:24:00,252 ♪ That last long day he said goodbye ♪ 472 00:24:00,287 --> 00:24:03,635 JD had had a musical duo with a guy named Glenn Frey. 473 00:24:06,776 --> 00:24:09,883 SOUTHER: He was by best friend and first songwriting partner. 474 00:24:11,678 --> 00:24:14,266 We really did nothing but just listen to music and play guitars 475 00:24:14,301 --> 00:24:17,615 and try to write songs and then go to the Troubadour. 476 00:24:19,306 --> 00:24:21,688 RONSTADT: Glenn Frey played pretty good guitar. 477 00:24:21,998 --> 00:24:23,517 So I went and talked to Glenn and said, 478 00:24:23,552 --> 00:24:25,277 "Do you want to do this tour with me?" 479 00:24:25,312 --> 00:24:27,141 He said it would be really cool. 480 00:24:27,176 --> 00:24:29,558 He'd never been on the road before. 481 00:24:30,593 --> 00:24:33,216 HENLEY: Glenn Frey and I shared the $12 hotel room 482 00:24:33,251 --> 00:24:35,115 with two twin beds in it. 483 00:24:35,356 --> 00:24:37,048 It was a very modest tour. 484 00:24:37,082 --> 00:24:39,050 I mean, I remember being in station wagons. 485 00:24:39,084 --> 00:24:40,879 [laughing] 486 00:24:41,811 --> 00:24:44,193 RONSTADT: Rooming together, Don and Glenn each discovered 487 00:24:44,227 --> 00:24:46,782 that the other was a good singer and songwriter. 488 00:24:48,197 --> 00:24:51,959 HILBURN: And that's when they decided to get together and form a band. 489 00:24:52,339 --> 00:24:54,617 That band became the Eagles. 490 00:24:57,344 --> 00:24:58,828 They wished us well. 491 00:24:58,863 --> 00:25:02,211 John was very supportive, Linda was supportive 492 00:25:02,245 --> 00:25:04,869 and they basically said just go for it. 493 00:25:04,903 --> 00:25:07,803 [Desperado by The Eagles] 494 00:25:07,837 --> 00:25:10,012 We didn't have much success with Desperado. 495 00:25:10,046 --> 00:25:13,084 The record company didn't know what to do with it. 496 00:25:13,118 --> 00:25:15,535 And then Linda made it into a classic. 497 00:25:16,087 --> 00:25:19,573 ♪ Desperado ♪ 498 00:25:20,125 --> 00:25:24,992 ♪ Why don't you come To your senses ♪ 499 00:25:25,027 --> 00:25:29,341 ♪ Come down From your fences ♪ 500 00:25:29,376 --> 00:25:33,138 ♪ And open the gate ♪ 501 00:25:33,173 --> 00:25:35,555 ♪ It may be raining ♪ 502 00:25:36,763 --> 00:25:40,905 ♪ But there's a rainbow Above you ♪ 503 00:25:41,284 --> 00:25:45,703 ♪ You better let somebody Love you ♪ 504 00:25:46,048 --> 00:25:49,258 ♪ [Let somebody love you] ♪ 505 00:25:49,983 --> 00:25:55,022 ♪ Let somebody love you ♪ 506 00:25:56,437 --> 00:26:01,097 ♪ Before it is too ♪ 507 00:26:02,892 --> 00:26:06,206 ♪ Late ♪ 508 00:26:16,112 --> 00:26:18,736 [applause] 509 00:26:21,290 --> 00:26:24,673 [Heart of Gold by Neil Young] 510 00:26:32,301 --> 00:26:34,061 HILBURN: I knew the Neil Young tour was coming 511 00:26:34,096 --> 00:26:36,236 and I thought this'll be perfect for Linda 512 00:26:36,270 --> 00:26:40,136 because she had sung backup on his big hit "Heart of Gold." 513 00:26:40,171 --> 00:26:43,105 So I called Neil's manager and I said, 514 00:26:43,139 --> 00:26:45,797 "Listen, Linda's the right opening act for this. 515 00:26:45,832 --> 00:26:47,143 You've got to help me out." 516 00:26:47,178 --> 00:26:49,387 And they said, "Well, Neil's gonna go out alone." 517 00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:52,804 ♪ I want to live ♪ 518 00:26:53,115 --> 00:26:55,669 ♪ I want to give ♪ 519 00:26:55,704 --> 00:26:59,052 HILBURN: Lo and behold like a week later he called me and he said, 520 00:26:59,086 --> 00:27:01,088 "Neil's done a few dates in Canada 521 00:27:01,123 --> 00:27:03,056 and it's getting him too tired. 522 00:27:03,090 --> 00:27:05,368 He now wants an opening act and you're it. 523 00:27:05,403 --> 00:27:07,888 ♪ I never give... ♪ 524 00:27:09,027 --> 00:27:11,029 Linda was quite reluctant at the time. 525 00:27:11,064 --> 00:27:13,998 She was so worried about the idea of playing a huge 526 00:27:14,032 --> 00:27:17,139 hockey arena tour at that point in her career. 527 00:27:17,173 --> 00:27:20,383 But we persuaded her that this would be a good thing. 528 00:27:20,418 --> 00:27:22,800 [applause] 529 00:27:23,835 --> 00:27:25,112 RONSTADT: Thank you! 530 00:27:25,975 --> 00:27:29,289 HILBURN: You would occasionally get somebody: "We want Neil!" 531 00:27:29,323 --> 00:27:33,465 But by the time the tour got going, she was holding her own. 532 00:27:33,811 --> 00:27:36,986 ♪ I've been cheated ♪ 533 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,714 ♪ Been mistreated ♪ 534 00:27:41,163 --> 00:27:46,340 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 535 00:27:48,515 --> 00:27:51,691 ♪ I've been put down ♪ 536 00:27:52,174 --> 00:27:55,315 ♪ I've been pushed 'round ♪ 537 00:27:55,902 --> 00:28:01,010 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 538 00:28:03,357 --> 00:28:06,188 ♪ When I find a new man ♪ 539 00:28:06,947 --> 00:28:09,467 ♪ That I want for mine ♪ 540 00:28:10,468 --> 00:28:13,954 ♪ Always breaks my heart In two ♪ 541 00:28:13,989 --> 00:28:18,959 ♪ It happens every time ♪ 542 00:28:20,064 --> 00:28:21,893 ♪ I've been... ♪ 543 00:28:21,928 --> 00:28:25,172 CAMERON CROWE: Here's Linda who I'd never seen live before, 544 00:28:25,207 --> 00:28:28,762 big stage, sold out, huge place. 545 00:28:28,969 --> 00:28:33,215 She comes out there and starts singing and that voice filled 546 00:28:33,249 --> 00:28:36,805 this arena where I had seen concerts for a long time. 547 00:28:36,839 --> 00:28:39,462 Nobody filled this arena with a voice like Linda Ronstadt. 548 00:28:39,497 --> 00:28:41,810 And she just killed it. 549 00:28:41,844 --> 00:28:46,159 She slaughtered this crowd who didn't come to see her 550 00:28:46,193 --> 00:28:48,264 but they sure left knowing who she was. 551 00:28:50,922 --> 00:28:53,787 HILBURN: We did 78 dates in 90 days. 552 00:28:54,063 --> 00:28:57,480 We played before 18,000 to 20,000 people every night. 553 00:28:58,136 --> 00:29:01,001 [guitar playing] 554 00:29:01,036 --> 00:29:03,866 RONSTADT: We got to Houston and there was this new girl singer. 555 00:29:03,901 --> 00:29:05,178 Her name's Emmylou. 556 00:29:06,593 --> 00:29:10,114 EMMYLOU HARRIS: It was 1973 during the one tour I did with Gram. 557 00:29:10,597 --> 00:29:14,497 ♪ Call happy calling Children are calling ♪ 558 00:29:14,532 --> 00:29:18,191 ♪ In line to ride On the merry-go-round ♪ 559 00:29:18,225 --> 00:29:19,986 RONSTADT: Emmy started singing and three notes 560 00:29:20,020 --> 00:29:21,953 the entire place was dead quiet. 561 00:29:21,988 --> 00:29:24,438 It was like they had started mass or something. 562 00:29:25,508 --> 00:29:27,579 And she was beautiful, this girl with the long hair 563 00:29:27,614 --> 00:29:29,374 and big brown eyes and I thought 564 00:29:29,409 --> 00:29:31,998 she's doing exactly what I'm doing. 565 00:29:32,032 --> 00:29:33,447 She's doing it better. 566 00:29:33,482 --> 00:29:36,002 ♪ Do not worry How it's done... ♪ 567 00:29:36,036 --> 00:29:38,487 And for a minute I thought well I can get jealous 568 00:29:38,521 --> 00:29:40,903 and then I won't be able to enjoy her singing. 569 00:29:41,214 --> 00:29:43,216 Or I can just become a slobbering, drooling fan 570 00:29:43,250 --> 00:29:45,287 like the rest of the people in the club. 571 00:29:45,321 --> 00:29:48,014 And hope that maybe I could get her to sing with me. 572 00:29:48,048 --> 00:29:51,258 So I chose the latter as one of the best decisions I ever made. 573 00:29:51,293 --> 00:29:54,986 And Emmy and I became immediate music and social friends. 574 00:29:55,021 --> 00:29:57,195 [applause] 575 00:29:57,437 --> 00:30:02,338 HARRIS: Linda had a lot to do with lifting me up 576 00:30:02,373 --> 00:30:04,927 at a very, very low time in my life. 577 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,967 I had been kind of my way working with Gram Parsons. 578 00:30:10,001 --> 00:30:12,245 I thought I'd found my voice, 579 00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:15,144 I had found something I love to do singing with him. 580 00:30:15,179 --> 00:30:17,250 ♪ Love hurts ♪ 581 00:30:18,458 --> 00:30:21,150 ♪ Love scars ♪ 582 00:30:22,255 --> 00:30:24,084 On the road to getting himself straight 583 00:30:24,119 --> 00:30:27,674 he was drinking a lot less, he was loving the work, 584 00:30:27,708 --> 00:30:31,195 we loved singing together, we had a record we'd just made, 585 00:30:31,229 --> 00:30:35,475 and apparently someone showed up with heroin 586 00:30:35,509 --> 00:30:40,169 which he hadn't done in a while and it killed him. 587 00:30:41,067 --> 00:30:44,380 It was devastating to lose him like that. 588 00:30:45,968 --> 00:30:50,076 It was Linda who stepped up as a friend 589 00:30:50,110 --> 00:30:52,181 and we had just met each other. 590 00:30:52,216 --> 00:30:56,565 She brought me out to LA, had me stay at her house 591 00:30:56,599 --> 00:30:58,739 and she talked about me to everybody. 592 00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:03,020 Said how great I was and genuinely loved my singing. 593 00:31:03,054 --> 00:31:07,645 Genuinely made me feel like I had something to offer 594 00:31:07,679 --> 00:31:11,407 at a very low time in my life. 595 00:31:12,408 --> 00:31:14,548 ♪ Love hurts ♪ 596 00:31:16,654 --> 00:31:18,690 ♪ Save me ♪ 597 00:31:19,484 --> 00:31:22,315 ♪ Free me ♪ 598 00:31:22,349 --> 00:31:25,318 ♪ From love ♪ 599 00:31:25,663 --> 00:31:27,941 ♪ This time ♪ 600 00:31:30,047 --> 00:31:34,223 ♪ Well the train's gone ♪ 601 00:31:34,603 --> 00:31:37,778 ♪ Down the track ♪ 602 00:31:37,813 --> 00:31:43,646 ♪ and I'm I'm left behind ♪ 603 00:31:46,201 --> 00:31:49,756 KARLA BONOFF: Linda was always very tight with her girlfriends. 604 00:31:49,790 --> 00:31:52,207 They sang together, they shared music together, she was 605 00:31:52,241 --> 00:31:54,140 supportive of me. 606 00:31:54,416 --> 00:31:59,145 I was writing songs and hoping to make my own record 607 00:31:59,179 --> 00:32:02,596 but of course Linda was really coming into her own 608 00:32:02,631 --> 00:32:05,254 and starting to be really successful. 609 00:32:07,222 --> 00:32:09,431 I think a songwriter doing their songs is different 610 00:32:09,465 --> 00:32:11,640 than a singer do their songs. 611 00:32:11,674 --> 00:32:14,367 Some people prefer the songwriter doing them, some 612 00:32:14,401 --> 00:32:17,163 people prefer Linda doing them. 613 00:32:17,404 --> 00:32:18,785 But "Lose Again" she definitely made 614 00:32:18,819 --> 00:32:20,683 into a bigger song. 615 00:32:22,409 --> 00:32:25,343 ♪ But nothing can save me ♪ 616 00:32:25,378 --> 00:32:27,449 ♪ From this b=Ball and chain ♪ 617 00:32:27,483 --> 00:32:28,968 Because I couldn't sing it like that. 618 00:32:29,002 --> 00:32:30,314 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 619 00:32:31,660 --> 00:32:36,182 ♪ I would leave today ♪ 620 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:40,600 I mean Linda came out and turned it into this power ballad. 621 00:32:41,049 --> 00:32:43,327 ♪ I know it's insane ♪ 622 00:32:43,568 --> 00:32:45,777 ♪ Because I love you ♪ 623 00:32:45,812 --> 00:32:50,196 ♪ And lose again ♪ 624 00:32:50,679 --> 00:32:54,096 ♪ Oh, I love you ♪ 625 00:32:54,131 --> 00:32:59,136 ♪ And lose again ♪ 626 00:33:06,660 --> 00:33:09,801 BONOFF: Back then there wasn't competition with women. 627 00:33:09,836 --> 00:33:11,527 So I think, you know, women, 628 00:33:11,562 --> 00:33:13,219 there weren't that many of us either. 629 00:33:13,253 --> 00:33:16,463 So I think there was a certain amount of banding together 630 00:33:16,498 --> 00:33:19,087 to sort of share our woman part of it. 631 00:33:19,121 --> 00:33:21,020 This is a song off our new album. 632 00:33:22,538 --> 00:33:25,265 It's about a real special place called home. 633 00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:28,337 That's a Karla Bonoff song. 634 00:33:29,269 --> 00:33:32,479 BONOFF: I had made a demo of Home and we sent it off to Bonnie, 635 00:33:32,514 --> 00:33:35,758 just a complete long shot, and she decided to record it. 636 00:33:36,104 --> 00:33:38,485 ♪ Traveling at night ♪ 637 00:33:39,383 --> 00:33:41,868 ♪ The headlights Were bright ♪ 638 00:33:41,902 --> 00:33:45,837 ♪ And soon the sun came through the trees ♪ 639 00:33:47,874 --> 00:33:50,808 ♪ Around the next bend ♪ 640 00:33:50,842 --> 00:33:53,845 ♪ The flowers will send ♪ 641 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:58,367 ♪ The sweet smell of home In the breeze ♪ 642 00:33:58,402 --> 00:34:01,370 RAITT: Linda and I are like sisters, around the same age 643 00:34:01,405 --> 00:34:03,372 and we were coming up and had the same mutual 644 00:34:03,407 --> 00:34:05,271 other musician friends and band members 645 00:34:05,305 --> 00:34:08,826 and, you know, it was a community of artists, 646 00:34:08,860 --> 00:34:12,519 it wasn't sexually divided between just the women and men. 647 00:34:12,554 --> 00:34:14,349 We weren't thinking in terms of that. 648 00:34:15,419 --> 00:34:18,629 CROWE: Linda and Bonnie Raitt were two of the first women 649 00:34:18,663 --> 00:34:21,701 that I was able to see as a young journalist 650 00:34:21,735 --> 00:34:24,704 and study the way they operated in this community. 651 00:34:25,256 --> 00:34:27,534 We're going to move into this world where we're running bands 652 00:34:27,569 --> 00:34:30,848 with guys in them but we can also look after each other. 653 00:34:31,883 --> 00:34:35,197 RAITT: I said if I can have it on my terms and you understand 654 00:34:35,232 --> 00:34:39,201 I'm not going to be told how to dress or what music to make. 655 00:34:39,236 --> 00:34:40,478 Great! 656 00:34:40,513 --> 00:34:43,378 We were all throwing away all those conventions, you know. 657 00:34:45,345 --> 00:34:48,210 RONSTADT: The rock and roll culture is so male dominated and it also seems 658 00:34:48,245 --> 00:34:51,627 to be dominated by sort of hostility against women. 659 00:34:51,662 --> 00:34:53,629 That this sort of... 660 00:34:55,390 --> 00:35:00,533 sort of sexual identity that is sort of used as a weapon 661 00:35:00,567 --> 00:35:02,707 against the populace and women in particular 662 00:35:02,742 --> 00:35:04,675 and then everyone identifies with it. 663 00:35:04,916 --> 00:35:07,781 And it's sort of sad to me because what happens is that... 664 00:35:09,576 --> 00:35:14,202 is that rock and roll stars end up isolating themselves 665 00:35:14,236 --> 00:35:16,894 more and more and more, thereby increasing their own feelings of 666 00:35:16,928 --> 00:35:20,518 alienation and anxiety and they wonder why they're so miserable. 667 00:35:20,553 --> 00:35:24,281 That's really when they turn to drugs and destroy themselves. 668 00:35:24,315 --> 00:35:26,800 It's just very silly. It just seems very silly. 669 00:35:26,835 --> 00:35:33,290 They lose the ability to focus on themselves as a person 670 00:35:33,324 --> 00:35:37,673 rather than as an image and that's very dangerous I think. 671 00:35:37,708 --> 00:35:40,504 And there are always a lot of people around them, 672 00:35:40,538 --> 00:35:45,267 managers and scene makers, you know, groupies and whatever, 673 00:35:45,302 --> 00:35:48,236 that are willing to indulge them in anything they want. 674 00:35:48,270 --> 00:35:51,894 It weakens them, it weakens them as people 675 00:35:51,929 --> 00:35:54,173 and it eventually weakens them as musicians. 676 00:35:54,207 --> 00:35:55,691 [Willin' by Linda Ronstadt] 677 00:35:57,590 --> 00:35:59,833 ♪ I been warped By the rain ♪ 678 00:35:59,868 --> 00:36:01,490 ♪ Driven by the snow ♪ 679 00:36:01,525 --> 00:36:03,492 ♪ I'm drunk and dirty ♪ 680 00:36:03,527 --> 00:36:04,804 ♪ Don't you know ♪ 681 00:36:04,838 --> 00:36:06,633 ♪ But I'm still ♪ 682 00:36:08,566 --> 00:36:10,258 ♪ Willin' ♪ 683 00:36:12,329 --> 00:36:15,435 ♪ Out on the road Late last night ♪ 684 00:36:15,470 --> 00:36:19,508 ♪ I'd see my pretty Alice in every headlight ♪ 685 00:36:19,543 --> 00:36:21,303 ♪ Alice ♪ 686 00:36:21,890 --> 00:36:24,375 ♪ Dallas Alice ♪ 687 00:36:24,996 --> 00:36:28,966 ♪ And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari ♪ 688 00:36:29,725 --> 00:36:32,832 ♪ Tehachapi to Tonopah ♪ 689 00:36:32,866 --> 00:36:37,526 ♪ Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made ♪ 690 00:36:37,871 --> 00:36:40,667 PETER ASHER: I was in New York and somebody said 691 00:36:40,702 --> 00:36:42,842 you have to go see this girl, she's amazing. 692 00:36:42,876 --> 00:36:45,258 She's one of the best singers you'll ever hear, 693 00:36:45,293 --> 00:36:46,673 she's brilliant. 694 00:36:47,364 --> 00:36:50,298 She's incredibly great looking, she sings barefoot 695 00:36:50,332 --> 00:36:53,749 and will knock you out in every respect and she did. 696 00:36:54,405 --> 00:37:00,480 ♪ Whites and wine ♪ 697 00:37:01,516 --> 00:37:04,519 ♪ And you show me a sign ♪ 698 00:37:05,036 --> 00:37:06,762 ♪ And I'll be willin' ♪ 699 00:37:06,797 --> 00:37:09,317 I was running the Beatles record label Apple. 700 00:37:09,351 --> 00:37:11,871 When Apple started to fall apart and the Beatles were breaking up 701 00:37:11,905 --> 00:37:14,977 and all of that I went to America 702 00:37:15,012 --> 00:37:16,876 and there I was being a manager. 703 00:37:18,118 --> 00:37:20,845 HILBURN: I wanted to go back to work as a record producer 704 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,296 so I suggested Linda go and meet with Peter 705 00:37:23,331 --> 00:37:26,057 which we did and he agreed to manage her. 706 00:37:27,887 --> 00:37:29,337 BROWNE: There was a high bar there. 707 00:37:29,371 --> 00:37:30,890 Peter Asher had hung around with the Beatles. 708 00:37:30,924 --> 00:37:34,307 He expected to make records that are huge successes 709 00:37:34,342 --> 00:37:36,551 and he was poised to do that with Linda 710 00:37:36,585 --> 00:37:38,898 and Geffen was ready to be their record company 711 00:37:38,932 --> 00:37:40,658 that would be there. 712 00:37:43,627 --> 00:37:46,112 DAVID GEFFEN: I started Asylum Records and signed Jackson Browne 713 00:37:46,146 --> 00:37:49,943 and then signing other artists and it turned into what it did. 714 00:37:53,119 --> 00:37:55,052 And I knew when I saw Linda and the Stone Poneys 715 00:37:55,086 --> 00:37:57,019 that she was gonna make it and she was gonna make it 716 00:37:57,054 --> 00:38:00,851 as a solo artist and I knew she was going to be a big star. 717 00:38:01,714 --> 00:38:03,302 She didn't think so. 718 00:38:04,095 --> 00:38:06,546 She had very little confidence in those days. 719 00:38:08,790 --> 00:38:10,654 Linda was feeling like she wasn't good enough 720 00:38:10,688 --> 00:38:12,380 to be on Asylum Records. 721 00:38:13,898 --> 00:38:16,798 I said to her that that was crazy. 722 00:38:18,178 --> 00:38:20,560 RONSTADT: I'm never really satisfied with what I do. 723 00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:22,976 And lots of times I hear that I did something wrong 724 00:38:23,011 --> 00:38:25,531 and it bothers me, it can ruin my day really. 725 00:38:25,841 --> 00:38:29,017 ASHER: Linda never thought she was as good as she was 726 00:38:29,051 --> 00:38:31,744 and that is an interesting paradox 727 00:38:31,778 --> 00:38:33,953 because she's confident about her ideas 728 00:38:33,987 --> 00:38:36,783 but not about herself and not about her singing. 729 00:38:38,578 --> 00:38:41,823 My involvement as a producer with Linda came when she was 730 00:38:41,857 --> 00:38:45,482 having trouble finishing the album that became Don't Cry Now. 731 00:38:46,034 --> 00:38:49,037 And that's when we decided that the next album I would produce 732 00:38:49,071 --> 00:38:50,521 was Heart Like a Wheel. 733 00:38:50,556 --> 00:38:55,526 ♪ Some say a heart Is just like a wheel ♪ 734 00:38:55,561 --> 00:38:57,666 ♪ When you bend it ♪ 735 00:38:57,701 --> 00:38:59,185 ♪ You can't mend it ♪ 736 00:38:59,219 --> 00:39:02,740 RONSTADT: The McGarrigle Sisters, who were these two Canadian sisters, 737 00:39:02,775 --> 00:39:04,052 they were in an odd category. 738 00:39:04,086 --> 00:39:07,020 They didn't fit in pop music, they didn't fit in folk music, 739 00:39:07,055 --> 00:39:09,989 they didn't fit anywhere except they fit in my heart. 740 00:39:10,023 --> 00:39:11,404 We just heard Heart Like A Wheel, 741 00:39:11,439 --> 00:39:13,061 then I went I have to sing it. 742 00:39:14,131 --> 00:39:17,686 ♪ When harm is done ♪ 743 00:39:17,893 --> 00:39:21,138 ♪ No love can be won ♪ 744 00:39:21,172 --> 00:39:24,693 ♪ I know it happens ♪ 745 00:39:24,728 --> 00:39:27,834 ♪ Frequently ♪ 746 00:39:29,042 --> 00:39:31,079 ♪ But I can't... ♪ 747 00:39:31,113 --> 00:39:35,566 PARTON: Linda has the ability to hear a song and claim it. 748 00:39:35,773 --> 00:39:37,775 You claim it as your own as a singer. 749 00:39:37,810 --> 00:39:40,744 If you love it like that you get inside it. 750 00:39:40,778 --> 00:39:42,090 You become it. 751 00:39:42,504 --> 00:39:49,684 ♪ But my love for you Is like a sinking ship ♪ 752 00:39:50,132 --> 00:39:58,140 ♪ And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean ♪ 753 00:40:01,937 --> 00:40:03,801 ASHER: Heart Like a Wheel, she discovered that song, 754 00:40:03,836 --> 00:40:05,182 brought it to me and I loved it. 755 00:40:05,216 --> 00:40:07,771 I thought it was beautiful but I was also thinking 756 00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:09,497 in terms of we should make some hits. 757 00:40:09,531 --> 00:40:11,050 ♪ Feelin' better ♪ 758 00:40:11,084 --> 00:40:13,501 ♪ Now that we're through ♪ 759 00:40:13,535 --> 00:40:15,675 ♪ Feelin' better ♪ 760 00:40:15,710 --> 00:40:17,539 ♪ 'Cause I'm over you ♪ 761 00:40:17,574 --> 00:40:19,230 RONSTADT: I'm a ballad singer, I like to sing ballads best 762 00:40:19,265 --> 00:40:22,061 but we needed some up-tempo songs for the record 763 00:40:22,095 --> 00:40:23,925 and as an afterthought I had this song 764 00:40:23,959 --> 00:40:26,583 that we'd used to close the show. 765 00:40:26,617 --> 00:40:28,239 ♪ You're no good You're no good ♪ 766 00:40:28,274 --> 00:40:32,071 ♪ You're no good Baby, you're no good ♪ 767 00:40:32,899 --> 00:40:34,867 ♪ I'm gonna say it again ♪ 768 00:40:34,901 --> 00:40:37,041 ♪ You're no good You're no good ♪ 769 00:40:37,076 --> 00:40:41,149 ♪ You're no good Baby, you're no good ♪ 770 00:40:41,770 --> 00:40:44,014 ASHER: She knew and loved the song, I knew and loved the song, 771 00:40:44,048 --> 00:40:47,155 and we decided to do a version of that song. 772 00:40:49,882 --> 00:40:54,093 I stayed up all night assembling this very complicated, 773 00:40:54,127 --> 00:40:57,165 intricate layered guitar piece. 774 00:40:57,683 --> 00:41:00,996 We worked very long into like the next afternoon. 775 00:41:01,549 --> 00:41:03,930 And that's when Linda turned up and didn't like it. 776 00:41:05,622 --> 00:41:08,176 She said, "Oh, I don't like it. It sounds like the Beatles," 777 00:41:08,210 --> 00:41:09,695 which it did sound like the Beatles 778 00:41:09,729 --> 00:41:11,317 but in the end she came around and said, 779 00:41:11,351 --> 00:41:13,664 "You know what, I was wrong. It's great." 780 00:41:14,596 --> 00:41:18,117 [You're No Good by Linda Ronstadt] 781 00:41:25,676 --> 00:41:30,232 ♪ I'm tellin' you now baby And I'm going my way ♪ 782 00:41:30,681 --> 00:41:35,755 ♪ Forget about you, baby 'Cause I'm leaving to stay ♪ 783 00:41:35,790 --> 00:41:37,239 RONSTADT: Every song that I sing has a face 784 00:41:37,274 --> 00:41:39,138 that I sing it to, you know. 785 00:41:39,172 --> 00:41:43,763 And so when something happens to me, 786 00:41:43,798 --> 00:41:45,627 it's really funny, I know so many songs. 787 00:41:45,662 --> 00:41:47,146 When something happens to me 788 00:41:47,180 --> 00:41:48,941 the song will occur at the same time. 789 00:41:48,975 --> 00:41:50,667 I'll think oh, this song or that song, you know. 790 00:41:50,701 --> 00:41:52,945 And if it's a song I can sing then I'll have to sing it, 791 00:41:52,979 --> 00:41:55,913 I'll just burn to sing it. I can't not sing it. 792 00:41:55,948 --> 00:41:59,883 ♪ I passed you on the street ♪ 793 00:42:00,262 --> 00:42:04,370 ♪ And my heart Fell at your feet ♪ 794 00:42:04,404 --> 00:42:06,717 ♪ I can't help it ♪ 795 00:42:06,752 --> 00:42:11,342 ♪ If I'm still In love with you ♪ 796 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:15,208 He would make the assumption that I was choosing the songs 797 00:42:15,243 --> 00:42:17,694 that we would do on these records or that I was working 798 00:42:17,728 --> 00:42:20,041 out the arrangements or this, that, and the other. 799 00:42:20,075 --> 00:42:21,870 And I would have to keep explaining that 800 00:42:21,905 --> 00:42:24,597 it was Linda and me in that order. 801 00:42:25,253 --> 00:42:28,946 ♪ Still in love with you ♪ 802 00:42:30,154 --> 00:42:32,743 RONSTADT: My sister used to play all these Hank Williams records. 803 00:42:32,778 --> 00:42:35,194 So I thought I can do that. 804 00:42:35,228 --> 00:42:38,335 ♪ Came slowly stealing ♪ 805 00:42:40,061 --> 00:42:42,926 ♪ As I brushed your arm ♪ 806 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,792 ♪ And stood So close to you... ♪ 807 00:42:46,826 --> 00:42:48,863 SOUTHER: Linda knew a good song 808 00:42:48,897 --> 00:42:50,658 and she knew why it was good and better than that 809 00:42:50,692 --> 00:42:52,729 she knew how to sing it better than you can sing. 810 00:42:52,763 --> 00:42:57,216 When you become that sharp of a song stylist, 811 00:42:57,250 --> 00:43:00,184 you get authorship in a certain way. 812 00:43:00,219 --> 00:43:02,773 I consider her a real author. 813 00:43:02,808 --> 00:43:06,328 She didn't write songs but she made songs happen 814 00:43:06,363 --> 00:43:07,709 the way she wanted to hear them. 815 00:43:07,744 --> 00:43:13,059 ♪ I can't help it if I'm still in love with you ♪ 816 00:43:13,681 --> 00:43:15,752 RONSTADT: I Can't Help it if I'm Still in Love With You 817 00:43:15,786 --> 00:43:17,650 was a hit on the country charts. 818 00:43:18,099 --> 00:43:21,412 You're No Good was a hit on both the R&B chart and the pop chart. 819 00:43:22,275 --> 00:43:25,175 So I became the first artist to have a hit on all three charts 820 00:43:25,209 --> 00:43:26,797 at the same time. 821 00:43:27,971 --> 00:43:30,249 [applause] 822 00:43:31,250 --> 00:43:34,909 CROWE: Heart Like A Wheel was a huge turning point for her. 823 00:43:35,772 --> 00:43:40,811 The avalanche of success was hitting everywhere. 824 00:43:41,053 --> 00:43:43,469 She was at the forefront of a kind of pop stardom 825 00:43:43,503 --> 00:43:46,127 that hadn't happened at that point 826 00:43:46,161 --> 00:43:50,683 but people didn't notice the difficulty of being a woman, 827 00:43:50,718 --> 00:43:54,411 trailblazing and having the success of a Mick Jagger. 828 00:43:54,825 --> 00:43:56,758 [applause] 829 00:43:56,793 --> 00:44:00,382 [Tumbling Dice by Linda Ronstadt] 830 00:44:03,247 --> 00:44:07,804 ♪ People try to rape me Always thinking I'm crazy ♪ 831 00:44:07,838 --> 00:44:10,979 ♪ Make me burn the candle right down ♪ 832 00:44:12,463 --> 00:44:14,293 ♪ Baby ♪ 833 00:44:14,845 --> 00:44:16,709 ♪ I can't stay ♪ 834 00:44:17,020 --> 00:44:20,195 ♪ Don't need no jewels In my crown ♪ 835 00:44:21,024 --> 00:44:23,716 ♪ 'Cause all you women ♪ 836 00:44:23,751 --> 00:44:25,994 ♪ Are low down gamblers ♪ 837 00:44:26,029 --> 00:44:28,341 RONSTADT: Now I had gigs like in big sporting arenas, 838 00:44:28,376 --> 00:44:30,447 you know, stadiums and stuff like that. 839 00:44:30,965 --> 00:44:33,208 I knew the name of every arena in the country. 840 00:44:33,243 --> 00:44:35,245 We got a gig tonight at the Spectrum in Philly. 841 00:44:35,279 --> 00:44:36,280 We'll be at the Forum. 842 00:44:36,315 --> 00:44:37,488 Gig tomorrow night at the Garden. 843 00:44:37,523 --> 00:44:38,489 That's where we played. 844 00:44:38,524 --> 00:44:40,112 She was selling them all out. 845 00:44:40,146 --> 00:44:41,838 ♪ This low down bitchin' ♪ 846 00:44:41,872 --> 00:44:44,323 ♪ Got my poor feet a itchin' ♪ 847 00:44:44,357 --> 00:44:47,257 ♪ Can you see The deuce is still wild ♪ 848 00:44:47,291 --> 00:44:48,776 GEFFEN: She was very good. 849 00:44:48,810 --> 00:44:49,880 Audience loved her. 850 00:44:49,915 --> 00:44:50,847 Records sold. 851 00:44:50,881 --> 00:44:54,022 She was on an uphill swing all the time. 852 00:44:54,057 --> 00:44:55,990 ♪ Got to roll me ♪ 853 00:44:56,024 --> 00:45:00,408 ♪ Call me the tumblin' dice ♪ 854 00:45:03,273 --> 00:45:04,964 BROWNE: When we did that tour together 855 00:45:04,999 --> 00:45:07,139 we'd take turns closing and opening. 856 00:45:07,518 --> 00:45:09,141 [chuckles] 857 00:45:09,175 --> 00:45:12,316 You know. Try following Linda Ronstadt every night. 858 00:45:12,351 --> 00:45:16,044 ♪ Honey Got no money ♪ 859 00:45:16,596 --> 00:45:19,876 ♪ Sixes and sevens and nines ♪ 860 00:45:20,497 --> 00:45:24,294 ♪ Hey now baby I'm the rank outsider ♪ 861 00:45:24,328 --> 00:45:26,365 RAITT: I went to go see her at the Universal Amphitheater 862 00:45:26,399 --> 00:45:28,332 when she was wearing her Boy Scouts outfit 863 00:45:28,367 --> 00:45:29,955 and was just rocking. 864 00:45:30,541 --> 00:45:33,061 ♪ Baby... ♪ 865 00:45:33,096 --> 00:45:35,546 BONOFF: Linda was able to be really feminine and sexy 866 00:45:35,581 --> 00:45:40,344 in this world of men and somehow hold onto herself and do that 867 00:45:40,379 --> 00:45:43,244 and use that in the best possible way. 868 00:45:44,314 --> 00:45:47,144 [Tumbling Dice continues] 869 00:45:54,876 --> 00:45:58,259 WACHTEL: There was a lot of dudes running around the stages then. 870 00:45:58,293 --> 00:46:01,503 But we were on the road with Linda and killing it. 871 00:46:01,538 --> 00:46:02,815 She was killing every night. 872 00:46:02,850 --> 00:46:05,300 ♪ The tumbling dice ♪ 873 00:46:06,439 --> 00:46:08,303 ♪ You got to roll me ♪ 874 00:46:08,338 --> 00:46:10,374 I know they liked my singing and I know they were proud 875 00:46:10,409 --> 00:46:12,894 of what they were doing but still in rock and roll 876 00:46:12,929 --> 00:46:15,414 the idea that you're actually working for a chick singer, 877 00:46:15,448 --> 00:46:18,037 in their way they sort of saw it as not as cool 878 00:46:18,072 --> 00:46:19,556 as if they were their own rock and roll band 879 00:46:19,590 --> 00:46:21,282 and they were just all the guys. 880 00:46:23,111 --> 00:46:26,563 ♪ Baby, baby Got to roll me ♪ 881 00:46:26,597 --> 00:46:28,634 BONOFF: There weren't a lot of women musicians 882 00:46:28,668 --> 00:46:31,257 so it was always a band of guys. 883 00:46:31,292 --> 00:46:34,502 There weren't women bass players and women guitar players 884 00:46:34,536 --> 00:46:38,264 and sometimes some of these guys were, they were tough. 885 00:46:40,404 --> 00:46:42,441 RONSTADT: I got a lot tougher and more foul mouthed. 886 00:46:42,475 --> 00:46:43,442 I used to swear a lot. 887 00:46:43,476 --> 00:46:44,961 I mean, I used to talk like a truck driver. 888 00:46:44,995 --> 00:46:47,618 When I think about the way I used to talk, I'm shocked. 889 00:46:47,653 --> 00:46:50,242 [Tumbling Dice continues] 890 00:46:51,036 --> 00:46:53,486 Without having any other girls along on the road, 891 00:46:53,521 --> 00:46:56,420 just automatically you start to imitate them. 892 00:46:57,628 --> 00:46:59,630 [applause] 893 00:46:59,665 --> 00:47:03,117 HARRIS: Linda was never comfortable being on the road 894 00:47:03,151 --> 00:47:08,156 but obviously she did her job and part of her loved it. 895 00:47:08,191 --> 00:47:09,330 Who wouldn't love it? 896 00:47:09,364 --> 00:47:12,126 But I think there was another part of her that went, 897 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,300 "You know, this doesn't feel right." 898 00:47:16,061 --> 00:47:17,476 RONSTADT: If I were going to choose something to do 899 00:47:17,510 --> 00:47:19,443 it would not be to stand up in front of a lot of people. 900 00:47:19,478 --> 00:47:21,204 But I love to sing, I love to sing. 901 00:47:21,238 --> 00:47:23,482 I love music so at some point you do whatever you have to do 902 00:47:23,516 --> 00:47:25,242 to do music. 903 00:47:26,692 --> 00:47:29,522 ASHER: She would confess to me that if she saw people in the front row 904 00:47:29,557 --> 00:47:33,147 and somebody leans over and says something to the person 905 00:47:33,181 --> 00:47:36,529 next to them, she thought they were saying, you know, 906 00:47:36,564 --> 00:47:38,635 she's the worst singer I've ever heard. 907 00:47:38,669 --> 00:47:40,119 I don't like this. 908 00:47:40,395 --> 00:47:42,121 She really believed that. 909 00:47:43,502 --> 00:47:46,194 WACHTEL: You get on the bus at night, card game going on, 910 00:47:46,229 --> 00:47:48,196 everybody blasting music 911 00:47:48,231 --> 00:47:50,474 or everyone else drinking, you know. 912 00:47:50,509 --> 00:47:52,338 A lot of drugs around. 913 00:47:53,063 --> 00:47:55,445 A lot of people would go on stage completely hammered, 914 00:47:55,479 --> 00:47:57,240 completely fucking hammered. 915 00:47:57,274 --> 00:48:01,037 RAITT: Everybody was up at night and when the gig ended 916 00:48:01,071 --> 00:48:03,039 you don't go home and have milk. 917 00:48:04,557 --> 00:48:08,078 It was kind of the nighttime danger fun part about 918 00:48:08,113 --> 00:48:09,700 not having to go to bed. 919 00:48:09,735 --> 00:48:11,702 You know, Keith Richards can do it, so can I. 920 00:48:11,737 --> 00:48:14,464 Linda's thing was diet pills. 921 00:48:16,155 --> 00:48:18,364 ASHER: She went through a phase mostly taking speed 922 00:48:18,399 --> 00:48:21,057 and not eating and being super skinny. 923 00:48:21,712 --> 00:48:25,061 RONSTADT: It seemed like it was so hard to be out there day after day 924 00:48:25,095 --> 00:48:27,063 and to try to get up the energy to sort of do that 925 00:48:27,097 --> 00:48:30,135 when you were just wrung out 926 00:48:30,169 --> 00:48:33,172 from the sense of being dislocated from place. 927 00:48:35,209 --> 00:48:37,728 I was with a bunch of people that were basically earnest 928 00:48:37,763 --> 00:48:39,247 and basically honest 929 00:48:39,282 --> 00:48:42,078 and the kind of paranoia that was introduced by drugs 930 00:48:42,112 --> 00:48:44,080 was so destructive in our ability to communicate 931 00:48:44,114 --> 00:48:44,977 with each other. 932 00:48:45,012 --> 00:48:47,117 That really saddened me. 933 00:48:47,152 --> 00:48:50,431 And then at some point we all just stopped. 934 00:48:51,121 --> 00:48:53,952 [Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt] 935 00:48:54,504 --> 00:48:56,437 ♪ I feel so bad ♪ 936 00:48:56,471 --> 00:48:59,750 ♪ I got a worried mind ♪ 937 00:49:00,682 --> 00:49:03,030 ♪ I'm so lonesome ♪ 938 00:49:03,064 --> 00:49:04,963 ♪ All the time ♪ 939 00:49:06,067 --> 00:49:10,451 ♪ Since I left my Baby behind ♪ 940 00:49:10,485 --> 00:49:13,040 ♪ On Blue Bayou ♪ 941 00:49:17,078 --> 00:49:21,255 ♪ Saving nickels Saving dimes ♪ 942 00:49:22,359 --> 00:49:26,294 ♪ Workin' 'til The sun don't shine ♪ 943 00:49:27,468 --> 00:49:31,575 ♪ Looking forward To happier times ♪ 944 00:49:31,610 --> 00:49:34,302 ♪ On Blue Bayou ♪ 945 00:49:36,442 --> 00:49:39,376 ♪ I'm going back someday ♪ 946 00:49:39,825 --> 00:49:41,792 ♪ Come what may ♪ 947 00:49:41,827 --> 00:49:45,520 ♪ To Blue Bayou ♪ 948 00:49:46,797 --> 00:49:49,662 ♪ Where the folks are fine ♪ 949 00:49:49,697 --> 00:49:52,665 ♪ And the world is mine ♪ 950 00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:55,737 ♪ On Blue Bayou ♪ 951 00:49:56,704 --> 00:50:00,156 CROWE: When Rolling Stone was ready to put Linda Ronstadt on the cover 952 00:50:00,190 --> 00:50:03,469 that was her absolute peak up until then. 953 00:50:03,676 --> 00:50:07,301 ♪ If I could only see ♪ 954 00:50:07,335 --> 00:50:10,269 Generally it was a very male-oriented 955 00:50:10,304 --> 00:50:12,685 denim-clad warrior cover. 956 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,413 So here comes Linda Ronstadt 957 00:50:16,448 --> 00:50:20,417 and she and Annie Leibovitz put together this photo session 958 00:50:20,452 --> 00:50:22,626 that was like no other cover that had been 959 00:50:22,661 --> 00:50:24,594 on Rolling Stone before. 960 00:50:26,630 --> 00:50:28,563 She was honest 961 00:50:31,428 --> 00:50:33,568 and opened her heart. 962 00:50:34,431 --> 00:50:38,504 She said, "This gets lonely and I don't know where it ends up. 963 00:50:38,746 --> 00:50:40,575 It's an emotional journey 964 00:50:40,610 --> 00:50:42,612 and I'm happy that I brought this kind of joy. 965 00:50:42,646 --> 00:50:44,269 But you know what? When I'm here alone 966 00:50:44,303 --> 00:50:48,135 in this Malibu home that looks very cozy, it's lonely." 967 00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,724 RONSTADT: There's a lot of show business people down here, you know. 968 00:50:51,759 --> 00:50:53,692 It's not my style exactly. 969 00:50:53,726 --> 00:50:56,522 INTERVIEWER: Where did you live before? 970 00:50:56,557 --> 00:50:59,456 Nowhere really. I was on the road for about ten years 971 00:50:59,491 --> 00:51:02,494 and I didn't exactly have a home. 972 00:51:02,942 --> 00:51:07,844 ♪ On Blue Bayou ♪ 973 00:51:15,852 --> 00:51:18,406 [applause] 974 00:51:22,721 --> 00:51:25,379 ANNOUNCER: Singing the National Anthem here at Dodger Stadium, 975 00:51:25,413 --> 00:51:27,381 Ms. Linda Ronstadt. 976 00:51:31,626 --> 00:51:34,215 ♪ Oh, say can you see? ♪ 977 00:51:34,250 --> 00:51:37,632 PATRICIA CASADO: I remember my dad was watching her at the game. 978 00:51:37,667 --> 00:51:39,772 She sang the National Anthem. 979 00:51:40,290 --> 00:51:44,294 ♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪ 980 00:51:44,501 --> 00:51:46,158 ♪ At the twilight's... ♪ 981 00:51:46,193 --> 00:51:47,677 All of sudden there she is. 982 00:51:47,711 --> 00:51:50,576 She'd come in the limo straight to the restaurant from the game 983 00:51:50,611 --> 00:51:52,268 to have something to eat. 984 00:51:53,407 --> 00:51:56,548 My parents had a small restaurant on Melrose Avenue 985 00:51:56,582 --> 00:51:59,758 across the street from what was then KHJ Radio 986 00:51:59,792 --> 00:52:02,174 which was the radio station in the day. 987 00:52:02,795 --> 00:52:05,695 Linda walked in and my dad was wearing a shirt 988 00:52:05,729 --> 00:52:08,525 that we call in Mexico Aloe Vera 989 00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,942 and it has four pockets and it's white and she said, 990 00:52:11,977 --> 00:52:13,323 "This is a good place 991 00:52:13,358 --> 00:52:15,498 because he's wearing the shirt my dad wears. 992 00:52:16,361 --> 00:52:18,432 HILBURN: A lot of the people who hung out at the Troubadour 993 00:52:18,466 --> 00:52:20,434 also ate at Lucy's. 994 00:52:21,262 --> 00:52:24,472 Lucy was very shall we say loose with the check 995 00:52:24,507 --> 00:52:26,888 now and again and if we were on hard times. 996 00:52:27,958 --> 00:52:31,341 CASADO: Our customers were not just soon-to-be celebrities 997 00:52:31,376 --> 00:52:34,689 of the industries, they were the oligarch of Los Angeles. 998 00:52:34,724 --> 00:52:37,382 I mean, you're talking old-school money. 999 00:52:38,797 --> 00:52:40,523 There was a big communal table that my father 1000 00:52:40,557 --> 00:52:41,662 used to sit everybody at. 1001 00:52:41,696 --> 00:52:43,871 So you'd sit with policemen, you'd sit with firemen, 1002 00:52:43,905 --> 00:52:46,494 sometimes you'd sit with an actor, sometimes you'd sit... 1003 00:52:46,529 --> 00:52:49,325 a football player. You never had any idea who you'd sit with. 1004 00:52:49,359 --> 00:52:52,431 What happened was Linda had decided 1005 00:52:52,466 --> 00:52:54,433 that she wanted to change the 8-track 1006 00:52:54,468 --> 00:52:55,710 because she wanted to hear something else. 1007 00:52:55,745 --> 00:52:59,300 So she had to step up on this little wine rack 1008 00:52:59,335 --> 00:53:02,441 and at that moment the Governor Jerry Brown comes in 1009 00:53:02,476 --> 00:53:06,480 that room and he sees her and it was like wow! 1010 00:53:06,514 --> 00:53:07,722 Who's she? 1011 00:53:08,551 --> 00:53:11,899 So my father went and he sat them together. 1012 00:53:13,383 --> 00:53:14,936 And, well, he fell in love with her. 1013 00:53:14,971 --> 00:53:16,766 There was no question about that. 1014 00:53:17,836 --> 00:53:19,389 RONSTADT: Jerry likes passionate music. 1015 00:53:19,424 --> 00:53:21,460 He likes passionate music, passionate women, 1016 00:53:21,495 --> 00:53:22,841 that's his deal. 1017 00:53:23,497 --> 00:53:25,464 We had a really good time together. 1018 00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,297 He went out to run for president for the last couple of months 1019 00:53:30,331 --> 00:53:33,369 and he pending for the fact that I got to see him on TV 1020 00:53:33,403 --> 00:53:35,543 I may have forgot what he looked like. 1021 00:53:38,028 --> 00:53:39,582 But he came back yesterday. 1022 00:53:39,616 --> 00:53:40,997 He's gonna make it all better now. 1023 00:53:41,031 --> 00:53:43,310 [audience cheers] 1024 00:53:44,449 --> 00:53:45,967 That's what he told me anyway. 1025 00:53:46,002 --> 00:53:47,762 I have yet to see. 1026 00:53:48,073 --> 00:53:51,594 ♪ My boyfriend's back And you're gonna be trouble ♪ 1027 00:53:51,628 --> 00:53:54,942 ♪ Hey now, hey now My boyfriend's back ♪ 1028 00:53:54,976 --> 00:53:56,392 ♪ When you see him coming... ♪ 1029 00:53:56,426 --> 00:53:58,428 HOST: Did you have much of a problem when you're with Jerry Brown 1030 00:53:58,463 --> 00:54:01,293 people expecting you to have political views 1031 00:54:01,328 --> 00:54:03,744 along the lines of Governor Brown? 1032 00:54:03,778 --> 00:54:06,402 Whereas you're a singer, he's a politician. 1033 00:54:06,436 --> 00:54:07,955 Our relationship was completely personal, 1034 00:54:07,989 --> 00:54:09,336 it wasn't political at all. 1035 00:54:09,370 --> 00:54:11,545 So, you know, he did politics, I did music. 1036 00:54:11,579 --> 00:54:13,892 - Right. - It's easy to separate that. 1037 00:54:14,133 --> 00:54:16,343 You went to South Africa recently. 1038 00:54:16,377 --> 00:54:18,793 Did you receive criticism for going there? 1039 00:54:18,828 --> 00:54:20,968 As far as I was concerned it was just a gig. 1040 00:54:21,002 --> 00:54:23,039 I don't think that if you disagree with the policies 1041 00:54:23,073 --> 00:54:25,559 of the government, which I do very definitely disagree 1042 00:54:25,593 --> 00:54:27,630 with the policies of the South African government, 1043 00:54:27,664 --> 00:54:29,079 I don't think that's enough of a reason not to go 1044 00:54:29,114 --> 00:54:30,357 and play music there. 1045 00:54:30,391 --> 00:54:33,049 If I did that I wouldn't be able to play in the United State 1046 00:54:33,083 --> 00:54:35,362 because I don't agree with their policies about nuclear power, 1047 00:54:35,396 --> 00:54:36,604 nuclear warfare. 1048 00:54:36,639 --> 00:54:39,676 I mean, my God, we've got this person running the country 1049 00:54:39,711 --> 00:54:41,437 that I completely disagree with. 1050 00:54:41,471 --> 00:54:43,922 If I decided that I wasn't going to play where attitudes 1051 00:54:43,956 --> 00:54:47,684 of racism prevailed, I certainly couldn't play in Australia 1052 00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,550 or England or lots of places in the United States, 1053 00:54:51,585 --> 00:54:53,863 a lot of places in the American South or Boston 1054 00:54:53,897 --> 00:54:55,554 which is extremely racist. 1055 00:54:55,589 --> 00:54:58,488 I went to South Africa, it has a fascist repressive government. 1056 00:54:58,523 --> 00:55:00,041 I'm very interested in the culture down there. 1057 00:55:00,076 --> 00:55:01,077 You just got finished talking. 1058 00:55:01,111 --> 00:55:03,390 You say why does anyone think I'm controversial. 1059 00:55:03,424 --> 00:55:05,564 Do you realized what you've just talked about here? 1060 00:55:05,599 --> 00:55:07,842 We've just received all your political views in one blow. 1061 00:55:07,877 --> 00:55:09,879 I'm teasing. I'm not putting it down. 1062 00:55:09,913 --> 00:55:12,364 I don't think my political views are very controversial. 1063 00:55:12,399 --> 00:55:14,435 Who likes nuclear warfare? 1064 00:55:14,470 --> 00:55:17,024 I remember her having the Wall Street Journal in her bag 1065 00:55:17,058 --> 00:55:20,027 one time in the 70s when she was dating Jerry and I went, 1066 00:55:20,061 --> 00:55:23,168 you know, I had thought she was really smart but she's really 1067 00:55:23,202 --> 00:55:26,413 well read and very, very up on a lot of different things. 1068 00:55:26,447 --> 00:55:31,072 She's as wide ranging in her critical intellectual pursuits 1069 00:55:31,107 --> 00:55:34,593 as she is in her music pursuits and you don't find that kind 1070 00:55:34,628 --> 00:55:37,976 of depth and eclecticism in pop music. 1071 00:55:39,633 --> 00:55:44,396 CASADO: Jerry needed somebody that could be full-time there for him. 1072 00:55:45,190 --> 00:55:47,675 You couldn't have two careers in that family. 1073 00:55:47,710 --> 00:55:50,678 ♪ I never will marry... ♪ 1074 00:55:50,713 --> 00:55:51,990 There's not enough time. 1075 00:55:52,024 --> 00:55:55,027 ♪ I'll be no man's wife ♪ 1076 00:55:55,821 --> 00:55:58,824 ♪ I tend to stay single ♪ 1077 00:56:00,032 --> 00:56:03,035 ♪ For my rest of my life ♪ 1078 00:56:03,588 --> 00:56:06,107 BONOFF: I mean, the same reason I never got married. 1079 00:56:06,901 --> 00:56:08,662 I don't know, I think it's hard being a woman 1080 00:56:08,696 --> 00:56:10,042 in the music business. 1081 00:56:10,077 --> 00:56:13,529 You know, it's a different kind of life. 1082 00:56:13,805 --> 00:56:16,048 ♪ Rushing waters ♪ 1083 00:56:16,739 --> 00:56:20,605 ♪ Went over my head ♪ 1084 00:56:20,639 --> 00:56:22,745 RAITT: Well you don't need to get married, you what I mean? 1085 00:56:22,779 --> 00:56:24,781 It's like we have our own income 1086 00:56:24,816 --> 00:56:27,991 and you don't have to have the state verify 1087 00:56:28,026 --> 00:56:29,614 that you love somebody 1088 00:56:29,648 --> 00:56:31,616 and when that relationship's over you leave. 1089 00:56:31,650 --> 00:56:33,480 Neither one of us are really made for marriage 1090 00:56:33,514 --> 00:56:36,172 or I think long-term relationships. 1091 00:56:36,897 --> 00:56:38,243 INTERVIEWER: Why did you break up? 1092 00:56:38,277 --> 00:56:41,108 I can't remember. Maybe she could tell you. 1093 00:56:41,142 --> 00:56:44,939 ♪ It's so easy to fall in love ♪ 1094 00:56:45,250 --> 00:56:49,047 ♪ It's so easy to fall in love ♪ 1095 00:56:49,875 --> 00:56:53,223 ♪ People tell me Love's for fools ♪ 1096 00:56:53,776 --> 00:56:57,642 ♪ But here I go Breaking all the rules ♪ 1097 00:56:57,676 --> 00:56:59,575 ♪ Seems so easy... ♪ 1098 00:56:59,609 --> 00:57:03,061 RONSTADT: My mom wanted to be a scientist but she had four kids 1099 00:57:03,095 --> 00:57:06,236 and I think it was also a little bit of a disappointment. 1100 00:57:06,271 --> 00:57:08,756 ♪ It's so easy To fall in love... ♪ 1101 00:57:08,791 --> 00:57:11,621 She always said to me go out and have a life. 1102 00:57:11,656 --> 00:57:14,486 You don't just have to get married, there are alternatives. 1103 00:57:14,521 --> 00:57:18,041 ♪ It's so easy to fall in love ♪ 1104 00:57:18,628 --> 00:57:22,080 ♪ It's so easy to fall in love ♪ 1105 00:57:23,806 --> 00:57:26,912 I have to confess, I got a really bad crush on this guy. 1106 00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,916 We had a little romance for a while but it wasn't long lived. 1107 00:57:30,951 --> 00:57:32,884 He dumped me for this pig. 1108 00:57:32,918 --> 00:57:35,231 Well, at least I got his picture. 1109 00:57:37,785 --> 00:57:39,787 ♪ Does he love me? ♪ 1110 00:57:39,822 --> 00:57:41,962 ♪ I want to know ♪ 1111 00:57:41,996 --> 00:57:45,655 ♪ How can I tell if he loves me so? ♪ 1112 00:57:45,690 --> 00:57:47,623 ♪ Is it in his eyes? ♪ 1113 00:57:47,657 --> 00:57:49,763 ♪ Oh no, you make believe ♪ 1114 00:57:49,797 --> 00:57:51,834 ♪ Is it in his size ♪ 1115 00:57:51,868 --> 00:57:53,939 ♪ Oh no You'll be deceived ♪ 1116 00:57:53,974 --> 00:57:57,943 ♪ If you want to know if he loves you so ♪ 1117 00:57:57,978 --> 00:57:59,807 ♪ It's in his kiss ♪ 1118 00:57:59,842 --> 00:58:01,637 ♪ That's where it is ♪ 1119 00:58:01,982 --> 00:58:05,641 ANNOUNCER: To present the nominees for favorite female 1120 00:58:05,675 --> 00:58:10,853 in rock and pop are Teddy Pendergrass and Tanya Tucker. 1121 00:58:11,129 --> 00:58:13,545 The nominees are: Linda Ronstadt. 1122 00:58:13,580 --> 00:58:15,513 [applause] 1123 00:58:16,617 --> 00:58:18,343 Ms. Barbara Streisand. 1124 00:58:18,377 --> 00:58:20,656 [applause] 1125 00:58:21,001 --> 00:58:22,243 And Donna Summer. 1126 00:58:22,278 --> 00:58:23,590 [applause] 1127 00:58:23,624 --> 00:58:24,660 You open the envelope. 1128 00:58:24,694 --> 00:58:25,799 I'm too nervous. 1129 00:58:25,833 --> 00:58:28,284 I'll do the gentlemanly thing here and I'll open it. 1130 00:58:28,318 --> 00:58:30,907 - If you will read. - Okay. And the winner is... 1131 00:58:30,942 --> 00:58:32,081 Linda Ronstadt. 1132 00:58:32,115 --> 00:58:34,773 [applause] 1133 00:58:36,603 --> 00:58:38,225 Linda was the queen. 1134 00:58:38,259 --> 00:58:40,641 She was like what Beyoncé is now. 1135 00:58:42,678 --> 00:58:45,301 She was the first female rock and roll star. 1136 00:58:45,750 --> 00:58:47,786 ♪ Want love? ♪ 1137 00:58:49,201 --> 00:58:51,134 ♪ Get closer ♪ 1138 00:58:52,066 --> 00:58:54,103 HILBURN: She was the only female artist the have 1139 00:58:54,137 --> 00:58:59,246 five platinum albums in a row and most of them multi-platinum. 1140 00:58:59,971 --> 00:59:02,111 ♪ Hold my hand ♪ 1141 00:59:03,319 --> 00:59:06,011 For favorite female in rock and pop... 1142 00:59:06,046 --> 00:59:07,254 Favorite country single... 1143 00:59:07,288 --> 00:59:09,359 Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt. 1144 00:59:09,394 --> 00:59:11,258 - And the winner is... - Takes another one. 1145 00:59:11,292 --> 00:59:14,330 - Linda Ronstadt. - The winner is Linda Ronstadt. 1146 00:59:14,917 --> 00:59:18,334 ♪ You make a fuss when her eyes ain't on you ♪ 1147 00:59:18,368 --> 00:59:21,924 ♪ Well give us something to look forward to ♪ 1148 00:59:21,958 --> 00:59:25,237 ♪ Remember all those other girls who ran ♪ 1149 00:59:25,859 --> 00:59:28,378 RONSTADT: The nature of being a pop musician is that you get 1150 00:59:28,413 --> 00:59:30,208 these things that are successful 1151 00:59:30,242 --> 00:59:32,313 and you have to sing them for the rest of your life. 1152 00:59:32,348 --> 00:59:33,970 Over and over and over again and they start sounding 1153 00:59:34,005 --> 00:59:35,869 like your washing machine. 1154 00:59:38,457 --> 00:59:41,426 I didn't like singing in big arenas because the sound 1155 00:59:41,460 --> 00:59:44,705 was like, you know, you'd hear the guitar solo that 1156 00:59:44,740 --> 00:59:47,294 they played last week still ringing around the rafters. 1157 00:59:49,848 --> 00:59:52,333 So I started looking for other things to do. 1158 00:59:56,993 --> 00:59:59,962 COODER: There is this feeling that she has about the music itself 1159 00:59:59,996 --> 01:00:02,309 rather than the career itself. 1160 01:00:02,343 --> 01:00:05,933 You know, some people are just hardcore careerists. 1161 01:00:06,140 --> 01:00:07,970 There's nothing wrong with that. 1162 01:00:08,695 --> 01:00:12,043 You know, it's how your mind works that makes the difference. 1163 01:00:12,077 --> 01:00:15,909 It's how you see yourself or how you see yourself in the world, 1164 01:00:15,943 --> 01:00:16,979 you know. 1165 01:00:17,013 --> 01:00:20,361 And not everybody's a pure art for art's sake 1166 01:00:20,396 --> 01:00:22,363 and not everybody's a pure careerist either, 1167 01:00:22,398 --> 01:00:23,502 especially in music 1168 01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:27,092 because musicians love music or they wouldn't do it. 1169 01:00:27,334 --> 01:00:29,785 [light guitar picking] 1170 01:00:30,095 --> 01:00:31,787 HILBURN: She wanted to change. 1171 01:00:31,821 --> 01:00:34,203 She got tired of doing arena rock, 1172 01:00:34,237 --> 01:00:36,136 she wanted to try different things. 1173 01:00:38,069 --> 01:00:40,243 RONSTADT: I picked up the phone and called my great friend John Rockwell 1174 01:00:40,278 --> 01:00:43,350 who writes music criticism for the New York Times. 1175 01:00:44,385 --> 01:00:46,905 I said I hate playing these big sporting arenas. 1176 01:00:46,940 --> 01:00:49,667 It's not good for the audience, it's not good for the band. 1177 01:00:49,908 --> 01:00:53,118 I want to sing in a theater with a proscenium and a curtain. 1178 01:00:53,532 --> 01:00:55,327 He said well the next time you come to New York 1179 01:00:55,362 --> 01:00:58,330 I'll take you down to meet this fellow named Joseph Papp. 1180 01:00:58,814 --> 01:01:00,954 He has a theater, it's called the New York Public Theater 1181 01:01:00,988 --> 01:01:04,095 and he does Shakespeare and he does musicals; he did Hair. 1182 01:01:04,785 --> 01:01:07,098 He wanted to do The Pirates of Penzance. 1183 01:01:07,788 --> 01:01:10,066 My mom was a Gilbert and Sullivan lover. 1184 01:01:10,101 --> 01:01:13,414 She had a big book of Gilbert and Sullivan songs on the piano. 1185 01:01:14,036 --> 01:01:18,005 And I actually learned all the soprano parts as a kid. 1186 01:01:18,454 --> 01:01:20,421 And I loved singing them 1187 01:01:20,456 --> 01:01:23,010 but I never got a chance to in rock and roll. 1188 01:01:23,770 --> 01:01:26,980 HILBURN: That was in her roots, that was in her upbringing, 1189 01:01:27,014 --> 01:01:30,708 it was part of her authentic musical experience. 1190 01:01:32,019 --> 01:01:34,194 RONSTADT: Joe called me and said if I wanted to do the part 1191 01:01:34,228 --> 01:01:35,747 I could have it. 1192 01:01:35,782 --> 01:01:37,266 And I said no I have to come and audition 1193 01:01:37,300 --> 01:01:39,371 because I didn't know whether I could sing it or not. 1194 01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:43,065 She wanted to be certain that she would do it well. 1195 01:01:43,306 --> 01:01:45,239 They thought being able to say Linda Ronstadt's in it 1196 01:01:45,274 --> 01:01:47,207 would be good for business. 1197 01:01:47,241 --> 01:01:50,279 But her concern was whether it would be good for the show. 1198 01:01:50,313 --> 01:01:53,178 [vocalizing] 1199 01:01:54,421 --> 01:01:57,010 SOUTHER: I was there for several rehearsals and she was fabulous. 1200 01:01:57,044 --> 01:01:59,426 She just grabbed it by the horns and... 1201 01:02:00,461 --> 01:02:03,050 [vocalizing] 1202 01:02:05,018 --> 01:02:06,467 RONSTADT: That was the first job I was ever offered 1203 01:02:06,502 --> 01:02:07,779 where I actually got to sing like that. 1204 01:02:07,814 --> 01:02:10,471 I was delighted, I really was. But I can't do it very well yet. 1205 01:02:10,506 --> 01:02:12,301 Because it's really hard. You can't learn that overnight. 1206 01:02:12,335 --> 01:02:14,959 - You got to be in training. - In training, yup. 1207 01:02:15,304 --> 01:02:18,065 [audience laughs] 1208 01:02:18,583 --> 01:02:22,967 GEFFEN: Linda had a great voice and she had a great vision for herself 1209 01:02:23,001 --> 01:02:26,487 and she didn't want to just be singing rock and roll, 1210 01:02:26,522 --> 01:02:28,110 she wanted to do everything. 1211 01:02:28,489 --> 01:02:31,838 ♪ Hold, monsters! ♪ 1212 01:02:32,183 --> 01:02:34,530 ♪ Ere your pirate Caravanserai ♪ 1213 01:02:34,564 --> 01:02:38,465 ♪ Proceed, against our will to wed us all ♪ 1214 01:02:39,121 --> 01:02:43,435 ♪ Just bear in mind that we Are Wards in Chancery ♪ 1215 01:02:43,470 --> 01:02:47,474 ♪ And father is a Major-General ♪ 1216 01:02:47,508 --> 01:02:49,579 KEVIN KLINE: I knew some of her songs, sure. 1217 01:02:49,614 --> 01:02:52,203 But operetta? 1218 01:02:52,444 --> 01:02:53,894 ♪ Prepare! ♪ 1219 01:02:53,929 --> 01:02:59,589 ♪ Unhappy General Stanley ♪ 1220 01:02:59,624 --> 01:03:01,868 A week into rehearsal we all sang through the score 1221 01:03:01,971 --> 01:03:04,146 just sitting in a circle in chairs 1222 01:03:04,180 --> 01:03:08,253 and when I heard her voice it was just 1223 01:03:08,288 --> 01:03:14,846 this belle canto soprano gorgeous musical, 1224 01:03:16,296 --> 01:03:19,644 celestial yet earthy, just pure, 1225 01:03:19,678 --> 01:03:22,198 something so pure, it just made me cry. 1226 01:03:22,233 --> 01:03:24,373 I just remember just listening to that voice, 1227 01:03:24,407 --> 01:03:27,065 it was just singing that stuff... 1228 01:03:29,930 --> 01:03:31,000 Touching. 1229 01:03:31,967 --> 01:03:33,244 ♪ Oh, sisters, Deaf to pity's name ♪ 1230 01:03:33,278 --> 01:03:34,970 ♪ For shame! ♪ 1231 01:03:35,004 --> 01:03:37,110 ♪ It's true that he has Gone astray ♪ 1232 01:03:37,144 --> 01:03:38,870 ♪ But pray ♪ 1233 01:03:38,905 --> 01:03:41,252 ♪ Is that a reason Good and true ♪ 1234 01:03:41,286 --> 01:03:42,425 ♪ Why you ♪ 1235 01:03:42,460 --> 01:03:48,984 ♪ Should all be deaf To pity's name? ♪ 1236 01:03:49,363 --> 01:03:51,538 BROWNE: Gilbert and Sullivan? Really? 1237 01:03:51,572 --> 01:03:54,886 A rock star who has the guts to go out there 1238 01:03:54,921 --> 01:03:58,234 and do that kind of musical comedy. 1239 01:03:58,269 --> 01:03:59,373 She just didn't care. 1240 01:03:59,408 --> 01:04:02,583 To her it was like a mountain to climb. 1241 01:04:02,618 --> 01:04:05,379 [vocalizing] 1242 01:04:18,323 --> 01:04:20,947 PARTON: Linda can bring herself to sing anything. 1243 01:04:20,981 --> 01:04:24,605 She could sing opera, she could do anything with her voice. 1244 01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:26,331 I couldn't do all that. 1245 01:04:26,366 --> 01:04:30,128 [vocalizing] 1246 01:04:39,172 --> 01:04:41,036 RONSTADT: Kevin Kline and I were both nominated 1247 01:04:41,070 --> 01:04:42,589 for Tony Awards for that show. 1248 01:04:43,141 --> 01:04:44,556 Kevin deserved it more than I did. 1249 01:04:44,591 --> 01:04:46,489 All I did was walk around and sing. 1250 01:04:47,111 --> 01:04:50,666 [Gershwin-style piano] 1251 01:04:53,427 --> 01:04:55,602 My mom died during Pirates of Penzance. 1252 01:04:57,535 --> 01:04:59,502 I wasn't with her when she died. 1253 01:04:59,537 --> 01:05:02,022 And I just couldn't quite get it through my head 1254 01:05:02,057 --> 01:05:03,299 that she was gone out of the world 1255 01:05:03,334 --> 01:05:05,232 and I was never going to see her again. 1256 01:05:07,994 --> 01:05:10,237 She'd had all these records -- Louis Armstrong, 1257 01:05:10,272 --> 01:05:12,067 Ella Fitzgerald, 1258 01:05:12,101 --> 01:05:14,172 Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee. 1259 01:05:14,207 --> 01:05:16,934 And I thought I'd like to try to sing some of those songs. 1260 01:05:17,210 --> 01:05:22,318 SINATRA: ♪ Only the lonely ♪ 1261 01:05:22,353 --> 01:05:25,528 When we lived together almost every evening the last record 1262 01:05:25,563 --> 01:05:27,496 we listened to was a Frank Sinatra album 1263 01:05:27,530 --> 01:05:29,601 called Songs for Only the Lonely. 1264 01:05:29,636 --> 01:05:31,983 With Nelson Riddle arranging. 1265 01:05:34,434 --> 01:05:38,334 JOE SMITH: Constantly people were telling Linda you can't do this. 1266 01:05:38,679 --> 01:05:40,060 I'm guilty. 1267 01:05:40,095 --> 01:05:42,752 When she was going to do the Nelson Riddle album 1268 01:05:42,787 --> 01:05:45,238 I didn't think it was a good idea, 1269 01:05:45,272 --> 01:05:47,136 not because she couldn't do it 1270 01:05:47,171 --> 01:05:50,691 but because we had this run going with rock and roll records 1271 01:05:50,726 --> 01:05:52,245 and country rock. 1272 01:05:53,729 --> 01:05:55,524 RONSTADT: I said I'd like to find somebody that can write arrangements 1273 01:05:55,558 --> 01:05:56,974 like Nelson Riddle. 1274 01:05:57,353 --> 01:06:00,115 They said why don't you just ask Nelson Riddle? 1275 01:06:00,736 --> 01:06:03,187 Well I didn't know he was still alive. 1276 01:06:03,463 --> 01:06:05,603 You were the only person that I knew that could do 1277 01:06:05,637 --> 01:06:07,363 orchestrations like this. 1278 01:06:07,398 --> 01:06:08,675 I didn't know where you were, 1279 01:06:08,709 --> 01:06:10,608 whether you'd be interested in working with me. 1280 01:06:10,642 --> 01:06:12,541 Whether you'd ever heard of me or not. 1281 01:06:12,575 --> 01:06:14,267 And as soon as I started learning the songs 1282 01:06:14,301 --> 01:06:15,647 they just got inside me. 1283 01:06:15,682 --> 01:06:17,270 I wanted to record them and I wanted to do it 1284 01:06:17,304 --> 01:06:19,203 worse than anything I've ever wanted to do. 1285 01:06:19,237 --> 01:06:20,583 RIDDLE: I remember your phrase for this. 1286 01:06:20,618 --> 01:06:24,311 You said these are songs I cannot not do. 1287 01:06:24,346 --> 01:06:25,692 I can't not do them. 1288 01:06:25,726 --> 01:06:28,453 At some point it's like falling in love. 1289 01:06:28,488 --> 01:06:30,110 Choice doesn't even enter into it. 1290 01:06:30,145 --> 01:06:33,217 ♪ What's new? ♪ 1291 01:06:34,114 --> 01:06:37,428 ♪ How is the world ♪ 1292 01:06:38,636 --> 01:06:41,328 ♪ Treating you? ♪ 1293 01:06:42,433 --> 01:06:44,642 I would think oh my God, how can I sing these songs? 1294 01:06:44,676 --> 01:06:47,162 Ella Fitzgerald has sung them, Billie Holiday has sing them, 1295 01:06:47,196 --> 01:06:49,095 Frank Sinatra has sung them. 1296 01:06:50,889 --> 01:06:53,720 ♪ Handsome as ever ♪ 1297 01:06:55,239 --> 01:06:57,068 SOUTHER: She studied all of those records 1298 01:06:57,103 --> 01:06:59,726 and she studied every available version she could find 1299 01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:01,417 of each one of those songs. 1300 01:07:01,452 --> 01:07:03,385 She is a real student. 1301 01:07:03,419 --> 01:07:06,112 ♪ What's new? ♪ 1302 01:07:06,457 --> 01:07:10,357 ♪ How did that romance ♪ 1303 01:07:10,806 --> 01:07:12,808 ♪ Come through? ♪ 1304 01:07:13,291 --> 01:07:16,260 ASHER: She told she wanted to get those songs out of the elevator. 1305 01:07:16,294 --> 01:07:19,125 She meant that that's the only place you heard them. 1306 01:07:19,159 --> 01:07:22,335 And she wanted to point out that that's not where they belong. 1307 01:07:22,369 --> 01:07:24,475 They were some of the best songs ever written. 1308 01:07:24,509 --> 01:07:28,582 ♪ Why am I asking what's new? ♪ 1309 01:07:29,928 --> 01:07:33,173 SMITH: I went to her house and tried to talk her out of it but 1310 01:07:33,208 --> 01:07:36,349 as soon as she told me Nelson Riddle was going to do it, 1311 01:07:36,383 --> 01:07:39,559 I said well I'd like to come to the record session. 1312 01:07:39,593 --> 01:07:42,458 [♪♪♪] 1313 01:07:45,496 --> 01:07:48,706 [singing harmonies] 1314 01:07:49,189 --> 01:07:50,915 RONSTADT: When my sister was in high school she got to go 1315 01:07:50,949 --> 01:07:53,331 to her senior prom and she got to wear these strapless dresses 1316 01:07:53,366 --> 01:07:54,712 with a lot of tool 1317 01:07:54,746 --> 01:07:56,886 and I always wanted one of those dresses. 1318 01:07:58,819 --> 01:08:00,718 By the time I got to high school 1319 01:08:00,752 --> 01:08:03,169 styles had changed and I never got to have one. 1320 01:08:03,203 --> 01:08:04,687 So I said I'm going to put a show together, 1321 01:08:04,722 --> 01:08:06,724 we're all going to get to wear those dresses. 1322 01:08:07,380 --> 01:08:10,831 ♪ So dream ♪ 1323 01:08:11,591 --> 01:08:15,112 ♪ Dream ♪ 1324 01:08:15,905 --> 01:08:18,563 ♪ Dream ♪ 1325 01:08:22,809 --> 01:08:24,466 [applause] 1326 01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:25,915 JOHNNY CARSON: This is a real treat tonight. 1327 01:08:25,950 --> 01:08:27,883 We have three marvelous singers on the show 1328 01:08:27,917 --> 01:08:30,748 and would you know how many times they have been nominated 1329 01:08:30,782 --> 01:08:32,198 for Grammys between them? 1330 01:08:32,232 --> 01:08:33,820 Forty-five times in total. 1331 01:08:33,854 --> 01:08:35,891 [applause] 1332 01:08:38,273 --> 01:08:40,240 The albums they've all sold are in the multi-millions 1333 01:08:40,275 --> 01:08:42,449 and I guess it's taken the ladies about ten years 1334 01:08:42,484 --> 01:08:44,624 to get this together where they wanted to work together 1335 01:08:44,658 --> 01:08:48,697 and made an album called Trio and it was well worth the time. 1336 01:08:48,731 --> 01:08:50,940 The album is described as old-timey but it's sensational. 1337 01:08:50,975 --> 01:08:52,804 Would you welcome Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, 1338 01:08:52,839 --> 01:08:53,943 Emmylou Harris? 1339 01:08:53,978 --> 01:08:56,946 [♪♪♪] 1340 01:09:02,020 --> 01:09:03,505 RONSTADT: I had met Dolly. 1341 01:09:03,539 --> 01:09:05,369 I saw her singing on the Grand Ole Opry 1342 01:09:05,403 --> 01:09:06,680 and she was a wonder to behold. 1343 01:09:06,715 --> 01:09:09,511 What you have in front of you is one of the most beautiful girls 1344 01:09:09,545 --> 01:09:10,684 you've ever seen. 1345 01:09:10,719 --> 01:09:12,410 She's just gorgeous. 1346 01:09:13,411 --> 01:09:14,654 When she opened her mouth and started to sing 1347 01:09:14,688 --> 01:09:15,793 I fell on the floor. 1348 01:09:15,827 --> 01:09:17,691 She's an amazing singer. 1349 01:09:17,726 --> 01:09:19,624 ♪ Jolene, Jolene ♪ 1350 01:09:19,659 --> 01:09:22,558 ♪ Jolene, Jolene ♪ 1351 01:09:22,972 --> 01:09:27,736 ♪ I'm begging of you Please don't take my man ♪ 1352 01:09:29,358 --> 01:09:30,808 RONSTADT: I told Emmylou about her 1353 01:09:30,842 --> 01:09:32,741 and then Emmy met her somehow. 1354 01:09:32,775 --> 01:09:34,536 ♪ Jolene ♪ 1355 01:09:34,570 --> 01:09:38,402 HARRIS: When I made my first trip to Nashville the powers that be 1356 01:09:38,436 --> 01:09:41,301 set up a meeting with Dolly and she was making a record 1357 01:09:41,336 --> 01:09:44,546 in her studio and it was like unbelievable. 1358 01:09:44,580 --> 01:09:47,411 It was better than any Disneyland visit. 1359 01:09:47,445 --> 01:09:49,723 ♪ Eyes of emerald green ♪ 1360 01:09:49,758 --> 01:09:51,725 PARTON: They kind of found my music somewhere 1361 01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,038 and kind of wanted to meet me 1362 01:09:54,072 --> 01:09:56,351 and that's kind of how we all started. 1363 01:09:57,352 --> 01:09:59,388 RONSTADT: Emmy called me up and she's like Dolly Parton's at my house, 1364 01:09:59,423 --> 01:10:01,010 you have to come over. 1365 01:10:01,045 --> 01:10:02,805 I was living like 40 minutes away 1366 01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,531 and I got there in 20 minutes. 1367 01:10:04,566 --> 01:10:07,776 She came over and there we were, the three of us 1368 01:10:07,810 --> 01:10:10,261 and we were there with our idol Dolly. 1369 01:10:10,296 --> 01:10:12,539 They had this big old house, almost like a bunch of hippies 1370 01:10:12,574 --> 01:10:15,024 just living up there, different people and musicians. 1371 01:10:15,059 --> 01:10:16,647 They had different bedrooms. 1372 01:10:16,681 --> 01:10:18,614 It was just a free-for-all kind of house. 1373 01:10:18,649 --> 01:10:20,444 A dream for musicians. 1374 01:10:20,478 --> 01:10:23,964 And somebody said well sing something. 1375 01:10:23,999 --> 01:10:27,899 ♪ Bury me beneath the willow ♪ 1376 01:10:27,934 --> 01:10:30,902 ♪ Under the whipping willow Tree ♪ 1377 01:10:30,937 --> 01:10:35,562 ♪ So he may know Where I am sleeping ♪ 1378 01:10:35,597 --> 01:10:38,738 ♪ And perhaps He'll weep for me ♪ 1379 01:10:38,772 --> 01:10:40,049 So I started singing that 1380 01:10:40,084 --> 01:10:41,741 and then they started saying sing that again. 1381 01:10:41,775 --> 01:10:43,363 I go "Oh, bury me..." 1382 01:10:43,398 --> 01:10:45,020 And here come all these harmonies 1383 01:10:45,054 --> 01:10:47,678 and oh it was just chilling, chilling, chilling. 1384 01:10:47,712 --> 01:10:49,818 ♪ Beneath the willow ♪ 1385 01:10:49,852 --> 01:10:53,787 ♪ Under the weeping willow Tree ♪ 1386 01:10:53,822 --> 01:10:59,034 ♪ Well he may know Where I am sleeping ♪ 1387 01:10:59,068 --> 01:11:02,934 ♪ And perhaps He'll weep for me ♪ 1388 01:11:02,969 --> 01:11:04,936 When we heard our voices 1389 01:11:04,971 --> 01:11:08,492 it was like injecting some kind of serum into your veins. 1390 01:11:08,526 --> 01:11:10,632 It was like a high like you've never felt. 1391 01:11:10,666 --> 01:11:12,599 We sang first in a living room 1392 01:11:12,634 --> 01:11:14,049 and said well this sounds really good. 1393 01:11:14,083 --> 01:11:15,533 It was special, it was different. 1394 01:11:15,568 --> 01:11:20,642 It was like a sound of sisters, musical sisters. 1395 01:11:20,676 --> 01:11:25,888 ♪ Won't you bury me Beneath the willow ♪ 1396 01:11:25,923 --> 01:11:29,823 ♪ Under the weeping willow Tree ♪ 1397 01:11:29,858 --> 01:11:32,412 ♪ Where he may know where... ♪ 1398 01:11:32,447 --> 01:11:35,657 At that moment we thought we have to do a record. 1399 01:11:37,728 --> 01:11:41,076 ♪ To know know know him ♪ 1400 01:11:41,387 --> 01:11:45,977 ♪ Is to love love love him ♪ 1401 01:11:46,012 --> 01:11:50,119 ♪ Just to see him smile ♪ 1402 01:11:50,154 --> 01:11:54,331 ♪ Makes my life worthwhile ♪ 1403 01:11:55,539 --> 01:11:57,472 RONSTADT: We learned so much about singing from each other 1404 01:11:57,506 --> 01:11:59,439 because you get to sort of be them for a second 1405 01:11:59,474 --> 01:12:00,923 when you're shadowing them in harmony. 1406 01:12:00,958 --> 01:12:04,168 It's like getting on an eagle and getting to see the world 1407 01:12:04,202 --> 01:12:06,515 through that eagle's experience. 1408 01:12:06,550 --> 01:12:08,172 I get to sing through Dolly's voice 1409 01:12:08,206 --> 01:12:10,899 or sing through Emmy's voice when I sing real close harmony. 1410 01:12:10,933 --> 01:12:12,590 ♪ Why ♪ 1411 01:12:13,729 --> 01:12:17,802 ♪ Can't he see me? ♪ 1412 01:12:18,803 --> 01:12:22,566 ♪ How I... ♪ 1413 01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:25,465 The only big disagreements would be are we going to use autoharp 1414 01:12:25,500 --> 01:12:27,605 or dulcimer on this song. 1415 01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:29,193 - [laughter] - Yeah. 1416 01:12:29,227 --> 01:12:30,919 Sometimes we would disagree about who would sing lead 1417 01:12:30,953 --> 01:12:32,679 because Emmy and I always wanted Dolly 1418 01:12:32,714 --> 01:12:34,060 to sing lead on everything. 1419 01:12:34,094 --> 01:12:36,096 Oh, well Dolly will sound great on that. 1420 01:12:36,131 --> 01:12:38,409 You sing lead! No, you sing lead! 1421 01:12:40,480 --> 01:12:42,551 PARTON: Linda is such a perfectionist. 1422 01:12:42,586 --> 01:12:44,070 She's a pain in the ass sometimes 1423 01:12:44,104 --> 01:12:46,452 because she is such a perfectionist. 1424 01:12:46,486 --> 01:12:48,764 Because she will not have it unless it's perfect. 1425 01:12:48,799 --> 01:12:51,560 She used to make me sing those harmonies over and over 1426 01:12:51,595 --> 01:12:54,805 and I said I'm going to sing it the same way no matter what. 1427 01:12:54,839 --> 01:12:56,979 No, you're not! You're going to hit this one note. 1428 01:12:57,014 --> 01:12:59,810 And see I don't know how to, all those intricate harmonies 1429 01:12:59,844 --> 01:13:01,467 like Emmylou and Linda do. 1430 01:13:01,501 --> 01:13:03,986 I just sing that raw stuff from feeling 1431 01:13:04,021 --> 01:13:07,265 and it ain't always proper but it sounds good. 1432 01:13:07,300 --> 01:13:10,993 ♪ Yes just to know ♪ 1433 01:13:11,028 --> 01:13:15,101 ♪ Is to love love love him ♪ 1434 01:13:15,135 --> 01:13:19,761 ♪ And I do ♪ 1435 01:13:20,727 --> 01:13:22,004 [applause] 1436 01:13:22,039 --> 01:13:24,938 INTERVIEWER: Linda, you've sing just about all types of music. 1437 01:13:24,973 --> 01:13:28,252 Light opera; you've been on Broadway, rock and roll, pop. 1438 01:13:28,286 --> 01:13:30,530 What's your next project going to be? 1439 01:13:30,565 --> 01:13:32,739 I'm going to do an album of Mexican music, 1440 01:13:32,774 --> 01:13:33,740 of traditional Mexican music. 1441 01:13:33,775 --> 01:13:36,467 I'm kind of a traditional Mexican myself. 1442 01:13:36,502 --> 01:13:38,711 You know, I grew up about 40 minutes from the Mexican border, 1443 01:13:38,745 --> 01:13:41,748 my family are Mexican, and that is my roots. 1444 01:13:41,783 --> 01:13:44,613 That's what I came from and I have been dying to do 1445 01:13:44,648 --> 01:13:46,063 this record for years and years 1446 01:13:46,097 --> 01:13:47,651 and I'm getting around to it this year. 1447 01:13:47,685 --> 01:13:49,791 Boy, I'm going o do it. 1448 01:13:49,825 --> 01:13:53,001 [singing in Spanish] 1449 01:13:57,005 --> 01:13:59,904 SOUTHER: Our neighbor that lived behind us in the garage apartment 1450 01:13:59,939 --> 01:14:02,631 was Harry Dean Stanton, great character actor 1451 01:14:02,666 --> 01:14:05,565 and a great singer of Mexican folk songs. 1452 01:14:06,014 --> 01:14:08,603 We would hear him up until the wee hours singing 1453 01:14:08,637 --> 01:14:11,571 these Mexican folk songs, these canciones. 1454 01:14:11,606 --> 01:14:15,195 And Linda knew all those songs. 1455 01:14:15,230 --> 01:14:18,129 I don't think people thought of her as... 1456 01:14:18,164 --> 01:14:20,615 as Mexican. 1457 01:14:20,925 --> 01:14:23,652 It certainly never came up. I never heard it. 1458 01:14:23,687 --> 01:14:26,690 I mean, the name Ronstadt is not Hernandez. 1459 01:14:26,724 --> 01:14:28,554 Ronstadt is a German-sounding name. 1460 01:14:28,588 --> 01:14:32,558 No, she's certainly from Mexican heritage 1461 01:14:32,592 --> 01:14:34,905 but it wasn't the most apparent thing. 1462 01:14:34,939 --> 01:14:36,941 RONSTADT: I want to see where you put your D. 1463 01:14:36,976 --> 01:14:39,565 Say ganador. 1464 01:14:39,599 --> 01:14:41,739 Ga... 1465 01:14:41,774 --> 01:14:44,708 The phrasing, Ganador. 1466 01:14:44,742 --> 01:14:46,917 Ganador. 1467 01:14:46,951 --> 01:14:48,781 Ganador. 1468 01:14:48,815 --> 01:14:50,817 - Dor? - Mm-hm. Mm-hm. 1469 01:14:50,852 --> 01:14:53,717 Is it on the roof of your mouth, the back of your teeth or... 1470 01:14:54,234 --> 01:14:57,341 When he asked me if I would sing a harmony on his record 1471 01:14:57,375 --> 01:14:59,170 I was completely delighted 1472 01:14:59,205 --> 01:15:02,588 because you can only learn by doing. I can't... 1473 01:15:03,036 --> 01:15:04,831 there isn't a book you can get, you know, 1474 01:15:04,866 --> 01:15:07,834 how do you learn how to be a singer in Spanish? 1475 01:15:07,869 --> 01:15:10,009 It's always been a dream of mine to make an album 1476 01:15:10,043 --> 01:15:12,977 of these Mexican songs that I learned from my father. 1477 01:15:13,012 --> 01:15:15,014 [singing in Spanish] 1478 01:15:20,260 --> 01:15:21,986 My father had a beautiful baritone voice. 1479 01:15:22,021 --> 01:15:24,368 He sounded like a cross between Pedro Infante 1480 01:15:24,402 --> 01:15:26,232 and Frank Sinatra. 1481 01:15:27,302 --> 01:15:30,029 Always if there was a dinner party or something he'd get the 1482 01:15:30,063 --> 01:15:33,653 guitar out and he'd just sing and I always would fall asleep 1483 01:15:33,688 --> 01:15:36,898 in somebody's lap listening to my dad sing some beautiful song. 1484 01:15:36,932 --> 01:15:39,107 [singing in Spanish] 1485 01:15:39,141 --> 01:15:42,282 We always as a family, we always sang in Spanish. 1486 01:15:42,317 --> 01:15:45,354 Even though I didn't understand much of what I was singing, 1487 01:15:45,389 --> 01:15:46,942 it was something that I learned to do. 1488 01:15:46,977 --> 01:15:48,772 It's kind of like lip reading, you know. 1489 01:15:48,806 --> 01:15:52,016 I used to kind of chameleon in harmony along with my father. 1490 01:15:53,052 --> 01:15:56,262 [pop singing in Spanish] 1491 01:15:57,746 --> 01:16:01,025 To learn to sing that style as a grown-up professional singer, 1492 01:16:01,060 --> 01:16:02,648 that took some doing. 1493 01:16:05,996 --> 01:16:09,275 [singing continues] 1494 01:16:30,814 --> 01:16:33,161 I always forget the beginning where I go through the ending 1495 01:16:33,195 --> 01:16:34,749 and it makes it so hard. 1496 01:16:34,783 --> 01:16:36,405 Oh yeah. What was it, this way? 1497 01:16:36,440 --> 01:16:37,959 Is that how you do it? The Latin way. 1498 01:16:37,993 --> 01:16:39,339 Okay, I got it. 1499 01:16:39,374 --> 01:16:40,927 [speaking in Spanish] 1500 01:16:40,962 --> 01:16:42,895 Okay, I'm learning all these new things. 1501 01:16:43,136 --> 01:16:46,346 [mariachi music] 1502 01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,043 My dad invited me to go to the Tucson Mariachi Conference 1503 01:16:53,077 --> 01:16:56,011 and that way I got to meet the Mariachi Vargas. 1504 01:16:56,046 --> 01:16:59,014 [mariachi music continues] 1505 01:16:59,049 --> 01:17:02,121 Those good bands like the Cobre or the Camperos 1506 01:17:02,155 --> 01:17:04,157 or the Mariachi Vargas, you're going to go to a symphony 1507 01:17:04,192 --> 01:17:05,952 and you're not going to find better musicians. 1508 01:17:05,987 --> 01:17:07,920 They're all virtuoso players. 1509 01:17:08,230 --> 01:17:11,958 [powerful violin playing] 1510 01:17:13,477 --> 01:17:15,375 I picked a couple of songs. 1511 01:17:16,307 --> 01:17:18,413 The band said these songs are very traditional 1512 01:17:18,447 --> 01:17:20,380 and they're very difficult to do. 1513 01:17:21,209 --> 01:17:23,038 I said well, they're the only songs I know 1514 01:17:23,073 --> 01:17:24,971 so we better learn them. 1515 01:17:25,006 --> 01:17:27,422 [singing in Spanish] 1516 01:17:32,185 --> 01:17:33,980 I went to the president of my record company, 1517 01:17:34,015 --> 01:17:36,396 who's a man who genuinely likes music, and I said look, 1518 01:17:36,431 --> 01:17:38,191 I made all these records for you, they saw this. 1519 01:17:38,226 --> 01:17:39,848 I'm going to do this just for me 1520 01:17:39,883 --> 01:17:40,780 and this might be self-indulgent. 1521 01:17:40,815 --> 01:17:42,195 If it sells two copies I don't care 1522 01:17:42,230 --> 01:17:44,715 but if I can't record this music I'm going to die. 1523 01:17:45,854 --> 01:17:48,029 I don't understand any Spanish. 1524 01:17:48,063 --> 01:17:52,033 I didn't understand how popular those songs were 1525 01:17:52,067 --> 01:17:56,762 but this is a lady who wanted to do it her way 1526 01:17:56,796 --> 01:17:58,556 and who was going to say no? 1527 01:17:58,591 --> 01:18:03,769 [singing in Spanish] 1528 01:18:31,348 --> 01:18:34,213 HILBURN: Canciones de mi Padre, it's the largest selling 1529 01:18:34,247 --> 01:18:37,147 Spanish language album in the history of the industry. 1530 01:18:37,181 --> 01:18:40,944 That's the whole Linda Ronstadt story right there in a nutshell. 1531 01:18:40,978 --> 01:18:44,119 Linda deciding she wants to do something, 1532 01:18:44,154 --> 01:18:46,846 the record company telling her she can't. 1533 01:18:46,881 --> 01:18:48,952 She goes ahead and does it anyway 1534 01:18:48,986 --> 01:18:53,439 and they jump on board as the thing starts to take off. 1535 01:18:53,473 --> 01:18:54,992 [applause] 1536 01:18:55,027 --> 01:18:57,408 CASADO: Toda la Familia would come and they loved it 1537 01:18:57,443 --> 01:19:00,032 because they were here from Mexico. 1538 01:19:00,066 --> 01:19:03,104 Even though their kids had grown up here 1539 01:19:03,138 --> 01:19:05,175 and become American citizens, 1540 01:19:05,209 --> 01:19:08,247 who is this girl singing songs so beautifully. 1541 01:19:08,488 --> 01:19:12,561 [singing in Spanish] 1542 01:19:17,428 --> 01:19:19,223 COODER: The fact that she went on and did that 1543 01:19:19,258 --> 01:19:21,432 and did it in such a big way. 1544 01:19:21,639 --> 01:19:23,400 It was a brave thing to do. 1545 01:19:23,434 --> 01:19:25,160 Many people would have been terrified 1546 01:19:25,195 --> 01:19:26,990 I'll mess up my career. 1547 01:19:27,645 --> 01:19:32,409 But obviously she had purpose, personal decision. 1548 01:19:33,375 --> 01:19:34,514 It's good. 1549 01:19:34,929 --> 01:19:38,311 [singing in Spanish] 1550 01:20:07,375 --> 01:20:09,618 [applause] 1551 01:20:11,931 --> 01:20:14,900 RONSTADT: To have that traditionalism going along on the bus with me 1552 01:20:14,934 --> 01:20:17,178 from town to town where I'd only sung pop music, 1553 01:20:17,212 --> 01:20:20,008 to take that part of the dirt with me, you know, 1554 01:20:20,043 --> 01:20:23,011 the part of the soil of the land where I came from to Cleveland 1555 01:20:23,046 --> 01:20:25,324 and Cincinnati and New York, that was a thrill. 1556 01:20:25,358 --> 01:20:27,395 You should have seen Central Park with, you know, 1557 01:20:27,429 --> 01:20:30,122 close to a million people in it when the mariachi 1558 01:20:30,156 --> 01:20:32,607 got up on stage with their big hats, the place fell out. 1559 01:20:32,641 --> 01:20:35,092 They went nuts. There was such a thing of pride 1560 01:20:35,127 --> 01:20:37,163 that went from the stage to the audience. 1561 01:20:37,198 --> 01:20:38,509 It was just great. 1562 01:20:39,994 --> 01:20:43,307 This song was written by me and my father 1563 01:20:43,342 --> 01:20:45,862 and it's called Lo Siento Mi Vida. 1564 01:20:46,310 --> 01:20:50,625 [singing in Spanish] 1565 01:20:51,695 --> 01:20:53,939 My dad died when he was 84. 1566 01:20:55,423 --> 01:20:58,564 There was a kind of a peace that happened when he died. 1567 01:21:00,946 --> 01:21:03,120 In the three of four days before he died he was reading to us 1568 01:21:03,155 --> 01:21:06,365 passages from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book 1569 01:21:06,399 --> 01:21:10,024 Love in the Time of Cholera and it was just a great sharing. 1570 01:21:12,681 --> 01:21:15,132 It was a different experience being with my father 1571 01:21:15,167 --> 01:21:17,410 when he died than it was with my mother. 1572 01:21:18,653 --> 01:21:21,587 I knew I was going to miss him but I accepted it better. 1573 01:21:22,691 --> 01:21:26,281 [singing in Spanish] 1574 01:21:33,357 --> 01:21:35,946 He had what I would describe as a beautiful death. 1575 01:21:40,330 --> 01:21:42,470 AARON NEVILLE: I'd seen her on TV and I thought she was great 1576 01:21:42,504 --> 01:21:46,025 but when she came to New Orleans she was just 1577 01:21:46,060 --> 01:21:49,995 so down to earth and girl next door thing. 1578 01:21:50,374 --> 01:21:52,342 And just humble. 1579 01:21:53,377 --> 01:21:55,655 She was just a sweet, humble person. 1580 01:21:57,002 --> 01:22:00,143 RONSTADT: I'd been in New Orleans for the World's Fair 1581 01:22:00,177 --> 01:22:02,007 and somebody said well the Neville Brothers are playing 1582 01:22:02,041 --> 01:22:04,043 at some club down in the Quarter. We should go. 1583 01:22:04,078 --> 01:22:06,252 We going to get serious, serious right now. 1584 01:22:06,287 --> 01:22:09,324 I'm going to turn you on to our brother Aaron Neville. 1585 01:22:09,359 --> 01:22:10,567 RONSTADT: Aaron Neville was on stage singing 1586 01:22:10,601 --> 01:22:12,500 this beautiful song Arianne. 1587 01:22:12,534 --> 01:22:14,088 ♪ Arianne is April morning ♪ 1588 01:22:14,122 --> 01:22:17,022 [audience cheers] 1589 01:22:17,298 --> 01:22:21,336 ♪ That comes rippling Through my window ♪ 1590 01:22:21,543 --> 01:22:25,340 ♪ She's the smell of coffee brewing ♪ 1591 01:22:25,651 --> 01:22:29,517 ♪ On a quiet, rainy Sunday ♪ 1592 01:22:29,724 --> 01:22:31,484 NEVILLE: Somebody told me she was in the audience 1593 01:22:31,519 --> 01:22:33,555 so I called her up on stage. 1594 01:22:33,590 --> 01:22:35,454 Sing some doo wop. 1595 01:22:36,110 --> 01:22:37,559 RONSTADT: Usually I'll never do anything like that 1596 01:22:37,594 --> 01:22:39,768 because I like to rehearse everything first. 1597 01:22:39,803 --> 01:22:42,150 But I wasn't going to say no to Aaron Neville. 1598 01:22:42,357 --> 01:22:44,739 NEVILLE: After that I asked for an autograph. 1599 01:22:44,773 --> 01:22:47,397 She said To Aaron, Love, I'll sing with you anytime, 1600 01:22:47,431 --> 01:22:50,296 any place, anywhere in any key. 1601 01:22:50,572 --> 01:22:53,713 [Don't Know Much by Neville and Ronstadt] 1602 01:22:56,682 --> 01:22:58,753 ♪ Look at this face ♪ 1603 01:22:58,787 --> 01:23:00,272 RONSTADT: The next morning I woke up 1604 01:23:00,306 --> 01:23:01,790 and my first thought was boy I like singing 1605 01:23:01,825 --> 01:23:03,482 with Aaron Neville. That sounded pretty good. 1606 01:23:03,516 --> 01:23:05,311 And then I thought, you idiot, everybody sounds good 1607 01:23:05,346 --> 01:23:07,348 when they sing with Aaron Neville. 1608 01:23:08,418 --> 01:23:11,283 I said we got to make a record together and he was up for it. 1609 01:23:11,317 --> 01:23:13,319 ♪ I don't know much ♪ 1610 01:23:14,631 --> 01:23:17,772 ♪ But I know I love you ♪ 1611 01:23:21,293 --> 01:23:26,401 ♪ And that may be All I need to know ♪ 1612 01:23:27,782 --> 01:23:30,612 NEVILLE: There were all kind of rumors going on... 1613 01:23:31,682 --> 01:23:34,754 They say oh Linda and Aaron got married or whatever. 1614 01:23:35,445 --> 01:23:37,067 Just crazy stuff. 1615 01:23:37,102 --> 01:23:39,552 ♪ Look at these dreams ♪ 1616 01:23:40,105 --> 01:23:44,350 ♪ So beaten And so battered ♪ 1617 01:23:44,385 --> 01:23:46,456 ♪ I don't know much ♪ 1618 01:23:46,490 --> 01:23:48,596 NEVILLE: The producer told us if you don't make it look real 1619 01:23:48,630 --> 01:23:52,117 ain't no sense doing it. So we had to make it look real. 1620 01:23:54,567 --> 01:23:58,778 ♪ That may be All there is ♪ 1621 01:23:59,503 --> 01:24:02,644 ♪ To know ♪ 1622 01:24:03,266 --> 01:24:05,233 [Neville vocalizing] 1623 01:24:05,268 --> 01:24:09,617 At the studio I said I'll see you at the Grammys. 1624 01:24:09,651 --> 01:24:12,206 [crowd cheers] 1625 01:24:14,553 --> 01:24:17,107 I had a speech but [gibberish] 1626 01:24:17,142 --> 01:24:18,384 [laughter] 1627 01:24:18,419 --> 01:24:21,663 Too nervous. I just want to say thank you to Linda first. 1628 01:24:22,733 --> 01:24:24,528 And my wife Joelle. 1629 01:24:24,563 --> 01:24:25,805 [laughter] 1630 01:24:26,944 --> 01:24:28,774 RONSTADT: Aaron and I won two Grammys for that record. 1631 01:24:30,741 --> 01:24:33,227 But as time went on there was something really wrong 1632 01:24:33,261 --> 01:24:34,676 with my voice. 1633 01:24:36,885 --> 01:24:40,648 I just lost a lot of different colors in my voice. 1634 01:24:41,580 --> 01:24:43,237 There's a lot of things you do in singing. 1635 01:24:43,271 --> 01:24:46,792 You turn your voice to different planes to make different sounds 1636 01:24:46,826 --> 01:24:48,621 and I couldn't do any of that. 1637 01:24:51,831 --> 01:24:54,386 Turned out I had Parkinson's disease. 1638 01:24:56,664 --> 01:24:58,700 Singing is really complex 1639 01:24:58,735 --> 01:25:02,221 and I was made most aware of it by having it vanish. 1640 01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:06,812 I can still sing in my mind but I can't do it physically. 1641 01:25:09,194 --> 01:25:13,163 I sang my last concert on November 7th, 2009. 1642 01:25:13,577 --> 01:25:15,269 It was a Mexican show. 1643 01:25:16,822 --> 01:25:20,791 SOUTHER: Must have been quite a reckoning 1644 01:25:20,826 --> 01:25:23,449 to have this marvelous instrument 1645 01:25:23,484 --> 01:25:25,348 that could always hold the notes, hit the notes 1646 01:25:25,382 --> 01:25:26,970 and shape the notes, 1647 01:25:27,004 --> 01:25:29,731 could no longer hold the notes without quiver. 1648 01:25:31,906 --> 01:25:34,288 But there's a lot of good records with 1649 01:25:34,322 --> 01:25:35,979 her magnificent voice on them 1650 01:25:36,013 --> 01:25:38,775 and I hear her laughing in my head all the time. 1651 01:25:38,809 --> 01:25:40,708 I hear that cackle all the time. 1652 01:25:41,536 --> 01:25:43,469 I'm sort of never without her. 1653 01:25:46,300 --> 01:25:50,442 ASHER: I could imagine not being able to sing for Linda is awful. 1654 01:25:50,856 --> 01:25:56,551 But I also know nobody who could handle that kind of change 1655 01:25:56,586 --> 01:26:00,210 or adjustment in a more logical and thoughtful 1656 01:26:00,245 --> 01:26:02,557 and intelligent way than Linda. 1657 01:26:04,352 --> 01:26:06,561 HARRIS: I don't think she misses going on the road. 1658 01:26:06,837 --> 01:26:09,564 I don't think she misses making records. 1659 01:26:11,359 --> 01:26:14,397 I think she misses singing with her friends 1660 01:26:14,431 --> 01:26:17,400 and singing in the living room with her family. 1661 01:26:19,540 --> 01:26:21,438 There's just no one on the planet 1662 01:26:21,473 --> 01:26:25,615 that ever had or ever will have a voice like Linda's. 1663 01:26:37,627 --> 01:26:39,491 RONSTADT: You know, I'm grateful for the time I had. 1664 01:26:39,525 --> 01:26:43,219 I got to live a lot of my dreams and I feel lucky about it. 1665 01:26:46,049 --> 01:26:48,431 Another person with Parkinson's said that life after death 1666 01:26:48,465 --> 01:26:49,811 isn't the question. 1667 01:26:51,848 --> 01:26:53,712 It's life before death. 1668 01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:57,888 So how are you going to do it? 1669 01:26:59,062 --> 01:27:00,684 How are you going to live? 1670 01:27:04,516 --> 01:27:07,001 [guitar strumming] 1671 01:27:26,917 --> 01:27:31,922 [singing in Spanish] 1672 01:27:57,154 --> 01:27:58,708 Couldn't find a part there. 1673 01:27:58,984 --> 01:28:00,468 Start right there. 1674 01:28:00,503 --> 01:28:04,852 [singing in Spanish] 1675 01:28:08,511 --> 01:28:10,651 I don't even have that note in my speaking range anymore. 1676 01:28:10,685 --> 01:28:12,342 [chuckling] 1677 01:28:12,377 --> 01:28:15,725 INTERVIEWER: Before you said you couldn't sing anymore. 1678 01:28:15,759 --> 01:28:17,416 This isn't really singing. 1679 01:28:17,934 --> 01:28:20,833 Believe me, it's a few notes. 1680 01:28:20,868 --> 01:28:23,629 - But it's not really singing. - Are you enjoying it? 1681 01:28:23,664 --> 01:28:25,459 Well, I would enjoy it much more if I could sing 1682 01:28:25,493 --> 01:28:27,426 but I can't let them sing this without me. 1683 01:28:27,461 --> 01:28:28,151 [chuckling] 1684 01:28:28,185 --> 01:28:29,911 It's a family thing. 1685 01:28:30,533 --> 01:28:32,811 Shall we? You guys ready? 1686 01:28:34,537 --> 01:28:36,642 [guitar playing continues] 1687 01:28:36,677 --> 01:28:40,577 [singing in Spanish] 1688 01:29:48,783 --> 01:29:50,440 [Linda chuckles] 1689 01:29:50,475 --> 01:29:52,477 - Do we get to eat? - Yes. 1690 01:29:52,511 --> 01:29:53,995 Good. 1691 01:29:54,030 --> 01:29:57,447 ♪ I've been cheated ♪ 1692 01:29:57,792 --> 01:30:01,002 ♪ Been mistreated ♪ 1693 01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:06,836 ♪ When will I love be loved? ♪ 1694 01:30:08,769 --> 01:30:11,806 ♪ I've been put down ♪ 1695 01:30:12,220 --> 01:30:15,223 ♪ I've been pushed around ♪ 1696 01:30:15,741 --> 01:30:20,677 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 1697 01:30:22,817 --> 01:30:25,924 ♪ When I find a new man ♪ 1698 01:30:26,269 --> 01:30:28,823 ♪ That I want for mine ♪ 1699 01:30:29,790 --> 01:30:32,931 ♪ Always breaks My heart in two ♪ 1700 01:30:32,965 --> 01:30:37,763 ♪ It happens every time ♪ 1701 01:30:38,833 --> 01:30:41,940 ♪ I've been made blue ♪ 1702 01:30:42,216 --> 01:30:45,495 ♪ I've been lied to ♪ 1703 01:30:45,875 --> 01:30:50,983 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 1704 01:30:52,709 --> 01:30:56,057 [guitar solo] 1705 01:31:07,206 --> 01:31:10,209 ♪ When I find a new man ♪ 1706 01:31:10,727 --> 01:31:13,765 ♪ That I want for mine ♪ 1707 01:31:14,110 --> 01:31:17,251 ♪ He always breaks My heart in two ♪ 1708 01:31:17,285 --> 01:31:22,083 ♪ It happens every time ♪ 1709 01:31:23,188 --> 01:31:26,191 ♪ I've been cheated ♪ 1710 01:31:26,778 --> 01:31:29,815 ♪ Been mistreated ♪ 1711 01:31:30,229 --> 01:31:35,131 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 1712 01:31:37,685 --> 01:31:42,172 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 1713 01:31:43,242 --> 01:31:44,623 ♪ Tell me ♪ 1714 01:31:44,658 --> 01:31:47,971 ♪ When will I ♪ 1715 01:31:48,247 --> 01:31:50,042 ♪ Be ♪ 1716 01:31:51,009 --> 01:31:55,910 ♪ Loved? ♪ 1717 01:31:57,636 --> 01:31:59,949 [applause] 1718 01:32:05,264 --> 01:32:09,268 [♪♪♪] 1719 01:32:11,408 --> 01:32:14,135 ♪ Where have you gone? ♪ 1720 01:32:14,170 --> 01:32:16,897 ♪ My darling one ♪ 1721 01:32:17,276 --> 01:32:19,865 ♪ Are you on your own? ♪ 1722 01:32:20,383 --> 01:32:22,868 ♪ Are you having fun? ♪ 1723 01:32:23,213 --> 01:32:26,147 ♪ Is there someone to hold ♪ 1724 01:32:26,354 --> 01:32:29,116 ♪ When you need it bad? ♪ 1725 01:32:29,357 --> 01:32:32,222 ♪ Is it controlled? ♪ 1726 01:32:32,637 --> 01:32:37,676 ♪ Like the love we had? ♪ 1727 01:32:38,781 --> 01:32:41,059 ♪ Does the day go by ♪ 1728 01:32:41,749 --> 01:32:44,062 ♪ Like a memory? ♪ 1729 01:32:44,787 --> 01:32:47,617 ♪ Do you ever try ♪ 1730 01:32:47,652 --> 01:32:50,275 ♪ To remember me? ♪ 1731 01:32:50,862 --> 01:32:53,830 ♪ In an automobile ♪ 1732 01:32:53,865 --> 01:32:56,350 ♪ Or a crowded bar ♪ 1733 01:32:56,902 --> 01:32:59,387 ♪ Well I hope You're all right ♪ 1734 01:32:59,974 --> 01:33:04,772 ♪ Wherever you are ♪ 1735 01:33:05,704 --> 01:33:10,191 ♪ If you're still within The sound of my voice ♪ 1736 01:33:10,916 --> 01:33:14,368 ♪ Over some radio ♪ 1737 01:33:14,782 --> 01:33:17,820 ♪ I just want you to know ♪ 1738 01:33:17,854 --> 01:33:22,169 ♪ You were always My only choice ♪ 1739 01:33:23,964 --> 01:33:26,622 ♪ And wherever you go ♪ 1740 01:33:26,898 --> 01:33:29,935 ♪ That I still love you so ♪ 1741 01:33:29,970 --> 01:33:34,837 ♪ If you're still within The sound of my voice ♪