Linkmeister

This is an outrage

Why can't these astroturfers get excited about things that are really important, like "is the nominating process for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rigged?"

This outburst brought on by this thread at Shakesville: "Who is your favorite band/musical artist/composer and which one song would you recommend to someone who'd never heard their work before?"

So I went looking for a YouTube clip of Linda Ronstadt singing Karla Bonoff's "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" and learned in the comments to the YouTube clip that she (Ronstadt) is not in the R&R HOF. I double-checked and it's true; she's not.

That's just wrong. She was one of the best rock singers of the 1970s, she was a wonderful interpreter of The Great American Songbook on three albums with Nelson Riddle, she released several very successful albums in Spanish when that was considered a career-killer, and if you want statistics:

As of 2009, Ronstadt has earned her three No. 1 albums, 10 Top 10 pop albums and 36 charting pop albums on the Billboard 200 Pop Album Charts. On Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, she has charted 15 albums including four No. 1 albums.

Also as of 2009, Ronstadt's singles had earned her a No. 1 single and three No. 2 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, 10 Top 10 pop singles, 21 Top 40 pop singles, two No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, two No. 1 hits and on Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts she had recorded 37 Top 40 hits.

And a bunch of Grammy Awards.

Who's with me?

Posted by Linkmeister at August 6, 2009 03:10 PM | TrackBack