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Simple Dreams

Her Asylum album of 1977, five weeks at number one, and the home of Blue Bayou.
Linda Ronstadt, 1977

Released
1977
Recorded
23 May to 22 July 1977
Studio
The Sound Factory, Los Angeles
Label
Asylum
Producer
Peter Asher

Asher produced and Val Garay recorded and mixed it at the Sound Factory in Los Angeles between 23 May and 22 July 1977. It carries two Warren Zevon songs, Carmelita and Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Buddy Holly's It's So Easy, Jagger and Richards's Tumbling Dice, and Roy Orbison and Joe Melson's Blue Bayou. Mike Auldridge and Dolly Parton appear on it by courtesy of their labels. It spent five weeks at number one.

Track listing

  1. It's So Easy2:27
  2. Carmelita3:07
  3. Simple Man, Simple Dream3:12
  4. Sorrow Lives Here2:57
  5. I Never Will Marry3:12
  6. Blue Bayou3:57
  7. Poor Poor Pitiful Me3:42
  8. Maybe I'm Right3:05
  9. Tumbling Dice3:05
  10. Old Paint3:05

Personnel

More from Linda Ronstadt

Silk Purse (1970), Don't Cry Now (1973), Heart Like a Wheel (1974), What's New (1983), Canciones de Mi Padre (1987)

Sources

  1. Linda Ronstadt, Wikipedia