Talk:Linda Ronstadt

Filmography needs to be either expanded or divided

The filmography is a bit of a mess as it mixes Linda's relatively few appearances in scripted productions with a very incomplete account of her TV performance appearances. The list would probably need to be 10 times as long to account for all her TV appearances - as it is, it omits notable ones such as Midnight Special (on which she debuted You're No Good) and her numerous Tonight Show appearances. I'm recommending cutting those appearances from the list, or creating a new list of "selected television performances" for her singing appearances. That way it will make it easier to identify her actual acting roles. Per WP:BOLD I will probably go ahead and do this myself, but out of courtesy to those who may be in the process of working on this article, I'm happy to let others do this. 70.73.90.119 (talk) 14:33, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

"Linda Ronstadt" "Rollerskate Hooker" "Kennedy Center" "Donald Trump"

• "Kennedy Center Honors" broadcast on CBS included an iconic Linda Ronstadt album cover modified with a fake title: "Rollerskate Hooker." (Dec 17, 2019)

"When Variety did Google searches for the phrase “rollerskate hooker” and for images of Ronstadt on skates after the broadcast, the fake cover in question did not show up in any initial lists of top search results."

• has a red Trump-style hat that reads “Make America Mexico Again” (2019-09-04)
• "They want all the power for themselves, and I think that suits Donald Trump right now. He’d like to be a dictator." (September 1, 2019)
• “That’s weird, too,” she said, adding that she will show up to accept it, in part, because she was told Trump wouldn’t attend. “I don’t think anybody would show up” if he was going, she said. (September 5, 2019)

Why she moved to LA (Laurel Canyon documentary):

• Troubadour (West Hollywood, California)
• Ash Grove (music club)

T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 04:44, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

"Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy"

The article claimed that Linda Ronstadt was the first woman to reach the Hot 100's top 40 with two singles, "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy". False. Melanie was in the Hot 100's top 40 with, not just two, but three, singles, on 26 February 1972: "Brand New Key", "Ring the Living Bell", and "The Nickel Song".

The article claimed that Linda Ronstadt's "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy" were both in the Hot 100's top 5 during the entire month of December 1977. False. The two songs were both in the Hot 100's top 5 during 10-31 December 1977, not the entire month of December 1977.

One can see these facts by reviewing the Hot 100 on Billboard.com .98.149.97.245 (talk) 06:41, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Infobox genres: pick 4

At Template:Infobox musical artist#genre, we are instructed to list a maximum of four genres, and to aim for generality. There's a lot of territory to cover with Ronstadt's career, so I am polling the interested editors to see what we all agree should be listed.

As I write this, the list of genres is as follows:

• • Rock
  • pop
  • folk
  • country rock
  • country
  • art rock
  • hard rock
  • soft rock
  • mariachi
  • Latin

Certainly we can get rid of hard rock and soft rock. Mariachi isn't one of her main career genres, nor is art rock. I think the list should be reduced to Rock, pop, Latin and folk. Or listed in another order. What about country versus folk? Thoughts? Binksternet (talk) 16:52, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Opinion

"In 2007, Ronstadt contributed to the compilation album We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song – a tribute album to jazz music's all-time most heralded artist – on the track "Miss Otis Regrets""

That Ella is "jazz music's all-time most heralded artist" is a matter of opinion. That it's defensible is irrelevant, as other artists (Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis come to mind) are also defensible for that title.

I'd suggest changing it to "a tribute album to one of jazz music's most heralded artists." That seems indisputable fact rather than opinion.