Simple Dreams

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Simple Dreams is the most successful of Linda Ronstadt's studio albums to date. Spending five weeks at No.1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1977, it replaced Fleetwood Mac's long-running Rumours from the top spot. The album was such a success that Ronstadt became the first artist since The Beatles to have two singles in the top five at the same time, "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy".

The album includes songs by Warren Zevon, Eric Kaz and J.D. Souther, as well as The Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice".

While already being her eighth solo studio album, and fourth consecutive platinum album, Simple Dreams elevated Ronstadt to a superstar status and the highest paid female entertainer in the world.

Track listing

1. It's So Easy
2. Carmelita
3. Simple Man, Simple Dream
4. Sorrow Lives Here
5. I Never Will Marry
6. Blue Bayou
7. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
8. Maybe I'm Right
9. Tumbling Dice
10. Old Paint

Personnel

• Linda Ronstadt (vocals)
• Ed Black (guitar, steel guitar)
• Kenny Edwards (guitar, bass)
• Danny Kortchmar, Richard Bowden, Pete Wade, Al Viola (guitar)
• David Lindley (fiddle);
• Jim Fadden (harmonica);
• Jim Gordon, Nino Tempo (saxophone);
• Mac Johnson, Darrel Leonard (trumpet);
• Spooner Oldham (piano);
• John Boylen (electric piano);
• Kenny Anderson, Mike Bowden (bass);
• Micky McGee, Dennis St. John, Andrew Gold, David Kemper (drums);
• Andrew Gold, John David Souther, Chris Ethridge, Waddy Wachtel, Bernie Leadon, Sneaky Pete, Russ Kunkel, Clydie King, Herb Pedersen (background vocals)