https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tatoOZ2-uw

Juice Newton - Queen Of Hearts

I had always thought that this song was written by Dave Edmunds - turns out it was written by the pedal steel guitar player in Emmy Lou Harris' band, Hank DeVito.

I like both her version and Edmunds'.

been a Dave Edmunds fan since he was a new act.

Check this one out (from 2000)

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...Turns out it was written by the pedal steel guitar player in Emmy Lou Harris' band, Hank DeVito.

LOVE steel pedal guitar.

Somehow even IT is now removed from modern "Country" sound.

Take me on

noThing even close

Good mid-80s ditty, cool, innovative vid too.

They lead vocalist still has his chops.

"Nothing even close"? Are you saying for you 'Take On Me' is your favorite song or video?

Were you guys into Linda Ronstadt at all?

This wasn't nearly my favorite Ronstadt ditty, but this particular LIVE performance is just spectacular. A Top 3 IMHO. Rounding out the Top 3 spectacular live performances:

Lou Reed's 'Sweet Jane' (R&R Animal), featuring Dick Wagner & Steve Hunter. Dire Straits, 'Sultan of Swing', Alchemy. (Hank, you wound up buying that CD/DVD, right?)

What a band this was! Watch/listen to how sync and tight these guys are, the joy and passion as Linda exhorts them on. No AM station would ever allow the rides and this song to go on 6 minutes. They tore it up.

Andrew Gold (had his own band, never knew how good on guitar his was, besides proficiency on piano), Kenny Edwards (under-rated vocalist, bassist), Waddy Wachtel (great long-time guitar sessions guy, still plays for Keith Richards), Dan Dugmore (pedal steel), Brock Walsh (keyboards) and Mike Botts ( drummer from Bread.)

especially The drawing - graphics

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We're talking away
I don't know what
I'm to say I'll say it anyway
Today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, okay?

Take on me, (take on me)
Take me on, (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two

So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me, (take on me)
Take me on, (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two

Oh the things that you say
Is it live or
Just to play my worries away
You're all the things I've got to remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway

Take on me, (take on me)
Take me on, (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day

(Take on me, take on me)
(Take me on, take on me)
I'll be gone (take on me)
In a day

A very dear friend
died Today

95 years old

mandolin

Were you guys into Linda Ronstadt at all?

A great replacement for Mike Pence in 2020!

Were you guys into Linda Ronstadt at all?

Yes indeed, despite her ill-advised romance with Governor Moonbeam.

She was young and naive so I'll give her a pass on that one.

Sad - she has lost her voice due to Parkinson's disease.

Were you guys into Linda Ronstadt at all?

Somewhat, she had a great voice. I was working in radio and got a copy of this picture disc when it came out; still have it somewhere in with the vinyls in storage:

That vid was pretty good; I kept hoping gravity would win out against fabric technology, but no such luck.

I was working in radio

When and where? I did college radio for 4 years and worked at a few small market radio stations in upper Michigan and the midwest from around 1977 to 1986 before getting a TV gig.

Not on air - I'm the classic example of someone who has a face for radio.

Mostly doing voice-overs, production, weather and directing morning news.

There ya go, Boris....

A great replacement for Mike Pence in 2020!

In 2020 you should consider running.... as Boris' VP.

[Were you guys into Linda Ronstadt at all?]

Yes indeed, despite her ill-advised romance with Governor Moonbeam.

She was young and naive so I'll give her a pass on that one.

Tremendous powerhouse vocals. She could belt 'em out. No one re-worked then covered other artists material like Ronstadt. AND...made it sound much better. Amazing.

Yeah, she was really cute. She did have a naive quality and seemed exceptionally genuine.

Her Moonbeam "romance"...UGH. But was it REALLY?? NEVER made any sense, did it? Sure, she was young...but...is it possibe they each others beard? (Rumors in later years were that she swung both ways.)

Btw, on this vid, check out how these guys at the sound-board all light up like little boys as soon as Linda turns her attention toward them. Everyone must have had a crush on her.

Man, back then...LIVE. What professionals. (The band = Same basic line-up as in the above 'You're No Good' vid.)

Tremendous powerhouse vocals. She could belt 'em out. No one re-worked then covered other artists material like Ronstadt. AND...made it sound much better. Amazing. And

Her cover of The Everly Brothers' "When Will I Be Loved" is an outstanding version of that 50's classic.

A couple others I really liked were Little Feat's "Willin" (great trucker song) and "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" a 1956 Wanda Jackson song - I thought Hank wrote it but I was wrong.

Linda was so gifted...and...her voice and personality a gift for all of us.

It's a reminder that we should learn to appreciate things...as nothing on this earth last forever.

Her cover of The Everly Brothers' "When Will I Be Loved" is an outstanding version of that 50's classic.

I agree. She made it hers, totally. Probably my favorite Ronstadt tune.

I was working in radio and got a copy of this picture disc when it came out; still have it somewhere in with the vinyls in storage...

Interesting on a couple levels there. You're a collector I presume?

That vid was pretty good; I kept hoping gravity would win out against fabric technology, but no such luck.

Haa! (Better to imagine maybe. That's why gift-wrapped "presents" are always more intriguing ;-)

I did college radio for 4 years and worked at a few small market radio stations in upper Michigan and the midwest from around 1977 to 1986 before getting a TV gig...

...Mostly doing voice-overs, production, weather and directing morning news.

Very cool. All facets of production?

Any of your work preserved on YT?

Btw -- did you actually understand weather fronts and all that stuff weathermen through at us? Or just read the teleprompter?

wrong through

hah

The Eagles got their start as her band.The last time I saw either,she was their opening act,and her last song was "Desperado". Which was the song the Eagles opened their act with that night.

Women had a voice that rings like a freaking bell. It has to kill her that she lost her voice and had to quit performing and touring. I was lucky enough to see her in concert several times,and she always performed like the champ she was.

Yes indeed, despite her ill-advised romance with Governor Moonbeam.

She was young and naive so I'll give her a pass on that one.

Given that he is a homo and she is a lesbian,it wasn't much of a romance. She was just giving him political cover.

Interesting on a couple levels there. You're a collector I presume?

I like that a lot better than "packrat". I think I'll be a "collector" from now on.