Linda Ronstadt\u2019s career had already taken one significant turn when she left her pop\/folk roots behind and embraced rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, especially by including an album of New Wave rock. Very few people were prepared, however, for the next period of her career when she made another abrupt turn and issued three consecutive albums of popular standards backed by an orchestra. It would\u2019ve been interesting to have been a fly on the wall when she met with producer Peter Asher and the heads of her record label to explain her plans. <\/p>\n
She wisely chose arranger\/producer\/orchestra leader Nelson Riddle as a partner on this release. His pedigree included fourteen albums with Frank Sinatra, seven with Nat King Cole, five with Ella Fitzgerald, plus projects with Dean Martin, Judy Garland, and Peggy Lee. Riddle proved to be a perfect match for Ronstadt as their albums together sold millions of copies, reviving his career and helping her expand her fan base. The first result of their union was What\u2019s New. <\/i>My only criticism of the album is its shortness as it contains only nine songs and clocks in at less than forty minutes. <\/p>\n
As with her pop and rock material, Ronstadt continued to select songs that were perfect for her voice. Tunes by the Gershwin\u2019s, Sammy Cahn, Irving Berlin, and Gordon Jenkins, among others, all succumbed to her sophisticated interpretive style.<\/p>\n
Her take on the old standard \u201cI\u2019ve Got A Crush On You\u201d is the album\u2019s strongest track. Her voice has power, tone, and smoothness, all of which are just perfect for this traditional standard. Another highlight is a moody rendition of \u201cSomeone To Watch Over Me.\u201d When you add in \u201cGuess I\u2019ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry,\u201d \u201cI Don\u2019t Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You,\u201d What\u2019ll I Do,\u201d and \u201cLover Man,\u201d you have an album of note. <\/p>\n
In many ways, What\u2019s New<\/i> helped to return material of this type to the public eye. It remained on the album charts for well over a year and sold three million copies in the United States alone. <\/p>\n
Linda Ronstadt would go on to travel in a number of musical directions, but her trilogy of standard pop albums with Nelson Riddle remains one of the highlights of her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":33598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10248],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45419","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-linda-ronstadt-with-the-nelson-riddle-orchestra","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45419"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}