Simple Dreams

Infobox Album
Name = Simple Dreams
Type = studio
Artist = Linda Ronstadt


Released = September, 1977
Recorded = The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California from July - September 1977
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Asylum Records / Warner Strategic Marketing
Producer = Peter Asher
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9fixqt5ldfe link]
*Rolling Stone Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/130706/review/5947016?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview link] |
Last album = "Greatest Hits"
(1976)
This album = Simple Dreams"
(1977)
Next album = "Living In The USA"
(1978)

"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. 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" (peaked at #3) and "It's So Easy" (peaked at #5).

The album includes songs by Warren Zevon, Eric Kaz and J.D. Souther, as well as The Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice". Ronstadt was joined by Dolly Parton on the traditional ballad "I Never Will Marry".

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

#"It's So Easy (To Fall In Love)" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty)
#"Carmelita" (Warren Zevon)
#"Simple Man, Simple Dream" (J.D. Souther)
#"Sorrow Lives Here" (Eric Kaz)
#"I Never Will Marry" (Traditional)
#"Blue Bayou" (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson)
#"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (Warren Zevon)
#"Maybe I'm Right" (Robert Wachtel)
#"Tumbling Dice" (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger)
#"Old Paint" (Traditional)

Chart positions

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 Kleinow, Russ Kunkel, Clydie King, Herb Pedersen - background vocals
*Dolly Parton harmony vocals on "I Never Will Marry"

References

succession box
before = "Barry Manilow Live" by Barry Manilow
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = December 3 1977 - January 6 1978
after = "Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)"
by Various artistssuccession box
before = "Foot Loose & Fancy Free" by Rod Stewart
title = Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
years = February 13 - March 19 1978
after = "Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)"
by Various artists