Great great!!!

This cd is such a winner......noone can do some of these oldies the way Linda can! Her voice is so captivating and emotional.....I just love it!!!! No bad tracks at all.....the funny thing is.....look at the track listing on the back of the cd......it lists tracks 1-12 when there are only 11 songs.....it is because it goes from 7-9 on the listing........the number 8 was left out.....hehehe....just found that amusing considering that is an editor's job! ENJOY!

Not a huge Ronstadt fan but nice album!

Though Linda Ronstadt is talented, for some reason, I have never been a huge fan of hers. One reason may be because it seemed like she was always on the radio in the 70's and her music got overplayed. I found this CD in a Used Bin and decided to buy it. I had actually heard a borrowed copy of the album when it first came out and thought it was pretty good, but never got around to buying it.

This has one of the best selections of remakes that seem tailor made for Ronstadt ("On No Not My Baby", "Anyone Who Had A Heart", "Just Don't Know What to do with Myself", "Do What You Gotta Do") Especially nice are her interpretations of the Beach Boys "Don't Talk Put your Head on My Shoulder" and the old chestnut "It's Too Soon To Know". The latter has some nice background harmonies by, I believe, Aaron Neville. One of my complaints about her earlier music is that I felt like she didn't always do justice to certain remakes ("Love is Like A Heatwave" for example.)

The Spanish song is pretty as are the Enya like title track and "Heartbeats Accelerating". A couple of the other tracks are okay, but nothing outstanding.

In conclusion this is a nice, laidback light rock album which should please both die hard Ronstadt fans and may even appeal to those who are not her biggest fans but prefer their rock music without the hard edge.

She's the guiltiest of guilty pleasures

This is one of Linda Ronstadt's greatest albums, even though it is probably the least well-known of her career. It came out in 1993, long after pop fans had figured she'd given up slumming in the rock/pop world and had moved into a joint appointment as the Ethno-musicology chair at a major university and the curator of the Nelson Riddle Museum.

But while I love this album, it illustrates what can drive you crazy about her. Linda Ronstadt is a promiscuous lover of great songs. When she finds a song she falls in love with, she wraps it in her world class voice, and makes love to that song with romantic intensity. What she DOESN'T do, usually, is INTERPRET the song. Instead, to show her loyalty and love for the song, she performs a version that is almost a replica of the original. That's no big deal on great songs like "Heartbeats Accelerating" or "Do What You Gotta Do," which were new to me when I heard this disk. But on incredibly familiar songs like "Anyone Who Had a Heart" or "Don't Talk, Put Your Head on My Shoulder" she presents an arrangement that is very much like the original--in the case of "...Heart" almost an exact duplicate. She sings it at the same tempo, to the same beat. She imitates some of the features of the original singer's interpretation--Dionne Warwick, especially, although their voices are so different. She did that during her heighth of popularity, sometimes to absurd effect, in songs like "Heat Wave" and "Tumbling Dice" that were just wrong for her. But we all know promiscuous people who hook up with the wrong person...that's Linda!

Do I have a problem with this? This is the guilty part of the guilty pleasure...I don't! Her voice is so good, and most of her song choices (especially on this album) so tasty, my feeling is, if she wants to be a jukebox, she's an awfully good one, so I just give in to it. This is a great album, and if you get it, you won't hate yourself in the morning.