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Linda Ronstadt - Hummin' to Myself Audio CD

A fair review of the Linda Ronstadt "Hummin' to Myself" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Linda Ronstadt reviews here, or go back to the Linda Ronstadt tabs.

Linda Ronstadt Band: Linda Ronstadt
Title: Hummin' to Myself
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Release Date: 2004-11-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Tell Him I Said Hello 2: Never Will I Marry 3: Cry Me a River 4: Hummin' to Myself 5: Miss Otis Regrets 6: I Fall in Love Too Easily 7: Blue Prelude 8: Day Dream 9: I've Never Been in Love Before 10: Get Out of Town 11: I'll Be Seeing You

Dissapointed Linda Ronstadt Fan
I think that she has one of the greatest voices in the history of popular music and her versatility is amazing. To be clear, I have been a fan of Linda Ronstadt for approximately twenty years. I also greatly enjoyed her three albums with Nelson Riddle.

However, I was very dissapointed with her performance on the "Hummin to Myself" album. Linda's can still sing but her voice on this disc lacks the focus, clarity, and control she demonstrates on the Nelson Riddle tracks. In addition, with Nelson Riddle, her clear, pure, strong, wide open, yet vulnerable tone worked very well with his big band settings. She really caputured a forties sound on those albums and brought a great emotional vulnerability to the songs. The arrangements and her singing were really big band pop , not Jazz. This setting works with her big, rich, wide ranging voice.

Hummin to Myself is recorded in a small jazz combo setting. To be effective in this setting the singer must have the control, flexibility, nuance, swing, and vibrant low range of a Jazz Singer. Listen to Ella Fitzgerald, Cleo Laine, Sarah Vaughan, and Nancy Wilson for examples. Linda's voice simply does not have these qualities. In addition, her voice sounds rather nasal, uncontrolled, and unfocused on this disc. Stick to the Nelson Riddle albums and skip "Hummin to Myself".

If you want to hear a phenomenal modern singer who has the chops to be a Jazz singer if she chooses, I recommend Jill Scott!.


Linda revisits jazz standards
In a world where recording artists are generally expected to stick to one style of music, to make life easier for the marketing staff, Linda is one of the few artists able to record whatever she feels like. Linda clearly enjoys many different styles of music. Linda recorded three jazz-pop albums in the eighties with Nelson Riddle as producer, and might have recorded more had Nelson lived longer. This 2004 album marks Linda's first jazz-pop album since then. While Nelson employed an orchestra, Linda contented herself this time with a jazz combo. There are never more than eight musicians on any track here but some employ fewer.

The album opens in great style with Tell him that I said hello, a song that I don't think I've heard before. I've heard plenty of versions of the most famous song here, Cry me a river (Julie London, Mari Wilson and Crystal Gayle being among them) but Linda performs it superbly as she does all the songs here. Two Cole Porter songs (Miss Otis regrets, Get out of town), two Frank Loesser songs (Never will I marry, I've never been in love before) and two songs co-written by Sammy Fain (the title track and I'll be seeing you) are among the other highlights, which also include Day dream (Duke Ellington), I fall in love too easily and Blue prelude. Yes, every track here is a highlight.

Some jazz fans will never accept Linda Ronstadt as one of their own, but as somebody who appreciates many different styles of music, I am happy to listen to Linda sing whatever style of music she chooses. Occasionally, a particular album may not quite be quite up to the standard I've come to expect, but most of the time she's brilliant, as she is here.


Why Calliope is such a 3itch
Rather be back in Menlo Park, seeing my kids, enjoying the library and sitting quietly at some Santa Cruz cafe. I'm not here to find my tribe, green the ecosystem or be the change I wanna see in the world; I'm here 'cause I just couldn't do any better. Free market says no. So here I am in Solla Sollew instead, utopia ostensibly, surrounded by rednecks and retards, excuse me, clueless liberals. Whatever. That's a word I hear a lot, whatever. As in "he, she, whatever. " Whatever you, people. You can change your name, multiple times, to any idiotic word and, presto, everyone observes it. Pat yourself on the back for it no less. But not me, I'm always "he, she, whatever. " So now, nocturnal, just to escape. The yuppies in Silicon Valley had no gender troubles with me, just the utopians. That's why Calliope is such a 3itch.


Oh dear God.
Ronstadt has made, including this one, so I know from which I am speaking. You know, I own practically every album Ms. There are some of her albums that I have adored from the beginning. . . from the first time I listened. Some, for example "Mad Love" took a little getting used to. This album would not only take a lot of getting used to, but also a lot of alcohol in my system to EVER be of a mind to listen to again.

She shrieks. She screams. She. . . I don't know. . . has a melt down. . .

It's just plain awful. (in my opinion. ).


The rhythm has gone mad to the swing tunes
And, I think that she has disappeared due to the failure of this album. I think "Hummin' To Myself released in 2004" is the last album of Linda Ronstadt now.

The rhythm has gone mad to the swing tunes of up-tempo, though the ballad tunes are not bad. I think that Lavay Smith Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing also failed as Linda. Lavay has also disappeared.

I think Carly sings very good on Moonlight Serenade.


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