Talk:Linda Ronstadt (album)

Eagles reference wrong
Hmmm.....still figuring out how to do this. As stated above, in the wrong place apparently, contrary to the claims in the text of this article, NONE of the songs on this album "where" written by the Eagles. Wish I knew how to fix this, and will figure it out one day when I have time, but could somebody at least delete that ridiculous sentence from the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.222.23.251 (talk) 13:34, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Release
Released in 1971 or 1972? Sources differ. Danceswithzerglings (talk) 16:22, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * There needs to be citations, apparently, but when I came across this awhile ago, the sources said 1971. I reverted the change that said 1972, as it is unsourced. Doc   talk  05:49, 3 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I think it's 1971, but have no evidence. The record itself (SMAS 635) is undated. Danceswithzerglings (talk) 14:18, 4 May 2011 (UTC)


 * This is interesting but not authoritative:
 * Not the album, just the first single "I Fall to Pieces" (Capitol 3210) shipped in late September 1971. The album. Linda Ronstadt (SMAS 635) was shipped as a new release on January 19, 1972. We received our initial order from Capitol the following day, and had it in many of the local record shops by the 21st. Most of our out of town accounts got their shipments from us early the next week.'
 * Danceswithzerglings (talk) 14:23, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

This is a truly puzzling issue. Was it released in 1971 or 1972? Some of the sources that say it was 1971 include allmusic,, MTV/CMT, and Discogs. The MTV source says it was released on January 1st(!) of 1971: now, even if it were this early it would still have been possible for all four original Eagles to have played on it since they didn't play together on the record anyway (they were independent session players), and since she knew them all (and they each other) from the Troubadour scene prior to that. Billboard doesn't have much to say about the year it was released from what I can find, but it has "Rock Me On the Water" charting on March 18, 1972, which would possibly(?) be unusual for an album that had already been out for a year. And this Rolling Stone review, dated February 17, 1972, seems to be talking about an album that just came out, not one that was a year old. Same thing with this fansite reproduction of a Stereo Review article dated May, 1972. I can't find anything on the Capitol Records or EMI sites, but according to the editorial review written by EMI for this record, it was 1971. I am stumped. Doc  talk  20:19, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 22:03, 29 April 2016 (UTC)