{"id":25031,"date":"2019-09-06T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25031"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:26:31","slug":"unprecedented-except-for-all-the-others-who-set-the-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/06\/unprecedented-except-for-all-the-others-who-set-the-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented, Except For All The Others Who Set The Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his review of <em>Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice<\/em>, Christian Toto lauds Ronstadt for doing an album of Spanish songs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We also see (among the many highlights) Ronstadt\u2019s rise to a stadium-filling superstar, her surprise stint performing \u201cThe Pirates of Penzance,\u201d the creation of the \u201cTrio\u201d album (alongside always-engaging interview subjects Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) and, perhaps her most surprising career turn, the creation of the Spanish-language \u201cCanciones de mi Padre\u201d album.<\/p>\n<p>A recurring theme appears \u2013 whenever someone tells Ronstadt she can\u2019t do something, she does it anyway and finds success. Projects like a solo career, opera and an unprecedented album of traditional Spanish music by an English speaking pop rock star proved to be the opposite of career killers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unprecedented!<\/p>\n<p>Except for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eydie Gorme with Trio Los Panchos, <em>Amor<\/em> (1964)<\/li>\n<li>Eydie Gorme with Trio Los Panchos, <em>More Amor<\/em> (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Eydie Gorme with Trio Los Panchos, <em>Navidad Means Christmas<\/em> (1966)<\/li>\n<li>Eydie Gorme with Trio Los Panchos, <em>Canta en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> (1970)<\/li>\n<li>Eydie Gorme with Trio Los Panchos, <em>Cuatro Vidas<\/em> (1970)<\/li>\n<li>Vikki Carr, <em>Que Sea El<\/em> (1971)<\/li>\n<li>Vikki Carr, <em>En Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> (1972)<\/li>\n<li>Vikki Carr, <em>Hoy<\/em> (1975)<\/li>\n<li>Vikki Carr, <em>Y El Amor<\/em> (1980)<\/li>\n<li>Vikki Carr, <em>El Retrato Del Amor<\/em> (1981)<\/li>\n<li>Vikki Carr, <em>A Todos<\/em> (1984)<\/li>\n<li>Lani Hall, <em>Lani<\/em> (1982)<\/li>\n<li>Lani Hall, <em>Lani Hall<\/em> (1984)<\/li>\n<li>Lani Hall, <em>Es F\u00e1cil Amar<\/em> (1985)<\/li>\n<li>Doris Day, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_for_Lovers\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latin for Lovers<\/a><\/em> (1965)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s almost off the top of my head.<\/p>\n<p>Although perhaps Vikki Carr, born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona but who came to musical prominence with an Anglicized name, might be a stretch as she ended up being more of a Latin singer than an English one&#8211;her albums after 1980 are mostly in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>But, still, by the time Linda Ronstadt got around to it, English-speaking pop stars singing in Spanish (or Portaguese) was almost its own genre.<\/p>\n<p>Although I cannot fault him for not being as knowledgeable about mid-century American songstresses as I am, I can fault him for the modern writing where everything is the best or the first and every play in every game breaks some sort of record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his review of Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, Christian Toto lauds Ronstadt for doing an album of Spanish songs. We also see (among the many highlights) Ronstadt\u2019s rise to a stadium-filling superstar, her surprise stint performing \u201cThe Pirates of Penzance,\u201d the creation of the \u201cTrio\u201d album (alongside always-engaging interview subjects Dolly Parton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25033,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25031\/revisions\/25033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}