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Captain Zero

(7,507 posts) Sat Oct 19, 2024, 07:24 PM Oct 19

Linda Ronstadt Has Endorsed Harris-Walz!

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That's major for all old fart guys who loved Linda and her singing.

(The outfits were pretty good too. )

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Linda Ronstadt Has Endorsed Harris-Walz! (Original Post) Captain Zero Oct 19 OP

I've been a Linda fan for decades BOSSHOG Oct 19 #1

I'm a fan of her's too. Grew up in Tucson where she's from. He father ran Ronstadt's Hardware store. brush Oct 19 #2

Always forever grateful for Motown BOSSHOG Oct 19 #3

I only recently learned of her cool history in Tucson Brother Buzz Oct 19 #4

Also: The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall Ptah Oct 19 #5

And when the marmalade shartcannon used it for an event, they conveniently used the old name - Go figure! Brother Buzz Oct 19 #6

Locking. Lasher Oct 19 #7

BOSSHOG

(39,870 posts)

1. I've been a Linda fan for decades

Reply to Captain Zero (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 07:30 PM

Oct 19

Hard crush on her and still love her music. No surprise about the endorsement.

Prisoner in Disguise tears me up to this day.

brush

(57,566 posts)

2. I'm a fan of her's too. Grew up in Tucson where she's from. He father ran Ronstadt's Hardware store.

Reply to BOSSHOG (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 08:19 PM

Oct 19

She went to a different high school but I knew of her. I love many of her songs... and being a Motown fan too I really like her duos with Smokey Robinson on "OOO Baby, Baby" and "Tracks of My Tears."

BOSSHOG

(39,870 posts)

3. Always forever grateful for Motown

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 08:34 PM

Oct 19

Got me on the dance floor. I danced as if no one was watching. And loved it. And still do.

Smokey and Linda were awesome.

Brother Buzz

(37,808 posts)

4. I only recently learned of her cool history in Tucson

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 08:45 PM

Oct 19

Rhonstadt family history

Ronstadt's father came from a pioneering Arizona ranching family and was of Mexican descent with a German male ancestor. The family's influence on and contributions to Arizona's history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies, and music, are documented in the library of the University of Arizona. Her great-grandfather, the engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by Federico Augusto Ronstadt), immigrated first to Sonora, Mexico, and later to the Southwest (at that time a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from Hanover, Germany. He married Margarita Redondo y Vásquez, a Mexican citizen and eventually settled in Tucson. In 1991, the City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather, Federico José María Ronstadt, a local pioneer businessman; he was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the city's mobility included six mule-drawn streetcars, delivered in 1903–04.

Ronstadt's mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and Dutch ancestry, was raised in Flint, Michigan. Ruth Mary's father, Lloyd Groff Copeman, a prolific inventor and holder of nearly 700 patents, invented an early form of the electric toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove, and an early form of the microwave oven.[38] His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt

Ptah

(33,493 posts)

5. Also: The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

Reply to Brother Buzz (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 08:55 PM

Oct 19

On May 7, 2022, during the International Mariachi Conference, the Tucson Music Hall at the Tucson Convention Center was officially renamed as The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt#Selected_career_achievements

Brother Buzz

(37,808 posts)

6. And when the marmalade shartcannon used it for an event, they conveniently used the old name - Go figure!

Reply to Ptah (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 08:59 PM

Oct 19

Lasher

(28,374 posts)

7. Locking.

Reply to Captain Zero (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 09:19 PM

Oct 19

Sorry, no politics in the Lounge.