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SIMPLE DREAMS
Veröffentlicht / Released: September 1977
Genre: West Coast / CountryRock
Tracklist:
It's So Easy [Buddy Holly-
Norman Petty] Carmelita [Warren Zevon] Simple Man, Simple Dream [J D
Souther] Sorrow Lives Here [Eric Kaz] I Never Will Marry
[Traditional arranged by Linda Ronstadt] Blue Bayou [Roy Orbison- Joe
Melson] Poor Poor Pitiful Me [Warren Zevon] Maybe I'm Right [Robert
Wachtel] Tumbling Dice [Mick Jagger- Keith Richard] Old Paint
[Traditional arranged by Linda Ronstadt]
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Simple Dreams ist eines der erfolgreichsten Studioalben von Linda Ronstadt.
Das Album verdrängte das legendäre Rumours von Fleetwood Mac von der Spitze der Charts und
stand 5 Wochen an Nr. 1 der amerikanischen Billboard u. Cashbox-Album Charts.
In den amerikanischen Countrycharts erreichte die LP ebenfalls die Nr. 1 und verdrängte dort Elvis Presley von der Spitze.
Mit den Singleauskopplungen Blue Bayou und It´s So Easy wurde Linda Ronstadt zum ersten Musikact der Rockhistory seit den Beatles, der gleichzeitig zwei Notierungen in den Top Five Singlecharts mit einer gleichzeitigen Nr. 1 Albumnotierung
verzeichnete. Von Simple Dreams wurden in weniger als 12 Monaten nach Veröffentlichung alleine in den USA 3,5 Millionen Einheiten verkauft. Damals ein Rekord bei den Sängerinnen.
Bis heute wurden von Simple Dreams in den USA absolut über 5,6 Millionen Einheiten und weltweit über 10 Millionen Einheiten verkauft.
Zusammen mit den Singleauskopplungen erzielte Simple Dreams insgesamt weltweite Verkaufszahlen von über 20 Millionen Tonträgern.
Der Longplayer brachte Linda Ronstadt u.a. zwei Grammy-Nominierungen in den Originalkategorien
Best Pop Vocal Performance Female & Record Of The Year.
Gastmusiker auf Simple Dreams sind u.a. Don Henley von den Eagles sowie Dolly Parton.
Internationale Zertifizierungen: 13 Platin | 6 Gold
Über 5 Millionen verkaufte Einheiten in den USA

Simple Dreams is one of the most successful of Linda Ronstadt's studio albums to date, spending five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977. It also knocked Elvis Presley out of No. 1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart.
Simple Dreams was Linda Ronstadt's fifth consecutive million-selling Platinum album and sold over 3½ million copies in less than a year in the United States alone – a record for a female artist. It elevated Ronstadt to mega-superstar status and the highest paid female singer in the world.
The album was such a success that Ronstadt became the first female artist ever – and the first act overall since The Beatles – to have two singles in the Top Five at the same time: the Platinum-certified "Blue Bayou" (peaked at #2 Pop as well as #3 Adult Contemporary and #2 Country) and "It's So Easy" (peaked at #5 Pop). "Tumbling Dice" and "Poor, Pitiful Me" were also released as singles, both of which reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop singles charts..
"Blue Bayou" was nominated for the Record Of The Year Grammy award in early 1978. It also earned Ronstadt a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female, alongside Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon and Debby Boone.
The album includes songs by Warren Zevon, Eric Kaz and J.D. Souther, as well as The Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice". Ronstadt was joined by Dolly Parton on the traditional ballad "I Never Will Marry".
(Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris were also working on an ill-fated collaborative project around this same time, but 10 years would pass before the release of the first of two Trio albums from their efforts).
International Certifications: 13 Platinum | 6 Gold
US Album Sales In Excess Of 5 Million Units
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