Greatest Hits

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There's a reason Ronstadt chose this torch song first recorded by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra in 1939 as both the title track and lead single when she hit us with the first installment in a trilogy of albums exploring the Great American Songbook with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. No wonder, then, that Ronstadt's version doesn't stray as far from the original recording as she tends to go. Ronstadt's initial reaction to Peter Asher's guitar-driven production on her first chart-topping single, as revealed in the Grammy-winning documentary, "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice"?

There's a video on YouTube of Ronstadt introducing this song — first recorded by the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson — as "the first country-rock song I ever learned.

Released as the flip side of "Tumbling Dice," her cover of a Rolling Stones song, "I Never Will Marry" became a Top 10 country hit in the summer of '78. It opens with dramatic strings, pulling back to reveal an acoustic guitar and Ronstadt exercising pure restraint as sets the tone with a vulnerable reading of "Love will abide, take things in stride" before letting the full power of her voice be felt on "Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side. Home Grown," with its oddly psychedelic fuzz-guitar lick, is closer to straight-up country, though, than country-rock. Linda Ronstadt’s Greatest Hits reissued on black 180 gram vinyl with a special textured jacket for International Women’s History Month.

Linda Ronstadt interview: From Tucson to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, her lifetime love affair with music 25. Ronstadt's vocal is flawless, from the understated pining of those early verses to the unadulterated show of force that kicks in when she promises, "I'm goin' back some day" and that high note on the last "bayou. Ronstadt's version makes you feel the hurt with more conviction, from the trembling vulnerability of the opening lines to the full-throated pleas of "please don't go" coming out of the bridge. No "Mad Love" single felt more like an obvious attempt at carving out a spot for Linda Ronstadt in the punk and New Wave era than "How Do I Make You," an electrifying shot of pure adrenaline that announces its arrival with an overcaffeinated snare roll. When fellow Arizonan Stevie Nicks led a stage full of powerful women in saluting Ronstadt at her induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the song they chose to bring that all-start tribute to a fitting close.She and Neville are, of course, amazing singers in their own right, Neville turning in the flashier performance. She earned a Tony nomination for her starring role in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway, interpreted standards on a trilogy of albums tracked with famed arranger Nelson Riddle and honored the Mexican side of her heritage on mariachi albums sung in Spanish.