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200-gram 2LP 45 RPM Analogue Productions reissue
Mastered by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley
Plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings!
Tip-on gatefold jacket by Stoughton Printing
Ronstadt's fifth consecutive million-selling platinum album, selling more than 3½ million copies in less than a year in the United States — a record for a female artist!
One of the most successful albums of Linda Ronstadt's career, Simple Dreams spent five successive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977, displacing Fleetwood Mac's Rumours at No. 1 after 29 record-breaking weeks in the pole position. It also knocked Elvis Presley out of No. 1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart after "The King" held the gridlock for 15 consecutive weeks after his death in August. It won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package (in addition to several other high profile Grammy nominations).
Simple Dreams was Ronstadt's fifth consecutive million-selling platinum album and sold more than 3½ million copies in less than a year in the United States alone — a record for a female artist. Simply put, Ronstadt just couldn't lose. Simple Dreams continued a creative streak that found the singer turning out album after album of incredible material at an astonishing one-per-year rate until she finally began to come back down to earth in the early 1980s.
Now hear Simple Dreams as never before. Remastered by the late, great Doug Sax at the Mastering Lab, together with Robert Hadley, and pressed on 45 RPM super-silent 200-gram vinyl by Quality Record Pressings, this revered recording truly is a sonic treasure. And it comes in a Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket with meticulously reproduced original artwork. Stunning.
Featuring an expanded palette of styles and cutting-edge narratives, Simple Dreams may go down in history as Ronstadt's greatest work. Considering the achievements: Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; Five consecutive weeks as the No. 1 record on the Billboard Album Chart, Two Top 10 singles.
琳達朗絲黛，這位多次獲得葛萊美獎，並被時代雜誌(Time)選為封面人物，譽為「搖滾樂界火炬」的女歌星，確實是當代最傑出也最多才多藝的藝人之一。從六○年代到今天，她對歌唱事業的努力從不休止；除了她不變的歌喉之外，她在歌曲風格上也不斷自我突破。從鄉村搖滾到流行民謠，從節奏藍調到爵士老歌，不同的嘗試，不同的表現，而一張又一張的白金唱片，證明了她努力的成果。本專輯涵蓋了她七○年代後期大家耳熟能詳的佳作，值得典藏，更值得細細品味！
曲目
SIDE ONE
1.It’s So Easy
2.Carmelita
3.Simple Man, Simple Dream
SIDE TWO
1.Sorrow Lives Here
2.I Never Will Marry
SIDE THREE
1.Blue Bayou
2.Poor Poor Pitiful Me
SIDE FOUR
1.Maybe I’m Right
2.Tumbling Dice
3.Old Paint
