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08 28 13
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08 28 13
Signature Ronstadt… From her 1977 album Simple Dreams, also a hit single with Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me on the “B” side. The song was written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson, recorded by Roy Orbison in 1961 and released on Orbison’s IN DREAMS album in 1963, and as a single with Mean Woman Blues on the “B” side. Blue Bayou won a Grammy for Linda Ronstadt and became her signature song. Oh, Linda…
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08 27 13
“Different Drum: The Power of Linda Ronstadt’s Voice”, The New Yorker. Following the sad news of the singer having Parkinson’s disease, Sarah Larson reminds us of uniquely spectacular career of this beloved artist, “This seems as good a time as any to reflect on Ronstadt’s greatness, which might cheer us up a little. She has made several decades’ worth of records: her Stone Poneys era, in the sixties, which included the sterling Mike Nesmith cover “Different Drum,” the song that introduced the world to her amazing voice. Her fantastic seventies rock-meets-country solo recordings, in which she covered everyone from the Everly Brothers to Smokey Robinson to Waylon Jennings. (Also notable from that era: one day, her backing band went off and formed the Eagles.) Her eighties forays into Gilbert and Sullivan (remember “The Pirates of Penzance,” with Kevin Kline?) and the Great American Songbook, with Nelson Riddle, as well as guest vocals on Paul Simon’s “Graceland.” A couple of Fievel numbers on the “American Tail” soundtracks. Her “Trio” country collaborations with fellow-legends Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, and her Spanish-language canciones recordings, on which she sings the traditional Mexican folk songs that her family loved when she was growing up, in Tucson. Later, more jazz and standards… The sound of Ronstadt’s voice—invincibility, bravery, emotion channelled into intelligence and art—is the sound of overcoming anything.”
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Adweek: Tumblr Went Toe to Toe With Twitter During VMAs… “Tumblr was nearly as busy as Twitter during MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday when it came to the sheer number of content contributors, per Union Metrics, a company that offers analytics for both platforms. The San Francisco tech firm says 1.1 million Tumblr users posted content with VMA-related keywords yesterday, while 1.3 million folks on Twitter did the same. Those figures may surprise marketers who view Twitter as the undisputed, dominant, social-media companion for TV watchers.” Thanks Miley…
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08 21 13
Keep it moving… Tumblr promotional post from Microsoft pushing their Nokia Lumia Windows Phone (and the new Windows Phone Tumblr site). Good to demonstrate how Tumblr is becoming more of a medium to which big brands are devoting marketing resources. Nothing extraordinary about the creative here, just a fundamentally solid use of the social media platform. Kudos though for new bright and simple branding (beating Apple to the punch). We’ll say it again, but we really dig the shift to flat graphics. Get on board world, it’s a comin’…