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![]() Record Company Warner Communications Printed By Gothic Print Finishers Ltd. Pressed By CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton Phonographic Copyright Elektra/Asylum Records Copyright Elektra/Asylum Records Distributed By WEA Records Ltd. Previous generations of American entertainment giants downplayed their ethnic heritage to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Linda Ronstadt Hasten Down The Wind More images Tracklist Companies, etc. << 1976 USA Original in Gatefold Sleeve > Vinyl: Mint Sleeve: Near Mint Label: Asylum Records 7E-1072 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, CSM Gatefold Country.leaving Linda Ronstadt and others clamoring to record his work. But with “Canciones” she did something revolutionary. more important stuff like 'Hasten Down the Wind,' 'Carmelita,' and 'Mohammed's Radio. She had used Español before in her career: a Latin American version of “Blue Bayou,” her own composition, on the 1976 LP “Hasten Down the Wind,” and a duet with salsa legend Rubén Blades in 1985. Ronstadt was the biggest deal of them all. Previous generations of American entertainment giants downplayed their ethnic heritage to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. (My dad bought our cassette from a street vendor in front of a King Taco.) The Los Lobos-fronted soundtrack to the former had played across the Southland that summer. “La Bamba” and “Born in East L.A.” told stories of the Los Angeles Chicano experience on the big screen. “Canciones” was the coda to a banner year for Mexicans in popular entertainment. Any time you hear one of us say “Doyers,” or wear a splendid guayabera, it’s because of her. Seeing Ronstadt sing in Spanish on national television, her album cover published in newspapers, taught us that it was OK to be unapologetically Mexican, no matter how assimilated we may be. Our generation would become the first group of Mexican Americans to grow up comfortable with both sides of that term. The album earned her a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in early 1977, her second of 11 Grammys. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. Its national success - it sold over 2.5 million units, the biggest-selling foreign-language album ever in the United States - was a crucial moment to my peers and me. Hasten Down the Wind is a Grammy Award-winning 1976 album, her third straight million-selling album. A rush of brash mariachi strings, and male yelps that mimic the excitement of a Mexican-style rodeo, followed by Ronstadt’s mighty voice that holds a note for seconds before she launches into rapid-fire verses - and it all comes to me again. Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind mtnhigh 10K subscribers Subscribe 32K views 3 years ago Linda Ronstadt and her band perform 'Hasten Down The Wind', a song written by Warren Zevon. That’s when my mom bought Ronstadt’s latest release: “Canciones de mi Padre” (“Songs of My Father”), a Spanish-language cover album that remains a milestone of American music and Mexican American history. Whenever I hear the opening of Linda Ronstadt’s “La Charreada” I think back to the winter of 1987, when I was 8 years old.
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