Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams 45RPM (2 LP)

TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
180g 45rpm Double LP!
Remastered From The Original Master Tapes!
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
In 1977, Linda Ronstadt released her eighth album "Simple Dreams" on the Asylum Records label. It features numerous Ronstadt classics, including her version of Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou," the Buddy Holly cover "It's So Easy," the Warren Zevon songs "Carmelita" and "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," and her rendition of the Rolling Stones song "Tumbling Dice." This mix earned her a Grammy nomination and 3.5 million LPs sold in less than a year in the US.
Doug Sax and Robert Hadley did the remastering for this re-release from Analogue Productions. The double LP with 45 rpm in the tip-on gatefold cover shows the true sonic qualities of this album.
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 3.5 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 180-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. Consider 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; and Two Top 10 singles.

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• 45rpm
• Double LP
• 100% Analog Mastering
• Remastered from the original master tapes by Doug Sax & Robert Hadley
• Plated & Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• "Old school" Stoughton tip-on jacket

Selections:

Side A
1. It's So Easy
2. Carmelita
3. Simple Man, Simple Dream
Side B
1. Sorrow Lives Here
2. I Never Will Marry
Side C
1. Blue Bayou
2. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Side D
1. Maybe I'm Right
2. Tumbling Dice
3. Old Paint