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Shout-Out Sunday No. 11 - Linda, Linda, Linda xxx

The Shout-Out Sunday web site for today, 16 March 2014, is simply a song. A song that I have kept in my top five songs of all time for many, many years now. And it is sung for you here by the Queen of Song, Ms. Linda Ronstadt:



"Long Long Time"

Love will abide, take things in stride
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
And time washes clean love's wounds unseen
That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time

Caught in my fears, blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near
And I never drew one response from you
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

Wait for the day you'll go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
And life's full of flaws, who knows the cause?
Living in the memory of a love that never was

Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind
and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time.

~music & lyrics by Gary B. White, sung by Linda Ronstadt


I've loved Linda since I first heard her sing back in the 1970's I think. I bought all her vinyl record albums (which are still stored here in the basement) and then when technology turned to 8-track cassettes, I bought those, and when it turned to smaller cassettes, I went to those, and to CD's, well, I bought many of hers again.. so I've done my part in helping to support Linda's career.

But this song above, "Long Long Time" just does something to me. I think it may be because it reminds me of a certain someone (see pic below) who was very important to me, someone I loved with all my heart and soul at the time this song was popular, but someone who was never to be mine... and has sadly passed away at an all-too-young age.

Gary&BexCloseup 1966 Senior High School Prom


There are quite a few songs that take me to another dimension like this song does, a place where there was no pain, no worries, just youth doing what youth does, enjoying life as it came along. And some days as I try to make it through each day now, I feel the need to just go back - back to those days of free spirits, yes, free love, and just a spiritual freedom that seems so elusive these days.

Enjoy my offering today. I'm sure all of you know only too well the genius of this wonderful singer as well as I do. I think I need to go hunting thru my CDs now and put on one of her albums... just right for a lazy Sunday morning.

Cheers to the Queen of Song - Linda Ronstadt!

Bex-one-of-your-biggest-fans

It's in every one of us to be wise;
Find your heart, open up both your eyes.
We can all know every thing without ever knowing why.
It's in every one of us, by and bye.

~ John Denver & The Muppets ~



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