O/T - Ronstadt "Winter Light" Singles
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Topic: O/T - Ronstadt "Winter Light" Singles
Posted By: Scanner
Subject: O/T - Ronstadt "Winter Light" Singles
Date Posted: 05 August 2025 at 8:56pm
| Linda Ronstadt pulled several singles from her 1993 album, "Winter Light" - "Heartbeats Accelerating" and "Oh, No, Not My Baby" both charted AC ("Heartbeats" also bubbled under) and there were promos issued for "A River For Him" and "Adonde Voy." But, I also recall hearing "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" on the radio and even in stores. Yet, I never saw a single (official or promo) released for this and there is no mention of the song as a single in the trades of that era. Does anyone know whether "Myself" was ever an official release sent for airplay to radio? |
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Posted By: cristianmdp
Date Posted: 06 August 2025 at 5:26am
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No, it wasn't released as a promo single. The sole promotional CD featuring it is the promo album: https://www.discogs.com/release/11524021-Linda-Ronstadt-Winter-Light" rel="nofollow - https://www.discogs.com/release/11524021-Linda-Ronstadt-Winter-Light They probably picked and played the song from it. |
Posted By: Scanner
Date Posted: 08 August 2025 at 8:45pm
| Thanks for responding. When I first heard this on the radio, I assumed it was an album track - AC radio was still interesting in the early 1990's - since I never saw the song listed in Billboard, Cashbox or R&R as a single. But, when I heard it on another station and in department stores, I was wondering what I was missing. Since physical singles were starting to disappear by this point, I was not finding anything there either. |
Posted By: rnell
Date Posted: 09 August 2025 at 11:14am
| Winter light was released as a single in the UK (in physical form, both 7" and Cd single) as was featured in the film "The Secret garden". |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 10 August 2025 at 12:31pm
| "Heartbeats Accelerating" reached #17 in Canada. It is one of several McGarrigle Sisters songs Ronstadt has recorded and therefore qualified as 'Canadian content'. |
Posted By: Scanner
Date Posted: 26 August 2025 at 9:45pm
| Ronstadt got some mileage from "Winter Light" - she included the song on her lullaby album, "Dedicated To The One I Love." |
Posted By: cristianmdp
Date Posted: 27 August 2025 at 6:39pm
Weird that she included it in that album, but it certainly does sound like a lullaby (in my opinion, it's one of her most precious vocal performances and also one of her most beautiful songs). Many previously released songs come to mind that some time later were included in a studio album of the artist. But I don't recall now any other artist that included the same recording in two different studio albums. |
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