Simple Dreams

Simple Dreams is the most successful of Linda Ronstadt's studio albums to date. Spending five weeks at No.1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1977, it replaced Fleetwood Mac's long-running Rumours from the top spot. The album was such a success that Ronstadt became the first artist since The Beatles to have two singles in the top five at the same time, "Blue Bayou" (peaked at #3) and "It's So Easy" (peaked at #5).

The album includes songs by Warren Zevon, Eric Kaz and J.D. Souther, as well as The Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice".

Her eighth solo studio album, and fourth consecutive platinum album, Simple Dreams elevated Ronstadt to a superstar status and the highest paid female entertainer in the world.

[edit] Track listing

It's So Easy (To Fall In Love)
Carmelita
Simple Man, Simple Dream
Sorrow Lives Here
I Never Will Marry
Blue Bayou
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Maybe I'm Right
Tumbling Dice
Old Paint

[edit] Personnel

Linda Ronstadt (vocals)
Ed Black (guitar, steel guitar)
Kenny Edwards (guitar, bass)
Danny Kortchmar, Richard Bowden, Pete Wade, Al Viola (guitar)
David Lindley (fiddle);
Jim Fadden (harmonica);
Jim Gordon, Nino Tempo (saxophone);
Mac Johnson, Darrel Leonard (trumpet);
Spooner Oldham (piano);
John Boylen (electric piano);
Kenny Anderson, Mike Bowden (bass);
Micky McGee, Dennis St. John, Andrew Gold, David Kemper (drums);
Andrew Gold, John David Souther, Chris Ethridge, Waddy Wachtel, Bernie Leadon, Sneaky Pete, Russ Kunkel, Clydie King, Herb Pedersen (background vocals)

[edit] References

Preceded by Barry Manilow Live by Barry Manilow	Billboard 200 number-one album December 3, 1977 - January 6, 1978	Succeeded by Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack) by Various artists