This was Linda' first solo hit. It's Long, Long Time, written by Gary White. This is one of the best unrequited love songs ever, a beautifully-written song that is beautifully sung.
By this time, Linda was developing into a cult singer, and she was acquiring devoted fans everywhere. This song made it to #25 on the Billboard Magazine charts. It was included on her 1970 album, Silk Purse, where she famously posed with pigs.
Linda was also nominated for her first of many Grammys. She did not win, but she did get a lot of attention.
Linda Ronstadt's backup band in the early 1970's went off on their own and became The Eagles, probably the most successful American band of the 1970's. Linda was delighted with their success, and of course a couple of years later she hit it big, too.
Linda recorded this song twice. On her 1969 solo debut album Hand Sown . . . Home Grown (with her siblings singing backup), and she re-recorded it for her 1973 album, Don't Cry Now.
Here she is performing the song with The Eagles, and a good time was had by all!
