Linda Ronstadt Has Endorsed Harris-Walz!

[Captain Zero]

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That's major for all old fart guys who loved Linda and her singing.

(The outfits were pretty good too. )

[BOSSHOG]

1. I've been a Linda fan for decades

Hard crush on her and still love her music. No surprise about the endorsement.

Prisoner in Disguise tears me up to this day.

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2. I'm a fan of her's too. Grew up in Tucson where she's from. He father ran Ronstadt's Hardware store.

She went to a different high school but I knew of her. I love many of her songs... and being a Motown fan too I really like her duos with Smokey Robinson on "OOO Baby, Baby" and "Tracks of My Tears."

[BOSSHOG]

3. Always forever grateful for Motown

Got me on the dance floor. I danced as if no one was watching. And loved it. And still do.

Smokey and Linda were awesome.

[Brother Buzz]

4. I only recently learned of her cool history in Tucson

Rhonstadt family history

Ronstadt's father came from a pioneering Arizona ranching family and was of Mexican descent with a German male ancestor. The family's influence on and contributions to Arizona's history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies, and music, are documented in the library of the University of Arizona. Her great-grandfather, the engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by Federico Augusto Ronstadt), immigrated first to Sonora, Mexico, and later to the Southwest (at that time a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from Hanover, Germany. He married Margarita Redondo y Vásquez, a Mexican citizen and eventually settled in Tucson. In 1991, the City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather, Federico José María Ronstadt, a local pioneer businessman; he was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the city's mobility included six mule-drawn streetcars, delivered in 1903–04.

Ronstadt's mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and Dutch ancestry, was raised in Flint, Michigan. Ruth Mary's father, Lloyd Groff Copeman, a prolific inventor and holder of nearly 700 patents, invented an early form of the electric toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove, and an early form of the microwave oven.[38] His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt

[Ptah]

5. Also: The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

On May 7, 2022, during the International Mariachi Conference, the Tucson Music Hall at the Tucson Convention Center was officially renamed as The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt#Selected_career_achievements

[Brother Buzz]

6. And when the marmalade shartcannon used it for an event, they conveniently used the old name - Go figure!

[Lasher]

7. Locking.

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