Linda Ronstadt Dedicated To The One I Love CD

Personnel: Linda Ronstadt (vocals); Valerie Carter, Aaron Neville (vocals); Michelle Sell (harp); Margie Butler (Celtic harp); Janet Ketchum (alto flute); Angela Koregelos (flute); Debby Henry (oboe, English horn); Robbie Buchanan (piano, synthesizer); Jim Cox (piano, samples); Mary (pacifier).
The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra: David Campbell (conductor); Jeremy Cohen (concertmaster); Dawn Dover, Nathan Rubin, Joseph Edelberg, James Shallenberger, Jeremy Constant, Darlene Gray, Paul Brancato, Byung Kim, Dan Smiley, Mariko Smiley, Nadya Tichman, Jenny Bifano, Ronald Erickson, Adrienne Duckworth, Doris Fukawa, Mia Kim, Virginia Price-Kvistad (violin); Ruth Freeman, Rebecca Sebring, Don Ehrlich, James Hurley, Susan Bates, Pamela Freund, Betsy London, Nanci Severance (viola); Larry Corbet, David Kadarauch, Jennifer Culp, Lawrence Granger, Janet Witharm, Nina Flyer, Eileen Moon (cello); David Schoenbrun, Stephen Tramontozzi (bass); Angela Koregelos, Janet Ketchum (alto flute, flute); Debby Henry (oboe, English horn).
Producers: George Massenburg, Linda Ronstadt.
Principally recorded at The Simplex, San Francisco, California from September 1995 to January 1996.
The track "Winter Light" was previously released on the Linda Ronstadt album WINTER LIGHT (Elektra 61545).
DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Musical Album For Children.
Throughout her career, Linda Ronstadt has always interpreted rock and pop classics, but Dedicated to the One I Love is different from the rest of her albums -- this time around, she reinterprets the oldies as children's lullabies. All of the songs are given lush, sweet, and soft arrangements, even when that approach is ludicrous; it might be a cute idea to deliver Queen's "We Will Rock You" as a rock-a-bye chant, but in practice it is simply ridiculous. Fortunately, most of the album relies on songs -- "Be My Baby," "In My Room" -- that can be sung as lullabies, and she sings them very well. Of course, the appeal of Dedicated to the One I Love is limited -- only baby boomer parents will really find this interesting -- but fans that find the concept intriguing won't be disappointed by the results. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE is a collection of pop and rock classics reworked as lullabies. There's nary a guitar or drum in sight here. The bulk of the weight is taken up by harp, synthesizer and strings. Some songs, such as the Everly Brothers' "Devoted To You" and the Ronettes' "Baby I Love You," turn out to be naturals for this soft and silky treatment. Others are more unexpected, like "In My Room," the Beach Boys' ode to solipsism, and Queen's hard-rock anthem "We Will Rock You," both of which take on a slightly subversive undertone.