We don't know what we don't know...or something like that. I didn't know it until I got the ONE KISS LEADS TO ANOTHER box set about a dozen years ago. As for Linda's version, I loved it at the time, and still do. However, I didn't buy it, maybe because I heard it enough on the radio to satisfy me. I know I wound up with it on A RETROSPECTIVE. JcS
He wrote the song about Brian Wilson who actually did write the songs that made the whole world sing.
I don’t know when I learned “You’re No Good” was a cover but Linda’s version is great. I was already familiar with her any way b/c of her country hit “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” and her cover of “Desperado.” Her voice made a big impression on me and to this day she ranks with the best.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy !!! Pardon my excitement, it's just that "Peak Linda" has commenced, that period from 1975 - 1982 when an Tuscon gal in a peasant blouse (or satin bomber jacket and roller skates) started releasing music that set my heart aflame. Yeah yeah, the Stone Poneys were cool and all that mostly country-flavored stuff in the first half of the decade was good, but "You're No Good" is where I really get on board. It's her only #1 of the era (blasphemy!) but her other singles were such a constant part of the back half of the decade they might as well have been #1s as well. And you gotta give it up for what Andrew Gold came up with here. That voodoo fade-out is a stroke of genius.
Actually, Ms. Ronstadt had already switched to Asylum (remember her Don't Cry Now LP from '73 which featured a cover of the Eagles' "Desperado"?), but owed Capitol one more album, from which Heart Like A Wheel emerged. And with "You're No Good," boy did they get their hit . . .
And to think Linda didn’t really like the records she made, or even consider herself a good singer in the 7os. Many years later, Reba McEntire did a decent version of You’re No Good on her Starting Over album.
Yes - it was (and still is?) a Gordon Ramsey cooking show. That's why I was very careful in my wording. I was only speaking for myself. If I had to guess, not a large percentage of men watch these shows. But I'm going any further than that.
Thanks for reminding me. A similar thing happened with Donna Summer with Polygram and Geffen in 1983.
Here's Linda's RS cover from the time. She'll be on it again next year in the infamous red lingerie ... um, yeah, ahem ... where was I again?
Let me reword that. I'm talking about the population as a whole, and the percentage of men within that population. There's a lot of people in this country. I also cook. There can be a lot of men chefs, and still not be (percentage-wise) that large. =============================== My point in bringing this up, which is being lost here, was that ---- among the people who regularly post here, who knew "Fire" was on the credits of "Hell's Kitchen", besides you and me? I just noticed that no one else brought it up before I did, and was trying to come up with a reason why. Maybe that reasoning is bunk. I was just putting it out there as a test balloon.
I've got no grievance with you. I'm just now curious to know exactly what the viewer demographics are on his cooking shows. How can we find that out?
I found out "You're No Good" is a cover relatively late (in the 21st century). I heard it on a show called "The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn" which sometimes did entire shows of "original versions of big hits". The original that I heard was from around 1963. When "You're No Good" was a hit, I was already familiar with both "Different Drum" and "Long Long Time" thanks to my sister.
I watch cooking shows from time to time but not Hell's Kitchen for the simple fact that I can't stand Gordon Ramsey.
Here is a detailed story about the song: https://www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-track-you-re-no-good-linda-ronstadt-387624
