Stone Poneys - New Hard Times (Live)

Music video by Stone Poneys performing New Hard Times.

[@kenpowell3557]

the greatest vocal in history Linda can sing any style

[@erinlast2627]

Wow, very early Linda. Her voice is already so naturally powerful - she had to hold the microphone out a ways so she wouldn't blow down the walls. A fine historical recording- of a singer who, imho, became one of the very best, most authentic vocalists in American popular music history.

[@mr.maxeffort]

I'm glad I found this latest video of Linda. I was in great need of my daily dose of her voice. I'm addicted.

[@bettyhudson1703]

it is AWESOME we get these early videos of Linda, there are a few of them out there...THX to the fans that get them out there..Linda was on video on 23 Mar 2023 in Tuscan at a book show and she is not doing well...God Bless and Amen Linda...you were the BEST

[@royallins591]

Early Linda - strange little number - that voice is just so special. Oh and her vibe is divine.

[@evanlouis3336]

Baby Linda - what a voice even early on. Thinking the New Hard Times are really here.

[@juicer67]

God, what a voice!

[@stupidturntable]

Live at The Bitter End in New York, March 31, 1968.

[@dartsport1974]

This was in New York City in 1968? Thank you for the information I always wondered where this was. I did not know visit one of those places in California where Linda Ronstadt performed

[@CupCaked]

⁠That famous brick wall in the background gives the location away. It was also on the cover of one of Peter Paul and Mary's early albums.

[@wileycoyotesr8623]

The singer is a natural entertainer. Wishing her a successful career.

[@RJSmith-ro3wx]

You're wishing her a successful career. NOW ? SMIRK. tOO LATE, buddy. She's already FAMOUS as SHIT ! LOL

[@dreamyblue44]

So good to see this early footage in pristine picture quality, love this song! :)

[@nitaherman5544]

This performance is great she is truly the best artist of all time she has a great voice love Linda

[@fredsrox3177]

RIP Richard A. Lancaster from Reno then Bend OR.. brother in arms, Viet Nam, 68-69, we loved this song

[@johnmitchelljr]

So early in her career and so great a performance. Folk rock was just evolving into a new music. I will watch this as long as I live. Thanks for sharing.

[@lnl3237]

Yes, John Mitchell, a fine performance. Her earnestness, talent, and stage presence already apparent. If you enjoyed this, John, find her appearance out in California on an early Mike Douglas Show; she sings with Swampwater and is interviewed as well. It's a real time capsule.

[@andrewjwheelerjrwheeler4475]

The youth that shape a generation of her many many fans. Much love for her I am yours forever till eternity.

[@marx686]

So, talented, so beautiful. I never heard the Poneys before. Thank you!

[@wilmaaherne2040]

Different Drum - A fantastic song. Fish it out as you will love it. First thing I heard of Lindas with Poneys.

[@davidurciuoli8594]

Sounds like British skiffle stuff, Pentangle, Fairport Convention influenced. I had a poster of Linda sitting with the pigs. My dad thought it was too provocative for my eyes.

[@jamesdunne7481]

What a Bloomin fab song!!

[@queensrich1]

An outstanding performance, beautifully filmed, and an amazing document of this early - but still fully mature - stage in what quickly became a superstar career. I only know of the three songs from this show here on KZbin; I wonder if there's any more, and if so how much. The full show would make a great DVD; it already looks as if it had been filmed last week!

[@gustavogill3147]

¡¡¡ MUCHAS FELICIDADES LINDA!!! TE QUEREMOS DESDE MADRID ( Spain)

[@thinkerly1]

That vibrato! The shimmer of her voice! And the "band" -- the guitarist, the drummer, and the "sound-system".... well... Thanks for posting this. I'm going to watch it again.

[@pandapeep1148]

I remember telling my aunt one time that Linda and Judy Garland had such incredible vibrato. She replied, "That's a sign that you can't sing...when you use vibrato." I was like, "Are you f ing kidding me? These are two of the greatest singers of modern times." Totally clueless.

[@lisapeterson3239]

Grew up listening to her voice is amazing! Blossom music center 1976 Cleveland she was great! with juthro Tull

[@showze21]

shes amazing

[@tonymarcus1827]

This song was written by my friend Mayne Smith, singer songwriter, guitar, dobro and pedal steel player.

[@folkmusicgirl]

+Tony Marcus I absolutely love this song! Did Mayne Smith (name I am not familiar with) record it and did any other singer or group other then Linda Rondstadt & the Stone Ponies cover it? Linda's vocals on this song is beautiful!(One of my favourite early songs that she covered)

[@rob73146]

Smith co-wrote the song with Bobby Kimmel.

[@luashelton9320]

This is my favorite Linda song. I always regarded it as pure brilliance from an amazing songwriter.

[@folkmusicgirl]

Great to see this video of Linda in the very early days of her career. What a tremendous voice Linda had, even at that young, young age. What great stage presence she had from the beginning. Was wondering if the man seated to the left of the stage is the club manager or their actual manager for the group?

[@jondoe8889]

Maybe he was the show's host?

[@fedela100]

I don't think Linda's group or Linda ever had a manager!

[@mehitabelgill6711]

@@fedela100 Herb Cohen was their (then just her) manager.

[@suzannelawson9215]

How many of the guys in Stone Poneys are still alive? Left to right on this video and their names?

[@bettyhudson1703]

Happy 77th Birthday Linda...sooo Jackson Browne said in the Ronstadt: Sound of my Voice movie when they toured together "we used to change up who opens and who closes...I mean who wants to follow Ronstadt every night" So looking at this video from the Stone Poneys early days (late 1960s) and a few other ones as well you see the next up band on the left and they reallllly look dejected...riiiight, who wants to follow Ronstadt...evvven back in her early days...tooo funny...nasty friggen disease she has...prayers for Linda...amen

[@youngmindedman]

Great singer!!!

[@danielbautista4757]

I miss her voice

[@rafaelramirez8813]

Para mi colección...que bien canta Linda, además se ve preciosa

[@andrewjwheelerjr275]

amazingly gifted and beautiful all in one lovely artist package she looks so doggone ahh sexxxxxy and sweet and full of wholesome goodness just standing up their on stage singing her heart out you her presence is just a pleasant and peaceful one not many female artist today can top her style of performing because she just totally and completely stands out from them Linda baby stay totally and completely gloriously and wonderful and blessed and beautiful forever love you sweetness peace everyone😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

[@hectorsalcido4106]

Couldn't have said it better myself !! She's so beautiful ! I will forever love her !.

[@swalter36]

Drummer needs to bring it down a notch and find 'the groove'. She was destined for greatness.

[@davidurciuoli8594]

Tony Marcus you have an interesting story to tell. Im listening.

[@tobygoodguy4032]

The new hard times are back. (What goes around...)

[@ModMokkaMatti]

And they're only getting worse in '22. Just over 7 years left to go until the centenary of the first global economic meltdown of the Modern age; wonder if we'll even survive long enough to commemorate it, in light of this current planetary meltdown/insane mid-summer heat wave.

[@niccoarcadia4179]

she's too cute

[@rob73146]

The song is from Evergreen Vol. 2. I believe that those are Kenny Edwards and Bobby Kimmel on guitars.

[@mehitabelgill6711]

This is the "reconstituted" Stone Poneys. During work on the band's third album, in early 1968, Kenny Edwards departed for India. After "Different Drum" hit the charts, Bob Kimmel and Linda Ronstadt rounded up some more musicians, and the reformed Stone Poneys began touring. Tony Day is playing drums, Shep Cooke is the guitar player on the left, Bobby Kimmel on the right. Don't know who is playing bass.

[@athensforever]

great !!

[@y2k7-9-11]

Whoa!!!🎥

[@emiliojoseguimaraes7617]

Is there any female singer who sings with this feeling nowadays?

[@benjaminwright5936]

Zoey Daschel and Miley Cyrus.

[@folkmusicgirl]

Does anyone know what year this video is from? Or how long Linda had been singing professionally when she was performing here? I know this video is from the 60's but just curious what year exactly it was from?

[@tomjones7089]

folkmusicgirl Not sure, I was thinking the same thing. I would like to know where it was filmed. I would guess 67 or 68, different drum was released in 67. I remember it in high school, it was a good song, I remember finding out years later Ronstadt sang it, I was surprised. She was hot too and many young guys would comment on her looks, especially in the seventies.

[@folkmusicgirl]

Tom Jones USA Yes, I was young and my boyfriend had a crush on her too in the mid-70s' when we were about 18 years old..My friends, myself - none of us had her looks - the only thing I had in common with her was our height - NOTHING ELSE. :-(I was a fan of hers though - loved her music in spite of all the guys who would always comment about her looks (as you mentioned.)Her talent is phenomenal. I wish her the best with her current health problems and that she may find joy in other avenues.

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

folkmusicgirl 1968 for sure - Live From the Bitter End tv show ·

[@CupCaked]

Linda was singing in little venues, including the town department store with her siblings, from a very early age, maybe her early teens. They were paid, so I guess that made her a professional.

[@suzannelawson9215]

@@CupCaked Hi, Just read your reply comment. Do you know if there is any footage anywhere of any of the times when Linda sang in small venues or dept store, WITH her sister and brother?

[@stephenbrooks6174]

Well I suppose if The Beatles could get away with misspelling their name then I suppose this band can do it.

[@brianallancobb]

She got better looking as she got older. 1977 the pinnacle, the year before she cut her hair.

[@rafaelramirez8813]

Yo la veo preciosa en éste vídeo 😍

[@themastroiannis]

she looks great with pantyhose

[@alexpaxton1336]

+themastroiannis what a creepy way of putting it

[@folkmusicgirl]

Does anyone know how old Linda was in this video?

[@nitaherman5544]

She was 20 years old

[@lisahayes8834]

Actually...Linda was 21. She was born July 15, 1946 and this was March, 1968.

[@pandapeep1148]

It's funny that Linda, later in her career, thought she "didn't sing properly" for the first half of her career. Um...no, Linda. Not so.

[@CupCaked]

I guess she meant she didn't sing the way she wanted to be heard. She was her strictest critic.

[@johndoe-uw5so]

Big LR fan but sorry. This is horrific!

[@johnpro2847]

the poneys have no depth or something..just does not sound right ?

[@dbowie007]

Ugghhh....what an awful song!

[@omepeet2006]

Yeah mate, that was the rubbish we had to listen to back then. I mean, SnoopDog and 50c hadn't been born then, so what would you expect?

[@nitaherman5544]

What this song is so meaningful and amazing it really goes through your soul

[@stickman1742]

@@omepeet2006 Such subtle humor.