Word: asher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed a lone hit, "Different Drum" in 1967, but the group eventually split, leaving Ronstadt to fulfill the Capitol contract as a solo vocalist. Then the '60s turned to the '70s; and the dark-haired, wide-eyed, carefree spirit of the California music scene hooked up with producer Peter Asher and soon evolved into a sensational new female vocalist. Five platinum albums later, the innocent Arizona teenager has risen in stature to the top of the heap, taking over as rock's leading female vocalist...
...still loves to act like a kid, completing the image with her new Betty Boop hairdoo. Despite knee socks, hot pants and t-shirts, there's a maturity in her magnificent voice, a control that has been carefully developed during her days with Peter Asher. Hasten Down the Wind hinted at that sound, and Simple Dreams polished it even further. Ronstadt's newest release, Living in the U.S.A., showcases her versatnity and maintains the melodic mixture that has proven so successful in the past. The album is not her strongest to date, but it does reflect the enormous talent Linda...
...disappointments on the album, especially a remake of the Elvis Presley classic "Love Me Tender." Ronstadt's stab at the tune is too polished, too slick to work well. She obliterated Presley's rough edges and raw power. "Blowing Away," a lethargic, mournful ballad in which producer-manager Asher sings background, dies before it starts, lacking the poignancy that makes Ronstadt's slowest songs click. A 1934 Oscar Hammerstein song, "When I Grow Too Old to Dream," despite a pretty electric piano line, also falls short. Ronstadt plays with a cutesy, childlike voice which makes the song sound almost like...
Bribes and Kickbacks. Scandal hurt too. On the day that the Labor convention opened, longtime Party Stalwart Asher Yadlin (TIME, Jan. 17) was sentenced to five years in jail and fined $28,000; in a confession that shook the nation, Yadlin admitted accepting bribes and kickbacks to the union medical programs that he ran and channeling "millions of pounds" into party coffers...
...some respects, Vance's arrival in Israel was extraordinarily inconvenient for his hosts; they were almost totally distracted by domestic political turmoil. The Labor Party of Premier Rabin was reeling from the latest in a series of scandals; Asher Yadlin, a former high-ranking Labor Party member, had just pleaded guilty to kickback charges and allowed that the money he received had gone into the party's coffers. Rabin was uncertain of his tenure in office. Not only is he facing a strong challenge from opposition parties in the national elections scheduled...