1977 Linda Ronstadt – Poor Poor Pitiful Me (US:#31)
“Poor Poor Pitiful Me” is a rock song written and first recorded by American musician Warren Zevon in 1976.
With genders reversed, it was made a hit twice: first as a top-40 hit for Linda Ronstadt, then over a decade later by Terri Clark, whose version topped the Canadian country charts and reached the country top five in the U.S.
Album
Simple Dreams is the eighth studio album by the American rock singer-songwriter Linda Ronstadt, released by Asylum Records. One of the most successful albums of Ronstadt’s career, Simple Dreams spent five successive weeks at number 1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977, displacing Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours after it had held that position for […]
Musicians
Bass | Kenny Edwards |
Drums | Rick Marotta |
Guitar | Waddy Wachtel |
Acoustic Guitar | Dan Dugmore |
Clavinet | Don Grolnick |
Percussion | Peter Asher |
Background Vocals | Kenny Edwards |
Background Vocals | Larry Hagler |
Vocals | Linda Ronstadt |
Produced By
Peter Asher
Songwriters
Warren Zevon
Charts
US:#31
UK:# –
Larry Baer
September 10, 2022 @ 13:31
When I was growing up we had all her music… we thought she was a angel from heaven whose voice was such a calming effect on my son when he was really tired and didn’t want to sleep. We would put Linda’s music on and he would fall asleep in no time. She was a angel.