Linda Ronstadt Version
| "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| from the album Simple Dreams | ||||
| B-side | Simple Man Simple Dream or Blue Bayou | |||
| Released | January 10, 1978 | |||
| Genre | Rock, Classic Rock, Country Rock | |||
| Length | 3:42 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Peter Asher | |||
| Linda Ronstadt singles chronology | ||||
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Linda Ronstadt recorded a gender-altered version of the song during 1977. Ronstadt's interpretation was released on her multi-platinum album Simple Dreams. Released as a single (on the Asylum label, #45462) at the beginning of 1978, Linda's passionate version of the song debuted on the Hot 100 charts the week of January 28, 1978, and scored at the No. 31 position in several weeks. It had already been a hugely popular radio hit as an album cut. Simple Dreams also contained another Zevon song, "Carmelita." Ronstadt’s live version appeared on the soundtrack album to the smash 1978 movie FM, while the studio version was included on her Platinum-plus album Greatest Hits, Volume Two.
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