"Linda Ronstadt: I Know When Parkinson's Hit from Listening to My Own Singing". Simple Dreams: a musical memoir (1st hardcover ed.).
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It comprises black-and-white tour footage interspersed with Clark being approached by a series of men while her car is being fixed at a full service gas station.
The music video was directed by Deaton Flanigen and premiered in late 1996. Clark's version was a number one hit on the Canadian RPM country charts, and a number five hit on the country charts in the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 12, 1996. "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" debuted at number 47 on the U.S. I started doing it live, and it worked." Reception What a great country record that could make. She said "and I thought, what a cool song. Clark told Billboard magazine that she heard Linda Ronstadt's version of the song in a local gymnasium while she was exercising. It was released in September 1996 as the lead single from her second album, 1996's Just the Same. Terri Clark version "Poor Poor Pitiful Me"Īnother hit cover version of the song was recorded by Canadian country singer Terri Clark. It reached number 26 on the Cash Box Top 100 and number 31 in Billboard. Released as a single (on the Asylum label at the beginning of 1978, Ronstadt's version was the week's highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of January 28, 1978.
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Ronstadt's live version appeared on the soundtrack album to the 1978 movie FM, while the studio version was included on her platinum-plus album Greatest Hits, Volume 2. Ronstadt's interpretation was produced by Peter Asher for her multi-platinum album Simple Dreams. With Zevon's blessing, Ronstadt replaced the verse with “Well I met a boy / In the Vieux Carré, down in Yokohama / He picked me up and he threw me down / Saying "Please don't hurt me Mama!".” This verse was also used in Clark's version of the song. "The verse in “Poor Pitiful Me” was “I met a girl on the Sunset Strip,” I think, “She asked me if I’d beat her / She took me up to her hotel room / And wrecked my mojo heater.” It was really funny, and I'm saying to Jackson, “I can’t sing those words, man! That’s not who I am. Ronstadt would recall Jackson Browne had pitched "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" to her, teaching it to her in the living room of her Malibu home. Linda Ronstadt recorded a gender-altered version of the song during 1977. "Simple Man Simple Dream" (or " Blue Bayou") Linda Ronstadt version "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" Alternate studio versions were included in the 2008 reissue of Warren Zevon, as well as the posthumous 2007 compilation Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings. Live versions appeared on 1980s Stand in the Fire and 1993's Learning to Flinch. The track was later included on his greatest hits compilations A Quiet Normal Life (1986), I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (1996), and Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon (2002).
The song "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" was produced by Browne and was featured on Zevon's eponymous 1976 album Warren Zevon with backing vocals by Lindsey Buckingham.
It is reputed to be a friendly swipe at Jackson Browne Browne's own songwriting (such as "Here Come Those Tears Again" and "Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate" from The Pretender) could be quite depressing. The song first appeared on Zevon's 1976 self-titled solo album. In keeping with Warren Zevon's sardonic lyrical style, the song's verses deal with a suicide attempt, domestic abuse, and a brush with sadomasochism.
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