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Linda Ronstadt: 'Heat Wave' – The Long Hot Sessions

Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 18 December 1975

"THE BAND HAD been trying to get Linda to add it to her set for quite a while," recalls pianist Andrew Gold, "but we never got around to working up an arrangement. One night at a Long Island club called My Father's Place we received six   encores. We'd run out of tunes. One of us yelled out '"Heat Wave" in D!' and we did it. We were awfully sloppy but the crowd really liked it. So we kept the song in our set."

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