Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: Welcome to the Nathan's and Roncast Presents Ronstadt Radio podcast, hosted by me, Michael G. Ronstadt. I want to share with you the music in my family that you probably haven't heard. And since you've heard of Linda, let me share with you all the other music that I grew up with. So. So before we get started, I want to share with you a little bit about me. I am a cello player. I'm a professional musician, and if you haven't heard of me before, you can go find me on YouTube and all that stuff, you can go to michaelronstadt.com and if you want to hear more about Aaron Nathans, who is one of the other people in the Nathan's and Ron Cast family, you can go to Nathan San Ronstadt.com Moving forward, we're going to start with the first song, and it features the Ronstadt Cousins, which is a group of first cousins, my dad, Michael Jay Ronstadt, John Ronstadt, and Bill Ronstadt. And they did an album in 1998 called Live in Canelo. And here's their version of Wild Mountain Time.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: For the summertime it is a coming and the leaves are sweetly turning and the wild mountain time grows across the purple heather will you go Last seagull and we'll all go together.
[00:01:53] Speaker C: To.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: For wild mountain time all across across the purple heather will you go as he go?
Well, I will build my love of ours at the foot of yonder mountain and to it I will bring all the flowers of the mountains Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together.
[00:02:47] Speaker C: To the.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: Wild mountain time all across the purple heather Will you go, lassie go Sam Sa well I will surely find another two for wild mountain time all across the purple heather will you go Glassy glow and we'll all go together.
[00:04:39] Speaker C: Two.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: For one wild mountain tide.
[00:04:45] Speaker C: All across.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: The purple heather.
[00:04:51] Speaker C: Will you go as he go?
[00:04:58] Speaker A: And we'll all go together to pounce all across the purple heather.
[00:05:16] Speaker C: Will you go Lessee.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: Go.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: That was Wild Mountain Time, performed by the ronstadt cousins in 1998 live in Canelo, Arizona.
The next song we're going to play is one from my solo album, which I could call my pandemic album, and it's instrumental. It's called Nine Stories. And I did a medley of a fiddle tune called Arizona, which is just honoring my home state. And then I medleyed it with a song called Wayfaring Stranger that I did instrumentally. And this song is about 200 years old and truly one of those haunting melodies that everyone loves, but also probably thinks about often.
That was Arizona and Wayfaring Stranger performed by Michael G. Ronstadt and his army of clone Michael G. Ronstadts. I played everything on that because it was during the pandemic. The last song we're gonna play is from Ronstadt Generations 2012 album prelude. And this is the Mill of Oracle, written and led by Michael J. Ronstadt.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: My dad, Sam.
[00:13:21] Speaker C: Well, they gather at sundown the wind and the creatures and all of them wait for the mill but the wind sitting quiet it's not saying a thing and it's not even moving the mill While the moon's gonna miss you tonight Then the crickets start chirping down by the water all of them wait for the mill and the fox and the badger thirsty and tired and all of them head for the mill all the moon's gonna miss you tonight and the wind started talking whispers at first and louder and louder she yelled all the sails were turning faster and faster and the wind sang a song with the mill Then the rain started beating out of the east and the hail started.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Pounding the mail.
[00:15:39] Speaker C: Can'T you hear the storm screaming? It sounded like steel a leg buckle and down comes the mill all the moon's gonna miss you tonight oh, there you are standing alone in a heap and the silence is hurting my ear One shiny steel all upright and proud and the wind won its race with the mill all the moon's gonna miss you tonight who's gonna miss you?
Who's gonna miss you?
Who's gonna miss you tonight?
[00:16:52] Speaker B: That was the Mill of Oracle, written by Michael J. Ronstadt and performed by Ronstadt Generations.
That's the final song of this episode. So if you want to find out more, go to www.nathan's and ronstadt.com. you can find my music at www.michaelronstadt.com and have a wonderful week or year day, whatever it might be. We'll see you at the next episode.
