Linda Ronstadt “struggled” with recording her smash 1967 hit with the Stone Poneys, “Different Drum.” Linda fell in love with the original different version of the song. But when it came time to lay ...

When Ronstadt was set to record “Different Drum” in 1967, the song was a ballad. However, it wasn’t originally written that way. Nesmith told The Wall Street Journal that it was 1964 when he was a ...

The Monkees' run was still young when the late Michael Nesmith had another hit with "Different Drum" — as a writer rather than a performer. "It's so funny," Dolenz told UCR earlier this year, when he ...

"Different Drum" hit No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of January 27, 1968. It was the first we'd heard of Linda Ronstadt, a 21-year-old from Tucson, Arizona, blessed with a voice that ...

Linda Ronstadt is no one-hit wonder. Technically, her old band, The Stone Poneys, would be considered one-hit wonders. The baroque pop folk group only scored one major hit back in the 1960s, and that ...