Credit is due

RE Paul Zollo’s letter to the editor [Feb. 16] on female singers who may not have been contemporary favorites in their eras but who have withstood the test of time (Holiday, Garland, Joplin and now Winehouse, apparently), I’d like to draw your readers’ attention to a performer who suffers from the exact opposite problem: Linda Ronstadt.

Ronstadt was probably the most successful female singer of the mid- to late ‘70s but has now been relegated to some sort of pop cultural dustbin, despite her amazing accomplishments. The first female rock artist to sell multiple consecutive platinum albums, fill stadiums on summer concert tours and be a pinup -- it’s ironic and sad to me that she isn’t remembered much these days.

Michael Jortner

West Hollywood