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For Sentimental Reasons (1986)

Where the lyrics of For Sentimental Reasons take you, and where it was really made.

Nelson Riddle, bandleader of the jazz trilogy, died while this final installment was being made.

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Studio album by American singer Linda Ronstadt, released in late 1986
Dated 22 September 1986 in the Italian and Japanese Wikipedia articles
Final installment of the jazz trilogy Ronstadt recorded with bandleader and arranger Nelson Riddle
Ronstadt's eleventh million-selling album overall
Third consecutive Platinum-certified collaboration between Ronstadt and Riddle
Peter Asher produced the album
Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab in Hollywood, California

George Massenburg recorded and mixed the album, with Sharon Rice as assistant engineer
Riddle is credited with all arrangements and conducting on tracks 1–6 and 10–11
Terry Woodson conducted tracks 7–9
Don Grolnick plays grand piano on most tracks
Plas Johnson plays tenor saxophone on tracks 4, 6 and 10
The Sequoia String Quartet plays strings on track 5
James Taylor provides backing vocals on track 9

1	When You Wish Upon a Star	3:50
2	Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered	4:25
3	You Go to My Head	3:39
4	But Not for Me	5:28
5	My Funny Valentine	3:04
6	I Get Along Without You Very Well	4:17
7	Am I Blue	2:59
8	I Love You for Sentimental Reasons	3:44
9	Straighten Up and Fly Right	2:16
10	Little Girl Blue	4:36
11	’Round Midnight	4:22

Born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona; American singer across rock, folk, pop, country, and soul.
In the mid-1960s joined the folk-rock trio the Stone Poneys as lead singer, releasing three albums in 1967–68.
Solo debut Hand Sown ... Home Grown (1969), described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist.
Became the first female "arena class" rock star; top-grossing concert artist of the decade.
Voted Top Female Pop Singer of the 1970s; "You're No Good" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Worked with producer Nelson Riddle on the Great American Songbook trilogy What's New, Lush Life, and For Sentimental Reasons.
Recorded Canciones de Mi Padre (1987), the best-selling non-English-language album in US music history.
Retired in 2011 after losing the ability to sing; later diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014; Kennedy Center Honoree in 2019.

Lead single 'When You Wish Upon a Star' was supported by a popular music video
The album was the third in a row of Platinum-certified collaborations between Ronstadt and Nelson Riddle

AllMusic's retrospective review by critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album virtually indistinguishable from its two predecessors
Erlewine noted that it has the same sweeping arrangements as the earlier albums
Erlewine judged that her voice remains adequate, if not spectacular

Peaked at number 46 on the Billboard 200
Peaked at number 3 on the Top Jazz Albums chart
Peaked at number 32 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart at the end of 1986 with 'When You Wish Upon a Star'
Third consecutive Platinum-certified collaboration with Riddle
Ronstadt's eleventh million-selling album overall
All tracks were included in the compilation 'Round Midnight, released on Asylum Records later in 1986

The album closes the trilogy in which Riddle had worked with Ronstadt, and he died while it was being made.
John Kosh also designed the covers for the other two albums of the trilogy with Riddle.
The lead single's music video was one of the factors behind its chart run on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.
All of the album's tracks reappeared on the 1986 compilation 'Round Midnight, which also came out on Asylum Records.
Doug Sax mastered the album at The Mastering Lab in Hollywood, California.