Dedicated to the One I Love

1	Dedicated to the One I Love 2:10
2	Be My Baby 3:16
3	In My Room 2:18
4	Devoted to You / Valerie Carter 2:24
5	Baby I Love You 2:56
6	Devoted to You / Jim Cox Instrumental 0:48
7	Angel Baby 3:15
8	We Will Rock You 1:29
9	Winter Light 3:17
10	Brahms' Lullaby 3:37
11	Good Night 3:51

Barnes & Noble

When pop celebrities decide to moonlight as children's artists, they nearly always cut a lullaby album. Anybody can sing a bunch of ballads, right? Linda Ronstadt's Dedicated to the One I Love, though, is an unusually fine effort, clever in concept and breathtakingly beautiful in execution. Here, Ronstadt's taken rock 'n' roll standards like the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You" -- even, tongue-in-cheekily enough, Queen's "We Will Rock You" -- and interpreted them literally: "Baby" means "infant" and "rock" refers to what you do with that infant in a chair. Accompanied by the heavenly sounds of harp, flute, strings, and acoustic guitar, Ronstadt performs these songs in a hushed whisper, her voice recorded in multiple layers, like a cloud parfait. (The pop diva says she was inspired by Beach Boy Brian Wilson's "Good Vibrations" approach to record production, and here she includes Wilson's ravishing "In My Room" as a tribute.) Dedicated to the One I Love is a first-class ticket to dreamland. Moira McCormick

All Music Guide

Throughout her career, Linda Ronstadt has always interpreted rock and pop classics, but Dedicated to the One I Love is different from the rest of her albums -- this time around, she reinterprets the oldies as children's lullabies. All of the songs are given lush, sweet, and soft arrangements, even when that approach is ludicrous; it might be a cute idea to deliver Queen's "We Will Rock You" as a rock-a-bye chant, but in practice it is simply ridiculous. Fortunately, most of the album relies on songs -- "Be My Baby," "In My Room" -- that can be sung as lullabies, and she sings them very well. Of course, the appeal of Dedicated to the One I Love is limited -- only baby boomer parents will really find this interesting -- but fans that find the concept intriguing won't be disappointed by the results. Stephen Thomas Erlewine