Linda Ronstadt: Someone To Lay Down Beside Me 'Live' Atlanta 1977 (My "Stereo Studio Sound" Re-Edit)

Linda Ronstadt: Someone To Lay Down Beside Me 'Live' Atlanta 1977 (My "Stereo Studio Sound" Re-Edit)

Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" is a song written by Karla Bonoff that was originally recorded by American singer Linda Ronstadt. First included as an album track on 1976's Hasten Down the Wind, it was released as a single by Asylum Records in November 1976. The song was met positive reviews from Billboard, Cashbox and AllMusic. The single charted in both the US and Canada, along with their corresponding adult contemporary charts.

"Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" was first an album track on Hasten Down the Wind, which was released in August 1976. Then, it was issued as a single in November 1976 by Asylum Records. The label issued it as a seven-inch vinyl single. It was backed on the B-side by a cover of Patsy Cline's "Crazy". The single debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1976. Spending 11 weeks there, it climbed to the number 42 position in January 1977. It was Ronstadt's sixth single reach a position outside the Hot 100 top 40. It also debuted on the US Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1976 and spent seven weeks there. In January 1977, the single reached the number 38 position. It was Ronstadt's lowest-charting single on the adult contemporary chart up to that point. It reached similar positions on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart, peaking at number 58. It was Ronstadt's fifth single to chart outside the top 40 there. It also reached number 37 on the RPM Adult Contemporary chart, becoming her lowest-charting single up to that point.