Back in the early 80s, pop music was obsessed with the new-new wave to be exact.

The last thing that most recording artists wanted to do at that point was to reach back into the past.

With this in mind, Linda Ronstadts decision to record an album of jazz-standards seemed like a career u-turn of radical proportions.

Going against the prevailing wave, she released Whats New in 1983, an album as different from the hard edged, synthesizer driven pop fare of the era as could be imagined.