The Everly Brothers' version is rockabilly with two-part harmony and a bouncing guitar. Recorded in Nashville with Chet Atkins among the players. A light, uptempo way to ask “when will I be loved.”
Linda's version stacks three voices—Ronstadt, Kenny Edwards, and Andrew Gold—into a southern-rock harmony. The verses are reordered to rebuild the story, turning the question into something no longer bound to one singer.
The same question shifts from a rockabilly duet to light southern rock in three voices.