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Roy Orbison began his career at Sun Studios alongside Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley but took a very different route to rock 'n' roll success. Orbison's strength was his unique vocal style, which combined perfectly with the dramatic love stories told by his songs. From his debut on Sun Records in 1956 Orbison at first struggled but went on to score a string of hit singles on Monument Records in the 60's following his breakthrough with Only The Lonely. Other hits included Running Scared, Crying, In Dreams, It's Over and his #1 Oh, Pretty Woman, all of which are included here. Despite a dip in his career in the 70's, Orbison came back to prominence in the 80's as part of the Traveling Wilburys in which he lined up alongside George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. This in turn lead to a reinvigorated solo career cut short only by his early death in 1988. The show on this DVD was shot for the US TV series Austin City Limits in August 1982. It contains all of his best known songs and has been remixed into 5.1 sound from the original master tapes. It is an excellent concert that holds the audience enthralled from start to finish. "Roy Orbison is the greatest singer in the world." -- Elvis Presley "He was and always will be one of the greats of rock 'n' roll." -- Sir Paul McCartney To order this DVD from Amazon if you are in the UK, please click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000FGFTL4/?tag=wwweaglerockc-21 To order this DVD from amazon if you are in the US, please click here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006SKUH/?tag=eaglrockente-20
I make this video is for my Yahoo! 360 Blog, My favourite music, My music world ... A Tribute to the late Roy Orbison ... Roy Orbison (Apr 23, 1936 - Dec 6, 1988) On December 6, 1988, at the age of 52, Orbison suffered a fatal heart attack while visiting his mother in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville, Tennessee. A hospital spokeswoman confirmed Roy was pronounced dead at 11:54 PM, local time. This news was relayed to BBC News {UK}. [4] At the direction of his wife Barbara, Orbison was interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California on December 15, 1988. His two sons and their mother Claudette, who predeceased him, had been laid to rest at his request in the Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville. Orbison's album, Mystery Girl, and the single, "You Got It," were posthumous hits, and are generally regarded as Orbison's best work since the 1960s. At the time of his death, he was the first person since Elvis Presley to have two albums in the top 5 (Mystery Girl and Traveling Wilburys). He was the posthumous winner of the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and in 1992, the tracks "I Drove All Night" and "Heartbreak Radio" appeared on the posthumous album, King of Hearts, produced by Jeff Lynne. Pretty Woman Pretty woman, walking down the street Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet Pretty woman I don't believe you, you're not the truth No one could look as good as you Mercy Pretty woman, won't you pardon me Pretty woman, I couldn't help see Pretty woman That you look lovely as can be Are you lonely just like me Wow Pretty woman, stop a while Pretty woman, talk a while Pretty woman, gave your smile to me Pretty woman, yeah yeah yeah Pretty woman, look my way Pretty woman, say you'll stay with me 'Cause I need you, I'll trear you right Come with me baby, be mine tonight Pretty woman, don't walk on by Pretty woman, make me cry Pretty woman, don't walk away, hey...okay If that's the way it must be, okay I guess I'll go on home, it's late There'll be tomorrow nigh, but wait What do I see Is she walking back to me Yeah, she's walking back to me Oh, oh, Pretty woman *
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My lovely woman child, I found you out running wild with someone new. You've been untrue, and ev'rybody knows we're through. But I can't say goodbye to you No matter what you do. My heart won't let you go. Although I know you go with someone new, I think of you. I think of how you kiss, your tenderness. With all of this, I miss the way you say goodnight. Bittersweet your kisses, When my heart still misses the way that things used to be. But I know you're strong for other arms you long for, And you can never come back to me Not just for yesterday, tonight or tomorrow. Ah, but forever, I'll hear you say goodnight, goodnight. Goodnight turned out to be a lie, And I can't help it if I cry. Goodnight, my love, sleep tight, my love, goodnight.
Bono wrote the song "Mystery Girl" recorded by Roy Orbison. This clip is about that writing and recording process. A good part of this clip is Bono talking about it. Roy Orbison (and several others) also comment briefly. There is some footage of Roy singing it.
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Roy Orbison Black & White Night [1998] Oh, Pretty Woman
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Roy Orbison singing "Oh, Pretty Woman" at a TV show from Japan.
From the Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night concert. An acclaimed Cinemax television special originally broadcast on January 3, 1988. Avaialable on dvd and cd. Enjoy
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Roy Orbison (1936-1988) Biography Although he shared the same rockabilly roots as Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison went on to pioneer an entirely different brand of country/pop-based rock & roll in the early '60s. What he lacked in charisma and photogenic looks, Orbison made up for in spades with his quavering operatic voice and melodramatic narratives of unrequited love and yearning. In the process, he established rock & roll archetypes of the underdog and the hopelessly romantic loser. These were not only amplified by peers such as Del Shannon and Gene Pitney, but also influenced future generations of roots rockers such as Bruce Springsteen and Chris Isaak, as well as modern country stars the Mavericks. Orbison made his first widely distributed recordings for Sun Records in 1956. Roy was a capable rockabilly singer, and had a small national hit with his first Sun single, "Ooby Dooby." But even then, he was far more comfortable as a ballad singer than as a hepped-up rockabilly jive cat. Other Sun singles met with no success, and by the late '50s he was concentrating primarily on building a career as a songwriter, his biggest early success being "Claudette" (recorded by the Everly Brothers). After a brief, unsuccessful stint with RCA, Orbison finally found his voice with Monument Records, scoring a number-two hit in 1960 with "Only the Lonely." This established the Roy Orbison persona for good: a brooding rockaballad of failed love with a sweet, haunting melody, enhanced by his Caruso-like vocal trills at the song's emotional climax. These and his subsequent Monument hits also boasted innovative, quasi-symphonic production, with Roy's voice and guitar backed by surging strings, ominous drum rolls, and heavenly choirs of backup vocalists. Between 1960 and 1965, Orbison would have 15 Top 40 hits for Monument, including such nail-biting mini-dramas as "Running Scared," "Crying," "In Dreams," and "It's Over." Not just a singer of tear-jerking ballads, he was also capable of effecting a tough, bluesy swagger on "Dream Baby," "Candy Man," and "Mean Woman Blues." In fact, his biggest and best hit was also his hardest-rocking: "Oh, Pretty Woman" soared to number one in late 1964, at the peak of the British Invasion. It seemed at that time that Roy was well-equipped to survive the British onslaught of the mid-'60s. He had even toured with the Beatles in Britain in 1963, and John Lennon has admitted to trying to emulate Orbison when writing the Beatles' first British chart-topper, "Please Please Me." But Orbison's fortunes declined rapidly after he left Monument for MGM in 1965. It would be easy to say that the major label couldn't replicate the unique production values of the classic Monument singles, but that's only part of the story. Roy, after all, was still writing most of his material, and his early MGM records were produced in a style that closely approximated the Monument era. The harder truth to face was that his songs were starting to sound like lesser variations of themselves, and that contemporary trends in rock and soul were making him sound outdated. Orbison, like many early rock greats, could always depend on large overseas audiences to pay the bills. The two decades between the mid-'60s and mid-'80s were undeniably tough ones for him, though, both personally and professionally. A late-'60s stab at acting failed miserably. In 1966, his wife died in a motorcycle accident; a couple of years later, his house burned down, two of his sons perishing in the flames. Periodic comeback attempts with desultory albums in the 1970s came to naught. Orbison's return to the public eye came about through unexpected circumstances. In the mid-'80s, David Lynch's Blue Velvet film prominently featured "In Dreams" on its soundtrack. That led to the singer making an entire album of re-recordings of hits, with T-Bone Burnett acting as producer. The record was no substitute for the originals, but it did help restore him to prominence within the industry. Shortly afterward, he joined George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne in the Traveling Wilburys. Their successful album set the stage for Orbison's best album in over 20 years, Mystery Girl, which emulated the sound of his classic '60s work without sounding hackneyed. By the time it reached the charts in early 1989, however, Orbison was dead, claimed by a heart attack in December 1988.
Roy Orbison I Drove All Night from the album I Drove All Night (C) 1992 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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From the Essential Roy Orbinson collection. oldie but a goodie. what a clear voice he had! huh?
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This is THE definitive cover of "Love Hurts" done by Roy Orbison. There is no version better!
Chris Isaak sings a Roy Orbison classic, Leah. Performed at the Roy Orbison Tribute Concert in 1989.