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~ Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
Views: 40832 |  |  |  |  | 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 stor ...More ies 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
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~ Roy Orbison Tribute
Views: 44853 |  |  |  |  | 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 la ...More cked 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 cir#@!&stances. 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. |
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~ Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night
Views: 12890 |  |  |  |  | Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 December 6, 1988), nicknamed "The Big O," was an influential Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. Orbison is be ...More st known for the songs, "Ooby Dooby," "Only the Lonely," "In Dreams," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Crying," "Running Scared," "You Got It". He was known for his smooth tenor voice, which could jump three octaves with little trouble. He was rarely seen on stage without his trademark black sunglasses. In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1989, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Orbison was born in Vernon, the seat of Wilbarger County in north Texas. He was the second son of Nadine Shults and Orbie Lee Orbison. His family moved to Fort Worth about 1943 to find work in the munitions and aircraft factories which had expanded during the Second World War. They relocated to the West Texas oil town of Wink in Winkler County near the border of New Mexico, in late 1946.
Music became an important part of Orbison's family life. In 1949, at the age of 13, Orbison organized his first band "The Wink Westerners". When not singing with the band, he played guitar and wrote songs. The band appeared weekly on KERB radio in Kermit, Texas. Orbison graduated from Wink High School in 1954. He attended North Texas State College in Denton, Texas for a year, then enrolled at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, the following year to study history and English. The Wink Westerners had some success on local television, and were given 30 minute weekly shows on KMID and KOSA. One guest on their show was Johnny Cash, who advised them to seek a contract with his record producer Sam Phillips of Sun Records. At first, Phillips turned them down, but he eventually agreed to add the band to Sun Records' roster after hearing a recording made at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. The Wink Westerners were renamed "The Teen Kings", and Orbison left college in March, 1956 determined to have a career in music. He ultimately headed for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
Orbison achieved his first commercial success in June 1956 with "Ooby Dooby", written by Orbison's friends from college, and produced at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. Many of the earliest songs he recorded were produced by Sam Phillips, who also produced Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley. Named after his first wife, his song "Claudette" was recorded by the Everly Brothers as the b-side to their No. 1 hit, "All I Have To Do Is Dream". The rockabilly and blues sound of Sun's artists brought Orbison little success and his career seemed over, although fans of rockabilly count his records among the best of this genre. He worked at Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee as a songwriter, and then was given a contract by RCA. Eventually, Chet Atkins referred him to Fred Foster, the owner of Monument Records, where he moved after his contract with RCA ended in 1959....
Orbison headed down to Nashville on 4 December and on Tuesday, 6 December, spent time shopping for model airplane parts and flying them, but during the afternoon he complained of chest pains. He was visiting with Jean Sheperd when he collapsed after excusing himself to go to the washroom. He was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and was declared dead at 11:54 p.m. on December 6, 1988. He had suffered a massive heart attack.
On December 15, Orbison was buried in an unmarked grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Orbison's last album (Mystery Girl), which he had worked on for some time, was released posthumously....
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~ Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman (Covers Slide)
Views: 437989 |  |  |  |  | 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 vis ...More iting 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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~ Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison with Westlife
Views: 54783 |  |  |  |  | Roy Orbison with Westlife on "Duets Impossible"
"The show was produced by carefully researching archive footage featuring stars from the past. Then by isolating the artist - both visually and vocally - from the original footage we were able to superimp ...More ose them performing along side pop stars from today. The musical backing tracks were re-recorded and re-mixed allowing us to feature solo's from both artists as well as sections of the song where they sing together."
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Views: 92513 |  |  |  |  | * 0:01 UGK with OutKast - International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)
* 0:01 Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin
* 0:01 Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
* 0:01 The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn)
* 0:32 DJ Funk - Pump That #@!&
* 0:55 Cupid - Cup ...More id Shuffle
* 1:08 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open the Door
* 1:19 Unk - Walk It Out
* 1:59 Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
* 2:04 Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart of Rock & Roll
* 2:13 Lil Mama - G-Slide
* 2:29 Ludacris - Whats Your Fantasy
* 2:36 Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
* 2:49 Birdman ft Lil Wayne - Pop Bottles
* 3:02 Lil Wayne with Birdman - Stuntin' Like My Daddy
* 3:04 Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution
* 3:05 T.I. - What You Know
* 3:41 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
* 4:13 Shawnna - Gettin' Some (which samples Too Short's "Blowjob Betty")
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~ The great Roy Orbison-DOWN THE LINE
Views: 17054 |  |  |  |  | Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 -- December 6, 1988), nicknamed "The Big O," was an influential Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. Orbison is ...More best known for the songs, "Ooby Dooby," "Only the Lonely," "In Dreams," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Crying," "Running Scared," and "You Got It". He is known for his smooth tenor voice, which could jump three octaves with little trouble. He was also rarely seen on stage without his trademark black sunglasses. In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1989, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Orbison endured a great deal of tragedy in his relatively short life. His first wife, Claudette Frady, died in a motorcycle accident on June 6, 1966 in Gallatin, Tennessee. On September 14, 1968, the Orbison family home at Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee, burned to the ground while Orbison was touring in England. Two of his three sons, Roy Jr. (b. 1958) and Anthony (b. 1962), died in the fire. His youngest son Wesley, who was three at the time, was saved by Orbison's parents.
Orbison met his second wife Barbara in August 1968 in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. They were married in Nashville on May 5, 1969, and built a new house one block away from where Roy's old house had once stood. The family moved to Malibu, California in 1985. They had two sons, Roy Kelton Orbison, Jr. born in 1970 and Alexander "Orbi" Lee Orbison born in 1975. "Orbi" is a drummer with the band Whitestarr. |
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~ Pretty Woman - Julia Roberts & Richard Gere
Views: 64203 |  |  |  |  | Pretty Woman Unforgettable film interpreted by Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, original song for movie "Pretty Woman", which was casted by Richard Gere and Julia Roberts . pretty woman julia roberts richard gere mo ...More vie song roy orbison van halen soundtrack original movie film 1990 |
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~ 60S PERSONALITY FUN RADIO RETURNS TO THE AIRWAVES
Views: 65932 |  |  |  |  | GO TO http://60sradio.com 1950S AND 1960S MUSIC OLDIES, PERSONALITY, JINGLES, AUDIO PROCESSING AND 50S AND 60S VINTAGE COMMERCIALS THAT ARE GROOVY FOR BABY BOOMERS. WOOLY BULLY SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHAROAHS GOOD LOVIN' YOUNG RASCALS KICKS PAUL REVERE AND ...More THE RAIDERS DO WAH DIDDY DIDDY MANFRED MANN GLAD ALL OVER DAVE CLARK FIVE I CAN'T GET NO SATISFACTION ROLLING STONES LIGHTNING STRIKES LOU CHRISTIE THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN' NANCY SINATRA I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU DUSTY SPRINGFIELD DOWNTOWN PETULA CLARK THE NAME GAME SHIRLEY ELLIS RESPECT ARETHA FRANKLIN MY GUY MARY WELLS THIS DIAMOND RING GARY LEWIS AND THE PLAYBOYS LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE MONKEES RED RUBBER BALL CYRKLE THE LETTER BOX TOPS KIND OF A DRAG BUCKINGHAMS HANG ON SLOOPY MCCOYS HANKY PANKY TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS A WORLD WITHOUT LOVE PETER AND GORDON I'M TELLING YOU NOW FREDDIE AND THE DREAMERS I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND BEATLES BUS STOP HOLLIES SHE'S NOT THERE ZOMBIES MRS. BROWN YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER HERMAN'S HERMITS GAME OF LOVE WAYNE FONTANA AND THE MINDBENDERS WILD THING TROGGS THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN ANIMALS MR. TAMBOURINE MAN BYRDS SUMMER IN THE CITY LOVIN' SPOONFUL 96 TEARS ? AND THE MYSTERIANS DIANA PAUL ANKA MACK THE KNIFE BOBBY DARIN RUNAROUND SUE DION SHEILA TOMMY ROE DON'T BE CRUEL ELVIS PRESLEY GREAT BALLS OF FIRE JERRY LEE LEWIS CHANTILLY LACE BIG BOPPER LA BAMBA RITCHIE VALENS RUNAWAY DEL SHANNON PALISADES PARK FREDDY CANNON OH, PRETTY WOMAN ROY ORBISON PEGGY SUE BUDDY HOLLY TUTTI-FRUTTI LITTLE RICHARD ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN CHUCK BERRY QUARTER TO THREE GARY U. S. BONDS I'M WALKIN' FATS DOMINO TOSSIN' AND TURNIN' BOBBY LEWIS THE LOCO-MOTION LITTLE EVA ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS SURF CITY JAN AND DEAN SURFIN' USA BEACH BOYS AT THE HOP DANNY AND THE JUNIORS LITTLE DARLIN' DIAMONDS DENISE RANDY AND THE RAINBOWS CHARLIE BROWN COASTERS SHOUT ISLEY BROTHERS DA DOO RON RON CRYSTALS HEAT WAVE MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS CALENDAR GIRL NEIL SEDAKA TRAVELIN' MAN RICKY NELSON THE TWIST CHUBBY CHECKER CHAIN GANG SAM COOKE DUKE OF EARL GENE CHANDLER IT'S MY PARTY LESLEY GORE MASHED POTATO TIME DEE DEE SHARP BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY FOUR SEASONS CATHY'S CLOWN EVERLY BROTHERS THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT TOKENS SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME DRIFTERS BLUE MOON MARCELS WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE FRANKIE LYMON AND THE TEENAGERS COME GO WITH ME DELL-VIKINGS MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK ANGELS WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW SHIRELLES PLEASE MR. POSTMAN MARVELETTES HE'S SO FINE CHIFFONS BE MY BABY RONETTES GREEN ONIONS BOOKER T. AND THE MG'S STAND BY ME BEN E. KING JOHNNY ANGEL SHELLEY FABARES SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU SKYLINERS EARTH ANGEL PENGUINS THE GREAT PRETENDER PLATTERS IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT FIVE SATINS TEARS ON MY PILLOW LITTLE ANTHONY AND THE IMPERIALS GOING TO A GO-GO MIRACLES BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING FOUR TOPS LEADER OF THE PACK SHANGRI-LAS STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE SUPREMES CHAPEL OF LOVE DIXIE CUPS I GOT YOU BABE SONNY AND CHER CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' MAMAS AND THE PAPAS LIGHT MY FIRE DOORS EVE OF DESTRUCTION BARRY MCGUIRE CHERISH ASSOCIATION YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL MY GIRL TEMPTATIONS KEEP ON DANCING GENTRYS HAVE I THE RIGHT HONEYCOMBS SURFIN' BIRD TRASHMEN I GOT YOU I FEEL GOOD JAMES BROWN DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS ON MITCH RYDER AND THE DETROIT WHEELS TIME WON'T LET ME OUTSIDERS WE AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' YET BLUES MAGOOS HEY LITTLE COBRA RIP CHORDS G. T. O. RONNY AND THE DAYTONAS CALIFORNIA SUN RIVIERAS PSYCHOTIC REACTION COUNT FIVE LITTLE GIRL SYNDICATE OF SOUND DOUBLE SHOT OF MY BABY'S LOVE SWINGIN' MEDALLIONS DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS BILLY JOE ROYAL THE BALLAD OF THE GREEN BERET SGT. BARRY SADLER THE PIED PIPER CRISPIAN ST. PETERS CHERRY, CHERRY NEIL DIAMOND I FOUGHT THE LAW BOBBY FULLER FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN BILLY J. KRAMER AND THE DAKOTAS RINGO LORNE GREENE DANG ME ROGER MILLER LIKE A ROLLING STONE BOB DYLAN EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY DEAN MARTIN ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY BOB LIND SUNNY BOBBY HEBB TEARS ON MY PILLOW LITTLE ANTHONY AND THE IMPERIALS KISSIN' TIME BOBBY RYDELL SEA CRUISE FRANKIE FORD IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY JIMMY SOUL WHAT'D I SAY RAY CHARLES LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR CONNIE FRANCIS NORMAN SUE THOMPSON JIM DANDY LAVERN BAKER AND THE GLIDERS PEPPERMINT TWIST JOEY DEE AND THE STARLITERS BARBARA-ANN REGENTS FINGER POPPIN' TIME HANK BALLARD AND THE MIDNIGHTERS SPEEDOO CADILLACS TALL PAUL ANNETTE AND THE AFTERBEATS (DOWN AT) PAPA JOE'S DIXIEBELLES MR. LEE BOBBETTES VENUS FRANKIE AVALON TURN ME LOOSE FABIAN ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI BRIAN HYLAND POETRY IN MOTION JOHNNY TILLOTSON GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD JAMES DARREN |
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