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.
TraŃklist:
1950s
01 - Trying to Get to You
02- Ooby Dooby
03 - Rock House
04 - Sweet and Easy to Love
05 - Chicken Hearted
06 - Seems to Me
07 - Almost 18
08 - Paper Boy
09 - Up Town
1960s
11 - Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)
12 - Blue Angel
13 - I'm Hurtin'
14 - Running Scared
15 - Love Hurts
16 - Crying
17 - Candy Man
18 - Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
19 - The Crowd
20 - Evergreen
21 - Working for the Man
22 - Leah
23 - In Dreams
24 - Falling
25 - Distant Drums
26 - Blue Bayou
27 - Mean Woman Blues
28 - Pretty Paper
29 - Beautiful Dreamer
30 - Borne on the Wind
31 - What'd I Say
32 - It's Over
33 - Indian Wedding
34 - Oh, Pretty Woman
35 - She Wears My Ring
36 - Goodnight
37 - (Say) You're My Girl
38 - Ride Away
39 - Crawling Back
40 - Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart
41 - Let the Good Times Roll
42 - Twinkle Toes
43 - Lana
44 - Too Soon to Know
45 - There Won't Be Many Coming Home
46 - Communication Breakdown
47 - So Good
48 - Cry Softly Lonely One
49 - She
50 - Born to Be Loved by You
51 - Shy Away
52 - Walk On
53 - Flowers
54 - Heartache
55 - Sugar Man"
56 - My Friend
57 - Southbound Jericho Parkwa
58 - Penny Arcade
59 - Tennessee Owns My Soul
60 - Break My Mind
1970s
61 - She Cheats on Me
62 - How Do You Start Over Again
63 - So Young
64 - If I Had A Woman Like You
65 - (Love Me Like You Did) Last Night
66 - Close Again
67 - God Love You
68 - Changes
69 - Remember the Good
70 - Harlem Woman
71 - Memphis, Tennessee
72 - I Can Read Between The Lines
73 - Blue Rain (Coming Down)
74 - Sooner or Later
75 - I Wanna Live
76 - Sweet Mama Blue
77 - Hung Up on You
78 - Still
79 - Belinda
80 - I'm a Southern Man
81 - Drifting Away
82 - Easy Way Out
83 - Poor Baby
1980s
84 - That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (with Emmylou Harris)
85 - Wild Hearts
86 - In Dreams
87 - Crying" (with k.d. lang)
88 - Handle with Care (Traveling Wilburys)
89 - You Got It
90 - End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys)
91 - California Blue
92 - She's a Mystery to Me
93 - Oh Pretty Woman (live)
94 - I Drove All Night
95 - Heartbreak Radio
96 - What'd I Say (1964, studio version)
97 - Born to be Loved by You
98 - Love Hurts
99 - A Love So Beautiful
100- Unchained Melody
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