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Bristol, Tennessee
Bristol is a city in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 24,821 at the 2000 census. It is the twin city of Bristol, Virginia, which lies directly across the state line between Tennessee and Virginia. The boundaries of both cities run parallel to each other along State Street located in their common downtown district. Bristol is a principal city of Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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Fort Worth
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Kermit, Texas
Kermit is a city in and the county seat of Winkler County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,714 at the 2000 census. However the population had decreased to 5,299 by 2009. The city was named for Kermit Roosevelt after a visit by his father Theodore Roosevelt to the county.
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Madison, Tennessee
Madison, Tennessee is a neighborhood in northeast Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. It is incorporated as part of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.
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RCA Studio B
RCA Studio B is a noted recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Situated at 30 Music Square W and originally known simply as RCA Studios, it became famous in the 1960s for being a part of what many refer to as the Nashville Sound. A sophisticated style characterized by background vocals and strings, the Nashville Sound both revived the popularity of country music and helped establish Nashville, Tennessee as an international recording center.
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Vernon, Texas
Vernon is a city in Wilbarger County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 11,660; it was 11,077 in the 2005 census estimate. Vernon is the county seat of Wilbarger County.
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Anita Kerr
Anita Kerr (born Anita Jean Grilli; October 31, 1927, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer. She recorded and performed successfully with her vocal harmony groups in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Europe.
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Barbara Orbison
Barbara Orbison (Wellhoener Jakobs born in Bielefeld, Germany) is an entrepreneur, music producer/publisher and the widow of American Rock and Roll legend, Roy Orbison.
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Bernie Taupin
Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist, singer, songwriter and poet, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs.
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Bill Dees
William "Bill" Dees (born January 24, 1939) is an American musician most famous for his song writing collaborations with singer Roy Orbison.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Bob Dylan
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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Buddy Harman
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Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes".
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Chet Atkins
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Cindy Walker
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David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Over a lengthy career, Lynch has employed a distinctive, unorthodox (and now known as "Lynchian") approach to narrative filmmaking that has become instantly recognizable to many audiences and critics worldwide. Lynch's films are known for nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulous sound design. Lynch's work often depicts a seedy underside to small-town America (particularly Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks) or sprawling California metropolises (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and his latest release, Inland Empire). Beginning with his experimental film-school feature Eraserhead (1977), he has maintained a strong cult following while experiencing inconsistent commercial success.
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.
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Dhani Harrison
Dhani Harrison (born 1 August 1978) is an English musician and the son of George Harrison of The Beatles and Olivia Harrison. Harrison debuted as a professional musician when completing his father's final album Brainwashed after George Harrison's death in November 2001. Harrison formed his own band, thenewno2, in 2006.
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Dick Penner
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Don Gibson
Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928–November 17, 2003) was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.
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Don McLean
Donald McLean, Jr. (born October 2, 1945, New Rochelle, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes him as a "pop encyclopedia," able to "reinvent the past in his own image".Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=10:ly09kect7q70 Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]], Allmusic. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
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Elvis Presley
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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton.
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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America. Caruso also made approximately 290 commercial recordings of his voice, beginning as early as 1902 in Italy and continuing from 1904 until 1920 in the United States. All of his known surviving recordings are available today on remastered CDs.
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Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. In the early 1960s, he recorded duets with up-and-coming Loretta Lynn, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Floyd Cramer
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Fred Foster
Fred Foster (born Fred Luther Foster, July 26, 1931, Rutherford County, North Carolina) is an American songwriter, record producer, and founder of Monument Records.
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George Harrison
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Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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Grady Martin
Thomas Grady Martin (January 17, 1929–December 3, 2001) was one of the most renowned, inventive and historically-significant American session musicians in country music and rockabilly.
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Gram Parsons
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Hargus "Pig" Robbins
Hargus Melvin "Pig" Robbins (born January 18, 1938 in Spring City, Tennessee) is an American session keyboard and piano player. Having played on records for artists such as George Jones, Bob Dylan, Ween, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, and Conway Twitty, Robbins is a prominent session instrumentalist in Nashville. He is also blind, having lost his sight at age four due to an accident involving his father's knife.
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Harold Bradley
Harold Bradley (b. January 2, 1926, Nashville, Tennessee) is a pop guitarist and an American country guitarist.
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Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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Jeannette MacDonald
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Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lynne (born 30 December 1947; Shard End, Birmingham) is an English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys. Lynne has produced recordings for artists such as The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Del Shannon and Tom Petty. He has co-written songs with Petty and also with George Harrison whose 1987 album Cloud Nine was co-produced by Lynne and Harrison. His compositions include "Do Ya", "Livin' Thing", "Evil Woman", "Turn to Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Telephone Line", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Hold on Tight" and "Don't Bring Me Down".
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Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.
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Jerry Kennedy
Jerry Glenn Kennedy (born 10 August 1940) is an American record producer, songwriter and guitar player.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, his career faltered after Lewis married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a transition to country music.
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Joe Melson
Joe Melson (born May 1935), is an American singer and a BMI award winning songwriter.
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John Belushi
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John Lennon
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Johnny Cash
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K. d. lang
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K.d. lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials.
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Lefty Frizzell
Lefty Frizzell (March 31, 1928–July 19, 1975), born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a exponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, bandleader and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that:
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Mantovani
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (November 15, 1905 – March 29, 1980), known by the mononym Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor and light orchestra-style entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. He is more associated with the light orchestra genre than any other entertainer.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
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Nelson Eddy
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967) was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby-soxers as well as opera purists, and in his heyday was the highest paid singer in the world.
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Owen Bradley
Owen Bradley (October 21, 1915 - January 7, 1998) was an American record producer, who, along with Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson, was one of the chief architects of the 1950s and 1960s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly.
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Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s. Since her death in 1963 at age 30 in a private airplane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
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Paul McCartney
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Phil Spector
Harvey Philip Spector (born December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965 alone. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim.
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Ravel
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became the Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden".
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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Roy Orbison
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Sam Phillips
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Sonny James
James Loden (born May 1, 1929), known professionally as Sonny James, is an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit, "Young Love". Dubbed the Southern Gentleman, James had 72 country and pop chart hits from 1953 to 1983, including a five-year streak of 16 straight among his 23 number one hits. Twenty-one of his albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976. He is a member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame. James is currently retired and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry Burnett (born January 14, 1948), widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is an Irish musician best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist of rock band U2. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on its list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time".
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The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers (Don and Phil, born Isaac Donald Everly, February 1, 1937, and Phillip Everly, January 19, 1939) are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing. The brothers are the most successful U.S. rock and roll duo on the Hot 100. Their greatest period came between 1957 and 1965.
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Tom Petty
Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury.
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and ''Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart''.
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Wesley Rose
Wesley Rose (born February 11, 1918 - April 26, 1990) was an American music industry executive and record producer.
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Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings (born June 24, 1944, in Kilgore, Texas) is an American songwriter who is known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic (1997).
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Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
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Orbison, Roy Filmography
- 100 Years of the London Palladium (2010)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Light My Fire (2009)
- The Big O in Britain (2008)
- The True History of the Traveling Wilburys (2007)
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (2007)
- Duet Impossible (2006)
- One for the Money: The Birth of Rock N' Roll (2006)
- One for the Money: The Birth of Rock N' Roll (2006)
- Roy Orbison: Live from Australia 1972 (2005)
- Lubbock Lights (2003)
- Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 4: Elvis & Other Rock Greats (2003)
- George Harrison - Der sanfte Beatle (2001)
- Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock'n'Roll (2000)
- Roy Orbison: The Anthology (1999)
- In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (1999)
- The Life and Times of Roy Orbison (1998)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 2 (1995)
- The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show 2 (1991)
- Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll (1991)
- The 30th Annual Grammy Awards (1988)
- She's Having a Baby (1988)
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988)
- Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)
- The Best of Bandstand: The Superstars (1987)
- Roy Orbison Live in Texas (1986)
- Blue Suede Shoes (1985)
- Nashville Remembers Elvis on His Birthday (1980)
- Roadie (1980)
- The Johnny Cash Christmas Special (1977)
- Roy Sings Orbison (1975)
- The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club (1974)
- The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
- The Roy Orbison Show (1964)
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- Problem Child (Alt Version)
- Tryin to Get To You
- Chicken Hearted (Alt. version)
- Domino
- The Clown
- Hey Good Lookin'
- Kaw-Liga
- Dance (Alt Version)
- Lana
- Let's Make a Memory
- Loneliness
- Nite life
- Heartache
- It's Lonely
- Rainbow Love
- Blue Bayou
- Lonely Wine
- My Prayer
- No One Will Ever Know
- Shahadaroba
- Friday Night
- Hound Dog Man
- I Care
- Love Is A Cold Wind
- Movin'
- Poor Baby
- Warm Spot Hot
- We¡¯re Into Something Good
- Belinda
- Can't Wait
- I'm a Southern Man
- No Chain At All
- Something They Can't Take Away
- A Mansion On The Hill
- A New Star
- A True Love Goodbye
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- All I Need Is Time
- Anything you want
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Big Hearted Me
- Blue Angel
- Blue Blue Day
- Blues In My Mind
- Born To Love Me
- Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart
- Breaking Up Is Breaking My Heart
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Uptown
- Only the Lonely
- Blue Angel
- I'm Hurtin'
- Running Scared
- Lana
- Crying
- Let the Good Times Roll
- Blue Bayou
- Dream Baby
- The Crowd
- Working for the Man
- In Dreams
- Falling
- It's Over
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Goodnight
- Pretty Paper
- Say You're My Girl
- Paper Boy
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Twinkle Toes
- Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)
- In Dreams
- Blue Bayou
- Mean Little Mama
- Lana
- Running Scared
- Falling
- Leah
- Indian Wedding
- Blue Angel
- Ooby Dooby
- Hey! Miss Fannie
- A True Love Goodbye
- An Empty Cup and a Broken Date
- Tryin' to Get to You
- Tutti Frutti
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- Ooby Dooby
- Cat Called Domino
- Go! Go! Go!
- Rockhouse
- 1956 Guitar Pull Medley: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You / I Was the One / That's All Right / Mary Lou / You're My Baby
- You're My Baby
- Mean Little Mama
- Problem Child
- One More Time (demo recording)
- You're Gonna Cry
- It's Too Late
- Sweet and Easy to Love
- This Kind of Love
- Claudette (demo recording)
- You Tell Me (demo recording)
- Night Owl (demo recording)
- Bad Cat (demo recording)
- I Give Up (demo recording)
- Love Struck (demo recording)
- Baby Don't Stop (demo recording)
- Defeated (demo recording)
- Love Storm (demo recording)
- Almost Eighteen
- With the Bug
- Pretty One
- Ooby Dooby
- Go! Go! Go!
- Rock House
- Uptown
- Only the Lonely
- Blue Angel
- I'm Hurtin'
- Lana
- Love Hurts
- Crying
- Candy Man
- Dream Baby
- The Crowd
- Leah
- Falling
- Working for the Man
- Mean Woman Blues
- Blue Bayou
- Pretty Paper
- It's Over
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Only the Lonely
- Dream Baby
- Ooby Dooby
- Blue Angel
- Love Hurts
- Crying
- Running Scared
- Lana
- Uptown
- Go! Go! Go!
- Rock House
- Candy Man
- The Crowd
- Working for the Man
- Leah
- Mean Woman Blues
- Falling
- Pretty Paper
- Blue Bayou
- It's Over
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Crying
- Running Scared
- It's Over
- Candy Man
- In Dreams
- Mean Woman Blues
- Lena
- Leah
- Run for the Sun
- Blue Blue Day
- Baby Don't Stop
- Penny Arcade
- Blue Bayou
- Maybe
- In Dreams
- This Kind of Love
- Friday Night
- Heavy Load
- Poor Baby
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Lana
- Communication Breakdown
- Heartache
- Walk On
- Break My Mind
- Go, Go, Go (Down the Line)
- Uptown
- Blue Angel
- I'm Hurtin'
- She
- Time to Cry
- Crawling Back
- Falling
- Goodnight
- Only the Lonely
- Leah
- In Dreams
- Uptown
- It's Over
- Crying
- Dream Baby
- Blue Angel
- Working for the Man
- Candy Man
- Running Scared
- Falling
- Love Hurts
- Shahdaroba
- I'm Hurtin'
- Mean Woman Blues
- Pretty Paper
- The Crowd
- Blue Bayou
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Ooby Dooby
- You're My Baby
- Rockhouse
- Sweet & Easy to Love
- Go! Go! Go!
- Devil Doll
- I Give Up
- I Like Love
- Trying to Get to You
- Fools Hall of Fame
- Domino
- It's Too Late
- Chicken Hearted
- You're Gonna Cry
- I Never Knew
- Clown
- Mean Little Mama
- This Kind of Love
- You Tell Me
- I Was a Fool (feat. Ken Cook)
- Lovestruck
- Problem Child
- Cause of It All
- One More Time
- True Love Goodbye
- Claudette (demo)
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Falling
- Only the Lonely
- Pretty Paper
- Blue Bayou
- Mean Woman Blues
- Blue Angel
- All I Have Is to Dream
- In Dreams
- Lana
- Beautiful Dreamer
- The Great Pretender
- Candy Man
- Bye Bye Love
- Dream
- Cry
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- What'd I Say
- Love Hurts
- Born on the Wind
- Let the Good Times Roll
- I'd Be Legend in My Time
- Ride Away
- Crawling Back
- Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart
- Twinkle Toes
- Too Soon to Know
- Communication Breakdown
- So Good
- Cry Softly Lonely One
- She
- Born to Be Loved by You
- Walk On
- Heartache
- Southbound Jericho Parkway
- Penny Arcade
- She Cheats on Me
- So Young
- Love Me Like You Did Last Night
- God Love You
- Remember the Good
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Blue Rain (Coming Down)
- I Wanna Live
- I Got Nothing
- Running Scared
- Crying
- Dream Baby (How long Must I Dream)
- In Dreams
- Blue Angel
- Falling
- Candy Man
- Leah
- I'm Hurtin'
- Uptown
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Lana
- Dream Baby
- It's Over
- Rockhouse
- Blue Bayou
- Problem Child
- Mean Woman Blues
- Ooby Dooby (Alt)
- Too Soon to Know
- I Never Knew
- The Clown
- Penny Arcade
- Leah
- Fools Hall of Fame
- Claudette
- Go Go Go
- Candy Man
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Only the Lonely
- Cryin'
- Running Scared
- It's Over
- Penny Arcade
- Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
- Lana
- Leah
- Blue Bayou
- Hound Dog Man
- Too Soon to Know
- In Dreams
- Working for the Man
- Blue Angel
- Ooby Dooby (The Teen Kings)
- Trying to Get to You (The Teen Kings)
- Ooby Dooby (Sun Master)
- Go! Go! Go!
- Trying to Get to You
- You're My Baby
- Rock House
- Sweet & Easy to Love
- Devil Doll
- Love Dumb Baby (Fragment)
- Fools Hall of Fame
- A True Love Goodbye
- Chicken Hearted
- I Like Love
- Mean Little Mama
- Problem Child
- Cat Called Domino
- You Tell Me
- I Give Up
- One More Time
- Lovesick
- The Clown
- Claudette
- The Cause of It All
- You're Gonna Cry
- This Kind of Love
- It's Too Late
- I Never Knew
- Claudette
- Only the Loney (Know the Way I Feel)
- Uptown
- Blue Angel
- In Dreams
- My Prayer
- Seems to Me
- Claudette
- Goodnight
- Crying
- Pretty Paper
- (Say) You're My Girl
- (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time
- I'm Hurtin'
- Mean Woman Blues
- Candy Man
- Only the Lonely
- Crying
- Dream Baby, How Long Must I Dream?
- Running Scared
- Candy Man
- Leah
- Blue Angel
- I'm Hurting
- Uptown
- The Crowd
- Ooby Dooby
- Working for the Man
- Devil Doll
- Mean Little Mama
- A True Love Goodbye
- It's Too Late
- I Give Up
- Trying to Get You
- My Prayer
- Blue Bayou
- Crying
- Love Hurts
- The Great Pretender
- Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
- Pretty One
- Falling
- What'd I Say
- Goodnight
- Only The Lonely
- Bye Bye Love
- Love Star
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Ooby Dooby
- Only the Lonley
- Go Go Go (Down the Line)
- Trying to Get to You
- Rockhouse
- Running Scared
- Blue Angel
- Candy Man
- It's Over
- Dream Baby
- Uptown
- Love Star
- Blue Bayou
- Lana
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Work for the Man
- In Dreams
- Problem Child
- It's to Late
- Bye Bye Love
- This Kind of Love
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Mean Little Man
- Pretty One
- Tryin' to Get to You
- Ooby Dooby
- Go, Go, Go
- Rock House
- You're My Baby
- Devil Doll
- Claudette
- Seems to Me
- Sweet and Innocent
- Almost Eighteen
- Jolie
- I'll Never Tell
- With the Bug
- Paper Boy
- Uptown
- Pretty One
- Only the Lonely
- Here Comes That Song Again
- Blue Angel
- Party Heart
- How Are Things In Paradise
- Darkness
- Yes
- Double Date
- Mama (German)
- San Fernando (German)
- Zig Zag
- Tired old country song
- Mother
- Boogie Baby
- Indian Summer (Larry Gatlin & Roy Orbison with The Gatlin Brothers)
- Only The Lonely
- I'm Hurtin'
- Dream Baby
- Oh Pretty Women
- It's Over
- In Dreams
- Blue Bayou
- (I'm A) Southern Man
- What'd I Say
- Wedding Day
- Lana
- Drifting Away
- Born To Love Me
- Old Love Song
- Sentimental
- Crying
- The Great Pretender
- Love Star
- Indian Wedding
- Borne On The Wind
- Mama
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- I'd Be a Legend in Time
- (Yes) I'm Hurting
- The Same Street
- Far Far Away
- Big Hearted Me
- Sweet Dreams
- Blue Blue Day
- What About Me
- Give Myself a Party
- Lonesome Number One
- Crawling Back
- It Ain't No Big Thing
- Time Changed Everything
- The Loner
- Maybe
- Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart
- Go Away
- Why Hurt the One Who Love You
- Oh Such Stranger
- Too Soon to Know
- A New Star
- Never
- The Actress
- Paper Boy
- With the Bug
- Today's Teardrops
- Here Comes That Song Again
- Only With You
- Pretty One
- No Chain at All
- Blues in My Mind
- Drifting Away
- Wings of Glory
- Belinda
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Distant Drums
- No One Will Ever Know
- Beautiful Dreamer
- The Great Pretender
- Let the Good Times Roll
- Bye Bye Love
- Dream
- (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time
- All I Have to Do Is Dream
- Cry
- What'd I Say
- Only the Lonely
- Leah
- In Dreams
- Uptown
- It's Over
- Crying
- Dream Baby
- Blue Angel
- Working for the Man
- Candy Man
- Running Scared
- Falling
- Claudette
- Ooby Dooby
- I'm Hurting
- Mean Woman Blues
- Lana
- Blue Bayou
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Why a Woman Cries
- Run, Baby, Run (Back Into My Arms)
- Take Care of Your Woman
- I'm the Man on Susie's Mind
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Run the Engines Up High
- It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)
- I Fought the Law
- The Three Bells
- Danny Boy
- (I'll Be) A Legend in My Time
- (Yes) I'm Hurting
- The Same Street
- Far, Far Away
- Big Hearted Me
- Sweet Dreams
- Oh, Such a Stranger
- Blue, Blue Day
- What About Me
- Give Myself a Party
- Too Soon to Know
- Lonesome Number One
- She
- Communication Breakdown
- Cry Softly, Lonely One
- Girl Like Mine
- It Takes One (To Know One)
- Just Let Me Make Believe
- Here Comes the Rain, Baby
- That's a No-No
- Memories
- Time to Cry
- Only Alive
- Crawling Back
- It Ain't No Big Thing (That I'm Crying)
- Time Changed Everything
- This Is My Land
- The Loner
- Maybe
- Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart
- Go Away
- A New Star
- Never
- It Wasn't Very Long Ago
- Why Hurt the One Who Loves You
- Ride Away
- You Fool You
- Two of a Kind
- This Is Your Song
- I'm in a Blue, Blue Mood
- If You Can't Say Something Nice
- Claudette
- Afraid to Sleep
- Sugar and Honey
- Summer Love
- Big as I Can Dream
- Wondering
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Dance
- (Say) You're My Girl
- Goodnight
- Nightlife
- Let the Good Times Roll
- (I Get So) Sentimental
- You te amo Maria
- Wedding Day
- Sleepy Hollow
- 22 Days
- I'd Be a Legend in My Time
- This Kind of Love
- Devil Doll
- You're My Baby
- Rock House
- You're Gonna Cry
- I Never Knew
- Sweet and Easy to Love
- Mean Little Mama
- Ooby Dooby
- Problem Child
- Ooby Dooby
- Problem Child
- Trying To Get To You
- You're My Baby
- Rockhouse
- Domino
- Sweet And Easy To Love
- Devil Doll
- The Cause Of It All
- Fools Hall Of Fame
- A True Love Goodbye
- Chicken
- I Like
- Mean Little
- Ooby Dooby
- Go Go Go
- Rockhouse
- Trying to Get You
- This Kind of Love
- It's Too Late
- You're My Baby
- Domino
- Sweet and Easy to Love
- Devil Doll
- The Cause of It All
- Fools Hall of Fame
- A True Love Goodbye
- Ooby Dooby
- One More Time
- Problem Child
- Rock House
- Sweet and Easy to Love
- This Kind of Love
- Trying to Get to You
- You're Gonna Cry
- You're My Baby
- I Never Knew
- Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)
- Indian Wedding
- Workin' For The Man
- The Crowd
- Blue Bayou
- On Pretty Woman
- Dream Baby (How long Must I Dream)
- My Prayer
- Let The Good Times Roll
- Crying
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)
- Claudette
- Leah
- California Blue
- It's Over
- Blue Bayou
- Falling
- Heartache
- Blue Avenue
- Running Scared
- In Dreams
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Crying
- Running Scared
- It's Over
- Candy Man
- In Dreams
- Dream Baby
- Mean Woman Blues
- Lana
- Leah
- Wedding Day
- Indian Wedding
- Goodnight
- Yo Te Amo, Maria
- Blue Bayou
- Today's Teardrops
- Only the Lonely
- Blue Angel
- Running Scared
- Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
- In Dreams
- Mean Woman Blues
- Blue Bayou
- It's Over
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Penny Arcade
- Leah
- Lawa
- Candy Man
- Go Go Go (Down the Line)
- Too Soon to Know
- Too Soon to Know
- Breaking' Up Is Breakin' My Heart
- Sweet Dreams
- Ooby Dooby (feat. The Teen Queens)
- Claudette
- I'm Hurting
- Devil Doll
- (I'd Be) A Legend in Time
- Crawlin' Back
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Only the Lonely
- It's Over
- Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)
- Blue Angel
- I'm Hurtin'
- Running Scared
- Crying
- Candy Man
- Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
- The Crowd
- Leah
- Workin' For The Man
- In Dreams
- Falling
- Mean Woman Blues
- Blue Bayou
- It's Over
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Lana
- Communication Breakdown
- Heartache
- Walk On
- Break My Mind
- Go, Go, Go
- Uptown
- Blue Angel
- I'm Hurtin'
- She
- Time To Cry
- Crawling Back
- Falling
- Goodnight
- Pretty Woman
- Mama
- Leah
- Running Scared
- The Great Pretender
- Born on the Wind
- What'd I Say
- Crying
- Doubele Date
- Candy Man
- Pretty Paper
- Today's Teardrops
- I'm Hurtin
- (Say) You're My Girl
- Indian Summer
- In Dreams
- Drifting Away
- The Crowd
- I'd Be a Legend in My Time
- Born to Love Me
- Running Scared
- Falling
- Love Hurts
- Shahadaroba
- I'm Hurting
- Mean Woman Blues
- Pretty Paper
- The Crowd
- Blue Bayou
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Devil Doll
- Sweet and Easy Love
- Ooby Dooby
- Go Go Go
- You're My Baby
- Rockhouse
- Mean Little Mama
- Chicken Hearted
- It's Too Late
- The Clown
- Claudette
- Domino
- Fools Hall Of Fame
- I Like Love
- You Got It
- Only the Lonely
- Love Hurts
- Running Scared
- Crying
- Blue Bayou
- Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
- Borne on the Wind
- In Dreams
- It's Over
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Goodnight
- (Say) You're My Girl
- She's a Mystery to Me
- Tryin' To Get To You
- Ooby Dooby
- Down The Line (Go Go Go)
- You're My Baby
- Rockhouse
- Domino
- Sweet And Easy To Love
- Devil Doll
- The Cause Of It All
- Fools Hall Of Fame
- A True Love Goodbye
- Chicken Hearted
- I Like Love
- Mean Little Mama
- Problem Child
- This Kind Of Love
- It's Too Late
- I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody
- You're Gonna Cry
- One More Time
- Lovestruck
- The Clown
- Claudette
- Bye Bye Love
- The Great Pretender
- Love Hurts
- In Dreams
- I'm Hurting
- Raindrops
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Blue Avenue
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Come Back to Me
- She Wears My Ring
- Gigoletto
- The Actress
- I'll Say It's My Fault
- Pretty One
- It's Over
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Died: 1988-12-06
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Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman (from Black & White Night)
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- Duration: 6:19
- Published: 16 Jul 2010
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
Roy Orbison performs "Oh, Pretty Woman" as the finale of the Black & White Night Concert. Backed by Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Tom Waits, kd lang, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and Jennifer Warnes. Recorded September 30, 1987. Purchase the DVD here: bit.ly © 1999 Orbison Records, Inc.
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Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night
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- Duration: 3:47
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Music video by Roy Orbison performing I Drove All Night. (C) 1992 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Roy Orbison You Got it
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 11 Jun 2008
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
You Got It
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Roy Orbison - In Dreams
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 08 Jul 2008
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Roy Orbison - In Dreams © Orbison Records, Inc.
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Roy Orbison - Crying
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- Duration: 2:45
- Published: 03 Apr 2009
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Crying is a record album released in 1962 by Roy Orbison. It was his second album on the Monument Record label. The album name comes from the 1961 hit song of the same name that in 2002 was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. In 2004, the song ranked #69 on Rolling Stone Magazines "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
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Roy Orbison - Crying with kd lang
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- Duration: 3:32
- Published: 08 Jul 2008
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Roy Orbison - Crying with kd lang © Orbison Records, Inc.
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Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman (Live At Austin City Limits)
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- Duration: 3:59
- Published: 20 Jun 2008
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
For more info - www.eagle-rock.com smarturl.it 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
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Roy Orbison - Only the lonely
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- Duration: 2:38
- Published: 13 Jul 2009
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Roy Orbison ~ Unchained Melody
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- Duration: 3:35
- Published: 16 May 2010
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
One of Roy Orbison's greatest love songs
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CALIFORNIA BLUE - ROY ORBISON
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- Duration: 3:57
- Published: 09 Feb 2009
- Updated: 01 Sep 2012
My Memories of California, a state that I love so much (espacially San Francisco) with Arizona and Nevada.
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Roy Orbison - It's Over
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- Duration: 2:58
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Really nice live performance originally televised 11 July 1975 Thank you BBC for showing a rare glimpse of the legendary Roy Orbison www.bbc.co.uk
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Roy Orbison - Crying (from The Roy Orbison Show)
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- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 21 Jul 2010
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
Roy Orbison performs "Crying" on the Roy Orbison Show in 1964. © Orbison Records, Inc. For more information about The Soul of Rock and Roll please visit: www.RoyOrbison.com www.facebook.com/RoyOrbison www.twitter.com/ROYORBISON
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Roy Orbison - A Love So Beautiful
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 07 Jul 2008
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Roy Orbison - A Love So Beautiful, © Orbison Records, Inc.
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Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
Music video by Roy Orbison performing Oh, Pretty Woman. (C) 1987 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely (Monument Concert 1965)
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- Duration: 2:33
- Published: 18 Jul 2011
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Music video by Roy Orbison performing Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely (Monument Concert 1965). (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
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Roy Orbison - Walk On
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- Duration: 2:52
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Music video by Roy Orbison performing Walk On. (C) 1968 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Blue Velvet scene
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- Duration: 1:38
- Published: 09 Aug 2007
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Roy Orbison - "In Dreams" 2:48
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Roy Orbison - It's Over (Monument Concert 1965)
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- Duration: 2:50
- Published: 18 Jul 2011
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Music video by Roy Orbison performing Roy Orbison - It's Over (Monument Concert 1965). (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
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Roy Orbison - "California Blue"
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- Duration: 3:55
- Published: 12 Apr 2011
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
"California Blue" - a single from Roy's "Mystery Girl" album, released in 1989. Visit us online! www.royorbison.com store.royorbison.com
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Roy Orbison, Running Scared
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- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 24 Jan 2010
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
The Pilot plays Roy Orbison, Running Scared.
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Roy Orbison - Blue Bayou
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- Duration: 2:39
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Music video by Roy Orbison performing Blue Bayou. (C) 1973 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Roy Orbison-Ooby Dooby
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- Duration: 2:14
- Published: 04 Apr 2009
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
Rockabilly 1956 My Site: www.rarerockabilly.n.nu
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California Blue, Roy Orbison HD
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 Orbison in 1965 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Roy Kelton Orbison |
| Born | (1936-04-23)April 23, 1936 Vernon, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | December 6, 1988(1988-12-06) (aged 52) Madison, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, rockabilly, pop, country |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, harmonica |
| Years active | 1954–1988 |
| Labels | Sun, Monument, MGM, London, Mercury/PolyGram, Asylum, Virgin/EMI Records |
| Associated acts | Traveling Wilburys, Teen Kings, The Wink Westerners, Class of '55 |
| Website | http://www.royorbison.com |
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| Gibson ES-335 | |
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records between 1960 and 1964, when 22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top Forty, including "Only the Lonely", "Crying", and "Oh, Pretty Woman". His career stagnated through the 1970s, but several covers of his songs and the use of "In Dreams" in David Lynch's Blue Velvet revived his career in the 1980s. In 1988, he joined the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne and also released a new solo album. He died of a heart attack in December that year, at the zenith of his resurgence. His life was marred by tragedy, including the death of his first wife and his two eldest sons in separate accidents.
Orbison was a natural baritone, but music scholars have suggested that he had a three- or four-octave range.[1] The combination of Orbison's powerful, impassioned voice and complex musical arrangements led many critics to refer to his music as operatic, giving him the sobriquet "the Caruso of Rock".[2][note 1] Elvis Presley and Bono have stated his voice was, respectively, the greatest and most distinctive they had ever heard.[3] While most men in rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s portrayed a defiant masculinity, many of Orbison's songs instead conveyed a quiet, desperate vulnerability. He was known for performing while standing still and solitary, wearing black clothes and dark sunglasses which lent an air of mystery to his persona.
Orbison was initiated into the second class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 by longtime admirer Bruce Springsteen. The same year he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame two years later. Rolling Stone placed Orbison at number 37 on their list of The Greatest Artists of All Time, and number 13 on their list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.[4] In 2002, Billboard magazine listed Orbison at number 74 in the Top 600 recording artists.[5]
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Early life[link]
Roy Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, the middle son of Orbie Lee Orbison, an oil well driller and car mechanic, and Nadine Shultz, a nurse. Both of Orbison's parents were unemployed during the Great Depression, so the family moved to Fort Worth for several years to find work, until a polio scare prompted them to return to Vernon. To find work, the family moved to Wink, Texas. Orbison would later describe the major components of life in Wink as "Football, oil fields, oil, grease and sand",[6] and in later years expressed relief that he was able to leave the desolate town.[note 2] All the Orbison children were afflicted with poor eyesight; Roy used thick corrective lenses from an early age. A bout with jaundice as a child gave him a sallow complexion, and his ears protruded prominently. Orbison was not particularly confident in his appearance; he began dyeing his nearly white hair black when he was young.[7] He was quiet and self-effacing, remarkably polite and obliging—a product, biographer Alan Clayson wrote, of his Southern upbringing.[8] However, Orbison was readily available to sing, and often became the focus of attention when he did. He considered his voice memorable if not great.[6]
On his sixth birthday, Orbison's father gave him a guitar. Orbison later recalled that, by the age of seven, "I was finished, you know, for anything else"; music would be his life.[9] Orbison's major musical influences as a youth were in country music. He was particularly moved by the way Lefty Frizzell sang, slurring syllables.[10] He also enjoyed Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. One of the first musicians he heard in person was Ernest Tubb playing on the back of a flatbed truck in Fort Worth. In West Texas, however, he was exposed to many forms of music: "sepia"—a euphemism for what became known as rhythm and blues (R&B); Tex-Mex; orchestral Mantovani, and zydeco. The zydeco favorite "Joli Blon" was one of the first songs Orbison sang in public. At eight, Orbison began appearing on a local radio show. By the late 1940s, he was the host.[11]
In high school, Orbison and some friends formed The Wink Westerners, an informal band that played country standards and Glenn Miller songs at local honky-tonks, and had a weekly radio show on KERB in Kermit.[12] When they were offered $400 to play at a dance, Orbison realized that he could make a living in music. Following high school, he enrolled at North Texas State College, planning to study geology so that he could secure work in the oil fields if music did not pay.[13] He formed another band called The Teen Kings, and sang at night while working in the oil fields or studying during the day. Orbison saw classmate Pat Boone get signed for a record deal, further strengthening his resolve to become a professional musician. His geology grades dropping, he switched to Odessa Junior College to consider becoming a teacher.
While living in Odessa, Orbison drove to Dallas to be shocked at the on-stage antics of Elvis Presley, who was only a year older and a rising star in the music scene.[14] Johnny Cash toured the area in 1955, playing on the same local radio show as the Teen Kings and suggested that Orbison approach Sam Phillips at Sun Records, home of rockabilly stars including Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Cash. In their conversation, Phillips told Orbison curtly, "Johnny Cash doesn't run my record company!"[note 3] but he was convinced to listen to a song composed by Dick Penner and Wade Moore in mere minutes atop a fraternity house at North Texas State, named "Ooby Dooby", that the Teen Kings had recorded on the Odessa-based Je–Wel record label.[6] Phillips was impressed and offered the Teen Kings a contract in 1956.
Sun Records and Acuff-Rose: 1957–1959[link]
The Teen Kings went to Memphis and although Orbison had grown weary of "Ooby Dooby", Phillips wanted to cut the record again in a better studio. Orbison rankled quietly at Phillips' dictating what the band would play and how Orbison was to sing it.[15] However, with Phillips' production, the record broke into the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 59 and selling 200,000 copies.[6] The Teen Kings toured with Sonny James, Johnny Horton, and Cash. Much influenced by Elvis Presley, Orbison performed frenetically, doing "everything we could to get applause because we had only one hit record".[16] The Teen Kings also began writing more material such as "Go! Go! Go!" and "Rockhouse", generally in standard rockabilly style. The band ultimately split over disputed writing credits and royalties, but Orbison stayed in Memphis and asked his 16-year-old girlfriend, Claudette Frady, to join him.[note 4] They stayed in Phillips' home, where they slept in separate rooms; in the studio Orbison concentrated on the mechanics of recording. Sam Phillips remembered being much more impressed with Orbison's mastery of the guitar than his voice;[17] a ballad Orbison wrote called "The Clown" was met with lukewarm appreciation at best. Sun Records producer Jack Clement told Orbison after hearing it that he would never make it as a ballad singer.[18]
He found a modicum of success at Sun Records and found his way into Elvis Presley's social circle, once going to pick up a date for Presley in his purple Cadillac. Orbison sold "Claudette", a song he wrote about Frady, whom he married in 1957, to The Everly Brothers and it appeared on the B-side of their smash hit "All I Have To Do Is Dream". The first and perhaps only royalties Orbison earned from Sun Records enabled him to make a down-payment on his own Cadillac. However, frustrated at Sun, Orbison gradually stopped recording, toured music circuits around Texas to make a living, and for seven months in 1958 quit performing completely.[19] His car repossessed and in dire financial straits, he often depended on family and friends for funds.[20]
For a brief period in the late 1950s Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose, a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music. After spending an entire day writing a song, he would make several demo tapes at a time and send them to Wesley Rose, who would try to find the musical acts to record them. Orbison attempted to sell to RCA Victor songs he recorded that were written by other writers as well, working with and being completely in awe of Chet Atkins who had played guitar with Presley. Orbison tried one song penned by Boudleaux Bryant called "Seems to Me". Bryant's impression of Orbison was "a timid, shy kid who seemed to be rather befuddled by the whole music scene. I remember the way he sang then—softly, prettily but almost bashfully, as if someone might be disturbed by his efforts and reprimand him."[21]
Playing shows late into the night, and living with his wife and young child in his tiny apartment, Orbison often sought refuge by taking his guitar to his car and writing songs there. Songwriter Joe Melson, an acquaintance of Orbison's, tapped on his car window one day in Texas in 1958 and the two decided to try to write some songs together.[22] During three recording sessions in 1958 and 1959, Orbison and Melson recorded seven songs at RCA Nashville, with Atkins producing, but only two songs were judged worthy of release by RCA;[23] Wesley Rose maneuvered Orbison into the sights of producer Fred Foster at Monument Records.
Arrival: 1960–1964[link]
Orbison became one of the first recording artists to popularize the Nashville Sound, a trend of country and pop crossover music that used session musicians dubbed the A-Team: guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, and Bob Moore; pianists Floyd Cramer or Hargus "Pig" Robbins; drummer Buddy Harman; and backup vocals by the Jordanaires or the Anita Kerr Singers. The Nashville Sound was developed by producers Atkins, Owen Bradley—who worked closely with Patsy Cline—Sam Phillips, and Fred Foster.[24][25] In his first session for Monument in Nashville, Orbison took on a song that RCA had refused, "Paper Boy", backed by "With The Bug" as the B-side, but neither charted.[26]
According to musician and author Albin Zak, the combination of the studio—engineered by Bill Porter, who experimented with close miking the doo-wop backup singers—production by Foster, and accompanying musicians, gave Orbison's music a "polished, professional sound...finally allow(ing) Orbison's stylistic inclinations free rein".[23] In addition to the Nashville Sound's core components, Orbison requested strings in the studio. With this combination, Orbison recorded three new songs, the most notable of which was "Uptown", penned by himself and Melson.[27] Impressed with the results, Melson later recalled, "We stood in the studio, listening to the playbacks and thought it was the most beautiful sound in the world".[6][28] The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll states that the music Orbison made in Nashville "brought a new splendor to rock", and compared the melodramatic effects of the orchestral accompaniment to the music production of Phil Spector.[29]
"Uptown" earned a modest spot at number 72 on the Billboard Top 100 and Orbison set his goal on negotiating a contract with an upscale nightclub somewhere. Rock and roll itself, in its infancy in the late 1950s, was stalled. Elvis Presley was in the Army. Eddie Cochran and fellow Texan Buddy Holly—both of whom Orbison had previously toured with—had died, to Orbison's deep astonishment. Little Richard had found religion and Chuck Berry was in jail. Orbison's former Sun Records colleague Jerry Lee Lewis was disgraced when his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin was reported widely in the press. In their wake, pop music filled the radio waves, dominated by teen idol crooners who sang cleansed formulas like those about the twist dance craze and "death discs" like "Teen Angel" and "Endless Sleep".[30]
Writing for the voice[link]
Influenced by contemporaneous hits such as "Come Back to Me (My Love)" and "Come Softly to Me", Orbison and Melson wrote a song in early 1960 which, using elements from "Uptown" employed strings and the Anita Kerr doo-wop backup singers.[31] It also featured a note hit by Orbison in falsetto that showcased a powerful voice which, according to biographer Clayson, "came not from his throat but deeper within".[32] The song was "Only the Lonely"; Orbison and Melson had earlier tried to pitch it to Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers but were turned down.[33] They instead recorded the song at RCA's Nashville studio with Porter trying a completely new strategy: building the mix from the top down rather from the bottom up, beginning with the close-miked background vocals in the foreground and ending with the rhythm section soft in the background.[27][34] This combination became Orbison's trademark sound.[31] The single shot to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number 1 in the UK and Australia. According to Orbison, the subsequent songs he wrote with Melson during this period were constructed with his voice in mind, specifically to showcase its range and power. He told Rolling Stone in 1988: "I liked the sound of [my voice]. I liked making it sing, making the voice ring, and I just kept doing it. And I think that somewhere between the time of "Ooby Dooby" and "Only the Lonely", it kind of turned into a good voice."[35]
Instantly Orbison was in high demand. He appeared on American Bandstand and toured the U.S. for three months non-stop with Patsy Cline. When Presley heard "Only the Lonely" for the first time, he bought a box of copies to pass to his friends.[36] Melson and Orbison followed it with the more complex "Blue Angel" which peaked at U.S. number 9/UK number 11, a self-performed version of "Claudette", and "I'm Hurtin'", which rose to number 27 but failed to chart in the UK.[37]
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Sample of "Running Scared" as recorded by Orbison in 1961, featuring Orbison's natural voice hitting high G sharp
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Orbison was now able to move his wife and son to Nashville full-time. Back in the studio, seeking a change from the doo-wop styled pop sound of "Only the Lonely" and "I'm Hurtin'", Orbison worked on a new song, "Running Scared", based loosely on the rhythm of Ravel's Boléro; the song was about a man on lookout for his girlfriend's previous boyfriend, who he feared would try to take her away. Orbison encountered difficulty when he found himself unable to hit the song's highest note without his voice breaking. He was backed by an orchestra in the studio and Porter told him he would have to sing louder than his accompaniment because the orchestra was unable to be softer than his voice.[38] Fred Foster then put Orbison in the corner of the studio and surrounded him with coat racks in an improvised isolation booth to emphasize his voice. Orbison was unhappy with the first two takes, but in the third, he abandoned the idea of using falsetto and sang the final high G sharp naturally, so astonishing everyone present that the accompanying musicians stopped playing.[29] On that third take, "Running Scared" was completed. Fred Foster later recalled, "He did it, and everybody looked around in amazement. Nobody had heard anything like it before."[6]
Developing the image[link]
Just weeks later "Running Scared" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 9 in the UK. The composition of Orbison's following hits reflected "Running Scared": a story about an emotionally vulnerable man facing loss or grief, culminating with a surprise ending in a crescendo that employed Orbison's dynamic voice. "Crying" followed in July 1961 and reached number 2; it was coupled with an R&B up-tempo song titled "Candy Man" written by Fred Neil and Beverley Ross, which reached the Billboard Top 30, staying on the charts for two months.[37] Orbison's second son was born in 1962, and Orbison hit number 4 in the U.S. and number 2 in the UK with "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream?)", an upbeat song written by country songwriter Cindy Walker. The rest of the year he charted with "The Crowd", "Leah", and "Workin' For the Man", which he wrote about working one summer in the oil fields near Wink.[5][39] His relationship with Joe Melson, however, was deteriorating over Melson's growing concerns that his own solo career would never get off the ground.[40]
Lacking the photogenic looks of many of his rock and roll contemporaries, Orbison eventually developed a persona that did not reflect his personality. He had no publicist in the early 1960s, no presence in fan magazines, and his single sleeves did not feature his picture. Life magazine called him an "anonymous celebrity".[41] After leaving his thick eyeglasses on an airplane in 1962 or 1963, Orbison was forced to wear his prescription sunglasses on stage and found that he preferred them. His biographers suggest that although he had a good sense of humor and was never morose, Orbison was very shy and suffered from severe stage fright; wearing sunglasses helped him hide somewhat from the attention. The black clothes and desperation in his songs led to an aura of mystery and introversion.[6][42][43] Years later, Orbison said "I wasn't trying to be weird, you know? I didn't have a manager who told me to dress or how to present myself or anything. But the image developed of a man of mystery and a quiet man in black somewhat of a recluse, although I never was, really."[44]
His dark and brooding persona, combined with his tremulous voice in lovelorn ballads marketed to teenagers, helped Orbison corner the pop market in the early 1960s. He had a string of hits in 1963 with "In Dreams" (U.S. number 7/UK number 6), "Falling" (U.S. number 22/UK number 9), "Mean Woman Blues" (U.S. number 5/UK number 3) coupled with "Blue Bayou" (U.S. number 29/UK number 3).[5][45] He finished the year with a Christmas song written by Willie Nelson titled "Pretty Paper" (U.S. number 15 in 1963/UK number 6 in 1964).
As "In Dreams" was released in April 1963, Orbison was asked to replace guitarist Duane Eddy on a tour of the UK in top billing, with The Beatles, whose popularity was on the rise. When he arrived in England, however, he saw the amount of advertising devoted to the quartet and realized he was no longer the main draw. He had never heard of them and, annoyed, asked hypothetically, "What's a Beatle anyway?" to which John Lennon replied after tapping his shoulder, "I am."[46] On opening night, Orbison opted to go onstage first although he was the more established act. Known for having raucous shows expressing an extraordinary amount of energy, Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr stood dumbfounded backstage as Orbison performed completely still and simply sang through fourteen encores.[47] Finally, when the audience began chanting "We want Roy!" again, Lennon and McCartney prevented Orbison from going on again by physically holding him back.[48] Starr later said, "In Glasgow, we were all backstage listening to the tremendous applause he was getting. He was just standing there, not moving or anything."[47] Through the tour, however, both acts quickly learned to get along, a process made easier by the fact that the Beatles admired his work.[49] Orbison felt a kinship with Lennon, but it was Harrison with whom he would later form a strong friendship. The moniker of "The Big O" would eventually follow him back to the States, where it became an unofficial nickname for Orbison.
Riding the success[link]
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Opening sample of "Oh, Pretty Woman" as recorded by Orbison in 1964, and as noted by Mick Jagger to be a direct influence on the opening of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones[50]
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Touring in 1963 took a toll on Orbison's personal life. His wife Claudette began having an affair with the contractor who built their home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Their friends and relatives attributed it to her youth and that she was unable to withstand being alone and bored; when Orbison toured England again in the fall of 1963, she joined him.[51] He was immensely popular wherever he went, finishing the tour in Ireland and Canada. Almost immediately he toured Australia and New Zealand with The Beach Boys and returned again to the UK and Ireland, where he was so besieged by teenage girls that the Irish police had to halt his performances to pull the girls off him.[52] He continued to tour, however, and visited Australia again, this time with The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger later remarked of a snapshot he took of Orbison in New Zealand: "A fine figure of a man in the hot springs, he was."[53]
Orbison also began collaborating with Bill Dees, whom he had known in Texas. With Dees, he wrote "It's Over", a number 1 in the UK, and a song that would be one of his signature pieces for the rest of his career. When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money. Dees said, "Pretty woman never needs any money".[54] Forty minutes later, "Oh, Pretty Woman" was completed. A riff-laden masterpiece that employed a playful growl he got from a Bob Hope movie, the epithet Orbison uttered when he was unable to hit a note ("Mercy!"), and a merging of his vulnerable and masculine sides, it rose to number 1 in the fall of 1964 in the U.S. and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks; it hit number 1 in the UK as well, spending 18 weeks total on the charts. The single sold over seven million copies.[6] Orbison's success was greater in Britain; as Billboard magazine noted, "In a 68-week period that began on August 8, 1963, Roy Orbison was the only American artist to have a number-one single in Britain. He did it twice, with 'It's Over' on June 25, 1964, and 'Oh, Pretty Woman' on October 8, 1964. The latter song also went to number one in America, making Orbison impervious to the current chart dominance of British artists on both sides of the Atlantic."[55]
Career decline and personal tragedies: 1965–1969[link]
"Oh, Pretty Woman" proved the pinnacle of Orbison's career in the 1960s. Following its release, he endured some upheavals. He and Claudette divorced in November 1964 over her infidelities, though they remarried in August 1965. Wesley Rose, at this time acting as Orbison's agent, moved him from Monument Records to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), for a million dollars and the understanding that Orbison would expand into television and films as Elvis Presley had done. Orbison was a film enthusiast, and when not touring, writing, or recording would dedicate time to seeing up to three films a day.[56] However, Rose also began acting as Orbison's producer. Fred Foster later argued that Rose's takeover was responsible for the commercial failure of Orbison's work at MGM; engineer Bill Porter agreed that Orbison's best work could only be achieved with RCA Nashville's A Team.[26] Orbison's first collection at MGM, an album titled Goodnight, sold fewer than 200,000 copies.[6] The British Invasion also occurred at the same time, changing the direction of rock music significantly.[57]
While on tour again in the UK in 1965, Orbison broke his foot falling off a motorcycle in front of thousands of screaming fans at a race track, and performed his show that evening in a cast. His reconciliation with Claudette occurred when she went to visit him while he was recuperating from the accident.[58] Orbison was fascinated with machines. He was famous for following a car that he liked on sight, and making the driver an offer on the spot.[59] He had a collection worthy of a museum by the late 1960s. He and Claudette shared a love for motorcycles; she had grown up around them, but Orbison claimed Elvis Presley had introduced him to motorcycles.[60] However, tragedy struck on June 6, 1966, when Orbison and Claudette were riding home from Bristol, Tennessee. She was struck by a semi-trailer truck and died instantly.[61]
A grieving Orbison threw himself into his work, collaborating with Bill Dees to write music for The Fastest Guitar Alive, a film that MGM had scheduled for him to star in as well. It was initially planned as a dramatic Western, but was rewritten as a comedy.[62] Orbison's character was a spy who stole and had to protect and deliver a cache of gold to the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War and was outfitted with a guitar that turned into a rifle. The prop allowed him to deliver the line "I could kill you with this and play your funeral march at the same time", with — according to biographer Colin Escott — "zero conviction".[6] Orbison was pleased with the film, although it proved to be a critical and box office flop. While MGM had included five films in his contract, no more were made.[63][64]
He recorded an album dedicated to the songs of Don Gibson and another of Hank Williams covers, but both sold poorly. As the psychedelic rock movement took hold in the late 1960s, Orbison felt lost, later saying "[I] didn't hear a lot I could relate to so I kind of stood there like a tree where the winds blow and the seasons change, and you're still there and you bloom again."[65] He continued to tour, and had previously made some smart real estate investments, so money was never an issue for him again. During a tour in the Midlands of England on September 16, 1968, he received the news that his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, had burned down and his two eldest sons had died.[66] The property was sold to Johnny Cash, who planted an orchard on it. On March 25, 1969, Orbison married German teenager Barbara Jakobs, whom he had met several days before his sons' deaths.[67] His youngest son with Claudette (Wesley, born 1965) was raised by Orbison's parents; Orbison and Barbara had a son (Roy Kelton) in 1970 and another (Alexander) in 1974.[68]
Rediscovery[link]
Covers: 1970s[link]
Orbison recorded in the 1970s, but his albums performed so poorly that he began to doubt his talents.[69] Author Peter Lehman would later observe that his absence was a part of the mystery of his persona: "Since it was never clear where he had come from, no one seemed to pay much mind to where he had gone; he was just gone."[70] His influence was apparent, however, as several artists released covers of his songs that performed very well. "Love Hurts" was remade by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, and again by heavy metal band Nazareth. Sonny James sent "Only the Lonely" to number 1 on the country music charts.[71] Bruce Springsteen ended his concerts with Orbison songs and Glen Campbell had a minor hit with a remake of "Dream Baby". A compilation LP of Orbison's greatest hits went to number 1 in the UK in 1977. The same year he began to open concerts for The Eagles, who started as Linda Ronstadt's backup band. Ronstadt herself covered "Blue Bayou" in 1977, her version reaching number 3 on the Billboard charts and remaining in the charts for 24 weeks. Orbison credited this cover in particular for reviving his memory in the popular mind, if not his career.[72]
On 18 January 1978 Orbison underwent a triple heart bypass. He had suffered from duodenal ulcers as far back as 1960, and had been a chain smoker since adolescence.[73] Although he felt revitalized following the triple bypass, he continued to smoke and his weight fluctuated for the rest of his life.
Don McLean covered "Crying" in 1980 in a version which hit number 5 in the U.S. and stayed on the charts for 15 weeks; it was number 1 in the UK for three weeks.[74] Although he was all but forgotten in the U.S., Orbison took a chance and embarked on a tour of Bulgaria. He was astonished to find he was as popular there as he had been in 1964; he was forced to stay in his hotel room because he was mobbed on the streets of Sofia.[75] Later that year, he and Emmylou Harris won a Grammy for their duet "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again". It was his first such award, and he felt more than ever that the time was ripe for his full return to popular music.[76] However, it would be several more years until this came to fruition.
Revival: 1987–88[link]
Orbison's career was fully revived in 1987. He released an album of his re-recorded hits titled In Dreams: The Greatest Hits. A song he recorded named "Life Fades Away" was featured in the film Less Than Zero. He and k. d. lang performed a duet of "Crying" and released it on the soundtrack to Hiding Out, winning a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.[77]
However, one film in which Orbison refused to allow his music was Blue Velvet. Director David Lynch asked to use "In Dreams" and Orbison turned him down.[78] Lynch used it anyway. The song served as one of several obsessions of a psychopathic character named Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). It was lip-synched by an effeminate drug dealer played by Dean Stockwell, after which Booth demanded the song be played over and over, once beating the protagonist while the song played. During filming, Lynch asked for the song to be played repeatedly to give the set a surreal atmosphere.[79] Orbison was initially shocked at its use: he saw the film in a theater in Malibu and later said, "I was mortified because they were talking about the 'candy colored clown' in relation to a dope deal... I thought, 'What in the world...?' But later, when I was touring, we got the video out and I really got to appreciate what David gave to the song, and what the song gave to the movie—how it achieved this otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension to 'In Dreams'."[6]
The same year, Orbison was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, who concluded his speech with a reference to his own song "Thunder Road": "I wanted a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector—but, most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison. Now everyone knows that no one sings like Roy Orbison."[80] In response, Orbison asked Springsteen for a copy of the speech, and said of his induction that he felt "validated" by the honor.[80] A few months later, Orbison and Springsteen paired again to film a concert at the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom in Los Angeles. They were joined by Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, and k.d. lang. Lang later recounted how humbled Orbison had been by the show of support from so many talented and busy musicians: "Roy looked at all of us and said, 'If there is anything I can ever do for you, please call on me.' He was very serious. It was his way of thanking us. It was very emotional."[81] The concert was filmed in one take and aired on Cinemax under the title Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night; it was released on video by Virgin Records, selling 50,000 copies.[82]
[edit] Traveling Wilburys and Mystery Girl: 1988
In 1987, Orbison had begun collaborating with Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne on a new album. At the same time Lynne was completing production work on George Harrison's Cloud Nine, and all three had lunch one day when Orbison accepted an invitation to sing on Harrison's album. They contacted Bob Dylan, who allowed them to use a recording studio in his home. Along the way, Harrison had to stop by Tom Petty's house to pick up his guitar; Petty and his band had backed Dylan on his last tour.[83] By that evening, the group had written "Handle with Care", which led to the concept of recording an entire album. They called themselves the Traveling Wilburys, representing themselves as half-brothers from the same father. They gave themselves stage names; Orbison chose his from his musical hero, calling himself "Lefty Wilbury" after Lefty Frizzell.[84] Expanding on the concept of a traveling band of raucous musicians, Orbison offered a quote about the group's foundation in honor: "Some people say Daddy was a cad and a bounder. I remember him as a Baptist minister."[85]
Lynne later spoke of the recording sessions: "Everybody just sat there going, 'Wow, it's Roy Orbison!'... [E]ven though he's become your pal and you're hanging out and having a laugh and going to dinner, as soon as he gets behind that mike and he's doing his business, suddenly it's shudder time."[86] Orbison was given one solo track on the album titled "Not Alone Anymore". His contributions were highly praised by the press. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 spent 53 weeks on the U.S. charts, peaking at number 3. It hit number 1 in Australia and topped out at number 16 in the UK. The LP won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.[77] Rolling Stone included it in the top 100 albums of the decade.[87]
Orbison was in high demand for concerts and interviews once again, and was thrilled about it. He began writing songs and collaborating with many musicians from his past and newer fans to develop a solo album titled Mystery Girl. U2's lead singer Bono had become aware of Orbison when he saw Blue Velvet and, with The Edge wrote "She's a Mystery to Me" for him.[79] Bono witnessed the recording of the song and recalled:
I stood beside him and sang with him. He didn't seem to be singing. So I thought, 'He'll sing it the next take. He's just reading the words.' And then we went in to listen to the take, and there was this voice, which was the loudest whisper I've ever heard. He had been singing it. But he hardly moved his lips. And the voice was louder than the band in its own way. I don't know how he did that. It was like sleight of hand. [88]
Mystery Girl was produced by Jeff Lynne, whom Orbison considered the best producer he had ever worked with,[89] while Bono, Elvis Costello, Orbison's son Wesley and others offered their songs to him. The biggest hit from the album was "You Got It", written by Lynne and Tom Petty. It posthumously rose to number 9 in the U.S. and number 3 in the UK.[5][45]
Death[link]
While Orbison determinedly pursued his second chance at stardom, he reacted to his success in constant surprise, confessing "It's very nice to be wanted again, but I still can't quite believe it."[90] He lost some weight to fit his new image and the constant demand of touring, as well as the newer demands of making videos. In November 1988, Mystery Girl was completed and Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was rising up the charts. Orbison went to Europe where he was presented with an award and played a show in Antwerp where footage for the video for "You Got It" was filmed. He gave multiple interviews a day in a hectic schedule. A few days later a manager at a club in Boston was concerned that he looked ill, but Orbison played the show to another standing ovation.[91] Finally, exhausted, he returned to his home in Hendersonville to rest for a few days before flying again to London to film two more videos for the Traveling Wilburys. On December 6, 1988, he spent the day flying model airplanes with his sons. After having dinner at his mother's home in Tennessee, Orbison died of a heart attack at 52.[92]
Orbison's death was an international news event. Author Peter Lehman suggests that had he died in the 1970s when his career was in the doldrums, it might have earned a minor mention in the obituary section of the newspaper.[93] However, the response to his death reflected just how popular Orbison had again become. The Nashville Banner put it on the front page across six columns; it also made the front page of the New York Times. The tabloid The National Enquirer suggested on its cover that he had worked himself to death. A memorial was held in Nashville, and another in Los Angeles; he was buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.[94][95] In January 1989, Orbison became the first musician since Elvis Presley to have two albums in the Top Five at the same time.[96]
Style and influence[link]
[Roy Orbison] was the true master of the romantic apocalypse you dreaded, and knew was coming after the first night you whispered ‘I Love You’ to your first girlfriend. You were going down. Roy was the coolest uncool loser you’d ever seen. With his Coke-bottle black glasses, his 3-octave range, he seemed to take joy sticking his knife deep into the hot belly of your teenage insecurities.
Although Orbison is counted as a rock and roll pioneer, and has been cited by numerous critics as one of the genre's most influential musicians, his style was noted for how it departed from the norm. Rock and roll in the 1950s was defined by a driving backbeat, heavy guitars, and lyrical themes that glorified youthful rebellion.[98] However, very little of what Orbison recorded met these characteristics. The structure and themes of his songs defied convention, and his much-praised voice and performance style were unlike any other in rock and roll. Many of his contemporaries compared his music with that of classically trained musicians, although Orbison never mentioned any classical music influences. Author Peter Lehman summarized it, writing, "He achieved what he did not by copying classical music but by creating a unique form of popular music that drew upon a wide variety of music popular during his youth".[99]
Song structures[link]
U2 frontman Bono holds Orbison as a standard in musical creativity, commenting in 1999, "The thing people don't talk about enough as far as I'm concerned is how innovative this music was, how radical in terms of its songwriting. As I become more interested in songwriting, you hit a wall where Roy Orbison is standing."[100] Bob Dylan highlighted Orbison's song structures in his book Chronicles: Volume One, specifically noting how they were "songs within songs".[101] Music critic Dave Marsh also wrote that these compositions "define a world unto themselves more completely than any other body of work in pop music".[102] Orbison's music, like the man himself, has been described as timeless, diverting from contemporary rock and roll and bordering on the eccentric, within a hair's breadth of being weird.[103] New York Times writer Peter Watrous declared in a concert review: "He has perfected an odd vision of popular music, one in which eccentricity and imagination beat back all the pressures toward conformity".[104]
In the 1960s, Orbison refused to splice edits of songs together, and insisted in recording them in single takes with all the instruments and singers together.[105] The only convention Orbison followed in his most popular songs is the time limit for radio fare in pop songs. Otherwise, each seems to follow a separate structure. Using the standard thirty-two-bar form for verses and choruses, normal pop songs followed the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus structure. Where A represents the first verse and B represents the chorus, most pop songs can be represented by A-B-A-B-C-A-B, like "Ooby Dooby" and "Claudette". Orbison's "In Dreams" was a song in seven movements that can be represented as Intro-A-B-C-D-E-F; no sections are repeated. In "Running Scared", however, the entire song repeats to build suspense to a final climax, to be represented as A-A-A-A-B. "Crying" is more complex, changing parts toward the end to be represented as A-B-C-D-E-F-A-B modified, C modified, D modified, E modified, F modified.[106] Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before "Only the Lonely", he claimed never to have learned how to write them:
"I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say 'This is the way you do it,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way....So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes...But that's always after the fact—as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me."[107]
Elton John's writing partner Bernie Taupin wrote that Orbison's songs always made "radical left turns", and k. d. lang declared that good songwriting comes from being constantly surprised, such as how the entirety of "Running Scared" eventually depends on the final note, one word.[108] Some of the musicians who worked with Orbison were confounded by what he asked them to do. Nashville session guitarist Jerry Kennedy stated, "Roy went against the grain. The first time you'd hear something, it wouldn't sound right. But after a few playbacks, it would start to grow on you."[55]
Themes of songs[link]
Critic Dave Marsh categorizes Orbison's ballads into themes reflecting pain and loss, and dreaming. A third category is his uptempo rockabilly songs such as "Go! Go! Go!" and "Mean Woman Blues" that are more thematically simple, addressing his feelings and intentions in a masculine braggadocio. In concert, Orbison placed the uptempo songs between the ballads to keep from being too consistently dark or grim.[109]
In 1990, Colin Escott wrote an introduction to Orbison's biography published in a CD box set: "Orbison was the master of compression. Working the singles era, he could relate a short story, or establish a mood in under three minutes. If you think that's easy—try it. His greatest recordings were quite simply perfect; not a word or note surplus to intention."[6] After attending a show in 1988, Peter Watrous of The New York Times wrote that Orbison's songs are "dreamlike claustrophobically intimate set pieces".[104] Music critic Ken Emerson writes that the "apocalyptic romanticism" in Orbison's music was well-crafted for the films his songs appeared in in the 1980s because the music was "so over-the-top that dreams become delusions, and self-pity paranoia", striking "a postmodern nerve".[110] Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant favored American R&B music as a youth, but beyond the black musicians, he named Elvis and Orbison especially as foreshadowing the emotions he would experience: "The poignancy of the combination of lyric and voice was stunning. [Orbison] used drama to great effect and he wrote dramatically."[100]
The loneliness in Orbison's songs that he became most famous for, he both explained and downplayed: "I don't think I've been any more lonely than anyone else... Although if you grow up in West Texas, there are a lot of ways to be lonely."[100] His music offered an alternative to the postured masculinity that was pervasive in music and culture. Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees stated, "He made emotion fashionable, that it was all right to talk about and sing about very emotional things. For men to sing about very emotional things... Before that no one would do it."[100] Orbison acknowledged this in looking back on the era in which he became popular: "When ["Crying"] came out I don't think anyone had accepted the fact that a man should cry when he wants to cry."[100] Peter Lehman, on the other hand, considered Orbison's theme of constant vulnerability an element of sexual masochism.[102]
Voice quality[link]
What separates Orbison from so many other multi-octave-spanning power singers is that he can hit the biggest notes imaginable and still sound unspeakably sad at the same time. All his vocal gymnastics were just a means to a powerful end, not a mission unto themselves. Roy Orbison didn't just sing beautifully—he sang brokenheartedly.
Orbison admitted that he did not think his voice was put to appropriate use until "Only the Lonely" in 1960, when it was able, in his words, to allow its "flowering".[112] Carl Perkins, however, toured with Orbison while they were both signed with Sun Records and recalled a specific concert when Orbison covered the Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald standard "Indian Love Call", and had the audience completely silenced, in awe.[113] When compared to the Everly Brothers, who often used the same session musicians, Orbison is credited with "a passionate intensity" that, according to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, made "his love, his life, and, indeed, the whole world [seem] to be coming to an end—not with a whimper, but an agonized, beautiful bang".[29]
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both commented on the otherworldly quality of Orbison's voice. Dwight Yoakam stated that Orbison's voice sounded like "the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window".[114] Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees went further to say that when he heard "Crying" for the first time, "That was it. To me that was the voice of God."[100]
Bob Dylan marked Orbison as a specific influence, remarking that there was nothing like him on radio in the early 1960s:
With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera. He kept you on your toes. With him, it was all about fat and blood. He sounded like he was singing from an Olympian mountaintop. [After "Ooby Dooby"] (h)e was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal ... [H]is voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttering to yourself something like, 'Man, I don't believe it'.[101]
Likewise, Tim Goodwin, who conducted the orchestra that backed Orbison in Bulgaria, had been told that Orbison's voice would be a singular experience to hear. When Orbison started with "Crying" and hit the high notes, Goodwin stated, "The strings were playing and the band had built up, and sure enough, the hair on the back of my neck just all started standing up. It was an incredible physical sensation."[115]
Orbison's severe stage fright was particularly noticeable in the 1970s and early 1980s. During the first few songs in a concert, the vibrato in his voice was almost uncontrollable, but afterwards, it became stronger and more dependable.[116] This also happened with age. Orbison noticed that he was unable to control the tremor in the late afternoon and evenings, and chose to record in the mornings when it was possible.
Performance[link]
Orbison often excused his motionless performances by saying that his songs did not allow instrumental sections so he could move or dance on stage, although songs like "Mean Woman Blues" did offer that.[117] He was aware of his unique performance style even in the early 1960s when he commented, "I'm not a super personality—on stage or off. I mean, you could put workers like Chubby Checker or Bobby Rydell in second-rate shows and they'd still shine through, but not me. I'd have to be prepared. People come to hear my music, my songs. That's what I have to give them."[118]
Lang compared Orbison to a tree, with passive but solid beauty.[119] This image of Orbison as immovable was so associated with him it was parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, as Belushi dressed as Orbison falls over while singing "Oh, Pretty Woman", and continues to play as his bandmates set him upright again.[116] However, lang quantified this style by saying, "It's so hard to explain what Roy's energy was like because he would fill a room with his energy and presence but not say a word. Being that he was so grounded and so strong and so gentle and quiet. He was just there."[100]
Orbison attributed his own passion during his performances to the period when he grew up in Fort Worth while the U.S. was mobilizing for World War II. His parents worked in a defense plant and his father would bring a guitar in the evenings and their friends and relatives who had just joined the military would gather, and drink and sing heartily. Orbison later reflected, "I guess that level of intensity made a big impression on me, because it's still there. That sense of 'do it for all it's worth and do it now and do it good.' Not to analyze it too much, but I think the verve and gusto that everybody felt and portrayed around me has stayed with me all this time."[120]
Discography[link]
Main article: Roy Orbison discography
Honors[link]
- Grammys[77]
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- Best Country Performance Duo Or Group (1980) with Emmylou Harris
- Best Spoken Word Or Non-Musical Recording (1986) with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Phillips, Rick Nelson and Chips Moman
- Best Country Vocal Collaboration (1988) with k. d. lang
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (1989) as part of The Traveling Wilburys
- Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male (1990)
- Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987)[35]
- Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1987)[107]
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (1989)[121]
- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2010)[122]
See also[link]
Video and televised feature performances:
- 1972: Roy Orbison – Live from Australia
- 1982: Live at Austin City Limits
- 1987: Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night
- 1999: In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
References[link]
- ^ Comparisons of Orbison's music and voice to opera have been made by Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and songwriter Will Jennings among others. (Lehman, p. 21.)
- ^ Ellis Amburn argues that Orbison was bullied and ostracized while in Wink and that after he became famous, he gave conflicting reports to local Texas newspapers claiming it was still home to him, while simultaneously maligning the town to Rolling Stone. (Amburn, pp. 11–20.)
- ^ Although both Orbison and Cash mentioned this anecdote years later, Phillips denied that he was so abrupt on the phone with Orbison or that he hung up on him. One of the Teen Kings later stated that the band did not meet Cash until a week later while they were on tour with other Sun Records artists. (Amburn, pp. 42–43).
- ^ Alan Clayson's biography names Orbison's girlfriend Claudette Hestand.
Citations[link]
- ^ O'Grady, Terence J. (February 2000). "Orbison, Roy", American National Biography Online. Retrieved on May 20, 2009
- ^ Amburn, p. 97.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 175, 193.
- ^ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time: Roy Orbison, Rolling Stone website (2009). Retrieved on October 3, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Whitburn (2002), p. 524.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Escott, Colin (1990). Biography insert to The Legendary Roy Orbison CD box set, Sony. ASIN: B0000027E2
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 3.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 3, 9.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 7.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 21.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 8, 9.
- ^ History Maker, Roy Orbison website (2012). Retrieved on April 12, 2012.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 29–30.
- ^ Orbison was later quoted to say he "couldn't overemphasize how shocking [Presley] looked and seemed to [him] that night". Clayson, Alan, pp. 26–27.
- ^ DeCurtis and Henke, p. 153.
- ^ Clayson, Alan p. 44.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 60–61.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 45.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 56.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 78–79.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 62.
- ^ Clayson, pp. 68–69.
- ^ a b Zak, p. 32.
- ^ Wolfe and Akenson, p. 24.
- ^ Hoffmann and Ferstler, p. 779.
- ^ a b Zak, p. 33.
- ^ a b Lehman, p. 48.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 70–71.
- ^ a b c DeCurtis and Henke, p. 155.
- ^ Lehman, p. 19.
- ^ a b Zak, p. 35.
- ^ Clayson, p. 77.
- ^ Amburn p. 91.
- ^ Fremer, Michael (January 1, 2006). Recording Elvis and Roy With Legendary Studio Wiz Bill Porter – Part II, MusicAngle.com. Retrieved on February 8, 2011.
- ^ a b Roy Orbison, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2007). Retrieved on May 21, 2009.
- ^ Amburn, p. 98.
- ^ a b Whitburn (2004), p. 470.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 81–82.
- ^ Amburn, p. 32.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 91.
- ^ Lehman, p. 18.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 102–103.
- ^ Amburn, p. 108.
- ^ Creswell, p. 600.
- ^ a b Brown, Kutner, & Warwick, p. 645.
- ^ Amburn, p. 115.
- ^ a b Clayson, Alan, pp. 109–113.
- ^ Amburn, p. 117.
- ^ John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles Anthology. Chronicle, 2002. p. 94
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 128 and Lehman, p. 169.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 122–123.
- ^ Amburn, p. 125.
- ^ Amburn, p. 134.
- ^ Amburn, p. 127.
- ^ a b Amburn, p. 128.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 130–31.
- ^ Lehman, p. 14
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 135–36.
- ^ Amburn, p. 126.
- ^ Amburn, p. 54.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 139.
- ^ Lehman, pp. 108–109.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 146–147.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 151–53.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 152.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 161–63.
- ^ Amburn, p. 163.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 178.
- ^ Amburn, p. 170.
- ^ Lehman, p. 2.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 167–168.
- ^ Amburn, p. 178.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 3, 183–184.
- ^ Amburn, p. 182.
- ^ Amburn, p. 183.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 192.
- ^ a b c Grammy Award Winners (Past winner search=Roy Orbison), Grammy.com. Retrieved on May 30, 2009.
- ^ Amburn, p. 191.
- ^ a b Amburn, p. 193.
- ^ a b Clayson, Alan, pp. 202–203.
- ^ Amburn, p. 207.
- ^ Amburn, p. 205.
- ^ Amburn, p. 218.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, pp. 206–207.
- ^ Amburn, p. 221.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 208.
- ^ Amburn, p. 222.
- ^ Amburn, p. 212.
- ^ Amburn, p. 213.
- ^ Amburn, p. 223.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 227–28.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 213.
- ^ Lehman, p. 3.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 215.
- ^ Amburn, pp. 233–235.
- ^ Amburn, p. 235.
- ^ Tuttle, Mike (March 19, 2012). Bruce Springsteen Schools ‘Em At SXSW 2012, WebProNews. Retrieved on March 22, 2012.
- ^ Lehman, p. 8.
- ^ Lehman, p. 58.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hall, Mark. (director) In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story, Nashmount Productions Inc., 1999.
- ^ a b Dylan, p. 33.
- ^ a b Lehman, p. 20.
- ^ Lehman, p. 9.
- ^ a b Watrous, Peter (July 31, 1988). "Roy Orbison Mines Some Old Gold", The New York Times, p. 48.
- ^ Lehman, p. 46.
- ^ Lehman, p. 53.
- ^ a b Roy Orbison, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (2008). Retrieved on May 30, 2009.
- ^ Lehman, p. 52.
- ^ Lehman, pp. 70–71.
- ^ DeCurtis and Henke, p. 157.
- ^ Roy Orbison: Songs We Love, National Public Radio (April 27, 2011). Retrieved on April 29, 2011.
- ^ Lehman, p. 50.
- ^ Lehman, p. 49.
- ^ Lehman, p. 22.
- ^ Amburn, p. 184.
- ^ a b Lehman, p. 24.
- ^ Lehman, p. 62.
- ^ Clayson, Alan, p. 78.
- ^ lang, k. d. (April 15, 2004). The Immortals – The Greatest Artists of All Time: 37) Roy Orbison, Rolling Stone. Retrieved on June 2, 2009.
- ^ Amburn, p. 7.
- ^ Roy Orbison, Songwriters Hall of Fame website (2009). Retrieved on May 30, 2009.
- ^ Roy Orbison given Hollywood Walk of Fame star BBC News (January 30, 2010). Retrieved on January 31, 2010.
Bibliography[link]
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- Amburn, Ellis (1990). Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8184-0518-X
- Brown, Tony; Kutner, Jon; Warwick, Neil (2000). Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles & Albums, Omnibus. ISBN 0-7119-7670-8
- Clayson, Alan (1989). Only the Lonely: Roy Orbison's Life and Legacy, St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-03961-1
- Clayton, Lawrence and Sprecht, Joe, (eds.) (2003). The Roots of Texas Music, Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1-58544-997-0
- Creswell, Toby (2006). 1001 Songs: The Greatest Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories, and Secrets Behind Them, Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-56025-915-9
- DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James (eds.) (1992). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, Random House. ISBN 0-679-73728-6
- Hoffman, Frank W., Ferstler, Howard (2005). Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound, Volume 1, CRC Press. ISBN 0-415-93835-X
- Lehman, Peter (2003). Roy Orbison: The Invention of An Alternative Rock Masculinity, Temple University Press. ISBN 1-59213-037-2
- Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Billboard Books. ISBN 0-8230-7499-4
- Wolfe, Charles K., Akenson, James (eds.) (2000). Country Music Annual, Issue 1, University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-0989-2
- Zak, Albin (2010). "'Only The Lonely' – Roy Orbison's Sweet West Texas Style", pages 18–41 in John Covach and Mark Spicer Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music, University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-03400-6
External links[link]
- Official website
- CMT's tribute to Orbison Contains a music video section that contains the entire "Diamond Career Awards" from 11-18-88, and also several rare videos "Heartbreak Radio" and "Walk On"
- Roy Orbison: The Big O life story by Marie Claire Magazine Australia
- 1975 Roy Orbison private phone interview with Ronnie Allen (researcher for Casey Kasem)
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| Name | Orbison, Roy Kelton |
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| Short description | American singer-songwriter |
| Date of birth | April 23, 1936 |
| Place of birth | Vernon, Texas, U.S. |
| Date of death | December 6, 1988 |
| Place of death | Hendersonville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kathryn Dawn Lang |
| Born | (1961-11-02) November 2, 1961 (age 50) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Origin | Consort, Alberta, Canada |
| Genres | Country, pop |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Labels | Bumstead, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, Nonesuch, Elektra Records |
| Website | www.kdlang.com |
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances; hits include "Constant Craving" and "Miss Chatelaine". She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has teamed with musicians such as Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Anne Murray and Jane Siberry.[1] Lang is also known for being a vegan[2] as well as an animal rights, gay rights, and Tibetan human rights activist. She is a tantric practitioner of the old school of Tibetan Buddhism.[3] She performed Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" live at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
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Early years[link]
Lang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Audrey and Adam Frederick Lang.[4] She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry.[5] When Lang was nine months old, her family moved to Consort, Alberta, where she grew up with two sisters and one brother on the Canadian prairie.[6] Her father was a drug store owner and left the family when she was twelve.[6]
After secondary school, Lang attended Red Deer College, where she became fascinated with the life and music of Patsy Cline and ultimately determined to pursue a career as a professional singer.[7] She formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines in 1983, and they recorded a debut album, Friday Dance Promenade. Also in 1983, Lang presented a performance-art piece, a seven-hour re-enactment of the transplantation of an artificial heart for Barney Clark, a retired American dentist.[8][9] A Truly Western Experience was released in 1984 and received strong reviews and led to national attention in Canada. In August 1984, Lang was one of three Canadian artists to be selected to perform at the World Science Fair in Tsukuba, Japan (along with other performing and recording contracts throughout Japan).[citation needed]
Singing at country and western venues in Canada, Lang made several recordings that received very positive reviews and earned a 1985 Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She accepted the award wearing a wedding dress and made numerous tongue-in-cheek promises about what she would and would not do in the future, thus fulfilling the title of "Most Promising." She has won a total of eight Juno Awards.
In 1986, Lang signed a contract with an American record producer in Nashville, Tennessee, and received critical acclaim for her 1987 album, Angel with a Lariat, which was produced by Dave Edmunds.
Career rise[link]
Lang's career received a huge boost when Roy Orbison chose her to record a duet of his standard, "Crying," a collaboration that won them the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1989. The song was used in the Jon Cryer film Hiding Out released in 1987. Due to the success of the song, lang received the Entertainer of the Year award from the Canadian Country Music Association. Lang would win the same award for the next three years, in addition to two Female Vocalist of the Year awards in 1988 and 1989.
1988 marked the release of Shadowland, an album of torch country produced by Owen Bradley. In late 1988, Shadowland was named Album of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association. That year she also performed "Turn Me Round" at the closing ceremonies of the XV Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, and sang background vocals with Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt for Orbison's acclaimed television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.
In 1990, Lang contributed the song "So in Love" to the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 1998, she contributed "Fado Hilário" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the same organization.
Grammy Awards and mainstream success[link]
Lang won the American Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 1989 album, Absolute Torch and Twang. The single "Full Moon Full of Love" that stemmed from that album became a modest hit in the United States in the summer of 1989 and a number 1 hit on the RPM Country chart in Canada.
In 1989 she sang a duet, Sin City, with Dwight Yoakam on his album "Just Lookin' for a Hit."
The 1992 album, Ingénue, a set of adult contemporary pop songs that showed comparatively little country influence, contained her most popular song, "Constant Craving." That song brought her multi-million sales, much critical acclaim, and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Another top ten single from the record was "Miss Chatelaine". The salsa-inspired track was ironic; Chatelaine, a women's magazine, once chose lang as its "Woman of the Year," and the song's video depicted lang in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colors and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on the Lawrence Welk show.
Lang received a writing credit for The Rolling Stones' song "Anybody Seen My Baby?", whose chorus sounds strikingly similar to "Constant Craving". Jagger and Richards claimed to have never heard the song before and when they discovered the similarity prior to the song's release, were flummoxed as to how the songs could be so similar. Jagger then soon discovered his daughter listening to a recording of “Constant Craving” on her stereo and realized he had heard the song before many times but only subliminally. The two gave Lang credit, along with her co-writer Ben Mink, to avoid any possible lawsuits. Afterwards, Lang said she was "completely honored and flattered" to receive the songwriting credit.
Lang contributed much of the music towards Gus Van Sant's soundtrack of the film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and also did a cover of "Skylark" for the 1997 film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. She performed "Surrender" for the closing titles of the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, having previously worked with Bond composer David Arnold on his album, Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project.
In 1996, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
In 1997, Drag, an album of cover tunes dedicated to 'smoke' (specifically cigarette smoking) was released, although the album cover and booklet photographs show lang in a man's suit, referring to crossdressing as another possible meaning of the word 'drag'. The songs on Drag include "Smoke Dreams," from the '40s, Steve Miller Band's "The Joker," "Smoke Rings," the theme from the cult movie Valley of the Dolls, and 8 other smoke-themed songs.
Lang ranked No. 33 on VH-1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999 and No. 26 on CMT' 40 Greatest Women in Country Music in 2002, one of only eight women to make both lists. The others were Linda Ronstadt, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, and Emmylou Harris.
In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy Award, this time for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her collaboration with Tony Bennett on A Wonderful World.
On subsequent tours, critical acclaim continued to come her way. In 2004, Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote: "Few singers command such perfection of pitch. Her voice, at once beautiful and unadorned and softened with a veil of smoke, invariably hits the middle of a note and remains there. She discreetly flaunted her technique, drawing out notes and shading them from sustained cries into softer, vibrato-laden murmurs. She balanced her commitment to the material with humor, projecting a twinkling merriment behind it all."[10]
In the same year, lang released Hymns of the 49th Parallel, which featured cover versions of songs by iconic English-speaking Canadian singer-songwriters: Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry, and Neil Young.[11] According to the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA), in April 2006 the album went platinum in Canada selling over 100,000 copies. In December 2007 the album reached double platinum status in Australia selling over 140,000 copies.
Also in 2004, she sang the song "Little Patch of Heaven" for the Walt Disney Feature Animation film Home on the Range.
On July 29, 2006, lang performed her hit "Constant Craving" at the Outgames Opening Ceremonies in Montreal, Canada.
In 2006, lang paired with singer Madeleine Peyroux on a cover of the Joni Mitchell song "River" for Peyroux's album, Half the Perfect World. That same year lang was featured in Nellie McKay's second album, Pretty Little Head, singing with McKay in "We Had it Right". As well, lang sang a version of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" for the Happy Feet film soundtrack. She also sang a duet with Ann Wilson on the Heart singer's solo album Hope & Glory covering the Lucinda Williams song "Jackson".
In 2007, she partnered with Anne Murray on a re-make of Murray's hit "A Love Song," to be featured on Murray's CD, Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends. The duet was recorded in Los Angeles, and on Murray's official website there is a picture of Murray and lang kneeling behind Murray's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Murray was one of lang's childhood idols.
She released an album of new material, Watershed on February 5, 2008.[12] It is her first collection of original material since Invincible Summer (2000). An article in which lang is interviewed states: "when she isn’t working, [lang] is mostly a homebody, living quietly with a girlfriend she refers to as “my wife” — they are not legally married — and her two dogs."[13]
On November 11 the following year, Lang entered into a domestic partnership with Jamie Price, whom she had met in 2003. They separated on September 6, 2011, and Lang filed for a dissolution of the partnership in Los Angeles Superior Court on December 30.[14]
Lang's first complete greatest-hits collection was released on February 2, 2010, on the Nonesuch label as Recollection.
In 2010, lang was in Nashville, working on a new country album, titled Sing it Loud. The Nonesuch album was released by k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang in a spring 2011 release. The band toured North America in summer 2011.[citation needed]
Film and television appearances[link]
In 1988 k.d. lang & The Reclines performed on Austin City Limits. Lang played the lead in the 1991 drama film, Salmonberries, and also co-starred with Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd in Eye of the Beholder (1999). She had an uncredited role as a lounge singer in 2006's The Black Dahlia. She has also made guest appearances on the sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show, Dharma & Greg, and the famous coming out episode of Ellen. She appeared on the Christmas special of Pee Wee's Playhouse, where she performed the song "Jingle Bell Rock." She also made a guest appearance on the "Garbage" episode of The Jim Henson Hour, and in 2008 appeared on Rove McManus' live hour show, Rove.
Lang performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra for an intimate crowd at 18th century church LSO St Luke's in London on February 3, 2008.[15] First aired as part of the BBC Four Sessions, the concert was released as a DVD entitled "Live In London" in 2009.
On February 12, 2010, she performed Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" at the Olympics Opening Ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early May 2010, Lang filled in at the last minute for Susan Boyle at the Australian TV Logie Awards to reprise her Winter Olympics performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", receiving an extended standing ovation. In 2010 she sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" with Matthew Morrison in a Christmas episode of Glee, and is featured on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album.
Activism[link]
Lang, who came out as a lesbian in a 1992 article of the LGBT news magazine The Advocate, has actively championed gay rights causes.
She has supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research. Her cover of Cole Porter's "So in Love" (from the Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate), appears on the Red Hot + Blue compilation album and video from 1990 (a tribute to Cole Porter to benefit AIDS research and relief). Her 2010 Greatest Hits album, Recollection, also includes this cover of "So in Love". Lang also recorded the song "Fado Hilario," singing in Portuguese, for the 1999 Red Hot AIDS benefit album "Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon," a traditional fado from Portugal.
She is an animal rights activist. Her "Meat Stinks" campaign created much controversy, particularly in her hometown, in the middle of Alberta's cattle ranching industry.
Lang appeared on the cover of the August 1993 issue of Vanity Fair. The cover featured Lang in a barber chair while model Cindy Crawford appeared to shave her face with a straight razor.[16] The issue contained a detailed article about Lang which observed that she had thought that she would be ostracized by the country music industry when she came out as a lesbian. However, Nashville was accepting, and her records continued to sell. When she appeared in an ad for PETA however, Nashville was less impressed, owing to the relationship between country music and cattle ranching.[17]
In April 2008, Lang spent time in Melbourne, Australia, as a guest editorialist for The Age. This was in connection with her support for the Tibet human rights issues. On April 24, 2008, she joined pro-Tibet protesters in Canberra as the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay made its way through the Australian capital.[18] In 2011 Lang was inducted to Q Hall of Fame Canada in recognition of the work she has done to further equality for all people's around the world.[19]
Recognition[link]
On June 3, 2008, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.[20]
Awards and nominations[link]
Of the multiple Grammy nominations that lang has received, she has won four Awards.
- 1989
- Grammy Award — Best Country Vocal Collaboration for "Crying" (shared with Roy Orbison)
- 1990
- Grammy Award — Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Absolute Torch and Twang"
- 1993
- Grammy Award — Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Constant Craving"
- Grammy Award nomination — Song of the Year for "Constant Craving"
- Grammy Award nomination — Record of the Year for "Constant Craving"
- Grammy Award nomination — Album of the Year for "Ingenue"
- 1994
- Grammy Award nomination — Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Miss Chatelaine"
- 1995
- Grammy Award nomination — Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Moonglow" (with Tony Bennett)
- 2003
- Grammy Award nomination — Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "What A Wonderful World" (with Tony Bennett)
- 2004
- Grammy Award — Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for "A Wonderful World" (shared with Tony Bennett)
- Grammy Award nomination — Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "La Vie En Rose" (with Tony Bennett)
Discography[link]
Main article: k.d. lang discography
See also[link]
- Academy of Country Music
- Country Music Association
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
- List of country musicians
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
References[link]
- ^ Discogs.com
- ^ LeGal, Janine (September 2, 2010). "Being vegan is "the most natural thing in the world"". Winnipeg Free Press. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/prime-times/Being-vegan-is-the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world-101977813.html. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
- ^ k.d.lang's Watershed. Shambhala Sun. Retrieved on April 14, 2012.
- ^ Starr, Victoria (1995). k.d. Lang : All You Get is Me. Random House of Canada. p. 2. ISBN 0-394-22442-6.
- ^ "kd lang hits Watershed moment". News24. February 6, 2008. http://www.news24.com/Content/Entertainment/CelebNews/1048/977ddeaf2b5e4a36b533baaca747cc66/06-02-2008-04-39/kd_lang_hits_Watershed_moment. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ^ a b Malawey, Victoria (2009) "K. D. Lang" in Cramer, Alfred W. (ed.) (2009) Musicians and Composers of the 20th century Salem Press, Pasadena, California. ISBN 978-1-58765-512-8
- ^ "k.d. lang: Biography". CMT.com. June 21, 2004. http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/lang_kd/bio.jhtml. Retrieved June 29, 2008.
- ^ Adria, Marco (1990). "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cowpunk: K.D. Lang". Music of Our Times: Eight Canadian Singer-Songwriters. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company. pp. 139–44. ISBN 1-55028-315-4.
- ^ "Lang, K.D. Biography: Contemporary Musicians". enotes.com. http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/lang-k-d-biography. Retrieved June 29, 2008.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (June 21, 2004). "JVC Jazz Festival Reviews: Tai Chi Precision and Constant Shading". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E4DD1239F932A15755C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved June 29, 2008.
- ^ "K.D. Lang – View the Music Artists Biography Online". VH1. http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/lang_kd/bio.jhtml. Retrieved June 29, 2008.
- ^ "K.D. Lang Eyeing February for Next Album". Billboard. October 10, 2007. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003656384. Retrieved October 11, 2007.
- ^ "The second coming of kd Lang". The Sunday Times. January 13, 2008. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3159573.ece. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- ^ Serpe, Gina; Rosenbaum, Claudia (January 10, 2012). "K.D. Lang Ends Domestic Partnership With Longtime Lady Love". E! Online. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. http://www.eonline.com/news/kd_lang_ends_domestic_partnership_with/285385. PDF of filing. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012.
- ^ "k.d. lang's BBC Four Session" <http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/bbcfoursessions/kdlang/>.
- ^ "File:Vanity Fair Cover Lang Crawford.jpg". Wikimedia Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vanity_Fair_Cover_Lang_Crawford.jpg. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ^ "K.D. Lang's Career Takes Another Twist". AfterEllen.com. April 2004. http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/Music/kdlang.html. Retrieved June 29, 2008.
- ^ "Canadian Singer K.D. Lang Will Protest for Tibetans Today: Here She Tells Why". The Age. April 24, 2008. http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/canadian-singer-kd-lang-will-protest-for-tibetans-today-here-shetells-why/2008/04/23/1208743040356.html. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
- ^ Q Hall of Fame Canada
- ^ "Steve Nash, KD Lang Among New Walk of Fame Inductees". CTV. June 3, 2008. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080603/walk_fame_080603/20080603?hub=TopStories. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
Further reading[link]
- Adria, Marco (1990). "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cowpunk: K.D. Lang". Music of Our Times: Eight Canadian Singer-Songwriters. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company. pp. 139–44. ISBN 1-55028-315-4.
- Bufwack, Mary A. (1998). "K.D. Lang". In Paul Kingsbury. The Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 289–90. ISBN 978-0-19-517608-7.
- Dogget, Peter (2001). Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-026108-7.
- Feiler, Bruce (1998). Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes and the Changing Face of Nashville. Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-97578-5.
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