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1. This Kind Of Love
2. Devil Doll
3. You're My Baby
4. Trying To Get To You
5. It's Too Late
6. Rock House
7. You're Gonna Cry
8. I Never Knew
9. Sweet And Easy To Love
10. Mean Little Mama
11. Ooby Dooby
12. Problem Child
13. Ooby Dooby (Master)
14. Go! Go! Go!
15. You're My Baby
16. Rock House
17. Sweet And Easy To Love
18. Chicken Hearted
19. I Like Love
20. A True Love Goodbye
21. Fools Hall Of Fame
22. You Tell Me
23. I Give Up
24. One More Time
25. Lovestruck
26. The Cause Of It All
27. The Clown
28. (A Cat Called) Domino
29. Claudette
30. Love Dumb Baby (fragment)
31. This Kind Of Love
32. Trying To Get To You
33. It's Too Late
34. You're Gonna Cry
35. I Never Knew
36. Mean Little Mama
37. Problem Child

 

Although it was technically Roy Orbison's first album, At the Rock House wasn't really an LP effort on his part so much as a cash-in effort by Sun Records in the wake of Orbison's later success on Monument Records with "Uptown," "Only the Lonely," etc. And understandably, the sound is very retro for 1960-1961, comprised as the record is primarily of the rock & roll and hardcore rockabilly numbers that he cut for Sun in 1956 (with his original group the Teen Kings) and 1957, including the Johnny Cash-authored "You're My Baby," the Orbison/Harold Jenkins collaboration "Rock House," and Sam Phillips' "Mean Little Mama" and "Problem Child." Not everything is quite as briskly paced as those two numbers, but even the ballads, such as "Sweet and Easy to Love" and "Devil Doll," and the melodic "This Kind of Love" and "It's Too Late," have an edge to them -- they stand midway between the rock & roll that was happening in 1956 and the more lush and dramatic sound that Orbison would perfect at Monument Records from 1959 onward. All of the material is fascinating as a sort of alternate-universe version of where Orbison might've headed musically, and most of it is downright bracing and exciting, though it's easy to see why it never succeeded at the time -- numbers like "You're Gonna Cry" and "Problem Child" were a little too intense and ambitious as rock & roll, with too many changes and involved lyrics, to hold that audience en masse. It was some of the best and most intense rock & roll you could buy in 1961 this side of Elvis Presley, however, and heard today the album is a fascinating curio from what's usually thought of as a fallow period in rock & roll history. ---Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

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Roy Orbison - Crying (1962/2011) http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/19970-roy-orbison-crying-19622011.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/19970-roy-orbison-crying-19622011.html Roy Orbison - Crying (1962/2011)

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1 	Crying 	2:46
2 	The Great Pretender	3:01
3 	Love Hurts	2:26
4 	She Wears My Ring	2:29
5 	Wedding Day 	2:06
6 	Summer Song 	2:44
7 	Dance 	2:52
8 	Lana 	2:17
9 	Loneliness 	2:27
10 	Let's Make A Memory 	2:17
11 	Nite Life 	2:30
12 	Running Scared 	2:12
13 	Candy Man	2:44
14 	Let The Good Times Roll	2:34
15 	Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)	2:33
16 	The Actress 	2:37

Bass – Bob Moore
Cello – Byron Bach
Drums – Buddy Harman, John Greubel
Guitar – Boudleaux Bryant, Fred Carter Jr., Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Harold Bradley,
 Joe Tanner, Ray Edenton, Scotty Moore
Harmonica – Charlie McCoy
Piano – Bill Pursell, Floyd Cramer
Saxophone – Boots Randolph, Harry Johnson
Sleeve Notes – Boudleaux Bryant
Trumpet – Cam Mullins, Carl Garvin
Viola – Howard Carpenter
Violin – Brenton Banks, Cecil Brower, Dorothy Walker, George Binkley III, Lillian Hunt,
 Solie Fott, Suzanne Parker, Vernal Richardson, Wilda Tinsley

 

Best known for his trademark sunglasses, distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads, Roy Orbison is one of the few American artists to score significant British success during the "beat boom" of 1963-5. He was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

Crying is the second album released by Roy Orbison in 1962. It was also 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 Magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

The album features nearly all original material by Orbison and some of the writers who frequently tailored songs for him, such as Felice Bryant and Joe Melson. The trademark early Orbison production flourishes, with swooping strings and full vocal choruses, are also present. --- musiconvinyl.com

 

Roy Orbison's second album was above-average considering the slight standards of the time, but was a fairly slight effort nonetheless. In its favor, the album features nearly all original material by Orbison and some of the writers who frequently tailored songs for him, such as Boudleaux and Felice Bryant and Joe Melson. The trademark early Orbison production flourishes, with swooping strings and full vocal choruses, are also present. What's missing is truly first-rate songwriting. With the exception of "Love Hurts," the title track, and the epic hit "Running Scared," most of the cuts lean toward the Big O's more sentimental side, and are pleasantly forgettable. Of the obscure cuts here, the best are the uptempo "Nite Life" and "Let's Make A Memory," with its bouncing string arrangement, but neither could be classified among his best early work. --- Richie Unterberger, Rovi

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Roy Orbison - In Dreams (1963) http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/4590-roy-orbison-in-dreams-1963.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/4590-roy-orbison-in-dreams-1963.html Roy Orbison - In Dreams (1963)

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01. In Dreams (Roy Orbison) - 2:48
02. Lonely Wine (Roy Wells) - 2:53
03. Shahdaroba (Cindy Walker) - 2:38
04. No One Will Ever Know (Mel Foree, Fred Rose) - 2:26
05. Sunset (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) - 2:28
06. House Without Windows (Fred Tobias, Lee Pockriss) - 2:19
07. Dream (Johnny Mercer) - 2:11
08. Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) - 2:28
09. (They Call You) Gigolette (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) - 2:35
10. All I Have To Do Is Dream (Boudleaux Bryant) - 2:23
11. Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster) - 2:18
12. My Prayer (Jimmy Kennedy, Georges Boulanger) - 2:43
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13. Falling (single A-side, 1963) (Roy Orbison) - 2:21
14. Distant Drums (single B-side, 1963) (Cindy Walker) - 3:09
15. Mean Woman Blues (single, 1963) (C.Demetrius) - 2:23
16. Pretty Paper (single, 1963) (W.Nelson) - 2:43

Roy Orbison - guitar, vocals
- Harold Bradley, Fred Carter Jr., Ray Edenton, Hank Garland, Jerry Kennedy, Scotty Moore, Wayne Moss, Joe Tanner - guitar
- Boots Randolph - saxophone
- Charlie McCoy - harmonica
- Floyd Cramer, Bill Pursell - piano
- Bob Moore - bass
- John Greubel, Buddy Harman - drums
- Brenton Banks, George Binkley III, Cecil Brower, Solie Fott, Lillian Hunt, Suzanne Parker, Vernal Richardson, Michael Semanitsky, Roby Ann Story, Wilda Tinsley, Dorothy Walker - violin
- Howard Carpenter – viola

 

How does one recover enough to hear an album in its entirety when the first cut is "In Dreams"? Whoa! Roy Orbison's 1963 album of the same name, recorded for the Monument label, is devastating for a number of reasons, namely that his "Blue Bayou" and his readings of Johnny Mercer's "Dreams" and Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" are here, as is his gorgeous reading of Cindy Walker's "Shahdaroba." Half of these cuts were recorded during the sessions for Sings Lonely and Blue, the other half in Nash Vegas in 1963 with Fred Foster producing both. The big difference on this set is the less intrusive presence of the Anita Kerr Singers. There are even more strings here, but they are relegated to a lesser place as well. Orbison's voice was never better than on this recording. The heights he reaches on the title cut, "Lonely Wine," the swaggering country and R&B of "Blue Avenue," and "My Prayer" are simply mind-blowing. The emotion and deep atmospherics of the tunes here reflect Foster's sophistication, but also Orbison's willingness to develop himself as a singer and as a persona. Orbison wrote or co-wrote four tracks this time out, but the song choices are impeccable. In addition to the original album being wonderfully remastered, the Legacy reissue contains four bonus cuts. These include a woolly read of "Mean Woman Blues," simpatico versions of Cindy Walker's "Distant Drum" and Willie Nelson's "Pretty Paper," and his own beautiful "Falling." ---Thom Jurek, AllMusic Review

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Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [2014] http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/17387-roy-orbison-mystery-girl-25th-anniversary-deluxe-edition-2014.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/17387-roy-orbison-mystery-girl-25th-anniversary-deluxe-edition-2014.html Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [2014]

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01 You Got It
02 In the Real World
03 (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
04 A Love So Beautiful
05 California Blue
06 She's a Mystery to Me
07 The Comedians
08 The Only One
09 Windsurfer
10 Careless Heart
11 The Way Is Love
12 She's a Mystery to Me
13 (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
14 The Only One
15 The Comedians
16 In the Real World
17 California Blue
18 Windsurfer
19 You Are My Love

Roy Orbison – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar on 1 2 4 5 8 10, electric guitar on 6
Jeff Lynne – electric guitar on 1 5, acoustic guitar on 4, keyboards on 1 4 5, piano on 1, bass on 1 4 5, backing vocals on 1 4 5 9
Tom Petty – acoustic guitar on 1 5, backing vocals on 1 2 5
Mike Campbell – electric guitar on 2 10, acoustic guitar on 5 9 10, bass on 2 10, mandolin on 5
Jim Keltner – drums on 2 6 7 8 9 10
Howie Epstein – bass on 6 8 9, backing vocals on 2 8 9 10
Benmont Tench – piano on 6 8 9 10, organ on 8, cheap strings on 6
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Phil Jones – drums on 1, percussion on 1
Michael Utley – strings arrangements on 1 2 7 9
Barbara Orbison – backing vocals on 2
Roy Orbison, Jr. – backing vocals on 2
Al Kooper – organ on 2
Rick Vito – electric guitar on 3, backing vocals on 3, slide guitar on 9
Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – bass on 3
Buell Neidlinger – arco bass on 3 7
Billy Burnette – acoustic guitar on 3, backing vocals on 3
Mickey Curry – drums on 3
George Harrison – acoustic guitar on 4
Ray Cooper – drums on 4
Louis Clark – strings arrangements on 4 5
Ian Wallace – drums on 5, percussion on 5
Bono – electric guitar on 6
David Rhodes – electric guitar on 7
T-Bone Burnett – electric guitar on 7
Mitchell Froom – piano on 7
Jerry Scheff – string bass on 7
David Miner – string bass on 7
Gary Coleman – percussion on 7
Steve Cropper – electric guitar on 8
The Memphis Horns – arranged by Steve Cropper on 8; horns by Jim Horn
Dennis Crouch - upright bass on 11 (2014 Deluxe Edition)
Tony Harrell - piano, keyboards on 11 (2014 Deluxe Edition)
Roy Orbison, Jr. - guitar, backing vocals on 11 (2014 Deluxe Edition)
Wesley Orbison - guitar, backing vocals on 11 (2014 Deluxe Edition)
Alex Orbison - drums, backing vocals on 11 (2014 Deluxe Edition)
John Carter Cash - acoustic guitar on 11 (2014 Deluxe Edition)
Sarah Wilfong - string arrangement on 11 (2014 Deluxe Edition)

 

The discography of Roy Orbison (1936-1988) - which yielded some of the most heartfelt, passionate classics of the rock 'n' roll era - shined even brighter with the release of Mystery Girl, the last album Orbison recorded, in 1989. Now, a brand-new version of this star-studded classic further amplifies the beauty of Roy's final work.

The commercial success of Mystery Girl was nothing short of impressive: the album was a Top 5 hit, eventually earning Orbison his first platinum award for over 1 million sales, and featured the worldwide Top 10 smash You Got It. MYSTERY GIRL DELUXE 25th anniversary edition is packed with stunning extras. The original album is appended by nine unreleased bonus audio tracks, including studio demos and the previously unheard song The Way Is Love, based on a long-lost demo featuring new instrumentation from Orbison's children, Wesley, Roy Jr. and Alex, and John Carter Cash, son of Orbison's longtime friend Johnny Cash. The accompanying DVD features a new hour-long documentary on the making of the album, Mystery Girl: Unraveled, executive produced by Roy's sons. The documentary features new interviews with those behind the album including Steve Cropper, Tom Petty, Mick Campbell and Jeff Lynne. In addition to the documentary, the DVD includes eight wonderful music videos, including an unreleased alternate video for "She's a Mystery to Me" and three new videos for "The Way Is Love", "You Got It" and "California Blue." ---Editorial Reviews, amazon.com

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Roy Orbison - Sings Don Gibson (2015) http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/18894-roy-orbison-sings-don-gibson-2015.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/18894-roy-orbison-sings-don-gibson-2015.html Roy Orbison - Sings Don Gibson (Remastered) (2015)

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1. – (I'd Be) A Legend In My Time 02:18
2. – (Yes) I’m Hurting 02:14
3. – The Same Street 02:18
4. – Far, Far Away 02:09
5. – Big Hearted Me 01:52
6. – Sweet Dreams 03:06
7. – Oh, Such A Stranger 03:19
8. – Blue, Blue Day 02:10
9. – What About Me 02:07
10. – Give Myself A Party 02:30
11. – Too Soon To Know 02:47
12. – Lonesome Number One 02:24

 

2015 marks a historic 50-year milestone for music legend Roy Orbison. On July 1, 1965, The Big O left Monument Records and signed with MGM Records, going on to release 11 studio albums, a film soundtrack and 27 singles over the course of the following eight years, and at the same time scoring another 11 worldwide Top 40 hits. In recognition of this golden anniversary of Orbison's signing of one of the most lucrative and groundbreaking record deals of the era, Universal is releasing the all encompassing MGM Years box set and reissuing his output for the label in remastered stand alone 180g vinyl versions.

Roy's signing with MGM Records gave him a newfound musical freedom that can be heard throughout his tenure with the label. Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson was originally released in January of 1967. In this, Roy's fourth album for MGM, he pays tribute to one of his favorite songwriters, Don Gibson. Released mere months after the tragic death of his beautiful young wife Claudette, Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson let fans know that he could always take solace in his music. The single "Too Soon to Know" reached No. 3 on the UK charts. This re-issue is fully remixed and remastered to return the audio to its original glory. Package also includes fully restored original artwork. --- musicdirect.com

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Roy Orbison - The Very Best Of (1997) http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/425-orbisonverybest.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/425-orbisonverybest.html Roy Orbison - The Very Best Of (1997)


A1 	Only The Lonely (Knows The Way I Feel) 	2:26
A2 	Leah 	2:37
A3 	In Dreams 	2:37
A4 	Uptown 	2:08
A5 	It's Over 	2:47
A6 	Crying 	2:43
A7 	Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) 	2:36
A8 	Blue Angel 	2:44
A9 	Working For The Man 	2:25
A10 	Candy Man 	2:42
B1 	Running Scared 	2:10
B2 	Falling 	2:22
B3 	Love Hurts 	2:26
B4 	Shahadararoba 	2:36
B5 	I'm Hurtin' 	2:43
B6 	Mean Woman Blues 	2:23
B7 	Pretty Paper 	2:52
B8 	The Crowd 	2:20
B9 	Blue Bayou 	2:29
B10 	Oh Pretty Woman 	2:55

 

The listener is immediately convinced, from the opening a cappella bits of "Only the Lonely," that no one conveys pain and longing more sublimely or succinctly than Roy Orbison. But his songs are also masterpieces of production: so technically precise that his deceptively simple tunes and lush melodies flow even more smoothly behind his desperate baritone croon and quivering falsetto. This collection captures that astounding fidelity and corrals many of the Orb's most memorable works. The DCC series has been discontinued, as even the most ardent audiophile couldn't distinguish between the sound of its 24-karat gold CD and the standard run-of-the-mill store copy. The hefty price tag naturally contributed to its extinction as well. So hold out for the more economic, standard version. But don't attempt to live without an Orbison collection in your possession; such a life would be as bittersweet and tragic as "Crying" or "In Dreams," but lacking the rewards of listening to one of rock's truly heroic geniuses. ---Doug Stone, AllMusic Review

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Roy Orbison ‎– Sings Lonely And Blue (1961/2006) http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/24542-roy-orbison--sings-lonely-and-blue-19612006.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/24542-roy-orbison--sings-lonely-and-blue-19612006.html Roy Orbison ‎– Sings Lonely And Blue (1961/2006)

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1 	Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) 	2:24
2 	Bye-Bye Love 	2:12
3 	Cry 	2:42
4 	Blue Avenue 	1:19
5 	I Can't Stop Loving You 	2:41
6 	Come Back To Me (My Love) 	2:27
7 	Blue Angel 	2:50
8 	Raindrops 	2:05
9 	(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time 	3:06
10 	I'm Hurtin' 	2:43
11 	Twenty-Two Days 	2:53
12 	I'll Say It's My Fault 	2:23
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13 	Uptown 	2:07
14 	Pretty One 	2:18
15 	Here Comes That Song Again 	2:44
16 	Today's Teardrops 	2:12

Roy Orbison - Guitar, Vocals, Primary Artist

 

Time and familiarity -- through multiple reissues -- may have muted the seeming significance of some of what's here, but in 1960 Sings Lonely and Blue was not only a breakthrough for Roy Orbison as his debut LP, but also for rock & roll. Up to that point, apart from Elvis Presley -- who was in a class by himself -- few white rock & rollers had even tried to make as bold a use of the LP as what we hear on this record. Orbison, his collaborator Joe Melson, and producer Fred Foster turned the singer's debut long-player into a huge canvas for a sound that combined rock & roll's beat, Nashville's countrypolitan sound, and the singer's unique multi-octave range and operatic intensity into something unique in music. The single "Only the Lonely" may have been the most accessible and commercial side of this new sound, but the whole album was packed with great moments and different permutations of that sound: the powerful lead vocal and the Boots Randolph sax break on "I'll Say It's My Fault"; the haunting Orbison-Melson "Come Back to Me (My Love)," which was like a mini-movie script, a vest-pocket romantic melodrama sung with operatic depth and played to a light rock & roll beat; Don Gibson's "I'd Be a Legend in My Time," and "I Can't Stop Loving You," both filled with larger-than-life musical attributes and emotions behind Orbison's extraordinary singing, Orbison treating the former almost like a Verdi aria while a sax solo, the Anita Kerr Singers, and a dense string section hold it in the realm of pop music; and "Bye Bye Love" given the new Orbison treatment and sounding like a country-pop symphony. The material was uniformly strong and consistent, probably due, in part, to the fact that Fred Foster was able to draw from nearly a year's worth of recording activity to assemble the contents of the album, and he also took advantage of the album's stereo release to devise a crisp, discreet, two-channel mix that brought out all of the details of this sound in notably sharp relief, creating one of the earliest stereo rock & roll albums that was actually superior to its mono equivalent. Indeed, Sings Lonely and Blue was among the first rock & roll LPs to attract the interest of serious audiophile enthusiasts. ---Bruce Eder, AllMusic Review

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Roy Orbison – Black And White Night (1989) http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/424-orbisonblack.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/424-orbisonblack.html Roy Orbison – Black And White Night (1989)


1 	Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) 	2:59
2 	Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) 	3:57
3 	Blue Bayou 	3:16
4 	The Comedians 	3:30
5 	Ooby Dooby 	4:08
6 	Leah 	3:07
7 	Running Scared 	2:30
8 	Uptown 	3:22
9 	In Dreams 	3:16
10 	Crying 	3:14
11 	Candy Man 	3:32
12 	Go Go Go (Down The Line) 	5:28
13 	Mean Woman Blues 	3:00
14 	(All I Can Do Is) Dream You 	3:36
15 	Claudette [Bonus Track] 	3:01
16 	It's Over 	3:09
17 	Oh Pretty Woman 	6:35

Backing Vocals – Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Jennifer Warnes, Steven Soles, k.d. lang
Bass – Jerry Scheff
Conductor [Concert Master] – Sid Page
Drums – Ron Tutt
Guitar – James Burton
Guitar, Backing Vocals – John David Souther
Guitar, Organ – Tom Waits
Guitar, Organ, Harmonica, Vocals – Elvis Costello
Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen
Keyboards – Mike Utley
Percussion – Alex Acuna
Piano – Glen D. Hardin
Producer, Guitar – T-Bone Burnett
Viola – Jimbo Ross, Peter Hatch
Violin – Ezra Kliger, Pavel Farkas
Vocals, Guitar – Roy Orbison

The best-recorded Roy Orbison live disc ever issued, taken from the soundtrack of the HBO concert from the 1980s with VIP guests like Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello. This was a sort of magical video, and the performances are splendid, along with the good feelings involved. On the other hand, the performances are extremely reverential to the established studio versions of the songs (all of the hits are here), and intended to mimic them, so this isn't quite the same as a live album as it would have been done back when. The pity is that neither Monument nor MGM ever taped any complete concerts by Orbison from the 1960s, and all that remains are TV appearances from Europe. ---Bruce Eder, AllMusic Review

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Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl (1989) http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/7059-roy-orbison-mystery-girl-2007.html http://www.theblues-thatjazz.com/en/pop-miscellaneous/230-royorbison/7059-roy-orbison-mystery-girl-2007.html Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl (1989)

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01. You Got It
02. In the Real World
03. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
04. A Love So Beautiful        play
05. California Blue
06. She’s a Mystery to Me
07. The Comedians              play
08. The Only One
09. Windsurfer
10. Careless Heart

 

Roy Orbison's comeback started in 1986, when David Lynch used "In Dreams" for a pivotal sequence in his masterwork Blue Velvet. So mesmerizing was Dean Stockwell's pantomime of the 1963 hit that Orbison soon became in demand. He re-recorded his hits for a collection naturally called In Dreams, he gave a star-studded concert called Black & White Night, and then he began work with ELO leader Jeff Lynne on a comeback album. The duo tabled the album to join the supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, a collaboration with Tom Petty, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan that turned into a surprise smash in 1988. Once that record began its run up the charts, Lynne and Orbison completed the album that became Mystery Girl, but the record didn't come out until February 1989, a few months after Roy's tragic death. His passing colored the reception of the record, helping turn it into a genuine hit -- it peaked at five on Billboard's 200 and two in the U.K. and went platinum in both countries -- and while his death may have helped boost sales, it's likely Mystery Girl would've been a success anyway. Orbison, unlike any of his '60s peers, was an actual hot property at the end of the '80s, and he surrounded himself with collaborators who cared enough to showcase him at his best. Lynne is the best known of these and his contributions are strong, although perhaps a bit too redolent of the Baroque pop that became his trademark at the turn of the '80s: they're big, bright, and bold, slathered in harmonies and guitars, their over-production obscuring the songs' simple charms. "You Got It," the hit from the record, perfectly captures this characteristic, but so do the other Lynne contributions "A Love So Beautiful" and "California Blue," the latter in particular a very nice evocation of Roy's early-'60s balladry. "In the Real World," a song co-written by Will Jennings and co-produced by Heartbreaker Mike Campbell along with Orbison and his wife Barbara, is in the same vein, acting as an explicit sequel to "In Dreams," while "Windsurfer" touches upon a California pop Roy rarely attempted, and "The Only One," co-written by his son Wesley, evokes a nice southern soul groove. The two showy collaborations with U2 ("She's a Mystery to Me") and Elvis Costello ("The Comedians") garnered headlines at the time but are a shade florid -- Costello's melodrama edges out Bono & the Edge, because it respects pacing -- but T-Bone Burnett's "(All I Can Do Is) Dream You" is the real surprise, a nifty resuscitation of Roy's early rockabilly sides for Sun. The fact that all involved found a way to get a bit of swing into this attractive, overwrought pop illustrates just how handsome the whole endeavor is: it's designed as a graceful coda to a legendary career and, amazingly enough, it succeeds. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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Disc 1
1-1 	Oh, Pretty Woman 	2:57
1-2 	Only The Lonely 	2:25
1-3 	Dream Baby 	2:33
1-4 	Ooby Dooby 	2:11
1-5 	Blue Angel 	2:51
1-6 	Love Hurts 	2:26
1-7 	Crying 	2:46
1-8 	Running Scared 	2:12 play
1-9 	Lana 	2:17
1-10 	Uptown 	2:07
1-11 	Go! Go! Go! 	2:07
1-12 	Rock House 	2:04
1-13 	Candy Man 	2:44
1-14 	The Crowd 	2:40
1-15 	Working For The Man 	2:25
1-16 	Leah 	2:40
1-17 	Mean Woman Blues 	2:24  play
1-18 	Falling 	2:21
1-19 	Pretty Paper 	2:44
1-20 	Blue Bayou 	2:29  play
1-21 	It's Over 	2:47

Disc 2
2-1 	You Got It 	3:30
2-2 	I Drove All Night 	3:46
2-3 	In Dreams (1987 Version) 	2:50
2-4 	Claudette (1985 Version) 	2:34
2-5 	Too Soon To Know 	2:46
2-6 	A Love So Beautiful 	3:31
2-7 	Unchained Melody 	3:36
2-8 	Ride Away 	3:27
2-9 	Crawling Back 	3:12
2-10 	Best Friend 	2:37 play
2-11 	Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart 	2:37
2-12 	Heartache 	3:12
2-13 	That Lovin' You Feelin' Again    Featuring [Duet With] – Emmylou Harris	3:59
2-14 	She's A Mystery To Me 	4:15
2-15 	California Blue 	3:56
2-16 	The Only One 	3:53
2-17 	Walk On 	2:52
2-18 	The Comedians (Live) 	3:37
2-19 	Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time 	3:32
2-20 	Life Fades Away 	3:41
2-21 	Crying    Featuring [Duet With] – K.D. Lang	3:47

 

Roy Orbison was the voice of sorrow. But sorrow never sounded quite so sweet. For nearly 30 years, Orbison was the quintessential spokesman for the broken-hearted, with his trademark sunglasses hiding his eyes so all you would focus on was the voice. The Essential Roy Orbison, arriving in stores tomorrow, is the first "best of" collection to span the entirety of Orbison's career, and it's a soulful winner. It's divided into two discs containing 40 songs, one disc focusing on the early years of the '50s and '60s, one mostly focusing on his brief, brilliant comeback in the 1980s before his sudden early death.

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