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“OH, PRETTY WOMAN” by Roy Orbison

September 30, 2015 by admin

“OH, PRETTY WOMAN” by Roy Orbison

From the Diamond Awards.

“OH, PRETTY WOMAN” topped the charts this week in 1964!

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“RIDE AWAY” by Roy Orbison

March 12, 2015 by admin

“RIDE AWAY” by Roy Orbison

From Roy Orbison’s first album released on MGM Records, There Is Only One Roy Orbison, the hit single “RIDE AWAY” went to #1 in Canada and charted in the Top 40 worldwide!

 

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“OH, PRETTY WOMAN” #1 50 Years Ago!

September 26, 2014 by admin

 

Mercy!!!!  50 Years!

On this day in 1964 Roy Orbison’s smash hit “OH, PRETTY WOMAN” started its 3 week run

at #1 on the Billboard chart!

Since its release in August of 1964, the record breaking, award winning, and iconic song has

inspired a film of the same title, a perfume line, and countless genre spanning covers from

artists including Al Green, Van Halen, and Bruce Springsteen to name a few.

Here is “OH, PRETTY WOMAN” the Official Video featuring footage from the 1965 Monument Concert.  Roy Orbison’s co-writer on the song, Bill Dees, can be seen on keys-

 

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American Songwriter: Lyric of the Week “Running Scared”

September 24, 2014 by admin

This Friday we are celebrating 50 years since Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” reached #1, but Roy’s first number 1 single was “RUNNING SCARED.”

American Songwriter Magazine is featuring “Running Scared” as their Lyric of the Week:

“In his autobiography Chronicles, Voume 1, Bob Dylan wrote a vivid passage about hearing Roy Orbison sing “Running Scared” on the radio back in the early 60’s. “He was now singing his compositions in three and four octaves that made you want to drive your car off a cliff,” Dylan remembered. “He sang like a professional criminal. Typically, he’d start out in some low, barely audible range, stay there a while and then astonishingly slip into histrionics. His voice could jar a corpse, always leaving you muttering something to yourself like, ‘Man, I don’t believe it.’ His songs had songs within songs. They shifted from major to minor key without any logic. Orbison was deadly serious— no pollywog or fledgling juvenile. There wasn’t anything else on the radio like him…”

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Innocent Words: Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” Going to #1 50 Years Ago

September 12, 2014 by admin

Innocent Words: Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” Going to #1 50 Years Ago

On the 50th anniversary of Roy Orbison’s rock and roll classic, we take a look at the song’s origin
and legacy…

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Filed Under: Official News Tagged With: #1, 50, 50 years, anniversary, hit, Innocent Words, Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison, song

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