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Shindig Review: One of the Lonely Ones & The MGM Years

March 8, 2016 by admin

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Movie Music 2015: One guy’s favorite soundtracks and scores from ‘The Hateful Eight’ to ‘Dope’

February 8, 2016 by admin

Movie Music 2015: One guy’s favorite soundtracks and scores from ‘The Hateful Eight’ to ‘Dope’

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LA TIMES: One of the Lonely Ones Review

January 27, 2016 by admin

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NYT: Times Music Critics Survey Boxed Sets of 2015

January 9, 2016 by admin

NYT: Times Music Critics Survey Boxed Sets of 2015

JOHN PARELES

In 1965, MGM Records signed Roy Orbison to a $1 million contract with grueling details; $25,000 a year for 20 years, three albums a year. Orbison was hugely productive. He wrote concise, unconventionally structured songs suffused with desperate yearning, and sang them in his long-breathed tenor, which rarely left melancholy behind, even in his soaring crescendos. But his career faltered — partly from record-company misfires, partly because the psychedelic era didn’t welcome an orchestra-loving rockabilly-era holdout in horn rims, no matter how startling his songs were below the surface. That makes “The MGM Years,” particularly the 1960s albums and singles, a trove of underappreciated material, especially suited to tearful moments. Mr. Orbison’s family also discovered, for separate release, an entire 1969 album that MGM had inexplicably rejected: “One of the Lonely Ones,” with Orbison in elegantly downhearted form.

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The Second Disc: Review: Roy Orbison, “The MGM Years 1965-1973”

January 5, 2016 by admin

Review: Roy Orbison, “The MGM Years 1965-1973”

JANUARY 4, 2016 BY JOE MARCHESE

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The Big O is back with a big box set.The MGM Years 1965-1973, recently arrived from Roy’s Boys, LLC and Universal Music Enterprises, chronicles over the course of 13 CDs (or 14 LPs) the least well-known period of the late vocal titan’s career.  Orbison joined MGM Records riding the crest of the “Oh, Pretty Woman” wave; the composition which he wrote with Bill Dees was a U.S. and U.K. chart-topper at the height…

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Filed Under: Official News Tagged With: Joe Marchese, MGM, MGMYears, review, Roy Orbison, The Second Disc

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