The secret to Roy Orbison's amazing, four-octave, nuclear-yodel voice is that it didn't produce "sound" as we humans understand it. It produced "Royvicles" -- discrete packets of sound that can propagate through the pellucid medium scientists call "the Orbisphere".
Which is why Roy Orbison is the only one human in history whose voice is audible in space.
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when you wax physical Driftglass. Another little known fact is that Roynons are also responsible for the phenomenon of super conductivity. Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlhD1rbs7E
Hasa Diga Eebowai
But nonny's post put me here. Free Your Mind
Plus the Slavery thread by David really got me thinking.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
YouTube: Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman (live)
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
Orbison had. Thanks, driftglass.
This is one of the most beautiful song ever sung!
Roy Orbison - Crying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9AwR0awVQ
What a talented group of musicians backing him up. Outstanding!
Yes, backing up Roy was;
Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Costello
Jackson Browne
J.D.Souther
Bonnie Raitt
Jennifer Warnes
k.d.Lang
Tom Waits
T Bone Burnett
I love that song, and what backup musicians indeed!
Here's one that's almost as good, which means it's great...Gene Pitney, I'm Gonna Be Strong.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfvSPLqYFs
Amazing voice....
I love his vibrato rich croon- did he influence- or was he influenced by Elvis?
I think they were more or less rivals, while my sisters were gaga over Elvis, I was listening that Roy’s falsetto and vibrato, not to mention he wrote most of his songs!
Roy Orbison - In Dreams. a black and white night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxoZEFoKlA
Tht makes sense- Elvis seemed to hate all of his rivals, particulalry the Beatles...A very petty man..
And Elvise saw Nixon as a great man, I lost all respect for Elvis..
Roy on the other hands was a pure genius...
Yet Roy felt a closeness with Elvis!
Roy Orbison-Hound Dog Man, Tribute To The King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfO7pTqws-Q&fe...
...or drunk...but that was one of the best things of yours I've read Driftglass.
and that was a joy to read.
Time for zeds now. Good night to all.
Otis Redding? Stevie Wonder?!? ROY ORBISON?!?!
You're talking about some of the finest popular music ever written and performed. Ever.
The two decades from the early 1950's to the 1970's comprise the Golden Age of popular music in ALL categories: Rock, Rhythm & Blues, Jazz...and after that was ended, the vast explosion of creativity virtually came to a halt. (Nobody's going to argue that Disco was somehow relevant, are they..?)
The marvelous Mr. Roy Kelton Orbison was the bridge between the 50's--"Ooby Dooby"--and the 60's with "Oh Pretty Woman," a song which has gone on to iconic status through film soundtracks and subsequent cover versions. (Roy wrote them both!)
RIP, Big O!!
Here's his very last single, backed by the Traveling Wilburys "You Got It."
... and how glad I am that I grew up listening to some of the best music ever written. I really like Orbison's work with the Wilburys.
Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewWyW6lT1HE
Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLipHoBSbJY&fe...
isn't it. Makes me glad for the music but sad that some of them had to die so young. At least we have great videos like this to remember them by. Thanks, lafin!
was recorded at the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel!
Leah -- Roy Orbison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV2Ue7f1u7w&fe...
Roy Orbison - Blue Bayou
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_gAwkglygY&fe...
Roy Orbison - Running Scared
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MH05zjb24&fe...
Sweet Dreams Baby -- Roy Orbison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMq6uiP-buU&fe...
Here's another great voice.
Van Morrison, Rough God Goes Riding.
Gn Folks, Be well.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Ah yes, the other Big O.
http://the-billablog.blogspot.com/
Ah, Roy Orbison. The memories of swaying to the his music and raging teenage hormones, need I say more? LOL
the moment they opened their mouths....roy was one of them
here is another...aimee mann
save me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbFQa4SeY48
truly amazing to watch aimee go from new wave diva to pure songstress...some of us really do grow up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewWyW6lT1HE
....as they said in the movie "The Commitments"; Everything's shite since Roy Orbison died.
Never were words so true :-)
Love - Signed D.C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi-aimIKoMs&fe...
...was how John Lennon and the boys described Roy.
Roy attributed his pipes to having to be able to sing louder than the drums and electric guitars in noisy West Texas honky-tonks - without a PA system.
A talent that won't soon be matched.
Lower the retirement age.
My dad's 9th grade yearbook (Wink, TX, pop. about 900 then) was signed by Roy Orbison, because he was a senior at the time and all over that same yearbook. All Orbison wanted was to play in a Western band and get the girl.
I was fortunate enough to see Orbison perform live about a year before he passed. He opened with "Only The Lonely," and when he approached that point near the end of the song where he sings "but that's a chance....." you could feel the audience collectively hold its breath as he approached that high note.
"YOU'VE gotta take...." he nailed it, as perfect and as true and as beautiful as on the record he'd recorded decades earlier.
The place went frickin' up for grabs!
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