JuanCarlosVejar Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 not much more can be said =) JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpiAlan Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Roy plays in heaven now, where people cry for joy. God bless him forever. I plan on playing with him one day up there! Well...unless I end up in the furnace room! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarrr Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Roy was Bruce Springsteen's hero from way back. Bruce said that Roy wrote the most grabbing opening lines in his songs, ie, 'your baby doesn't love you any more'. He said that's what inspired his - 'got a wife and kid in Baltimore jack, went out for a drive and never came back'..... Roy is a legend and the best thing ever from Texas. Thanks for the post JCV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 The only voice Elvis was afraid of..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 How many guys playing today would have the guts to do that song live (in front of what looks like a high school audience in a gym), with all those high notes? The guy could flat-out write songs and sing! There's probably nobody my age who didn't relish cruising on Friday night with the windows open (or the top down, if you were lucky), singing along to Roy doing "Oh, Pretty Woman" on the radio. I was pretty lucky in high school (1961-'65) in that several of my best friends (or rather, their fathers) had great cruisin' cars: one a pale blue and white 1960 T-bird, and the other a turquoise and white 1960 'Vette. Then another friend's dad got a red '64 GTO, and we thought we had died and gone to heaven. Wonder if his dad ever figured out why he went through a set of tires every 5K miles? Great, great music to be found in the early and mid 60's (among a lot of junk, to be sure: Hermans' Hermits, anyone?. Things changed faster than ever in that decade. Started with songs like "Crying", and ended with "Abbey Road". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 I love that flippin' song. There is only one person with a serious enough set of pipes and soul to do a cover of that song and have it hit home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarrr Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 kd kicked the top out of that one.... I've always noticed the later versions recorded by many with the beefed up drums. The orig tom was great in its time, but the crescendo of that song was made for some serious slappin. love mr roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merseybeat1963 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Americas greatest singer's favorite singer. By any slim chance anyone has not heard the song "Blue Angel".. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Incredible vocal range. I read something about Roy being one a 3-4 known singers who could sing in several different octaves effortlessly. REally a decent guy too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpiAlan Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Yes I have always admired him. A very decent and honest guy it seems. And he had such good taste in guitars too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanCarlosVejar Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 Gibson did a tribute electric model and Epiphone did a tribute acoustic model for Roy JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 And then there was this, with Roy and Emmylou---it got quite a bit of radio play as I recall, but a recording was, at the time, nowhere to be found. Then in the late-80s, I taught freshman composition courses in Austin, and one day, for whatever reason, reference was made to this recording and my on-going quest to find/obtain a copy. Turned out that a very quiet student of mine was friends with somebody who knew somebody, and, after exams that semester, he shyly but with great pleasure handed me a not-for-sale 45 of the song, which I hope I still have somewhere. (Remember when, before the digital age, life was full of such quests? Ah, but I ain't complainin'...there's a lot to be said for having all this music at one's fingertips. But just how is this from more than 30 years ago??? ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUG1odiRXo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 And then there was this, with Roy and Emmylou---it got quite a bit of radio play as I recall, but a recording was, at the time, nowhere to be found. Then in the late-80s, I taught freshman composition courses in Austin, and one day, for whatever reason, reference was made to this recording and my on-going quest to find/obtain a copy. Turned out that a very quiet student of mine was friends with somebody who knew somebody, and, after exams that semester, he shyly but with great pleasure handed me a not-for-sale 45 of the song, which I hope I still have somewhere. (Remember when, before the digital age, life was full of such quests? Ah, but I ain't complainin'...there's a lot to be said for having all this music at one's fingertips. But just how is this from more than 30 years ago??? ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUG1odiRXo Although I've always felt this recording was over-produced (like much of the popular music of that period), it is a sweet, wonderful song with the surprising complexity that is almost always a part of Orbision's compositions. The lyrics are simple, but the structural form of the song itself is not. Orbison's incredible vocal range made it practical for him to sing duets with voices as diverse as KD Lang and Emmylou. I've always felt that KD was almost like his twin, the way their voices worked together. It is sometimes difficult to tell which one of them is singing, since they sometimes sing in exactly the same register. Almost a male/female version of the Everly Brothers. With Emmylou, it is the more classical male/female singing roles (as it always is with her voice), but they still complemented each other perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincentw Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 R O Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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