Roy Orbison's website has launched the game Six Degrees of Roy Orbison, where you can enter any artist's name and find their connection to the "Pretty Woman" singer.Entering "Bob Dylan" provided the obvious response that he "performed with Roy Orbison in the Traveling Wilburys, saying that Roy 'transcended all genres' and that 'he sang like a professional criminal." So next I tried something a ...
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I have noticed for years how many people credit Bob Dylan for the harmonica playing in Handle with Care. I noticed many years ago that it was in fact Roy Orbison who played it.I have uploaded a picture of proof to back up my beliefs. If you watch the video for Handle with Care you will notice a pair of arms wearing black jacket sleeves with red shirt sleeves showing out the end just as the hand...
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Xmas gift problems resolved; this year's essential box set All the bases are covered, as you might expect. Orbison's country and rockabilly beginnings, the formidable 1960s hits and his late '80s star-assisted renaissance share equal billing across the 107 tracks on this box, but a handful of less celebrated and alternate recordings offer just as much of a clue to the man's place in popular mu...
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I have noticed for years how many people credit Bob Dylan for the harmonica playing in Handle with Care. I noticed many years ago that it was in fact Roy Orbison who played it.I have uploaded a picture of proof to back up my beliefs. If you watch the video for Handle with Care you will notice a pair of arms wearing black jacket sleeves with red shirt sleeves showing out the end just as the hand...
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http://royorbison.musiccitynetworks.com/Check out the Roy Orbison website above, and then read the Daily OM Music Review below. Good stuff!March 27, 2007Lonely and BlueRoy Orbison 1960At a time when other young singers would record follow-up albums to their hit singles by simply adding the hits to a collection of new recordings by the singer from the label's library, Roy Orbison was heading in...
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So, today I'm going back to work - a half day to ease my way back in. I can't really complain though, because it's what I love doing (behavior analysis), it's for a good company, and I get to help people who have suffered severe head injuries and their families. Plus, there's the paycheck.This song doesn't apply too well because at this job I'm kind of "the Man" that people will be working fo...
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Roy Orbison's website has launched the game Six Degrees of Roy Orbison, where you can enter any artist's name and find their connection to the "Pretty Woman" singer.Entering "Bob Dylan" provided the obvious response that he "performed with Roy Orbison in the Traveling Wilburys, saying that Roy 'transcended all genres' and that 'he sang like a professional criminal." So next I tried something a ...
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OK, another lengthy read but, for the music historian, well worth the time.Roy Kelton Orbison was born on April 23, 1936 at 3:30 pm, in Vernon, Texas. Nadine, his mother, was a nurse. Orbie Lee, his father, a worker. Roy was their second child. For his sixth birthday, Roy asked for a harmonica, but fortunately his daddy gave him a guitar. Orbie Lee is generally credited with teaching Roy to pla...
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[Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper - 2:39]O dear fellow Mogger and amiable Visitor, if only I could slip this as a note on silken paper in your pocket for you to take along your day.Do you remember the delicate touch of paper under your palm as you scribble a billet? In these digitised times of ours, who still uses paper for writing? Our fingers are accustomed to the plastic touch of keyboards and hav...
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Xmas gift problems resolved; this year's essential box set All the bases are covered, as you might expect. Orbison's country and rockabilly beginnings, the formidable 1960s hits and his late '80s star-assisted renaissance share equal billing across the 107 tracks on this box, but a handful of less celebrated and alternate recordings offer just as much of a clue to the man's place in popular mu...
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I was channel surfing one evening and landed on a PBS special of the Roy Orbison concert, Black and White Night. I wouldn't say I was a huge Orbison fan up to that point, but the PBS special changed that in one sitting.I now have the DVD in my collection, and again, I believe it's a must have. Consider that not only did he perform, but he had the following people as BACKUP and special guests:Ja...
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