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Roy Orbison - Sings Lonely and Blue Audio CD

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Roy Orbison Band: Roy Orbison
Title: Sings Lonely and Blue
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Release Date: 2006-08-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Only the Lonely 2: Bye Bye Love 3: Cry 4: Blue Avenue 5: I Can't Stop Loving You 6: Come Back to Me (My Love) 7: Blue Angel 8: Raindrops 9: (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time 10: I'm Hurtin' 11: Twenty-Two Days 12: I'll Say It's My Fault 13: Uptown [*] 14: Pretty One [*] 15: Here Comes That Song Again [*] 16: Today's Teardrops [*]

50 Years
His classic "Only the Lonely" opens the set with its teasing beat masking the anxiety bursting in the lyric, "There goes my baby; There goes my heart; They're gone forever, so far apart. Closing in on 50 years since this album was released in 1960, Orbison's first Monument album is a great blast from the past. " The covers of "Bye Bye Love" that the Everly Brothers charted with, "Cry" from the Patsy Cline catalog and the classic "I Can't Stop Loving You" read well with Orbison's smooth vocal versions. "Blue Angel" also hit the top ten with its "sha la la" background vocals and Orbison's facile vocals hitting the high register. "I'm Hurtin'" only went to #27 according to the booklet notes and seems to mirror the hit construction of "Only the Lonely," giving a good track a repetitive feel. "Uptown" is an added a bonus track, a Presley-like track that was in the lower part of the hot 100. "Here Comes That Song Again" was the flip side of the "Only the Lonely" single. Its slow stately reading seems dated but still compelling with Orbison's gorgeous vocals. Orbison released Gene Pitney's catchy ditty "Today's Teardrops" as the B-side of "Blue Angel. " "Lonely & Blue" is a welcome re-release of this collectors' item record. Enjoy! .


Big O's Monument debut
On that label, he was considered mainly a singles artist, but for those who want more of his music than just the hits, he recorded a few albums too. Although Roy Orbison made some great rock'n'roll recordings on the Sun label, his career only really became significant after he joined Monument. He mixed some but not all of his hits with other original songs plus cover versions of country and rock'n'roll songs. This particular album marked his Monument debut and the 2006 re-mastered version includes four bonus tracks, all recorded during the sessions in which Roy recorded the tracks that appeared on the original album.

The first single released from the album was Uptown, which became a minor American hit. It is included as a bonus track along with its B-side, Pretty one. The big hits from the album were Only the lonely (a British number one hit that peaked at two in America - Roy apparently wrote the song for Elvis Presley but he is probably thankful that he end up recording it himself) and Blue angel, a top ten American hit that just missed the top ten in Britain. The B-sides to those two singles (Here comes that song again, Today's teardrops) appear among the bonus tracks.

A fourth single, I'm hurting, made the American top thirty but failed to chart (or maybe wasn't released) in Britain. The B-side of that single, I can't stop loving you, was one of two Don Gibson songs that appeared on the original album, the other being Legend in my time. In view of Ray Charles' spectacular success with that song in 1962 with I can't stop loving you, I wonder what would happened to Roy's 1960 version had it been released as an A-side. Roy eventually recorded a lot of Don Gibson's songs, eventually scoring a British top three hit with one of them, Too soon to know, coming after he left Monument.

Gene Pitney wrote Twenty-two days, one of the other songs here, in his song writing days before he had a recording contract of his own. (Oddly, Gene rarely wrote new songs after securing a recording contract , as he was able to record songs by other writers such as Bacharach and David. ) Four excellent original songs (Blue avenue, Come back to me, Raindrops, I'll say it's my fault) and two covers (Bye bye love, Cry) complete this excellent album.

For most people, a collection of Roy's hits will suffice, but for those who want more, there is plenty of great music here.


Finally...
I lost the original and was never able to find a copy in stores. This was the first Roy Orbison Album I ever bought, and the one that I most remember, and which made me a fan. . . till now. Thanks to Barbara Orbison for making it available again!.


Roy One of the Greats
Not one of his best collections of songs, but the True Orbison touch which gives any song he sings that special sound.


ORBISON at his best
Both artists, Orbison and Presley, were at the very peak of their talents; the song selections are inspired, the playing and production as fine as anything either artist would ever release. LONELY and Blue is one of the two perfect pop albums to be released in 1960; the other is Elvis Is BACK. Its entirely possible that the Blue Angel single itself might be Roy's finest moment. As for the remastered reissue, buy it: it sounds wonderful and it includes the B-side Pretty One, a gift from the gods that has haunted my dreams for 40 years. .


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