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| The Essential Roy Orbison | 
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| Artist: Roy Orbison
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1978
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 828768126929
EAN: 0828768126929
ASIN: B000F2BXNG
Release Date: June 4, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Oh Pretty Woman | | • | Only The Lonely | | • | Dream Baby | | • | Ooby Dooby | | • | Blue Angel | | • | Love Hurts | | • | Crying | | • | Running Scared | | • | Lana | | • | Uptown | | • | Go Go Go | | • | Rock House | | • | Candy Man | | • | Crowd | | • | Working For The Man | | • | Leah | | • | Mean Woman Blues | | • | Falling | | • | Pretty Paper | | • | Blue Bayou | | • | It's Over |
Disc 2
| • | You Got It | | • | I Drove All Night | | • | In Dreams | | • | Claudette | | • | Too Soon To Know | | • | Love So Beautiful | | • | Unchained Melody | | • | Ride Away | | • | Crawling Back | | • | Best Friend | | • | Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart | | • | Heartache | | • | That Lovin' You Feelin' Again - Orbison, Roy & Emmylou Harris | | • | She's A Mystery To Me | | • | California Blue | | • | Only One | | • | Walk On | | • | Comedians | | • | Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time | | • | Life Fades Away | | • | Crying - Orbison, Roy & K.D. Lang |
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Spans the Big O's career but note a few rerecordings April 30, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The only compilation among a gazillion to span Orbison's Sun, Monument, MGM, and Virgin successes is a welcome add to the Essential series that now, post-merger, features RCA & Arista artists as well as Sony's. Roy Orbison is one of my absolute favorites. He simply may be the best rock 'n' roll singer ever.
Amazon UK does well to specify the few re-recorded versions; while the originals should be here, the remakes are a legit part of Mr. Orbison's career. Roy's popularity was at a deeply undeserved lull circa 1987, when David Lynch used some Roy songs in his classic/eerie film "Blue Velvet." In the wake of renewed public interest*, Roy released an LP of remakes called "In Dreams" (Virgin, 1987). It was very well done, an exception proving the rule that rerecordings are rubbish. The Wilburys, the live "Black and White Night," and "Mystery Girl" followed and the pop world was much better off for it. Then, tragically, Roy died in December 1988, rendering perhaps Rock History's best comeback bittersweet. "You Got It"'s ensuing Top Ten ranking in early 1989 is one of my all-time favorite chart events.
If I could, I'd dock this a half a star for not including the original of the #1 single "Running Scared." (Note definition of "essential.") It's just over two minutes long. Somehow they could have made room. But since it's Roy Orbison, I rounded back up to five rather than four.
*It seems Bobby Vinton did not enjoy the same resurgence. The reader may draw his/her own conclusions as to why.
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