Roy Orbison – Crying (1962/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:06 minutes | 568 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Crying is the 3rd album by Roy Orbison, released in 1962. It was his 2nd album on the Monument Record label. The album name comes from the 1961 hit song of the same name. In 2002 the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and In 2004, it ranked #69 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. The album itself was ranked #136 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 1960s.
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Roy Orbison – Sings Lonely & Blue (1961/2016)
DSF(tracks) DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 31:22 minutes | 1.25 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | Digital booklet | © Legacy Recordings
Lonely And Blue is Roy Orbison’s first album, released in 1961. The album was not only a breakthrough for Orbison as his debut LP, but also for rock ‘n’ roll. Up to that point, apart from Elvis Presley — who was in a class by himself — few white rock ‘n’ rollers had even tried to make as bold a use of the LP as what we hear on this record.
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Roy Orbison – In Dreams (1963/2016)
DSF(tracks) DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 30:51 minutes | 1.22 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | Digital booklet | © Legacy Recordings
In Dreams is the third record from Roy Orbison on Mounument Records, recorded at its studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee and released in 1963. The album is named for the 45-RPM single. In 2004, Rolling Stone named the song “In Dreams” one of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Half of the cuts on In Dreams were recorded during the sessions for Lonely And Blue. Orbison’s voice was never better than on this recording. The heights he reaches on “Lonely Wine”, the swaggering country and R&B of “Blue Avenue” and “My Prayer” are simply mind-blowing. This is a must-have from the original two-track master and cut on an all-tube cutting system by Bernie Grundman.
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Roy Orbison – Black And White Night (1989) [2004 Remaster]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 65:14 minutes | Scans included | 3,91 GB
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Black & White Night, the live album, was compiled and released posthumously from the television special. The album was released in February 1989 and included the songs “Blue Bayou” and “Claudette” that were cut from the original broadcast for time. However it did not include the song “Blue Angel” which was cut from the original broadcast for the same reason.
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Roy Orbison – The Original Sound (Sun Records 70th / Remastered 2022) (1969/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:15 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sun Records
Celebrate the man to whom Elvis Presley once said “I love what you do but we’ll never play together because I’ll never follow that.” Originally released in 1969, Sun Records is pleased to share it’s 70th anniversary edition of Roy Orbison’s The Original Sound (Remastered). This gem includes classic Sun masters “Ooby Dooby” and “Mean Little Mama” – alternate versions of original Sam Phillips recordings, reworked by Shelby Singleton, featuring a never-before-released recording of “Problem Child”.
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Roy Orbison – Crying (1952/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:14 minutes | 603 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Nashville Legacy
Crying is the third album by Roy Orbison, released in 1962. It was his second album on the Monument Record label. The album name comes from the 1961 hit song of the same name that would be the first of Orbison’s five Chart-topping singles in Australia. In 2002 the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and In 2004, it ranked #69 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
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Roy Orbison – Original Mono Singles, As & Bs (1959/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:43 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
There have been countless ROY ORBISON compilations over the years, but all too often overdubbed or stereo versions are used, which possess neither the presence nor the bite of his original mono 45rpm versions.
Indeed, the best way to listen to Roy is to hear those original singles in glorious, pristine mono, sounding exactly as they did when you bought them all those decades ago.
This compilation presents his first seventeen singles, released between 1956-62, on Je-Wel, Sun, RCA Victor and Monument, with one omission; the first, non-hit version of ‘Ooby Dooby’ (NB: his Sun re-recording, which is included, was his first hit).
Also included are his early million sellers ‘Only The Lonely’, ‘Blue Angel’, ‘Runnin’ Scared’, ‘Cryin”, and ‘Dream Baby’.
This is an intriguing body of work, and it is interesting to compare his very early 45s with the ten peerless singles herein, which he cut for Monument.
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Roy Orbison and Friends – Black and White Night
Artist: Roy Orbison and Friends | Album: Black and White Night | Style: Classic Rock, Rock’N’Roll | Year: 2004 [1988 original] | Quality: DVD-Audio (MLP 5.1 96kHz/24Bit, MLP 2.0 96Khz/24Bit) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 18 | Size: ~4.82 Gb | Recovery: 5% | Covers: in archive | Release: Orbison Records | Image Entertainment (ID27790BDVD), 2004 | Note: Not Watermarked
The best-recorded Roy Orbison live disc ever issued, taken from the soundtrack of the HBO concert from the 1980s with VIP guests like Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello. This was a sort of magical video, and the performances are splendid, along with the good feelings involved. On the other hand, the performances are extremely reverential to the established studio versions of the songs (all of the hits are here), and intended to mimic them, so this isn’t quite the same as a live album as it would have been done back when. The pity is that neither Monument nor MGM ever taped any complete concerts by Orbison from the 1960s, and all that remains are TV appearances from Europe. (more…)
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Recorded at the Ambassador Hotel’s Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night is a marvelous concert celebrating one of the most popular music singers of the 20th century. Joined on stage by a number of well known musicians – Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, T Bone Burnett, J D Souther, James Burton, Tom Waits, Steven Soles, Jennifer Warnes, K.D. Lang, Jackson Browne, Jerry Scheff, Ron Tutt, Steven Soles, and Glen Hardin – Roy Orbison performed seventeen of his greatest hits, including “Dream Baby”, Blu Bayou”, “Candyman”, “Go, Go, Go (Down The Line)” and “Oh Pretty Woman”.
Clocking in at a little over 60 min, the concert was filmed specifically for Cable TV (it was first broadcast on HBO on January 3rd, 1988). Directed by Tony Mitchell and edited by T Bone Burnett (also contributing as a musical director), this was also an event proving that Orbison was admired by everyone, from casual fans to fellow musicians and singers.
What really impresses in Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, however, are the fantastic improvisations courtesy of Orbison and his guests. Switching between blues, rock, and even country music, these remarkable musicians deliver once in a lifetime show where the atmosphere is simply impossible to describe with simple words (all you need to do is see how Kris Kristofferson and a few of the other spectators in the Coconut Grove react to the music to know exactly what I mean).
The actual concert is also notably well filmed. Tony Mitchell’s camera provides a terrific view of the stage, the supporting musicians and singers as well as the enthusiastic audience constantly applauding Orbison and his guests. Finally, the concert also reveals an unusually stylish look that certainly enhances tremendously the sense of nostalgia Orbison’s singing evokes.
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