Favorite Roy Orbison song?

[NightTrain]

[HEyHEY]

1. "Working for the man"

I love it cause it reminds me of a friend

[usual_suspect]

2. BullShit

I have NOT already voted in this pole. Pretty Woman!!!!!

[NightTrain]

4. It did that to me, too...

...earlier tonight, when I tried to vote in the final round of the Beach Boys poll. Still don't know if I screwed up or if the DU software did. :shrug:

[donco6]

3. You Got It

Anything you want . . .

[Norbert]

5. Mystery Girl

Who eould have ever thunk Roy would do a song written by Bono, and do it so well?

[HEyHEY]

6. They took off my "Fucking Kazaa" thread

Why, I swear all the time?

[CanuckAmok]

7. Is there any doubt after Dean Stockwell's and Dennis Hopper's....

performance of "in Dreams"?!

[Tikki]

8. "Uptown"....

*

[newyawker99]

9. Roy Orbison....one of the best!

:thumbsup:

[Dirk39]

10. David Lynch got me out of a terrible mess...

I always felt that there was something special about Orbison, something dark, something a bit too harmless, too innocent. A kind of escapism - but without a way back. My friends were just shaking their heads about my passion for Orbison. After Blue Velvet, I was rehabilitated...
I even pushed my friends to visit the town, he was born in, when we were travelling the USA. We were visiting the City Hall back then in 1989, and one woman gave me a T-Shirt as a gift from the Roy-Orbison-Day in Vernon. It's absurd somehow, but Orbison has something very german. We have a lot of traditional sailor-songs and german pop-songs, esp. in the sixties, that resemble his music.
Weren't both of his wives german?

Somehow he's resembling the early Beach Boys. If you're too naive and innocent and affirmative, you reveal more as those, who are a bit "distant", who are a bit reflective. I even love his mistakes. His voice was incredible, but his tremolo was often over the top, and if a song needed to get higher as he could, he would do it anyway. He was one of the first singers, I really admired for what they did, when they were older - it just wasn't one of those stupied comebacks. Mistery Girl is an incredible record. And I was so happy for him after what he was going through during the seventies that so many people loved him again.

Blue greetings from Germany,
Dirk

[BurtWorm]

11. This is a very difficult poll

If you'd asked it five years ago I would have said without a doubt "Oh Pretty Woman" on account of it has one of the greatest riffs in rock and roll and, more to the point, I wasn't well versed in much else by Roy Orbison. But since then, I've become a bona fide Orbison fan and these are all great songs. And I mean really great songs. I guess I'll pick "Blue Bayou" just because only two other people have picked it, but I could just as easily have voted for any of the above. I'm leaning toward "In Dreams" or "Only the Lonely," but..."Crying"--shee-it. All right..."In Dreams." But they're all--did I mention this already?--great songs.

[RetroLounge]

12. Love Hurts.

Didn't even know it was he who wrote it until I found the 45.

Nazareth Cover? Doesn't come close...

[RetroLounge]

13. A little aside...

I found this old guy running a barber shop on the south side of Milwaukee who could do some nice 50's style haircuts, a few years back (he's retired now, I guess, his shop is closed).

He said he played bass for Roy Orbison in Texas before Roy hit it big. He chose not to tour as he was older and already married with a kid. Said he never regretted his choice, and felt sorry for Roy for all the pain he had in his life...