He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956, but enjoyed his greatest success with Monument Records. He performed while standing motionless and wearing black clothes to match his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses, which he wore to counter his shyness and stage fright.īorn in Texas, Orbison began singing in a rockabilly and country-and-western band as a teenager. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning him the nicknames "the Caruso of Rock" and "the Big O." Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers chose to project defiant masculinity. Roy Orbison hits compilation ‘In Dreams’ to be reissued Sept.Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. So, there you go, and I’ve never seen that happen to anybody else, ever.” Elvis Presley, Otis Redding and Roy Orbison. It’s like everyone stops what they are doing. Not just a few, not some people still talking in the corner. “And what I mean by ‘light bulbs’ is they’re the brightest one in the room, and when they walk in the door every head turns,” he said.
& the MG’s and in the studio with hundreds of rock, R&B and soul musicians over more than half a century, said, “I’ve only met basically three, maybe 3 1/2, of what I call ‘light bulbs’ in my life. Guitarist Cropper, who played with Booker T. And that’s a scary thing in a man, do you know what I mean? A man that’s so sure in himself that he can be polite.” Elvis, you know, and Roy, Roy was a true gentleman. “The real rebels to me always had manners.
“He was a real innovator, truly a great singer,” Bono said, also in a statement. Last fall his 1989 hits compilation “In Dreams: The Greatest Hits,” for which he re-recorded his 1950s and 1960s hits using modern technology to improve the sound, was reissued by Sony Legacy. The album also will be released in an audio-only 15-track expanded edition. lang and the TCB Band that had backed Elvis Presley in his final years. In fact, Harrison, Petty, Lynne, U2 singer Bono, Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench and Howie Epstein, producer T Bone Burnett, Al Kooper and guitarist Steve Cropper were on board during the recording of “Mystery Girl,” which featured new songs by Orbison himself, Costello, Bono, Diane Warren, Wesley Orbison and others.īeyond the attention focused on Orbison’s soaring tenor voice by the Wilburys porject, he also had gotten his music and his face in front of audiences once again in the 1980s thanks to the prominent use of “In Dreams” in David Lynch’s 1986 film, “Blue Velvet,” and because of a 1988 Cinemax cable special “Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night.”įor that event, filmed in Los Angeles, Orbison sang many of his signature hits accompanied by an all-star band that included Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, J.D.
The album eventually sold more than 1 million copies. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 1989, shortly after the singer’s death on Dec. His brother, Roy Jr., added that “More or less the reason Alex and Wesley and I are musicians was to play in Dad’s band when we got older” and Wesley summed it up nicely, “I think we really got something special.”Ĭoming at the pinnacle of a latter-day career resurgence fueled by his role in the rock supergroup Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, “Mystery Girl” reached No.
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