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♫ Pretty Woman ♫ (Redux)

I know … I last played this one just over two years ago, but tonight I couldn’t find a song anywhere in my heart, so when this one popped onto my radar, and it is one that I do love, I decided to go with it.  Roy Orbison had a number of hits I liked, such as Crying and It’s Over, but this is still my favourite.  Roy Orbison was writing with his songwriting partner Bill Dees at his house when he…

♫ Pretty Woman ♫ (Redux)

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♫ Pretty Woman ♫ (Redux)

I played this one back in 2020, but somehow when it crossed my path tonight, I wanted to hear it again.  Roy Orbison had a number of hits I liked, such as Crying and It’s Over, but this is still my favourite.  My second favourite is Only the Lonely, so be forewarned that you might hear that one here soon. Roy Orbison was writing with his songwriting partner Bill Dees at his house when he told…

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♫ Pretty Woman ♫

Roy Orbison was writing with his songwriting partner Bill Dees at his house when he told Dees to get started writing by playing anything that came to mind. Orbison’s wife Claudette came in and said she was going to go into town to buy something. Orbison asked if she needed any money, and Dees cracked, “Pretty woman never needs any money.” Inspired, Orbison started singing, “Pretty woman walking…

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Roy Orbison does not feel like a part of any scene, to be honest. His idiom is somewhere between that of the crooners, such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Tony Bennett and that of the early rocker like Elvis. Yes, he could be understood as a fusion of these two music principles that should not really mesh. After all, the genre of rock replaced the traditional pop in the charts, didn't it? That is a very simplistic view of things. What actually happened was that they both took the trick from one another in order to enrich their styles. Roy Orbison proved that these two desgins complement each other, i.e. he noticed that the rock schematics could use some grounding, which was provided by these old strains of popular music. Of course, one of the other reasons Orbison's songs are they way they is his voice. It does not really fit within the conventional formulas, it needs to be surrounded by something different.