torrent roy orbison discography biography

Not dramatically so but different enough to register through my tinny transistor radio. As a consequence if it couldn’t be rock’n’roll, I always listened with an ear for anything different.

With the death of Holly in ’59 and a few other events that have been reported many, many times, it was becoming clear by the middle of 1960 that rock and roll wasn’t going anywhere, indeed very little of it was still being heard on the airwaves. What was my background when I first heard this record on Radio Luxembourg in summer, 1960? I’d got into the pop music thing when I heard rock and roll circa ’55, ’56 and started buying records a year or two later. Only The Lonely (1960) was a beautiful pop ballad, using a mannered vocal group refrain to set a strange background for Roy’s soaring voice.” ( Source: Charlie Gillett writing in “The Sound Of The City”) “… it was not until he ( Roy – DS) and Foster ( Fred Foster, head of Monument Records – DS) placed the voice in a setting that seemed to be inspired by black vocal group sounds that the singer achieved his potential. Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) – but with the bracketed portion usually dropped – (Monument single, June 1960) ( all release dates from 45cat) So, without any further verbiage let’s get on to selection numero uno from the Fantastic Fifteen (and I must put on record my gratitude to the editor for his empathy on that number). I’m not intending to document things like who bought him his first guitar: the writer of the more than adequate Wiki entry on Roy covers all bases including things like that – and it was his dad on Roy’s sixth birthday – but for anyone who wants something more self-contained I will include some biographical words in Footnote #1 (and you’re still at liberty to ignore them). But is he worth listening to? That’s what this Topper will try and answer. Gets on the radio quite a bit and your mate’s mum loves him. Roy Orbison, household name, almost as well known as Elvis. ( Documented in various places and for more, see Footnote 1.) Even the Beatles couldn’t get him off the stage. Shades, for stage fright or over-awareness of his looks. There’s a cat in town that you might know

Torrent roy orbison discography biography