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[Dan]

My fav Roy song--what a voice !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxgWvZV0Uc&feature=fvw

Favorite newer Roy song---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_cYblCaIU&feature=related

[Dennis Markham]

Dan, that is a good one.  That entire performance, called Roy Orbison, a Black and White Night is a very good one hour program.  It was recorded at a small club somewhere in California about a year before he died.  There are many big names in his band on that video.  Bruce Springsteen, K.D. Lang, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis costello and many others.  His voice was really good right up until the end.  He was over 50 years old when these songs were recorded.

It's difficult to pick a favorite for me.  Two of them are In Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-WCVWlCDc

and Running Scared

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MH05zjb24

[Dan]

Funny you picked those two. In Dreams I heard was for his wife, who died but I do not know the details, and Running Scared is a freight train of a song that builds to a huge crescendo @ the end! Those two are easilt in my top five for Roy.

[Dennis Markham]

Roy's first wife was killed in a motorcycle accident.  Later his two sons died in a house fire.  There was  tragedy in his life, for sure.  There's a good biography on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbison

[AET]

Don't forget Claudette, which was also about his wife.

[Dan]

Didn't the Everly Brothers sing a song called "Claudette?"

[AET]

Same song.  It was about Roy's wife. The Everly Brothers also wrote and recorded "Love Hurts" which Roy Orbison did later, and it was even more successful by Nazareth.

[Dan]

You amaze me with your knowledge in general Tom. My son, who is your age, wouldn't even know who Orbison was, or Nazareth either.

Nazareth brings back good memories... The rambler had a 40 watt powerbooster (pre-equalizer days) and some 6x9 pioneer triaxial speakers (the best back then--now you would use subwoofers). It cooked.

Jamming nazareth and pat travers... with the eight track player... Good times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdKJWoTLPs

[AET]

Thanks Dan, that means a lot.  I bet that was a trip!  My dad used to have an 8 Track player, and it got stolen while he was hunting.  It was in his 66 Caprice Wagon.  Grandpa put it in there originally, so he could listen to Dean Martin while driving from Milwaukee to Portage.  I have an 8 Track player in my closet, but haven't putzed with it yet.  For a buck I couldn't say no.

[Netdewt]

Nazareth brings back good memories... The rambler had a 40 watt powerbooster (pre-equalizer days) and some 6x9 pioneer triaxial speakers (the best back then--now you would use subwoofers). It cooked.

People that use subwoofers and equalizers just don't know what sounds good. Talk to any hi-fi geek and that's the stuff they still use. I have a 40-watt tube amp, Dual 1228 TT, Klipsch KG4 speakers. Sounds great, sometimes I feel like they're in the room with me.