#royOrbison

2025-06-14

đŸŽ” đŸŽ¶ đŸŽ”

You've made it to the weekend! - you've earned it ... take 5!

(70s california sound edition)

New Kid in Town (1976)
-- The Eagles

Dreams (1977)
-- Fleetwood Mac

Blue Bayou* (1977)
-- Linda Ronstadt

Running on Empty (1977)
-- Jackson Browne

Listen to Her Heart (1978)
-- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

* - cover tune alert

#music #rockAndRoll #rockMusic #theEagles #eaglesBand #fleetwoodMac #lindaRonstadt #royOrbison #jacksonBrowne #tomPetty #tomPettyAndTheHeartbreakers #take5 #takeFive #70sRock #70sMusic #arenaRock #classicRock #popRock #countryRock #californiaSound #easyListening #yachtRock #softRock

"In Dreams" is a song composed and sung by singer #RoyOrbison. An operatic rock ballad of lost love, it was released as a single on #MonumentRecords in February 1963. It became the title track of the album #InDreams, released in July of the same year. The song has a unique #throughcomposed structure in seven movements in which Orbison sings through two #octaves, beyond the range of most rock singers. The song peaked on the #Billboard #Hot100 charts at number 7.
youtube.com/watch?v=-8Jz3VW7rYk

2025-06-12

Ted Tocks Covers

Help Me Rhonda

Originally posted on May 29, 2025

Remembering Brian Wilson!

“Well since she put me down I‘ve been out doin’ in my head
I come in late at night and in the mornin’ I just lay in bed”

#thebeachboys #brianwilson #aljardine #bobbydarin #busterbrown #murrywilson #royorbison #johnnyrivers #JanandDean

tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2

#OnThisDay in 1960, #RoyOrbison releases single "Only the Lonely"; it becomes his 1st major hit - peaking at #2 in the US and topping the UK charts.

2025-05-29

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 41

Help Me Rhonda

On this day 60 years ago, The Beach Boys hit #1 with the timeless hit ‘Help Me Rhonda’.

“Well since she put me down I 've been out doin' in my head
I come in late at night and in the mornin' I just lay in bed”

#TheBeachBoys #BrianWilson #AlJardine #BobbyDarin #BusterBrown #MurryWilson #RoyOrbison, #JohnnyRivers #JanandDean

tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2

2025-05-22

Life fades away
It's always easy to make fun of Glenn Danzig or to accuse him of evil. But as soon as you've written an iconic song for Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, you can say something.

youtube.com/watch?v=b6h1FnuJci

word.undead-network.de/2025/05
#danzig #music #royorbison

"Crying" is a song written by #RoyOrbison and #JoeMelson for Orbison's third studio album of the same name (1962). Released in 1961, it was a number 2 hit in the US for Orbison and was covered in 1978 by #DonMcLean, whose version went to number 1 in the UK in 1980.
youtube.com/watch?v=qLC9o_unLq4

@tuneJabber

It is cool - I knew about Love Hurts because the first time she heard it, my mother told me it had previously been a hit for Roy Orbison. I didn't realize *he* wasn't the original at the time...

Nazareth had a lot of great covers that they did serious rearrangements on. Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight" is radically different from Nazareth's version, and that's one that I didn't find out was a cover for many years.

They also did J.J. Cale's "Cocaine" (made more famous by Clapton) live, with a version that is completely unlike the original - with bongos and an acoustic guitar converted to an acoustic bass! And they covered the Stones' Ruby Tuesday, which I quite like, though it's a little more recognizably like the original.

#RoyOrbison #EverlyBrothers #JoniMitchell #RollingStones #JJCale #EricClapton #Nazareth

2025-05-07

Lonely and Blue is the debut studio album by Roy Orbison, released on Monument Records in January 1961.

Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that the album "packed with great moments and different permutations of that sound: the powerful lead vocal and the Boots Randolph sax break on "I'll Say It's My Fault"; the haunting Orbison-Melson "Come Back to Me (My Love)," a vest-pocket romantic melodrama sung with operatic depth and played to a light rock & roll beat; Don Gibson's "I'd Be a Legend in My Time", and "I Can't Stop Loving You" - Wikipedia

youtube.com/watch?v=6LIgI8o4uv

#royorbison #bootsrandolph #rockandroll #DebutAlbum

LP cover with man in a car.
2025-05-06

How Roy Orbison’s Repertoire Shaped David Lynch’s Films - JSTOR Daily
daily.jstor.org/how-roy-orbiso


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