ROY ORBISON BIRTHDAY – Celebrate No. 2 All Time Oldies Artist
Until his famous comeback along with the Traveling Wilburys ini the late 1980s, Roy Obison was relegated to ‘second tier’ oldies artist status,with even the supposedly top music journals like Rolling Stone writing him off as a dark-suited flash-in-the-pan. Only after new-generation admires like Elvis Costello, kd lang, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, etc. showed their appreciate in the famous 1987 ‘Black and White Night’ video tribute did Roy get the respect he deserved. People began discovering or rediscovering a wealth of underplayed and undervalued music he had recorded all the way through the late 60s and 70s, long after his initial heyday of the early 60s.
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Though Orbison never got to witness the full effect of his comeback, as he passed before his ‘Mystery Girl’ hit No. 5 LP, he did see it ocming with the Wilburys. Since then Orbison has been the number two Oldies artist (those having begun prior to 1963 )in sales – only Ellvis tops him.
Celebrate Roy Orbison’s 76th birthday (April 23) with a some classic ‘beat ballad’ music from the Big O(below)
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Roy Orbison Birthday Salute
ROY ORBISON BIRTHDAY – Celebrate No. 2 All Time Oldies Artist
