ROY ORBISON: A BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT! WHITE NIGHT!
I hope you all have external speakers or better yet earpieces to hear these little features. It adds so much to the quality.
My Song of the Week features one of my favorite songs, by one of my favorite artists with a band of great musicians from my favorite concert, Roy Orbison and Friends A Black and White Night. I imagine many of you have seen this on the PBS fund drives in which the interruptions drive you crazy. The show was taped at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles in 1987 with a live audience of Roy’s friends and fans.
The backing band was the TCB Band, which accompanied Elvis Presley from 1969 until his death in 1977: Friends in the band included Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Steven Soles and James Burton. The back up singers featured k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes, and Bonnie Raitt. Could it get any better than that?
Pretty Woman features one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time, especially the Springsteen-Burton guitar solo.
Roy Orbison died at age of fifty-two of a heart attack. He was loved by his fellow musicians and fans alike. He was a musician’s musician.
Listen and enjoy and have a nice day!
Sam
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