Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Ooby Dooby - (with Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings/The Teen Kings)
2. Hey! Miss Fannie - (with The Wink Westerners)
3. True Love Goodbye, A - (with The Teen Kings)
4. Empty Cup And A Broken Date, An - (with The Teen Kings)
5. Tryin' To Get To You - (with The Teen Kings)
6. Tutti Frutti - (with The Teen Kings)
7. Advertisement: Overton Park Shell Concert
8. Ooby Dooby - (with Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings)
9. Cat Called Domino
10. Go! Go! Go! - (with Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings)
11. Rockhouse - (with Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings)
12. 1956 Guitar Pull Medley: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You/I Was The One/That's All Right/Mary Lou/You're My Baby
13. You're My Baby
14. Mean Little Mama
15. Problem Child
16. One More Time
17. You're Gonna Cry
18. It's Too Late
19. Sweet And Easy To Love
20. This Kind Of Love
21. Claudette
22. You Tell Me - (previously unreleased)
23. Night Owl - (previously unreleased)
24. Bad Cat - (previously unreleased)
25. I Give Up - (previously unreleased)
26. Love Struck - (previously unreleased)
27. Baby Don't Stop - (previously unreleased)
28. Defeated - (previously unreleased)
29. Love Storm - (previously unreleased)
30. Almost Eighteen
31. With The Bug
32. Pretty One
DISC 2:
1. Uptown
2. Only The Lonely
3. Blue Angel
4. In Dreams
5. Running Scared
6. I'm Hurtin'
7. (I'd Be) A Legend In My Time
8. Love Hurts
9. Lana
10. Crying
11. Candy Man
12. Night Life
13. (They Call You) Gigolette
14. Let The Good Times Roll
15. Blue Bayou
16. Wedding Day
17. Dream Baby
18. Evergreen
19. Working For The Man
20. Crowd, The
21. Leah
22. Actress, The
23. Borne On The Wind
24. Falling
25. Indian Wedding
26. Shahdaroba
27. All I Have To Do Is Dream
28. Mama
29. Pretty Paper
DISC 3:
1. Mean Woman Blues
2. What'd I Say [Live] - (live)
3. It's Over
4. Oh, Pretty Woman
5. Yo Te Amo Maria
6. Goodnight
7. (Say) You're My Girl
8. Ride Away
9. Crawling Back
10. Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart
11. Too Soon To Know
12. Communication Breakdown
13. Walk On
14. So Young
15. Blue Rain (Coming Down)
16. Big As I Can Dream
17. Pistolero
18. Fastest Guitar Alive, The
19. Precious - (previously unreleased)
20. Unchained Melody
21. Land Of 1000 Dances [Live] - (previously unreleased, live)
22. Blues In My Mind
23. Born To Love Me
24. That Lovin' You Feelin' Again - (featuring Emmylou Harris)
25. Hound Dog Man
DISC 4:
1. Coming Home
2. Waymore's Blues - (featuring Jerry Lee Lewis/Johnny Cash/Carl Perkins)
3. Oh, Pretty Woman
4. In Dreams
5. Not Alone Any More - (with Traveling Wilburys)
6. You Got It
7. She's A Mystery To Me
8. California Blue
9. Love So Beautiful, A
10. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You [Live] - (live)
11. Oh, Pretty Woman [Live] - (live)
12. Heartbreak Radio
13. You're The One
14. Crying - (featuring K.D. Lang)
15. After The Love Has Gone
16. I Drove All Night
17. Wild Heards Run Out Of Time
18. You May Feel Me Crying
19. Life Fades Away
20. It's Over [Live]
21. We'll Take The Night
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Carl Perkins, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, K.D. Lang | | Producer: | Barbara Orbison, Bill Justis, Bono, Brian Ahern, Brian Eno, Chet Atkins, Chips Moman, Clayton Ivey, David Briggs, David Lynch, David Was, Don Was, Fred Foster, George Massenberg, Gregg Geller, Jack Clement, Jeff Lynne, Jim Vienneau, Joe Melson, Michael Utley, Mike Curb, Nelson Wilbury, Norman Petty, Otis Wilbury, Pete Anderson, Rick Rubin, Roy Kelton Orbison Jr (Compilation), Roy Orbison, Sam Phillips, T-Bone Burnett, Terry Woodford, Wesley Rose, Will Jennings | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Roy Orbison (vocals, guitars, background vocals); Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, bass instrument, background vocals); Lefty Wilbury (vocals, guitar); Mark Goldenberg (vocals, electric guitar, mandolin, accordion); James Morrow (vocals, electric mandolin); Benmont Tench (vocals, strings, piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Don Was (vocals, Hammond b-3 organ); Joe Melson, K.D. Lang (vocals, background vocals); Micahel J. Libow, Doug Fieger, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Roses, Barbara Orbison, Carl Perkins (vocals); Larry Byrom, Steve Gibson (guitar, guitars); Dean Parks (guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin); Otis Wilbury (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Bruce Pearson, Johnny Wilson, Roland Janes, Alan James, Bono , Brent Rowan (guitar); Lenny LeBlanc (guitars, bass instrument); Lucky Wilbury, C.T. Wilbury Jr., J. D. Souther, Nelson Wilbury, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen (guitars, background vocals); John Christopher, Joe Tanner, Rodney Justo, David Hidalgo, Fred Carter Jr., Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Harold Bradley, J.R. Cobb, James Burton, Jerry Kennedy, Mac McAnally, Ray Edenton, Reggie Young, Robert Byrne, Scotty Moore, T-Bone Burnett, Tippy Armstrong, Velma Smith, Wayne Moss, Billy Sanford, Bill Hinds, Bobby Goldsboro, John Adkins, Boudleaux Bryant (guitars); Mike Campbell (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Tom Petty (acoustic guitar, background vocals); George Harrison (acoustic guitar); Terry McMillan, Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Clarence Clemons, Jim Horn, Harvey Thompson, Ronnie Eades, Boots Randolph (saxophone); Alan Mayes, Colin First (trumpet); Gordon Balmouth, Larry Knechtal, Floyd Cramer, Glen D. Hardin, Jimmy Smith , Marvin Hughes, Barry Booth, Bill Pursell (piano); Tom Waits (organ); Booker T. Jones (Hammond b-3 organ); David Briggs (keyboards, synthesizer); Bill Dees (keyboards, background vocals); Clayton Ivey, Michael Utley, Mike Utley, Shane Keister, Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood, Bobby Woods, Jim "Turbo" Kirby (keyboards); Roger Clark (synthesizer, drums, electronic drums); Charles Evans, Jack Kennelly, Terry Widlake, Sid Manker, Dennis Belfield, Howie Epstein, Jerry Scheff, Jim Johnson, Larry Paxton, Lonnie Ledford, Mike Leech, Stan Kesler, T Bone Wolk, Tommy Cogbill, Bob Wray, James "Hutch" Hutchinson, Bob Moore (bass instrument); Buell Neidlinger (upright bass); Phil Jones, Ian Wallace (drums, percussion); John Greubel, Bob Munday, Billy Pat Ellis, Jeff Porcard, Otis Jett, Dewey Martin, Gene Chrisman, J.M. Van Eaton, Jerry Arnold, Jim Keltner, Michael Joyce, Ricky Fataar, Robert Nix, Ronnie Tutt, Ray Cooper, Paul Leim, Jerry Carrigan, Bob Mummert, Paul Garrison, Kenny Buttrey, Buddy Harman (drums); Terry Elam, Lenny Castro, Alex Acuna, Mickey Buckins, Tom Roady, Farrell Morris (percussion); Tom Brannon, LaVerna Moore, Gwen Kay, Willie Greene, Wayne Murray, Dennis Linde, Francine Reed, Ginger Holladay, Jackson Browne, Janie Fricke, Jennifer Warnes, Andrew Gold, Steve Soles, Tom Smith, Bergen White, The Cherry Sisters, Bonnie Raitt, Buzz Cason, Everett Drake (background vocals); The Bob Moore Orchestra, The Barry Booth Orchestra.
This lavish, four-disc box set is undoubtedly the definitive summation of the career of Roy Orbison, rock & roll's great drama king. Behind those dark glasses and cool veneer lurked a man with an operatic voice and a rockabilly heart, and this set expertly guides you through every phase of his discography. The first disc features Orbison the Sun Records rock-&-roll cat, turning out rollicking rockabilly gems like "Ooby Dooby," and there are a number of mouth-watering demo recordings from this period featured as well. Disc Two really begins to get into the meat of the Orbison discography. Tracks like "Only the Lonely," "Running Scared," and "In Dreams" are lush, otherworldly pop operas where Orbison's unearthly tenor soars above clouds of strings to cry out, sometimes in longing, sometimes in terror. These immortal tracks pierce the listener ...
Editorial Reviews
5 stars out of 5 -- Roy Orbison was a superhero of song....He became someone extraordinary when his weeping tenor took flight....This is the only anthology that does justice to every stage of Orbison's career...
Rolling Stone
5 stars out of 5 -- THE SOUL OF ROCK'N'ROLL might well be the nearest pop music ever gets to producing a Bible.
Record Collector
4 stars out of 5 -- [Orbison was] a pioneer of jaw-dropping rock balladry that set his eerie tenor into woozy orchestral dramas that seem to have presaged the entire corpus of David Lynch.
Blender
[T]his four-CD compilation will finally help you trace his development as one of rock 'n' roll's most soulful and preeminent singers from his early beginnings doing country rockabilly in the mid-1950s to the late 1980s...
Dirty Linen
[H]is idiosyncratic songwriting drew from disparate genres, opening new vistas for early rock'n'roll.
Spin
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