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Roy Orbison Sings Lonely And Blue (1960)
Sings Lonely And Blue (Remastered + Expanded)\n\nOriginally Released 1961\nColumbia MasterSound Gold CD Edition Released November 8, 1994\nColumbia Special Products CD Edition Released April 28, 1995\nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released August 8, 2006\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Finally, Roy Orbison gets the CD remastering treatment he deserves. For those who bought the big three-disc box a decade ago and were appalled by the shoddy sound, these reissue discs (Sings Lonely and Blue, In Dreams, and Crying) have a couple of reasons for picking them up. The first is the music itself. Sings Lonely and Blue was an album featuring a couple of singles rounded out with filler. Whether this was intentional or not makes no difference; in the end, the original 12 cuts here are stellar. Here is Orbison's fine-as-silk pop voice, filled with all that cloudy, foggy darkness swirling inside it, singing "Only the Lonely," "Bye Bye Love," "Cry," "Blue Avenue," "Blue Angel," and "I'm Hurtin'," just to name a few. The production elements are beautiful, too, with the Anita Kerr Singers backing him and whirling strings that stroll along with Roy's rock & roll croon. Featured are Floyd Cramer on piano, Boots Randolph on saxophone (check his solo in "Blue Avenue" that runs counterpoint to the strings), Bob Moore on bass, and Jerry Byrd on pedal steel (on cuts like "Cry"). Only Orbison could make a record drenched in syrup feel like a spooky film noir tearjerker. Sings Lonely and Blue is an early masterpiece, as Orbison was in full control of his gifts as a singer. Fred Foster's production may have been standard Nash Vegas for the time period, but Orbison's voice and songs (Orbison and Joe Melson wrote or co-wrote seven of the 12 tracks here, Don Gibson wrote a couple, and Gene Pitney wrote "Twenty-Two Days") carry the track selection into the shadowy dark of risky emotions. Check Orbison's read of Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You," and see if he doesn't take back what has always been recorded as a saccharine tune and claim it hard for rock & roll. These new editions also contain bonus cuts, and there are four here: the original 45 version of "Uptown" is included (proving Orbison could rock with the best of them), as are B-sides "Pretty One," "Here Comes That Song Again," and a great read of Pitney's "Today's Teardrops." Amazing. -- Thom Jurek\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: (Gold CD Edition) This gold-disc version of Roy's first official album (his Sun sides were released on LP after the success of "Only the Lonely," the kick-off track here) is an absolute feast for the ears, sounding like a collection of true stereo control room playbacks with remarkable clarity. It was with this album that Orbison finally defined the style that would bring him to the top of the charts. Tracks like "Blue Avenue," "Cry," and "Blue Angel" show him at top form, with Fred Foster's production adding just the right ripple and tinsel to the proceedings. Even if listeners already have a decent greatest-hits package on the man, this one's definitely worth adding to the collection. -- Cub Koda\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nThis 1961 album cleverly took its title from two major hits of the era--"Only the Lonely" and the lesser-known, but simply glorious, "Blue Angel." This was still the singles era, when albums were simply vehicles to spotlight hits--but it's been said that Roy could sing the phone book and make it art, so it's nice to hear his takes on "Bye, Bye Love," "I Can't Stop Lovin' You," and "Raindrops." Because almost all his songs were lonely and blue, including the great semi-hit "I'm Hurtin'" (featured here), it's darn near a concept album. This gold version of the title offers superior sound quality for a higher price than the standard-issue CD. --Bill Holdship \n\nHalf.com N/A YEAR: 1960
This rock cd contains 16 tracks and runs 40min 57sec.
Freedb: e3099710
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