Roy Orbison Connection: 34 Roots And Covers Of Roy Orbison (CD)

Release Date: 05/07/211-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 34 individual tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.For Roy Orbison's 85th birthday, Bear Family releases this unique CD compilation of originals and rare cover versions of famous Roy Orbison songs in its 'Connections' series!Songs from Roy's early rockabilly years and from the sixties, when Orbison found his true passion, pop ballads.With 34 selections from the years 1955-1978 we prove the enormous influence of the great Roy Orbison on pop culture!Included are his colleagues at SUN Records in Memphis like Johnny Cash, Narvel Felts, Billy Lee Riley, Vernon Taylor and Jerry Lee Lewis!We deliver several, partly rare versions of his most legendary hits Ooby Dooby, Dream Baby, Crying, Down The Line, Claudette, Rock House and of course Only The Lonely - even a Brazilian version!Plus: rarities, like an extremely rare overdub version of the rare demo recording You're My Baby, written and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1955.Artists from