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Roy OrbisonA Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic OrchestraRoy OrbisonA Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic OrchestraLP
ROCKLEGACY 0544154UPC: 889854415419Release Date: 12/15/2017
On November 3, A Love So
Beautiful: Roy Orbison with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will be
released by Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings in partnership with Roy’s Boys LLC,
the Nashville-based company founded by the late icon’s sons to administer their
father’s catalog and safeguard his legacy. Available on CD, vinyl LP and
digital formats, this brand new album infuses Orbison’s best original vocal
performances, consisting of hits and fan favorites such as “Oh, Pretty Woman,”
“Crying” and “Only the Lonely,” with the emotion and world class musicianship of
the Royal Philharmonic, London’s most notable orchestra. In addition, Roy’s sons
Wesley (guitar), Roy Jr. (guitar) and Alex (drums) provided instrumental backing
on selected tracks, along with ten-month-old grandson Roy III (guitar,
tambourine). Alex Orbison, President of Roy’s Boys
and the youngest of Roy Orbison’s sons, stated, “If ever there were a singer
whose body of work benefits from a collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic it
would be Roy Orbison. During the course of his career and after his passing it
was constantly noted that his transcendent vocal ability made him something of
an anomaly in the world of pop and rock and that, in another life, he would have
taken the classical music/opera world by storm. Soon, we’ll all be able to
experience that ‘life’ with the release of this project. It’s more than an
album release, it’s the fulfillment of a prophecy in a very tangible way.”
The material covered on A Love
So Beautiful is vast, ranging from the Sun Records era of Roy’s career
as a rockabilly musician in the 1950s (“Ooby Dooby”), through his early-mid 60s
material on the Monument label where he hit his first commercial peak (“In
Dreams,” “Blue Angel,” “Crying,” “Dream Baby,” “I’m Hurtin’,” “It’s Over,” “Mean
Woman Blues,” “Only the Lonely,” “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Love Hurts,” “Uptown”) up
to his comeback in the late 80s before his untimely passing (“You Got It,” “I
Drove All Night,” “A Love So Beautiful”). A Love So Beautiful was
produced by Don Reedman and Nick Patrick, who were also at the helm for the
hugely successful albums If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with The Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra and The Wonder of You: Elvis Presley with The
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestral component was recorded at
Abbey Road Studios, Studio 2, in London (every Beatles album from 1964 on),
while Roy’s sons recorded their parts in Nashville at Black River Studios that
was previously owned by their father. |
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