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"Oh, Pretty Woman", or simply "Pretty Woman", is a song recorded by Roy Orbison and written by Orbison and Bill Dees. [3] It was released as a single in August 1964 on Monument Records and spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 from September 26, 1964, making it the second and final single by Orbison (after "Running Scared") to reach number one in the United States. [4]
More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits is a Roy Orbison album from Monument Records recorded at the RCA Studio B [4] in Nashville, Tennessee and released in 1964. The songs "It's Over" and "Indian Wedding" were recorded at the Fred Foster Studios also in Nashville.
Orbison's first collection at MGM, an album titled There Is Only One Roy Orbison, sold fewer than 200,000 copies. [10] With the onset of the British Invasion in 1964–65, the direction of popular music shifted dramatically, and most performers of Orbison's generation (Orbison was 28 in 1964) were driven from the charts. [ 50 ]
Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter who found the most success in the early rock and roll era from 1956 [1] to 1964. He later enjoyed a resurgence in the late 1980s with chart success as a member of the Traveling Wilburys and with his Mystery Girl album, which included the posthumous hit single "You Got It". [2]
The Beatles had nine songs on the Year End Hot 100, including "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You", the top two songs of 1964. The Dave Clark Five had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100. The Four Seasons had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1964. [1]
Early Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison on the Monument Records label at the RCA Studio B [1] in Nashville, Tennessee, and released in 1964.Essentially a compilation of songs from his first two Monument albums, it is most noteworthy for containing "Pretty One", the "B" side of Orbison's second Monument single, "Uptown".
The song also appears on Orbison's 1964 album More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits and his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special. Billboard said of the song that "the drama-ballad king scores again with pathos and chorus and strings that build, build, build."
[2] the album was released as The Exciting Sounds Of Roy Orbison for its release in the UK in 1964, [3] and it spent its two weeks on the album chart there at number 17 [3] before being retitled as Roy Orbison - The Original Sound in The USA in 1969. Bear Family included also the album in the 2001 Orbison 1955-1965 box set. [4]