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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]
"Sweet Polly Oliver" is an English broadside ballad (Roud #367), traceable from 1840 or earlier. It is also known as "Pretty Polly Oliver" and has several variant sets of lyrics, set to a single anonymous melody.
[3]: p127 Just 40 minutes later, "Oh, Pretty Woman" was completed. A riff-laden masterpiece that employed a playful growl he got from a Bob Hope movie, the epithet mercy Orbison uttered when he was unable to hit a note, it rose to number one in the autumn of 1964 in the United States and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks.
Based on the 1990 film, the musical features the Roy Orbison hit “Oh, Pretty Woman,” original music and lyrics by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and a book by the movie’s director, Garry ...
Jason Alexander doubts a Pretty Woman sequel will happen — because, well, technically, it already did. “They talked about it for a while. If you ask the inner circle of the people who made it ...
Clapton's guitar solo on "Strange Brew" is taken nearly note for note from Albert King's solo on "Oh Pretty Woman" (from King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" album) [5] Clapton performs lead vocals on the song mostly in falsetto. It was the first Cream single on which he sang lead.
In addition to Roberts sole Oscar nomination for the film, Pretty Woman opened at number one at the box office and remained in the position for four non-consecutive weeks. It has since earned over ...
Pretty Woman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1990 film Pretty Woman, released on March 13, 1990, by EMI. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album features the song " Oh, Pretty Woman " by Roy Orbison , which inspired its title.