no, only know Under the Boardwalk and Money Honey (Stand By Me if that counts). Any other recs?

ive had the 4 songs they released in '59 on repeat and they are immaculate definitely some of the best material coming out at the end of the decade

they famously manned up with There Goes My Baby (revolutionary Lieber & Stoller production) and kinda paved the way for Motown with their strings over hard R&b

played In A Silent Way for breakfast today

b-side to f***in Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha is amazing

bruh this is so long

shouldve posted this version dont remember it in the film but im looking forward to a rewatch now

k im done

ok one more 1959 i just found cause of that very first second

70's and 80's >>>

Prime

yeah but this era still fascinating

"Orbison, though, transcended all the genres - folk, country, rock and roll or just about anything. His stuff mixed all the styles and some that hadn't even been invented yet. He could sound mean and nasty on one line and then sing in a falsetto voice like Frankie Valli in the next. With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera. He kept you on your toes. With him, it was all about fat and blood. He sounded like he was singing from an Olympian mountaintop and he meant business. One of his previous songs, "Ooby Dooby" was deceptively simple, but Roy had progressed. He was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal. Typically, he'd start out in some low, barely audible range, stay there a while and then astonishingly slip into histrionics. His voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttring to yourself something like, "Man, I don't believe it." His songs had songs within songs. They shifted from major to minor key without any logic. Orbison was deadly serious - no pollywog and no fledgling juvenile. There wasn't anything else on the radio like him.”

• Bob Dylan describing Roy in classic his book, Chronicles

yet another sonic hug from Fats

looks like the everlys are gonna dominate again this year

finally found a shard of Bo footage from this period and its too good the duchess backing him up when he scratches his leg

would be unfair to compare this to the pop based stuff from 1960

Can't believe the year changed!!

theres alot to unpack

bruh

early entry for '61 bc i know i'll forget to post busy week ahead

thought the Four Seasons did this first tbh Franki mightve stole a bit of his nasal thing from this guy too

too smooth