ROY ORBISON UPDATED MASTERPIECE UNPARALLELED - INCLUDES DVD, UNRELEASED GEMS

ROY ORBISON NEW   MYSTERY GIRL  DELUXE features Unreleased, DVD, Roy's Boys

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  One of the greatest comebacks ever. ”
  Slaninka Frantisek| 15 reviewers made a similar statement
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  Roy sings with such a beautiful yet powerful voice that it is breathtaking. ”
  Eduard Roca Astol| 11 reviewers made a similar statement
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  I remember when the cassette came out and I played it nonstop! ”
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It's like Christmas getting new material from the late, great ROY ORBISON - and this one is the best ever. Dare find a better album/package out there today. 



Thanks to Roy and his  boys, Wesley, Alex and Roy Jr., we have a terrific new double disc set, bargain priced, which features 10 unreleased songs/demos plus 10 previously released  PLUS an hour DVD documentary of previously unreleased footage of Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Jim Keltner, Mike Campbell, Tom Petty, Barbara Orbison, Bono, Wesley Orbison, Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison Jr. and many more discussing the making of Roy Orbison's 'comeback' album from 1989, now terrifically updated.



We started with the DVD, savoring the excellent commentary from 'Roy's Boys - who now run Orbison productions since the passing of their mother/Roy's wife, Barbara- and others including the aforementioned artists. This disc, alone, is 'worth the price of admission.' There's not weak song in the bunch. Each song has a story and most of the writers are here to tell what it was like working with Roy Orbison  on his greatest album, only months before he passed.Much of the writing and work took place in or near Roy's home in Malibu, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean ,which contributed to the heavenly sounds

Disc: 1
1. You Got It
2. In The Real World
3. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
4. A Love So Beautiful
5. California Blue
6. She's a Mystery to Me
7. The Comedians
8. The Only One
9. Windsurfer
10. Careless Heart
11. The Way Is Love (new song)
12. She's a Mystery to Me (studio demo with Bono)
13. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You (studio demo)
14. The Only One (studio demo)
15. The Comedians (studio demo)
16. In The Real World (studio demo)
17. California Blue (studio demo)
18. Windsurfer (work-tape demo)
19. You Are My Love (work-tape demo)
Disc: 2
1. Mystery Girl: Unraveled (60 Minute Documentary)
2. The Way Is Love
3. California Blue (New Alternate Version)
4. You Got It (New Alternate Version)
5. You Got It (Original Official Video)
6. California Blue (Original Official Video)
7. She's A Mystery To Me (Original Official Video)
8. She's A Mystery To Me (Alternate Unreleased Fincher Version)
9. A Love So Beautiful (Original Official Video)

Amazon editorial review: 
The discography of Roy Orbison (1936-1988) - which yielded some of the most heartfelt, passionate classics of the rock 'n' roll era - shined even brighter with the release of Mystery Girl, the last album Orbison recorded, in 1989. Now, a brand-new version of this star-studded classic further amplifies the beauty of Roy's final work.

The commercial success of Mystery Girl was nothing short of impressive: the album was a Top 5 hit, eventually earning Orbison his first platinum award for over 1 million sales, and featured the worldwide Top 10 smash You Got It. MYSTERY GIRL DELUXE 25th anniversary edition is packed with stunning extras. The original album is appended by nine unreleased bonus audio tracks, including studio demos and the previously unheard song The Way Is Love, based on a long-lost demo featuring new instrumentation from Orbison's children, Wesley, Roy Jr. and Alex, and John Carter Cash, son of Orbison's longtime friend Johnny Cash. The accompanying DVD features a new hour-long documentary on the making of the album, Mystery Girl: Unraveled, executive produced by Roy's sons. The documentary features new interviews with those behind the album including Steve Cropper, Tom Petty, Mick Campbell and Jeff Lynne. In addition to the documentary, the DVD includes eight wonderful music videos, including an unreleased alternate video for "She's a Mystery to Me" and three new videos for "The Way Is Love", "You Got It" and "California Blue."

dEL SHANNON, LEFT, WHO COVERED FOUR OF ROY'S SONGS, MEETS HIS IDOL BACK IN THE DAY

ROY ORBISON UPDATED MASTERPIECE SWAN SONG UNPARALLELED  - INCLUDES DVD, UNRELEASED GEMS

NEIL DIAMOND'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Weekend - Five Decades of Hits!

Early live performance of 'Cherry Cherry' (1966) in stereo!

   

Live performance of 'Holly Holy,' a song Diamond admitted that he wrote, trying to capture the Roy orbison big ballad sound. The song hit #8 in 1969, one of seven top 10 

singles.

   

Diamond does a pretty fair cover of the Drifter's 'Save the Last Dance for Me' on his Brill building covers 

album

 

A rare treat, Neil Diamond's first-ever recording, 'Million Miles Away' 1958

NEIL DIAMOND'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Weekend - Five Decades of Hits!

Neil Diamond was recording music as early as 1958, yet his career didn't get on track until the mid-60s with 'Solitary Man'   his  breakout hit in 1966*, quickly followed up with guitar-based rockers 'Cherry Cherry' and 'Thank the Lord for the Nighttime.'  Diamond hit in country with 'Kentucky Woman' and his first ballad 'Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon' all in the 60s before changing his tune, somewhat, with the times in later decades. Yet, he always  included rock and roll including his album of Brill Building covers in the 1990s. In fact, Diamond was a Brill Building song writer, himself, writing hits for the Monkees (I'm A Believer') and others but it wasn't until the late 60s  until anything stuck. 

*  'Solitary man' really didn't become the big hit   until 1970 when it re-emerged on the charts at #21, up from #55 in 1966 - a rare feat for a song to not only chart twice but reach higher position the second time around!

Neil Diamond is one of those rare artists who, despite changing times and sounds  has, consistently, maintained his fan base for decades. His concerts have always and continue to sell out to this day. Even when his records didn't well, Diamond was one of the top acts and  Diamond   returned to the charts in a big way in recent years, garnering his first No 1 album in decades under the direction of Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash and others).  Modern music critics, led by Rolling Stone, has feasted on crticising   Diamond  him as a lightweight , a sequined nostalgia act - much as they did Roy Orbison before his comeback, yet Diamond has been covered often by contemporary artists  and his 'Sweet Caroline' has become the 'Seventh inning stretch' song for Boston Red Sox  and several other Sports teams (see below).  In his 'comeback' album, Brian Wilson duetted with Diamond on 'Delirious Love,' a top 40 hit in 2006.

• He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York, where he sang in the All City Choir with Barbra Streisand. The pair went on to record heartache ballad You Don't Bring Me Flowers.
• A longtime back pain sufferer, he had a tumor surgically removed from his spine just before he started shooting "The Jazz Singer" in 1979.
• He won a fencing scholarship to New York University and was a member of the 1960 NCAA men's championship team.
• Artists who have recorded Neil Diamond songs include Elvis Presley, Deep Purple, Lulu, Cliff Richard, The Monkees, UB40, Johnny Cash and Smash Mouth.
• John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline was the inspiration for his hit "Sweet Caroline". Diamond revealed he wrote the anthem after seeing her on the cover of Life Magazine in an equestrian riding outfit.
• "Sweet Caroline" is played during the 8th inning at every Boston Red Sox home game - even though Diamond is a lifelong fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The song is also played during the 8th inning of every New York Mets home game and at Washington Nationals home games. Ice hockey team the New York Rangers have also adapted it as their own, and play it when they are winning at the end of the 3rd period.
• Diamond became the first-ever winner of a Worst Actor Golden Raspberry Award in 1980 for "The Jazz Singer". He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the same role.
• Famous for wearing colorful, sequin-adorned shirts in concert, Diamond claims he first came up with the idea so everyone in the audience could see him without the aid of binoculars. The Bill Whitten-designed and made shirts cost approximately US$5,000 each. Whitten designed and made the shirts for Diamond from the 1970s until 2007.
• Among his many accolades, the Grammy Award winner and 12-time nominee is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the highest honors bestowed upon songwriters. He was the MusiCares Person of the Year in 2009.
• Diamond has sold more than 128 million records worldwide.

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NEIL DIAMOND'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Weekend - Five Decades of Hits!



NEIL DIAMOND COLLECTABLES

Neil Diamond sings 'Sweet Caroline'

live for Boston Red Sox fans

Neil Diamond's latest effort,  'Freedom Song'

sung for the Boston Bombing July 2013

   

Note Diamond's progress in this 1962 effort, AT NIGHT

Diamond's symphonic performance of 'America' 

from his movie, 'The Jazz Singer' one of his stronger rockers of later years

Live on Johnny Cash.. after Neil and Johnny play a few bits Neil does 'Brother Loves Travelin Show', a gospel-style fan favorite from Diamond's early, late 60s period

 NEIL DIAMOND, always a big Everly Brothers fan, recorded this on one of his later albums.

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