Track Listing

1. Oh Pretty Woman
2. You Got It
3. Only The Lonely
4. I Drove All Night
5. In Dreams
6. Love Hurts
7. Ooby Dooby
8. Claudette
9. Blue Bayou
10. Dream Baby
11. Lana
12. Running Scared
13. Falling
14. California Blue
15. Pretty Paper
16. Love So Beautiful
17. Unchained Melody
18. Uptown
19. She's A Mystery To Me
20. That Lovin' You Feelin' Again - Orbison, Roy & Emmylou Harris
21. Too Soon To Know
22. Blue Angel
23. It's Over
24. Crying

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #579 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

CD Description
Collection of the finest moments from one of music's most original and distinctive artists, Roy Orbison. An influence on everybody from The Beatles and ELO to Morrissey, Orbison'soperatic vocals lent a poignancy to a lyrics and a song that few others could match. Includes the tracks 'Only The Lonely' and 'Pretty Woman'.

Customer Reviews

Career Spanning Orbison
No one should need reminding that Roy Orbison possessed the ultimate voice in conveying paranoia, tortured emotions and fatalism in his songs so, at first sight, it is surprising that yet another compilation is needed.

However, take another look. This release contains eleven of his sixteen essential Monument hits. Any album containing such treasures as Only The Lonely, Falling, It's Over, Blue Angel, Pretty Woman and Cryin' must rate as a 5* star album on the strength of those tracks alone.

However, unlike many other compilation albums, this release has only one of his Sun recordings which is of no consequence since he was scarcely a rock 'n' roller anyway! Instead, the CD has three magical tracks from his last and critically underrated album, the 1989 release, Mystery Girl. An added bonus is his warm and tender duet with Emmylou Harris, That Loving You Feelin' Again, from the movie Roadie plus some of his MGM hits including Too Soon To Know and Lana.

Of course, there are expensive box sets and compilations with fifty plus tracks for the completists and the obsessed and purists might quibble at the selections (In Dreams is the 1985 version). But this is a career spanning retrospective and for those who want a concise overview of one of the great dramatic balladeers of the 20th century - and at a budget price - this album is hard to beat. Recommended.

might be a good album, but it's not the one in the reviews
orbison is classic; but the reviews of the mp3 album refer to a cd of the same name, but with a different playlist. make sure you're buying the set of songs you think you are.

The ugly Elvis

Roy Orbison possessed the fantastic ability to take a song and turn it into a magnificent tour de force; his voice was great and he never missed a beat. This CD is probably the most complete retrospective of his hits; but it's good for people on a budget and you do get quite a bit for your money.

It features my favourite Orbison songs such as "Only The Lonely" which mixes a country flavour with rock to create an excellent tune. Roy's voice, clear and rich, never sounded better; and the backup chorus harmonises to perfection. He sings of how lonely he is now that his woman has left him for another man.

"Running Scared" has a great guitar arrangement to go along with the singers excellent delivery of this ballad. "Crying," a classic Roy Orbison ballad, features Roy at the top of his game. The country/rock melody goes perfectly with his passionate vocals on "Crying." Roy explores the upper area of his vocal range on "Crying" as well. Moreover, "Candy Man" begins with some great harmonica that continues through the song; Roy sings of how he wants romantic time with his woman. Love that backup chorus, too!