UNT EX ROY ORBISON DVD/CD Collectors Edition

PlummMeanGreen · May 27, 2006

UNT Fessor' Floyd Graham used to talk about Roy O, Pat Boone and other famous NT Ex musician types in a Music Appreciation electives class I was both fortunate and lucky enough to take in Graham's last year or so before he died. I believe Fessor' Graham started his teaching career at UNT in the 1920's if memory serves me well. He died in the early to mid 1970's.

The "Roy Orbison Greatest Hits" combo DVD/CD on sale just this week at SAMS (of Sam Walton, Wal Mart fame) music section is very moderately priced ($15.99) which is quite a bargain for an audio and visual collection of one of America's greatest and pioneer of Rock and Roll.

As a big fan of Roy Orbison (as many of us NT Exes & non-NT Exes were and still are) it is almost a haunting musical experience to see and hear Roy on the DVD portion of this 2 set combo sing his last great hit via music video and that would be "You Got It" which was recorded right before he died. It was like ol' Roy was leaving all of us his final gift or tribute which would incorporate his internationally famous Orbison-style with his "orbital" high octives sound showing us all he he could still hit those high notes even in his last days and those featured in the last hit he had before he died and was still high on the charts after his death.

In the DVD, Roy also offers several behind the scenes vignettes of his early days as he refers to his friendships with Buddy Holly, the Everly Bros, etc, etc, and then he refers to his friendships with Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley before the 3 of them all began their recording careers at Sam Phillip's Sun Records, Nashville, Tennessee.

In a couple of segments in the DVD you will recognize in Orbison's all star band performers such as Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warren k.d. Lang and T. Bone Burnett (among others).

In the DVD portion, it also appears that 2 of Orbison's songs were recorded on PBS's Austin City Limits.

Have $15.99 to spare? Then go to SAMS today or tomorrow and buy something that will further make you proud to be an alum of the University of North Texas. We have quite a rich heritage of the rich and famous of UNT who have also walked down the corridor of years at all of ours favorite school located in Denton, Texas, America!

Edited May 27, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

LongJim · May 27, 2006

The "Roy Orbison Greatest Hits" combo DVD/CD on sale just this week at SAMS (of Sam Walton, Wal Mart fame) music section is very moderately priced ($15.99) which is quite a bargain for an audio and visual collection of one of America's greatest and pioneer of Rock and Roll.
In a couple of segments in the DVD you will recognize in Orbison's all star band performers such as Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warren k.d. Lang and T. Bone Burnett (among others).
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It sounds like much of the DVD portion of this was taken from "A Black and White Night", which was originally broadcast on either Showtime, or Cinemax--don't remember which--back in 1988. I was fortunate enough to see this when it first aired, and it's astonishing. Roy absolutely still had it, and all the musicians were there to pay him tribute. I believe Elvis' TCB band provided musical backup on this, IIRC. I agree that it's definitely worth picking up, because it rocks.

PlummMeanGreen · May 27, 2006

It sounds like much of the DVD portion of this was taken from "A Black and White Night", which was originally broadcast on either Showtime, or Cinemax--don't remember which--back in 1988. I was fortunate enough to see this when it first aired, and it's astonishing. Roy absolutely still had it, and all the musicians were there to pay him tribute. I believe Elvis' TCB band provided musical backup on this, IIRC. I agree that it's definitely worth picking up, because it rocks.
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On the Orbison DVD, I thought I recognized some of Elvis' old band with James Burton as one of the guitarist. Burton was also one of Ricky Nelson's guitarist as you can see him in the background on many of the old Ozzie & Harriett TV episodes when Ricky would sing one of his hits at the end of some of those shows.

Edited May 27, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

PlummMeanGreen · May 27, 2006

Bump...

For all you Orbison fans who may want to check out SAMS today & buy this combo DVD/CD collection to put in your DVD libraries.

I've noticed SAMS will run out of such musical stock pretty quickly at times and have also noticed that is the last you will see of said items once they are sold out.