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yeah, what she says lol

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Elton, that is really nice. ;)

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Been gone for a while. Stopped at home and got my mail. Jesse Joe sent me some Gordon Lightfoot music which in includes "Your Song" by EJ. I wasn't able to listen to it on corfid. For some reason my computer wouldn't go to it. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to listen to it tonight. I really like that song. Wouldn't mind hearing Gordon Lightfoot singing it.

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Welcome back Patti!! Where have you been??? I've been way for a week -just got back home a little while ago. I hope you'll enjoy the song as much as I have :)!

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I'm babysitting a couple of wiener dogs. :biggrin: Right now, I am at a library. I still didn't get to hear the song. I got to hear 'Whispers of the North" very quietly and then found out why...the headphone cord looks like someone tried to bite it, or maybe it got pinched in the recliner. oh, well... I tried fixing the headphones, but kept messing up and making the cord shorter and shorter. Later... :biggrin:

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While I'm thinking about it, I got to thinking about another artist that might do well doing another's material, and what I came up with is seeing what it would sound like if Jeff Lynne, formerly of ELO, were to do material of the late Roy Orbison. I think that he'd do a marvelous job.

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ok, my reply has nothing to do with 'your song' but we allow that right? lol

interesting comment, timetraveller...longtime roy and lynne fan here...my first big concert was seeing lynne with 60,000 other back mid 70s, later i realized a lot of that performance was prerecorded but understandable

the orbison/melson writing team came up with some wonderful stuff...i'm not sure what specific tune lynne could actually pull off, range wise...when he extends his range he usually layers in a lot of backups because his voice thins out, unlike roy who just got stronger the wider he stretched his multi-octave range...i dont even think there ever has been a roy tribute with other artists doing his tunes???? i could dig lynne giving Mystery Girl a go, without jumping an octave for the chorus

from another angle, i would have liked to hear roy do some lynne tunes...for eg, off Armshair Theatre - Blown Away, Now Your Gone...and some early elo like Telephone Line or Can't Get it Out of My Head...or Wild West Hero (although a simple arrangement without the instr bridge)

it was terrific they had some time together in the Wilburys...lynne kinda reminds me of lindsey buckingham...skills all around- creative writing, identifiable vocals, strong guitar work, and impeccable production approach, perhaps over production...i really love lynne's raw work

i wish Gord would sit and talk about songwriting, you know, several minutes about each song the way jeff does for Livin Thing in this clip


i would hang on every word....well, thanks for the mindspark, tt...cheers

ps) aint this a great clip?

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I found my ages old ELO cassette and brought it along for my OH roadtrip...brought back some memories!

There's a wonderful Orbison tribute on DVD -I think might be from his 1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. I've never been able to sit down and watch it in it's entirety...but I've caught most of it here and there.

In regards to anyone singing like Roy...well here's a quote from Bruce Springsteen from the 1987 induction ceremony, which appears on the back cover Roy's 'Legendary Performers' songbook that I have:

"In '75 when I went to the studio to make 'Born To Run', I wanted to make a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector, but most of all I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison. Now everybody knows that nobody sings like Roy Orbison." -Bruce Springsteen

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This has nothing to do with 'your song' either, but coincidentally, the dogs I was babysitting belonged to someone that used to know Roy Orbison. :)

Been back home since last night. I didn't really enjoy that "your song' on the cd that Jesse Joe sent. It was a bad recording. One unreleased song that he sent called 'Face of A Thousand People', was something I especially felt a good connection to.

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hey that's something! "Orbiedust" anyway! While driving to one of Gordon's concerts in Mass. last Fall, my oldest, dearest friend...recalled having met Roy when he performed at the Big E, she was 15 (so, the 60's ;)). Don't know if she had ever told me that before but if she had, it was many years ago. I know she told me stories of the many famous people she's known, mostly musicians...when I was a teenager and I can still remember most of them. But I just don't recall the one about Roy could be one she missed.

I always liked hearing all those stories when I was younger. Still do but it's not the same as when I was a kid.

When I was looking through Roy's songbook here...I saw that he and I share the same b-day!!! gee I must have noticed that before but have forgotten :rolleyes:. Same day as Shakespeare too :biggrin:.

Sounds like an interesting petsitting job, Patti!!! And sorry to know you didn't care for the copy of the recording of 'Your Song' :(.

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hey, hope all's well in Pattiville:)

I'll bet your friend has some wonderful stories from chats with Roy...I enjoyed reading the Dark Star bio...Roy was really, go, go, go....speed, speed, speed unfortunately took it's toll...he was right in the midst of peaking in his comeback...I love a good portion of that Mystery Girl album and all his contributions to the Wilbury's

ok, the lyrics of Face of 1000 People show Gord's early talents with the pen...in case you haven't had the pleasure of hearing our RonJ's delivery of this classic, back at a 2006 group jam, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v51F...e=channel_page

when he picked up that guitar and broke into song, there was no doubt in my mind that this would be the lead off to the fan jam video montage...without benefit of an amplifying mic, his vocals filled that hotel room with song ...he's said he has issues keeping steady tempo...not!

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Mystery Girl was great but my favorite is the posthumous compilations CD that his widow, Barbara released in 1992. I was supposed to buy the new 4CD set and 3 Lightfoot Cd's that were put aside for me at a store that was closing a couple of weeks ago and it completely slipped my mind :(.

thnx for the youtube link jj and I agree :)

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Hey, Pam, that's pretty cool, sharing a birthday with Roy Orbison. Shakespeare too? :biggrin:
Thanks for the link jj. So, RonJ likes that song too. That's good.

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That is cool. My birthday has a few musical types - Jim Croce, Rod Stewart, Pat Benetar, Scott Mackenzie, Donald Fagen oh, and Ronnie Hawkins!

Add to that the ball player Willie McCovey. Pretty cool.

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That is very cool! Lotsa cool people.

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I love Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison...both are such great artists. I have always wanted Jeff Lynne to work with the Moody Blues. I think it would be a very interesting combo :)
Roy is one of a kind. Anytime that I hear "Pretty Woman" I have to smile. Such a great song and he had so many after that one.

jj, enjoyed the Gord gathering video. I love watching those. So many talented fans and they are so joyful when playing Gord's music...it's just so special to watch that.
Also, the Jeff Lynne interviews. Very good :) Thanks!

Sharing birthdays with famous people....I can't think of any at the moment. I will have to look it up.

Patti, nice to have you back :) I missed you.

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Without prejudice
I have to say that I thought this was very silly of Ron I had previously tried to be nice to him. But if he really has put me on his ignore list it is his loss as I do believe me strive to post interesting and/or useful messages. so Mr Meason are you reading this or not??

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johnF, speaking of ignoring, are you not getting my pm replies asking as to what 'next steps' are? yeah, i'm taking a page from your MO and calling you out in public, hope that's cool:cool:

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LOL!!!!

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He says he's in CAREFREE, ARIZONA! :biggrin:

This must be carefree highway.

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old recording of Lightfoot singing the Elton John tune - "Your Song"

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I'd almost forgotten about this. Thanks for posting - I enjoyed it.