It was only recently that on YouTube I run across Roy Orbison, or more appropriately, he steamrolled me. In this sense I am greatful for my collosal ignorance of popular western music because it enables me to revel when I uncover for myself old motherlodes such as Orbison's music.

Almost all of us, i.e., consumers of Hollywood movies have actually heard Orbison's music before because he is none other than the songsmith who wrote "Pretty Woman", the catchy pop song that is played over and over 'in that whore with golden heart meets selfish business man who finally sees the light' confection of a movie with the same title. However as one admirer of Orbison best put it in an Amazon.com review, Roy was "the Man, the architect of numerous symphonic, Ravel-like love song, and the singer of singers."

Luckily for us, numerous songs from Roy's magnificient live concert 'A Black & White Night', featuring other great musicians like Bruce Springsteen, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt are available for our viewing pleasure over at YouTube. And here three songs from that concert:

Running Scared Dream Baby Pretty Woman, which ends with some firework guitar jammin.

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I had linked to Orbison and k.d. lang's great duet 'Crying' some time before. Also here is 'End of the Line' by the folk rock super group Traveling Wilburys put together by George Harrison, and of which Roy was a member.