Roy Orbison sings 3 Hank Williams songs 1970

[fpbvos]

Never expected that Orbison would have covered Williams!!!! This is amazing!!!

[LeFruFru]

wow these are the worst songs on the LP

[sochocki]

Roy's voice was incredible, as usual. However, the producer and/or arranger really blew it on these three cuts. A 1970s-era quasi-funk arrangement doesn't quite work with Hank's stuff. Jambalaya's chart was a rip-off of Elvis's "Such a Night" tune cut in 1960. It worked for that song...but not this one!

[Zeratul723]

As much as I like Orbison, this is not a good ode to Hank. Deviates WAY to much from Hank's style.

[tenniscollector]

@Zeratul723 But isn't that what he wanted, hence the album title ? I like "Kawliga" but here the sound quality is very average. I have a far better audio quality. I am going to upload this myself in the next week.

[coyotesong]

i'm a huge Roy fan. and i've never heard this before tonight. Incredible combo of Hanks music and Roy's awesome talent.

[kinemathisen]

Roy thne wonderboy nr.1!!

[Kjottolf]

It's been remastered and is available on CD now.

[hug2046]

Thank U

[GLOBALREFINISHING]

Roy fantastic voice, this man could sing anything!! RIP

[captainbones42]

wow the man has a great voice he can  sing anything thanks for posting this

[joeocho88]

I just was able to afford the one cassette. I only had enough money for one and it broke my heart I didn't have enough to get them both. When I did, I went back to the record store but it was gone and out of print and not even the resourceful manager with his many connections was able to find me a copy. People LOVE Roy ORbison still to this day.

[michaelsfreeman]

Thank you for this

[joeocho88]

He put out an album called "Roy Orbison Sings Hank Williams the Orbison Way" and I always wished I had had enough money on me at the time to buy it but I needed to eat. It was a cassette format and I am sorry I wasn't able to buy it because I tried to buy everything he recorded for the commercial market. I AM A HUGE FAN!

[geosilver]

How many of those later MGM LPs did you get. Now I'm interested in knowing just what was on them. That was til 1973.

I found a 1983 cassette titled My Spell On You, including Help Me Rhonda, Break My Mind, Only You. That sounds late sixties as if it was an MGM reissue.

[crashbug]

thanks for posting, Love it. I'd never heard these before.

[goodbye2romance]

Love "Hey Good Lookin'"... Nice addition to the Roy videos on YouTube.

[cjthemusicman]

I hadn't heard this before, either! Thanks for sharing, workin'!

I knew he had released this album, but I guess I was wrapped up in 'other' music at the time.....

[lonerunner365]

Thanks again.