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Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care {Music Video}

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"Handle with Care" is the first track from the Traveling Wilburys 1988 album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Writing credits are shared by all five band members, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan.

The single reached #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #21 on the UK singles chart and #3 on the ARIA Chart

The song was originally intended as the B-side of Harrison's "This is Love". Harrison had not yet written a song for the B-side when an impromptu gathering of the musicians who became the Wilburys turned into an informal songwriting and jam session. Casting about for a song idea while relaxing in a garden near Bob Dylan's recording studio, Harrison was inspired when he noticed a box in Dylan's garage that was labeled "Handle with Care". The box also inspired the opening line: "been beat up and battered around." The complete song quickly followed, with different members of the gathering contributing various lines. The group moved to a recording studio and quickly laid down the basic tracks which were later polished by eventual Wilburys producer Jeff Lynne.

Harrison's record company decided that the song was too good to be released as "filler." Encouraged by this response and the enjoyable experience of recording together, the group re-convened to record the first Wilburys album, which featured "Handle With Care" as the lead track.

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  • Wow, 1,100,000 views! I'm glad people still listen to this kind of music! :)

  • @FootyVidz99

    Yup!! real music never DIES!!!

  • @Rickynyc69 Mhm :D

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  • Roy Orbison's voice is simply amazing

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  • @JilBrowne That's a fact. George Harrison was several kinds of genius; only he could have put this group together. God rest his soul and Roy Orbison's too.

  • hall of fame , boys together

  • 4 such distinctive voices, together they are a masterpiece

  • @hassammahmoodq I got my DVD off of ebay, I have seen it on amazon. it is a 2 cd and 1 dvd set.

  • @raiyankhan totally :D 

  • @nitramnamwen wow didnt know there was one ! where wud one find it?

  • 21 people did not have speakers

  • Check out the DVD of the making of the album. Very interesting.

  • sure would be nice with mark knoplfer

  • I don't get how people can actually click "dislike" for something like this. I mean, it's Petty, Orbison, Harrison, and Dylan with production influence from Jeff Lynne. What's not to like?

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