Roy Orbison - Beautiful Dreamer

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 December 6, 1988) was an influential Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. Orbison is best known for the songs, "Only the Lonely," "In Dreams," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Crying," "Running Scared," and "You Got It". He was known for his smooth high baritone voice, with a range of at least two and a half octaves. He was rarely seen on stage without his trademark tinted prescription glasses. In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1989, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Orbison was born in Vernon, the seat of Wilbarger County in north Texas. He was the second son of Nadine Shults and Orbie Lee Orbison. His family moved to Fort Worth around 1943 to find work in the munitions and aircraft factories which had expanded during the Second World War. They moved to the West Texas oil town of Wink in Winkler County near the border of New Mexico, in late 1946.

Music became an important part of Orbison's family life. In 1949, at the age of 13, Orbison organized his first band "The Wink Westerners". When not singing with the band, he played guitar and wrote songs. The band appeared weekly on KERB radio in Kermit, Texas. Orbison graduated from Wink High School in 1954, then attended North Texas State College in Denton, Texas, studying history and English. The Wink Westerners had some success on local television and were given 30 minute weekly shows on KMID and KOSA. One guest on their show was Johnny Cash, who advised them to seek a contract with his record producer Sam Phillips of Sun Records. At first, Phillips turned them down, but he eventually agreed to add the band to Sun Records' roster after hearing a recording made at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. The Wink Westerners were renamed "The Teen Kings", and Orbison left college in March, 1956 determined to have a career in music. He ultimately headed for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.

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[mariaslide]

English youtube

Most writing in the Netherlands you tube , as two words

Have a nice day

Greetings Maria

[annekedvs]

beautiful

thank you

Have a happy nieuw jaar

[mariaslide]

@annekedvs Thank you

Happy newjear

Greetings Maria

[Bregowald]

@mariaslide speak ENGLISH

[mariaslide]

@Bregowald

I'm Dutch so why should I speak English

Have a good day

Greetings Maria

[greengringo2003]

Thank you for posting this classic, beautiful ballad by a (somewhat under-appreciated) great singer). The melody and words will live on as long as music is heard. Your visuals are interesting and appropriate, too.

[mariaslide]

@greengringo2003 Thank you

Have a happy nieuw jaar

[denywet1]

Undoubtedly the best version ever of this timeless Stephen Foster classic written in

a time when songs had melodies and the lyrics were poetry.

[spongebobnik]

Here are Roy's guitar chords for "Beautiful Dreamer" Verses: C, Dm, G7, C, C, Dm, G7, C. Refrain: G7, C, Am, D7, G7, C, Dm, G7, C, F, C, G7, C. Try them. The simplicity of the chords match the simplicity of the song as only Roy could render it.

[Bregowald]

@mariaslide Are words "You Tube" in Dutch or English?

I am sick of all of these foreigners on YouTube.

I wish it was English people only.

[mdlau6000]

Jim, this one's for you! R.I.P.