Its Over - Roy Orbison Cover

Over on UkuleleUnderground.com, UkuleleJJ has thrown down the Birthday Challenge gauntlet. Go to the song charts for the day you were born and cover the number one song. On the US charts, for me that would have been "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys. I may get around to that one as well, but I rather liked the UK number one single for that auspicious day: "It's Over" by Roy Orbison. The original version of the song has a relentless dirge like beat.. DOOM da da DOOM da da DOOM... which I really liked. Later versions kind of smoothed it out with more strings and horns.

Timing was fun too. This tune appears to be a bit crooked, or in one of those odd 5/ or 7/beats per measure time signatures, where the the measure ends and the next chord begins a beat before you expect it to.

The Yoppettes join in to fill out the sound with their dodgy backup. Listen for the soprano's over the top high note at the end. I am not one to go to far with costumes, but the shades seemed a fitting homage to the man.

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• YoppyKyabetsu
• Ukulele
• Roy
• Orbison
• its
• over
• ukulelejj
• birthday
• challenge
• Ukuleleunderground

[HermanHanauer]

Great rendition of this oh so beautiful sad song about love by you.Thank you

[YoppyKyabetsu]

Thank you, Herman. I never expected to cover Roy Orbison, but I rather enjoyed it.

[GrumpyCoyoteTunes]

Kick-ass Yopp... Just perfect.

[YoppyKyabetsu]

I may have broken a couple of windows.

[phliparoonie]

...made me weep, too. Once my eardrums stopped bleeding :-)

You are da YOP!!

[YoppyKyabetsu]

Yep, I left ya crying, crying, crying... CRY----ING

[dogpuppet]

Beautiful man, this is my favourite Orbison song!

[MahlerThird]

Brilliant

[4tw4tw4tw]

what octave do u have

[netguider]

One of my all time favorite Roy Orbison songs.... you do a marvelous cover of one of the hardest songs to sing... just fantastic....

Randy

[tdawgee]

one hell of a voice dude !!! keep rockin !!!

[SmokeBojangles]

That Is too Cool.

[mktmic7]

awesome job

[getsmartpaul]

Very Nice Tribute to RO ! :)

Powerful and Passionate.

Interesting choice of Ukelele ...

Nice Video work adding a picture in picture effect of you playing !

What software did you use ?

LA Guy

[YoppyKyabetsu]

Many thanks, Adelle.