3 Sons Unite to Create New Roy Orbison Song
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Lifestyle FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014 Rock and roll legend Roy Orbison is honored with a star posthumously on This Dec 7, 1988 file photo shows This photo provided by Legacy Recordings shows the cover of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with family members, from left, sons Wesley, singer and guitarist Roy Orbison, at the Roy Orbison album, “Mystery Girl - Deluxe.” Alex, wife Barbara Orbison, and Roy Jr in the Hollywood section of Los a local night club where he was Angeles. — AP photos appearing in Boston, Mass. 3 sons unite to create new Roy Orbison song oy Orbison’s three sons are all musicians but never to the track. “We were able to finish it up and get it out by backup on the album. Wesley Orbison wrote a song as well. really got to play music with their dad - until now. Father’s Day, too, which was obviously special to us.” Sadly, though, he passed away two months before its RWesley, Roy Jr and Alex Orbison have helped create a “Mystery Girl” will be re-released May 20 with “The Way is release in February 1989 at age 52. His sons got to experi- new song by their father that will appear on the 25th Love” one of nine previously unheard songs. Alex Orbison ence something of that excitement nearly a quarter of a cen- anniversary reissue and expansion of Orbison’s final album, also directed a documentary. Orbison was going through a tury later. They weren’t able to record with their dad, but it “Mystery Girl.” They found an old vocal track for a song called career renaissance at the time he released “Mystery Girl.” The most definitely was a family moment. “We all just wanted to “The Way is Love” originally recorded on a boombox and “Oh, Pretty Woman” singer had just earned a new round of not stop recording,” Alex Orbison said. “That was the first were able to reclaim it using technology that had to be creat- attention working with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff thing: ‘When are we going to do an Orbison Brothers record? ed to accomplish the work. They then added new instrumen- Lynne and Tom Petty in The Travelling Wilburys and was We had so much fun. It was really too much fun.”— AP tation with the help of another son of a music legend, co- excited about the new album. It included contributions from producer John Carter Cash. Lynne, Petty and most of his Heartbreakers, Bono and the “It really brought us closer together in a lot of ways,” said Edge of U2, Elvis Costello and many other friends. His wife, Alex Orbison, 38, who contributed drums and backing vocals Barbara, acted as his manager at the time and even sang ‘Frozen’ princesses reclaim throne on top of Billboard album chart he animated princesses of Disney hit copies in its 16th week on the chart and climbed “Frozen” reclaimed the top of the Billboard from No. 3 last week, according to data from T200 album chart on Wednesday as the Nielsen SoundScan. “Frozen” was only one of soundtrack to the juggernaut film beat new four soundtracks to have clocked six weeks or entries to No. 1. “Frozen,” which features the more on the Billboard 200 chart since Oscar-winning track “Let It Go,” sold 99,000 SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. 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