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Favourite Orbison tune -- and missing Orbison tune
My own favourite Orbison song is 'The Crowd' (1962), a minor hit in Melbourne, Australia, as elsewhere, but I consider it the best pop record of the rock and roll era (post 1954). Roy's best vocal, best drumming on any of his records (except 'Running Scared'), best arrangement. It still appears on 'Best of' CDs.
However, nobody seems to know why one of Roy's mid-sixties songs, 'There Won't Be Many Coming Home', has been obliterated. It was only a minor hit in Melbourne, as elsewhere, but it certainly should be on any collection of the MGM hits. (I do have it on an Australian LP, and on the original single.) It never seems to have appeared on CD. Can anybody provide a link that might help me obain it?
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I think it's on the Fastest Guitar Alive soundrack, but somebody that has the record can check for sure. I'm sure somebody here will tell you, as they are awesome.
I think my fav is Only The Lonely. I never get too tired of listening to that record.
Hi Bruce there wont be many coming home is on the soundtrack to the FILM Fastest Guitar Alive I dont think the single got much airplay because of the Vietnam War going on at the time In fact i seem to remember that it was banned in America but i am not positive about that maybe someone else can remember
My favorite ROY songs are Danny Boy and In Dreams
Hi Bruce there wont be many coming home is on the soundtrack to the FILM Fastest Guitar Alive I dont think the single got much airplay because of the Vietnam War going on at the time In fact i seem to remember that it was banned in America but i am not positive about that maybe someone else can remember
My favorite ROY songs are Danny Boy and In Dreams
Hi,
As mentioned above, "There Won't Be Many Coming Home" was first released on the Fastest Guitar Alive alive album, and i can only think of two other CD's it appears on - an Australian album called "Communication Breakdown" (Raven Records) and the UK box set "Golden Decade 1960 - 1969" (Knight Records) from 1990. Don't know if these are still on catalogue anywhere, but they may turn up on ebay.
IB
I remember the controversy over this song when it was released. Although written for the movie, but not used, the music press made a big thing about it being an anti-war song, as several other singers were doing those. That restricted its air-play.
It does not appear on many reissue CD's which is a pity.
Bob
Oh there are so many great tunes Roy chose not to release as singles but for me "mama" would have gone to No 1 world wide if he had released it as a Christmas single. Its just a great story tune
Just a few more details about There Won't Be Many Coming Home.
Actually it reached top 20 in Britain, the B-side being Going Back To Gloria. But it wasn't even a single in America.
). But as it was climbing the charts the controversy about its possible reference to the ongoing American involvement in Vietnam started, and I think some of the official radio stations got cold feet and downplayed it.
As I remember it, it did get a lot of airplay at the time (I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg
Roy took some knocks that year. There was his tragic loss of Claudette. Then he had to answer questions from some journalists about the aptness of releasing Too Soon To Know just after Claudette's death. There Won't Be Many was his follow-up to Too Soon To Know, and once again Roy - who seemed to be anything but controversial - was faced with things and motives that some journalists wanted to read into his songs.
I only have There Won't Be Many on The Fastest Guitar - cd, but on a couple of LPs: the Communication Breackdown album that somebody else mentioned and another Australian one, Roy Orbison His later Hits.
As i've just mentioned on another thread, one of my all time favourites is Blue Angel.
It's the ultimate Rock N Roll song.
Favourite song..Can you feel me crying...but then so many of Roy's are my favs. I watch his vids over and over, many thanks to t.v. station sky arts 1. I couldn't find the interview Lindsay put up, but then I'm useless with the p.c. However I have bumped into Mick Jagger from the stones, in Chelsea London, so I would love to have read it. Miss you Roy.
My favorite song of Roy's if i had to choose one would be Shahadaroba & Say You're My Girl