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Mystery Girl (1988)
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Virgin Records 2-91058
First there was the voice. It transcended generations and sang of universal longings that touched the heart with truth and sadness and desire. It was a beautiful instrument that was played with something approaching perfection. It could send quivers of recognition through the listener as it pleaded and ached and soothed and still offered a dark embrace of melody that floated ever closer to the tender surface. The voice was part country part rock and part pop but it was all rock and roll. It was a voice that never lied.
Then there were the songs. They were complete unto themselves. Nothing needed to be added because the world was full within them. It is a world defined by dreams and lived in reality and somewhere the two meet in song and we leave having learned something about our own vulnerability. They are songs about wounds and the wounded and glorious healings. Two stories are often told simultaneously – the first is of love and desire and loneliness and (always) love and the second story is of something higher and invisible and cherished and sacred. It is a story that is founded on some knowledge that tears at te heart bypasses the brain and spills from the line with such sweet understanding and beauty that the listener is stunned into comprehension.
The man was kind and good and gentle in a business (and a world) where such simple attributes are the exceptions. He was one of the originators of rock and roll and carried that responsibility with dignity but without formality. He sounded like a lost angel but always wore dark glasses and dressed in black. He had more than his fair share of personal tragedies and suffered in his own way and only mentioned it between the lines. He never stopped working at his craft and leaves behind this album filled with shining examples of his artistry in full bloom.
It was his singing, his songs and his humanity that lifted Roy Orbison into his legendary status but it was his genius to carry a note that pierces all the way from Wink, Texas to the state of being alive and along in love that will forever keep him alive.
Roy Orbison sang abut the great mystery of love where there is no solution, there is only eternal hope. His songs take us into a room and we hear the thrill and threat of the mystery in the dark where nothing is seen and everything is revealed.
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1. You Got It
(J. Lynne, R. Orbison & T. Petty)
© 1988 SBK April Music (ASCAP)/Orbisongs (BMI)/Gone Gator Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Jeff Lynne
Engineers: Richard Dodd, Phil McDonald, Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Jeff Lynne: Guitars, keyboards, piano, bass, background vocals Tom Petty: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Phil Jones: Drums, percussion
Recorded at Rumbo Studios, mixed at Friar Park Studios, England
2. In The Real World
(W. Jennings/R. Kerr)
© 1988 by Willin David Music/Blue Sky Rider Songs (BMI)/
Buchanan-Kerr Music (BMI)
Produced by Jeff Lynne, Mike Campbell and Barbara Orbison Engineered and mixed: Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mike Campbell: Bass, guitar
Jim Keltner: Drums
Al Kooper: Organ
Mike Utley: String arrangements
Howie Epstein, Tom Petty Roy Orbison, Barbara Orbison, Roy Kelton Orbison: Background vocals
3. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
(B. Burnette/D. Malloy)
© 1988 Beau Music/Rare Blue Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/David Malloy Music Publishing and Irving Music, Inc., (BMI)
Produced by: T-Bone Burnett
Engineers: Rik Pekkonen & Kevin Killen
Assisted by Mike Ross
Roy Orbison: Vocals, background vocals
Billy Burnette: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Rick Vito: Electric guitar, background vocals
T-Bone Walk: Electric bass
Buell Neidinger – Arco Bass
Mickey Curry: Drums
4. A Love So Beautiful
(J. Lynne & R. Orbison)
© 1988 SBK April Music Inc. (ASCAP)/Orbisongs (BMI)
Produced by Jeff Lynne
Engineers: Richard Dodd, Phil McDonald & Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Jeff Lynne: Acoustic guitar, keyboards, bass, background vocals
George Harrison: Acoustic guitars
Ray Cooper: Drums
Strings conducted by Louis Clark
5. California Blue
(R. Orbison, J. Lynne, T. Petty)
© 1988 Orbisongs (BMI)/SBK April Music Inc. (ASCAP)/Gone Gator Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Jeff Lynne
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Jeff Lynne: Guitars, keyboards, bass, background vocals
Tom Petty: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mike Campbell: Acoustic guitar, mandolin
Ian Wallace: Drums & Percussion
Strings conducted by Louis Clark
Engineers: Richard Dodd, Phil McDonald, Don Smith
6. She’s A Mystery To Me
(David Evan [The Edge] and Paul Hewson [Bono])
© 1988 U2/Chappell & Co (ASCAP)
Produced by Bono
Engineered and Mixed by Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Guitars, vocals
Bono: Guitars
Howie Epstein: Bass
Benmont Tench: Piano and cheap strings
Jim Keltner: Drums
Arranged by Benmont Tench
7. The Comedians
(Elvis Costello) © 1988 Plangent Visions Music (ASCAP)
Produced by T-Bone Burnett
Engineered by Rik Pekkonen and Kevin Killon
Assisted by Mike Ross
Roy Orbison: Vocals
David Rhodes: Guitar
T-Bone Burnett: Guitar
Mitchell Froom: Piano
Jerry Scheff: String bass
David Miner: String bass
Buell Neidinger: Arco bass
Jim Keltner: Drums
Gary Coleman: Percussion
Sid Page: Concertmaster
Mike Utley: String arrangement
8. The Only One
(Wesley Orbison/Craig Wiseman)
© 1988 Orbisongs (BMI)/Ed Bruce Publishing (ASCAP)
Produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Campbell
Engineered by Don Smith
Mixed by Don Smith and Randy Staub
Roy Orbison: Vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Steve Cropper: Guitar
Howie Epstein: Bass, background vocals
Benmont Tench: Organ, piano
Jim Keltner: Drums
Memphis Horn arrangement by Steve Cropper
Horns by Jim Horn
9. Windsurfer
(R. Orbison/B. Dees) © 1988 Orbisongs (BMI)/Opryland (BMI)
Produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Campbell
Engineered and mixed by Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Vocals
Rick Vito: Slide guitar
Mike Campbell: Acoustic guitar
Howie Epstein: Bass
Jim Keltner: Drums
Benmont Tench: Piano
Mike Utley: Strings
Roy Orbison, Howie Epstein, Jeff Lynne: Background vocals
10. Careless Heart
(Roy Orbison, Diane Warren, Albert Hammond)
© 1988 Realsongs (ASCAP)/Albert Hammond Music Admin. by Warner Bros. Music Corp. (ASCAP)/Orbisongs (BMI)
Produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Campbell
Engineered and mixed by Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mike Campbell: Acoustic and electric guitar, bass
Jim Keltner: Drums
Benmont Tench: Piano
Howie Epstein: Background vocals
Executive Producer: Barbara Orbison
Benmont Tench, Mike Campbell, Howie Empstein and Tom Petty appear courtesy of MCA Records
Jim Horn appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Bono appears courtesy of Island Records
George Harrison appears courtesy of Dark Horse/Warner Bros. Records
Mike Utley appears courtesy of MCA Master Series
A&M Studios
Assistant Engineers: Randy Staub
Rumbo Recorders
Assistant Engineers: Andy Udell, Julian Stoll, Robin Luine
Executive Producer: Barbara Orbison
Production Consultant: Don Smith on all tracks except “You Got It,” “A Love So Beautiful,” and “California Blue”
Management: Barbara Orbison
Public Relations: Sarah McMullen and Company
Roy Orbison International Fan Club
Schulterlarn 43
5632 Jf
Eindhoven, Holland
Anne Abbott, Jeff Ayeroff, Benny Birchfield, John Bradschaw, Buddy Buir, Marcie Campbell, Chakrupani Gemma Corfield, Tom Dills, Terry Elam, Debbie Gold, Danny Goldberg, Jordan Harris, Olivia Harrison, Kay Heidrick, Chris Isaak, Nancy Jeffries, Will Jennings, Steve Jones, Tom Kelly, Freddy Khoury, Jim Kirby, Lester Knispel, David Lynch, Carrie Marrero, Sarah McMullen, Joe Melson, Bobby Neuwirth, Carter Newton, Tara O’Driskoll, Nadine, Roy Kelton, Alexander, Wesley, Sam and Orbilee Orbison
Tony Seals, Rick Shipp, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Steinberg, Ron Stone, Robert Tepper, Bob Underwood, Don Was, David Was, Jack Weiner, Danny Wilde, Jerry Williams, Jim Zwickel and all the Virgins
I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who gave so freely to this album. I thank them for their love and support and I apologize to anyone I might have momentarily forgotten. Making this album has truly been a gift to me.
To Barbara, for her loving grace.
Mastering by Steve Marcussen at Precision Lacquer
Art Direction: Jeff Ayeroff/Melanie Nissen
Design: Tim Stedman
Public Eye – Los Angeles
Photography: Glen Erler
To buy this album from Amazon.com, click here: Mystery Girl
_______________________________________________________________
Virgin Records 2-91058
First there was the voice. It transcended generations and sang of universal longings that touched the heart with truth and sadness and desire. It was a beautiful instrument that was played with something approaching perfection. It could send quivers of recognition through the listener as it pleaded and ached and soothed and still offered a dark embrace of melody that floated ever closer to the tender surface. The voice was part country part rock and part pop but it was all rock and roll. It was a voice that never lied.
Then there were the songs. They were complete unto themselves. Nothing needed to be added because the world was full within them. It is a world defined by dreams and lived in reality and somewhere the two meet in song and we leave having learned something about our own vulnerability. They are songs about wounds and the wounded and glorious healings. Two stories are often told simultaneously – the first is of love and desire and loneliness and (always) love and the second story is of something higher and invisible and cherished and sacred. It is a story that is founded on some knowledge that tears at te heart bypasses the brain and spills from the line with such sweet understanding and beauty that the listener is stunned into comprehension.
The man was kind and good and gentle in a business (and a world) where such simple attributes are the exceptions. He was one of the originators of rock and roll and carried that responsibility with dignity but without formality. He sounded like a lost angel but always wore dark glasses and dressed in black. He had more than his fair share of personal tragedies and suffered in his own way and only mentioned it between the lines. He never stopped working at his craft and leaves behind this album filled with shining examples of his artistry in full bloom.
It was his singing, his songs and his humanity that lifted Roy Orbison into his legendary status but it was his genius to carry a note that pierces all the way from Wink, Texas to the state of being alive and along in love that will forever keep him alive.
Roy Orbison sang abut the great mystery of love where there is no solution, there is only eternal hope. His songs take us into a room and we hear the thrill and threat of the mystery in the dark where nothing is seen and everything is revealed.
__________________________________________________
1. You Got It
(J. Lynne, R. Orbison & T. Petty)
© 1988 SBK April Music (ASCAP)/Orbisongs (BMI)/Gone Gator Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Jeff Lynne
Engineers: Richard Dodd, Phil McDonald, Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Jeff Lynne: Guitars, keyboards, piano, bass, background vocals Tom Petty: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Phil Jones: Drums, percussion
Recorded at Rumbo Studios, mixed at Friar Park Studios, England
2. In The Real World
(W. Jennings/R. Kerr)
© 1988 by Willin David Music/Blue Sky Rider Songs (BMI)/
Buchanan-Kerr Music (BMI)
Produced by Jeff Lynne, Mike Campbell and Barbara Orbison Engineered and mixed: Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mike Campbell: Bass, guitar
Jim Keltner: Drums
Al Kooper: Organ
Mike Utley: String arrangements
Howie Epstein, Tom Petty Roy Orbison, Barbara Orbison, Roy Kelton Orbison: Background vocals
3. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
(B. Burnette/D. Malloy)
© 1988 Beau Music/Rare Blue Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/David Malloy Music Publishing and Irving Music, Inc., (BMI)
Produced by: T-Bone Burnett
Engineers: Rik Pekkonen & Kevin Killen
Assisted by Mike Ross
Roy Orbison: Vocals, background vocals
Billy Burnette: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Rick Vito: Electric guitar, background vocals
T-Bone Walk: Electric bass
Buell Neidinger – Arco Bass
Mickey Curry: Drums
4. A Love So Beautiful
(J. Lynne & R. Orbison)
© 1988 SBK April Music Inc. (ASCAP)/Orbisongs (BMI)
Produced by Jeff Lynne
Engineers: Richard Dodd, Phil McDonald & Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Jeff Lynne: Acoustic guitar, keyboards, bass, background vocals
George Harrison: Acoustic guitars
Ray Cooper: Drums
Strings conducted by Louis Clark
5. California Blue
(R. Orbison, J. Lynne, T. Petty)
© 1988 Orbisongs (BMI)/SBK April Music Inc. (ASCAP)/Gone Gator Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Jeff Lynne
Roy Orbison: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Jeff Lynne: Guitars, keyboards, bass, background vocals
Tom Petty: Acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mike Campbell: Acoustic guitar, mandolin
Ian Wallace: Drums & Percussion
Strings conducted by Louis Clark
Engineers: Richard Dodd, Phil McDonald, Don Smith
6. She’s A Mystery To Me
(David Evan [The Edge] and Paul Hewson [Bono])
© 1988 U2/Chappell & Co (ASCAP)
Produced by Bono
Engineered and Mixed by Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Guitars, vocals
Bono: Guitars
Howie Epstein: Bass
Benmont Tench: Piano and cheap strings
Jim Keltner: Drums
Arranged by Benmont Tench
7. The Comedians
(Elvis Costello) © 1988 Plangent Visions Music (ASCAP)
Produced by T-Bone Burnett
Engineered by Rik Pekkonen and Kevin Killon
Assisted by Mike Ross
Roy Orbison: Vocals
David Rhodes: Guitar
T-Bone Burnett: Guitar
Mitchell Froom: Piano
Jerry Scheff: String bass
David Miner: String bass
Buell Neidinger: Arco bass
Jim Keltner: Drums
Gary Coleman: Percussion
Sid Page: Concertmaster
Mike Utley: String arrangement
8. The Only One
(Wesley Orbison/Craig Wiseman)
© 1988 Orbisongs (BMI)/Ed Bruce Publishing (ASCAP)
Produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Campbell
Engineered by Don Smith
Mixed by Don Smith and Randy Staub
Roy Orbison: Vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Steve Cropper: Guitar
Howie Epstein: Bass, background vocals
Benmont Tench: Organ, piano
Jim Keltner: Drums
Memphis Horn arrangement by Steve Cropper
Horns by Jim Horn
9. Windsurfer
(R. Orbison/B. Dees) © 1988 Orbisongs (BMI)/Opryland (BMI)
Produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Campbell
Engineered and mixed by Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Vocals
Rick Vito: Slide guitar
Mike Campbell: Acoustic guitar
Howie Epstein: Bass
Jim Keltner: Drums
Benmont Tench: Piano
Mike Utley: Strings
Roy Orbison, Howie Epstein, Jeff Lynne: Background vocals
10. Careless Heart
(Roy Orbison, Diane Warren, Albert Hammond)
© 1988 Realsongs (ASCAP)/Albert Hammond Music Admin. by Warner Bros. Music Corp. (ASCAP)/Orbisongs (BMI)
Produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Campbell
Engineered and mixed by Don Smith
Roy Orbison: Vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mike Campbell: Acoustic and electric guitar, bass
Jim Keltner: Drums
Benmont Tench: Piano
Howie Epstein: Background vocals
Executive Producer: Barbara Orbison
Benmont Tench, Mike Campbell, Howie Empstein and Tom Petty appear courtesy of MCA Records
Jim Horn appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Bono appears courtesy of Island Records
George Harrison appears courtesy of Dark Horse/Warner Bros. Records
Mike Utley appears courtesy of MCA Master Series
A&M Studios
Assistant Engineers: Randy Staub
Rumbo Recorders
Assistant Engineers: Andy Udell, Julian Stoll, Robin Luine
Executive Producer: Barbara Orbison
Production Consultant: Don Smith on all tracks except “You Got It,” “A Love So Beautiful,” and “California Blue”
Management: Barbara Orbison
Public Relations: Sarah McMullen and Company
Roy Orbison International Fan Club
Schulterlarn 43
5632 Jf
Eindhoven, Holland
Anne Abbott, Jeff Ayeroff, Benny Birchfield, John Bradschaw, Buddy Buir, Marcie Campbell, Chakrupani Gemma Corfield, Tom Dills, Terry Elam, Debbie Gold, Danny Goldberg, Jordan Harris, Olivia Harrison, Kay Heidrick, Chris Isaak, Nancy Jeffries, Will Jennings, Steve Jones, Tom Kelly, Freddy Khoury, Jim Kirby, Lester Knispel, David Lynch, Carrie Marrero, Sarah McMullen, Joe Melson, Bobby Neuwirth, Carter Newton, Tara O’Driskoll, Nadine, Roy Kelton, Alexander, Wesley, Sam and Orbilee Orbison
Tony Seals, Rick Shipp, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Steinberg, Ron Stone, Robert Tepper, Bob Underwood, Don Was, David Was, Jack Weiner, Danny Wilde, Jerry Williams, Jim Zwickel and all the Virgins
I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who gave so freely to this album. I thank them for their love and support and I apologize to anyone I might have momentarily forgotten. Making this album has truly been a gift to me.
To Barbara, for her loving grace.
Mastering by Steve Marcussen at Precision Lacquer
Art Direction: Jeff Ayeroff/Melanie Nissen
Design: Tim Stedman
Public Eye – Los Angeles
Photography: Glen Erler
