Roy Orbison - A Black & White Night [FLAC] [DVDAudioRip]

Roy Orbison and Friends - A Black and White Night [FLAC][DVDAudioRip]



I Ripped the audio from the DVD to WAV, then encoded it to FLAC. I

Chose FLAC instead of MP3 just so you won't hear those annoying gaps

between the songs when you've burned it to a CD. Just make sure you

burn it without gaps.



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Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night is an acclaimed 1988

Cinemax television special originally broadcast on January 3, 1988 on

HBO starring Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Roy Orbison. The special

was filmed entirely in black and white. A live album was released

following the broadcast.Contents



Background



The special consisted of a performance of many of Orbison's hits at

the Ambassador Hotel's Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, taped

on September 30, 1987, approximately a year before his death. Three songs,

Blue Bayou, Claudette and Blue Angel, were taped but not included in the

original broadcast due to time constraints.



Put together by musical director, T-Bone Burnett, Orbison was accompanied

by a supporting backing band which included many notable musical

performers. All were fans who volunteered to participate in the special.

Other celebrity admirers of Orbison were in the audience, including

Billy Idol, Sandra Bernhard and Kris Kristofferson. The backing band

was the TCB Band, which accompanied Elvis Presley from 1969 until his

death in 1977: Glen D. Hardin on piano; James Burton on lead guitar;

Jerry Scheff on bass; and Ronnie Tutt on drums. Male background vocalists,

with some also joining in on guitar, were: Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits,

Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Steven Soles. Singing the

female background vocals were k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes, and Bonnie Raitt.

Over the end credits, several of the band members are shown saying some

words about Orbison.



The song "Oh, Pretty Woman" from this performance, which features a duel

of guitar solos between Springsteen and Burton, was nominated for a Grammy

Award for best live performance. Re-released as part of a CD bearing the

same title as the motion picture, the song won the 1991 Grammy Award for

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.



The special was later released in several home video formats including VHS,

Laser disc and DVD, with the laserdisc and DVD releases containing the two

previously unreleased songs. An HD DVD version was released in 2007.

A blu-ray version was released in September, 2008. "Blue Angel" appears

on the blu-ray disc as a bonus track. The performance has been used by PBS

stations to assist in fund raising. It has proved to be the single most

successful fund raiser in PBS history. The audio from this special was made

into an album by Virgin Records in 1989, titled "A Black & White Night Live".





Black & White Night

Live album by Roy Orbison

Released: February 3, 1998

Recorded: September 30, 1987

Genre: Rock

Length: 61:40

Label: Orbison

Producer: T-Bone Burnett



Black & White Night, the live album, was compiled and released posthumously from

the television special. The album was released in February of 1998 and included

the songs "Blue Bayou" and "Claudette" that were cut from the original broadcast

for time. However it did not include the song "Blue Angel" which was cut from

the original broadcast for the same reason.



Track listing



All tracks composed by Roy Orbison; except where indicated



1. "Only The Lonely" (Orbison, Joe Melson)

2. "Dream Baby" (Cindy Walker)

3. "Blue Bayou" (Orbison, Joe Melson)

4. "The Comedians" (Elvis Costello)

5. "Ooby Dooby" (Dick Penner, Wade Moore)

6. "Leah"

7. "Running Scared" (Orbison, Joe Melson)

8. "Uptown" (Orbison, Joe Melson)

9. "In Dreams"

10. "Crying" (Joe Melson)

11. "Candy Man" (Fred Neil, Beverly "Ruby" Ross)

12. "Go Go Go (Down the Line)"

13. "Mean Woman Blues" (Claude de Metruis)

14. "(All I Can Do is) Dream You" (Billy Burnette, David Malloy)

15. "Claudette"

16. "It's Over" (Orbison, Bill Dees)

17. "Oh, Pretty Woman" (Orbison, Bill Dees)