Best-Loved Standards

Roy Orbison | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000026SX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,118 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Can't Stop Loving You

2. Distant Drums

3. No One Will Ever Know

4. Beautiful Dreamer

5. The Great Pretender

6. Let the Good Times Roll

7. Bye Bye Love

8. Dream

9. (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time

10. All I Have to Do Is Dream

11. Cry

12. What'd I Say

Editorial Reviews

Aussie exclusive box-set includes, Best Loved Standards (1989), Golden Days (1981) & Super Hits (1995). Each disc is packaged in a standard jewel case with individual artwork & housed together in a slipcase. 2002. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential, February 6, 2003

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Matej (Slovenia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best-Loved Standards (Audio CD)

I was listening to this one (a tape back then) as I was driving to and from the spa after recovering from a knee operation in 1989. Those classics are beautiful and there are even two unusual rockers thrown in. I recommend the entire "trilogy" of the 1989 compilations - this album, Our Love Song and Rare Orbison. Along with All-Time Greatest Hits and Mystery Girl, this is practically The Essential Roy. All you in fact do need.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Cd Of Orbison, July 21, 2001

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H. Marshall "oboe 245" (Oakland, Calif.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best-Loved Standards (Audio CD)

Boy, somebody knew what they were doing here. The sound is pristine, obviously from first-generation tapes and balanced superbly, with every glorious Nashville moment as if recorded in your own living room. But the great selection is also the thing; these are generally lesser-known, even obscure Orbison numbers, though several rank with his very best. "Distant Drums", "Beautiful Dreamer" and "No One Will Ever Know" are prime Orbison-Fred Foster work, and "(I'd Be A) Legend In My Time" - fabulous Nashville production with strings, cascading piano, rising chorus, Boots Randolph's mournful, bluesey sax solo, the classic Don Gibson melody, Roy's magnificent vocal soaring over all of it, and a solitary bell note in the middle, to boot - is not only Orbison-Foster's finest moment, but a model testament for the Nashville Sound genre. Not an all-comprehensive selection of Roy Orbison by any stretch, but a great introduction to his best stuff, the Monument years, at a great price. But why not a better, more accurate photo of Roy from, say, the early sixties - when most of these were recorded - than the aging geezer in disco duds that somebody thoughtlessly slapped on the cover of this otherwise admirable collection?